Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 158 163
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 313 370 476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.54% 1.61% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 1.71% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 290 338
10th Percentile £163 £405 £325
25th Percentile £181 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% +2.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £600
90th Percentile £588 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 7
10th Percentile £37.50 - £34.45
25th Percentile £58.75 £75.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +67.78% +83.67%
75th Percentile £80.00 £75.75 £45.10
90th Percentile - - £50.62
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £75.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year -13.91% +67.04% +20.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +6 79 £445 -15.24% 52
South West +12 65 £500 -9.09% 33
North West +1 49 £425 -17.07% 36
South East -20 46 £463 -7.50% 24
Midlands +27 41 £450 -18.18% 34
East of England +32 37 £185 -65.58% 17
Scotland +1 32 £453 -7.55% 12
West Midlands +21 31 £513 -6.82% 26
Yorkshire +13 30 £475 -9.52% 11
East Midlands +19 10 £425 -5.56% 8
Wales +19 7 £200 -61.63% 9
Northern Ireland +6 6 £175 -65.00% 14
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 120 (38.34%) SQL
2 102 (32.59%) Python
3 96 (30.67%) Azure
4 91 (29.07%) ETL
5 72 (23.00%) Data Modelling
6 66 (21.09%) Migration
6 66 (21.09%) Data Pipeline
7 65 (20.77%) Business Intelligence
8 62 (19.81%) AWS
9 60 (19.17%) Power Platform
9 60 (19.17%) Power BI
10 56 (17.89%) Data Warehouse
11 53 (16.93%) Data Engineering
12 52 (16.61%) Data Migration
13 51 (16.29%) Analytics
14 50 (15.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 46 (14.70%) Security Cleared
16 44 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
17 43 (13.74%) Databricks
18 39 (12.46%) Data Lake
19 37 (11.82%) Micro Focus
19 37 (11.82%) Social Skills
20 36 (11.50%) DevOps
21 34 (10.86%) SC Cleared
22 31 (9.90%) Java
22 31 (9.90%) CI/CD
23 30 (9.58%) Agile
24 29 (9.27%) Tableau
25 28 (8.95%) SQL Server
26 26 (8.31%) DevSecOps

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (6.71%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (4.15%) Apache
4 5 (1.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) ENOVIA
1 3 (0.96%) SAP PLM
1 3 (0.96%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 96 (30.67%) Azure
2 62 (19.81%) AWS
3 60 (19.17%) Power Platform
4 50 (15.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (7.67%) Snowflake
6 22 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 22 (7.03%) Serverless
7 21 (6.71%) Amazon S3
7 21 (6.71%) GCP
8 16 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.83%) AWS CodePipeline
11 11 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.19%) dbt
12 10 (3.19%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (2.56%) GitHub
15 6 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.99%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (1.60%) FTP
2 5 (1.60%) VLAN
3 4 (1.28%) Firewall
4 3 (0.96%) Wireless
5 2 (0.64%) 3G
5 2 (0.64%) 4G
5 2 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.64%) DMZ
5 2 (0.64%) Network Security
5 2 (0.64%) VPN
6 1 (0.32%) 2G
6 1 (0.32%) 5G
6 1 (0.32%) DNS
6 1 (0.32%) GPRS
6 1 (0.32%) RNC
6 1 (0.32%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.32%) VoWiFi
6 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (19.17%) Power BI
2 56 (17.89%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (12.46%) Data Lake
4 29 (9.27%) Tableau
5 28 (8.95%) SQL Server
6 20 (6.39%) Relational Database
6 20 (6.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.79%) Big Data
9 13 (4.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 13 (4.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (3.83%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (3.51%) BigQuery
12 10 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (2.88%) MySQL
14 8 (2.56%) Metadata
15 7 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (2.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (5.43%) Git
2 13 (4.15%) JIRA
3 9 (2.88%) GitLab
4 4 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.96%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.64%) Gradle
7 1 (0.32%) Ant
7 1 (0.32%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.32%) ERwin
7 1 (0.32%) JUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) RStudio
General
1 44 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (11.82%) Social Skills
3 24 (7.67%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.39%) Finance
5 13 (4.15%) Manufacturing
6 11 (3.51%) Aerospace
6 11 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.24%) Banking
8 5 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.28%) Aviation
9 4 (1.28%) Electronics
9 4 (1.28%) Local Government
9 4 (1.28%) Marketing
10 3 (0.96%) Military
10 3 (0.96%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.64%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Police
12 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.79%) PySpark
2 13 (4.15%) AWS CDK
3 10 (3.19%) Kafka
3 10 (3.19%) XML
4 9 (2.88%) REST
5 7 (2.24%) Pandas
6 6 (1.92%) JSON
7 4 (1.28%) Flask
7 4 (1.28%) NumPy
7 4 (1.28%) OpenID
7 4 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.28%) PostGIS
8 3 (0.96%) ADO
8 3 (0.96%) ODBC
8 3 (0.96%) React
8 3 (0.96%) SciPy
9 1 (0.32%) .NET
9 1 (0.32%) JDBC
9 1 (0.32%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.15%) Fibre Optics
2 10 (3.19%) Replication
3 9 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.24%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.24%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.60%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.60%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.60%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.28%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.28%) NHS
6 4 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.28%) Smart Meter
7 3 (0.96%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.96%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (0.96%) Social Media
8 2 (0.64%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.47%) Linux
1 14 (4.47%) Windows
2 6 (1.92%) Unix
3 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Android
4 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (29.07%) ETL
2 72 (23.00%) Data Modelling
3 66 (21.09%) Data Pipeline
3 66 (21.09%) Migration
4 65 (20.77%) Business Intelligence
5 53 (16.93%) Data Engineering
6 52 (16.61%) Data Migration
7 51 (16.29%) Analytics
8 36 (11.50%) DevOps
9 31 (9.90%) CI/CD
10 30 (9.58%) Agile
11 26 (8.31%) DevSecOps
12 25 (7.99%) Data Integration
13 21 (6.71%) Data Management
13 21 (6.71%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (6.71%) Scrum
14 20 (6.39%) Data Transformation
15 19 (6.07%) Visualisation
16 18 (5.75%) Collaborative Working
16 18 (5.75%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 120 (38.34%) SQL
2 102 (32.59%) Python
3 31 (9.90%) Java
4 20 (6.39%) Scala
5 15 (4.79%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.19%) C#
7 5 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.60%) R
7 5 (1.60%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.28%) Perl
9 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.64%) Bash
10 2 (0.64%) C
10 2 (0.64%) C++
10 2 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.64%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.32%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 46 (14.70%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.07%) Degree
4 13 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.96%) CISSP
7 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.64%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.32%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.31%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.11%) QA
3 5 (1.60%) GDPR
4 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.64%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.32%) GxP
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (4.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) HDFS
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.79%) Terraform
2 11 (3.51%) Ansible
3 7 (2.24%) Grafana
4 6 (1.92%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.92%) Puppet
5 5 (1.60%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (13.74%) Databricks
2 37 (11.82%) Micro Focus
3 24 (7.67%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.83%) Informatica
4 12 (3.83%) Oracle
5 8 (2.56%) Talend
6 6 (1.92%) SAP
6 6 (1.92%) Veritas
7 5 (1.60%) Ab Initio
7 5 (1.60%) Google
7 5 (1.60%) Twitter
8 3 (0.96%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.64%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.64%) Cisco
9 2 (0.64%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.64%) Commvault
9 2 (0.64%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.64%) IBM
9 2 (0.64%) Juniper
9 2 (0.64%) Sage