Data Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 79 95
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 12 25 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.24% 1.65% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.68% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 16
10th Percentile £426 £441 £300
25th Percentile £438 £513 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +20.55%
75th Percentile £559 £693 £638
90th Percentile £599 £700 £763
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -26.92% +18.18% +25.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 898 1,484 1,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 97.95% 97.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 1,029 1,328
10th Percentile £289 £325 £241
25th Percentile £400 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 52
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £10.64
25th Percentile £12.53 £13.16 £12.21
Median hourly rate £15.50 £20.00 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +7.53% -13.49%
75th Percentile £48.75 £56.00 £22.01
90th Percentile £53.75 £66.25 £26.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £21.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -26.19% +13.51% -5.13%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Leeds +16 9 £500 -23.08% 8
Huddersfield - 1 £500 - 1
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) SQL
3 9 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
5 7 (58.33%) Python
6 6 (50.00%) ETL
6 6 (50.00%) Analytics
6 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (41.67%) Data Lake
7 5 (41.67%) Databricks
7 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
7 5 (41.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (33.33%) Tableau
8 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (33.33%) NHS
8 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (33.33%) Data Extraction
9 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
9 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
10 2 (16.67%) AWS
10 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
10 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
10 2 (16.67%) Data Security
10 2 (16.67%) Health Technology
10 2 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 2 (16.67%) Power Platform

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Lake
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Tableau
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Health Technology
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) NHS
2 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (50.00%) ETL
3 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Data Extraction
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (16.67%) Data Security
6 2 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 1 (8.33%) Data Architecture
7 1 (8.33%) Data Cleansing
7 1 (8.33%) Open Source
7 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Validation
7 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Brio