Data Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £513 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 77 98 118
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 31 36 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.64% 1.59% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 1.68% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 38
10th Percentile £310 £410 £407
25th Percentile £409 £513 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £555
90th Percentile £636 £700 £599
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.38 - -
25th Percentile £32.90 - -
Median hourly rate £35.44 - -
75th Percentile £37.97 - -
90th Percentile £39.49 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.60% +67.04% +18.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,731 2,140 3,429
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 94.56% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 1,464 2,489
10th Percentile £259 £250 £228
25th Percentile £363 £381 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +5.26% +14.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 65 76
10th Percentile £12.08 £12.50 £12.44
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £14.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +16.69% +10.76%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.00 £23.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +11 11 £423 -28.09% 12
Warwickshire +12 7 £600 - 1
Coventry +9 3 £450 -14.29% 6
Dudley - 2 £538 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 - - 4
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (64.52%) SQL
2 19 (61.29%) Python
3 14 (45.16%) Azure
4 11 (35.48%) ETL
5 10 (32.26%) Data Modelling
6 9 (29.03%) Analytics
7 8 (25.81%) Power BI
7 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
7 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
7 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (22.58%) Data Analytics
8 7 (22.58%) Git
9 6 (19.35%) AWS
9 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.13%) Data Governance
10 5 (16.13%) ERP
10 5 (16.13%) Migration
10 5 (16.13%) Agile
10 5 (16.13%) Data Analysis
10 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
11 4 (12.90%) Degree
11 4 (12.90%) Finance
11 4 (12.90%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (12.90%) Java
11 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
11 4 (12.90%) Data Management
11 4 (12.90%) Data Transformation

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
3 6 (19.35%) AWS
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (9.68%) dbt
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) Matillion
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Power BI
2 4 (12.90%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (9.68%) Big Data
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.23%) Impala
5 1 (3.23%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) Ant
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Gradle
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) JUnit
3 1 (3.23%) Maven
General
1 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) ADO
1 3 (9.68%) Flask
1 3 (9.68%) Pandas
2 1 (3.23%) JDBC
2 1 (3.23%) Node.js
2 1 (3.23%) ODBC
2 1 (3.23%) PySpark
2 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.45%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) ETL
2 10 (32.26%) Data Modelling
3 9 (29.03%) Analytics
4 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (22.58%) Data Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) Agile
7 5 (16.13%) Data Analysis
7 5 (16.13%) Data Governance
7 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
7 5 (16.13%) ERP
7 5 (16.13%) Migration
8 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.90%) Data Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Data Management
8 4 (12.90%) Data Transformation
8 4 (12.90%) DevOps
8 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
8 4 (12.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) SQL
2 19 (61.29%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) Java
4 3 (9.68%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.45%) C
5 2 (6.45%) C++
5 2 (6.45%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (6.45%) MATLAB
5 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) HiveQL
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) Scala
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.45%) CISSP
3 2 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
3 3 (9.68%) JD Edwards
4 2 (6.45%) Informatica
4 2 (6.45%) QAD
4 2 (6.45%) Sage
5 1 (3.23%) Cognos
5 1 (3.23%) Denodo
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) Talend