Data Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 106 159
Rank change year-on-year +27 +53 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 27 23 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.43% 1.02% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.15% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 9
10th Percentile £263 £410 £397
25th Percentile £513 £525 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £642 £540 £430
Median % change year-on-year +18.87% +25.58% -4.44%
75th Percentile £850 £619 £575
90th Percentile £863 £662 £585
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.37 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -52.05% +23.73% +57.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,992 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.70% 88.26% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,359 2,336
10th Percentile £272 £263 £273
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.52% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £576
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.15
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Herefordshire +4 14 £725 -3.33%
Birmingham +4 4 £750 +36.36% 7
Staffordshire - 2 £350 - 3
Warwickshire - 1 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (55.56%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (55.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (62.96%) Big Data
2 5 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) DB2
5 1 (3.70%) OLAP
5 1 (3.70%) OLTP
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (59.26%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (14.81%) Analyst
1 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Head of Analytics
4 1 (3.70%) Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Data Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.70%) BREW
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (55.56%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (55.56%) Distributed Applications
2 9 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (7.41%) FMCG
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Android
1 13 (48.15%) Apple iOS
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
1 13 (48.15%) Unix
1 13 (48.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Data Management
2 17 (62.96%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (59.26%) Analytics
4 15 (55.56%) Actionable Insight
4 15 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (55.56%) Information Security
4 15 (55.56%) Security Architecture
4 15 (55.56%) SIEM
5 13 (48.15%) Kalman Filter
5 13 (48.15%) Security Operations
6 11 (40.74%) Data Analysis
7 6 (22.22%) Data Analytics
8 5 (18.52%) ETL
9 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
9 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (7.41%) Dashboard Development
10 2 (7.41%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 2 (7.41%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.70%) R
3 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (48.15%) DV Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (55.56%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Informatica
3 1 (3.70%) Sage