Data Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £485, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 75 108
Rank change year-on-year +27 +33 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 19 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.45% 1.07% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.61% 1.11% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 15
10th Percentile £413 £425 £328
25th Percentile £443 £481 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £557 £606 £605
90th Percentile £700 £615 £699
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% - +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 727 1,263 2,016
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 96.71% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 821 1,354
10th Percentile £300 £275 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +1.22% +8.16%
75th Percentile £556 £613 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 35
10th Percentile £16.94 £14.68 £10.20
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.00 £15.71
Median hourly rate £26.25 £20.35 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.98% -4.22% +11.84%
75th Percentile £39.69 £23.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £48.75 £27.77 £26.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.34 £21.31 £20.00
% change year-on-year +9.53% +6.55% +14.29%

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 October 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 October 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 +20 16 £485 -7.62% 7
Bradford - 3 - -
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 7 (36.84%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Databricks
3 5 (26.32%) ETL
3 5 (26.32%) AWS
4 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (15.79%) Delta Lake
5 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Change Management
5 3 (15.79%) Firewall
5 3 (15.79%) Smartphone
5 3 (15.79%) VLAN
5 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (15.79%) VPN
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco
5 3 (15.79%) Juniper
5 3 (15.79%) OSPF
5 3 (15.79%) BGP
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) JNCIP
6 2 (10.53%) MPLS
6 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
6 2 (10.53%) Google
6 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.53%) Azure

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 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) dbt
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) BGP
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
1 3 (15.79%) OSPF
1 3 (15.79%) VLAN
1 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 2 (10.53%) DAB
2 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (10.53%) IPsec
2 2 (10.53%) LAN
2 2 (10.53%) MPLS
2 2 (10.53%) Wireless
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (5.26%) VXLAN
3 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (15.79%) Delta Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Smartphone
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) ETL
2 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
2 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.79%) Analytics
3 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (15.79%) Change Management
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.53%) DataOps
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.26%) Data Transformation
5 1 (5.26%) Decision Tree
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Network Management
5 1 (5.26%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) C
3 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.26%) Scala
3 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) JNCIP
2 2 (10.53%) JNCIA
2 2 (10.53%) JNCIS
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
2 3 (15.79%) Juniper
3 2 (10.53%) Aruba
3 2 (10.53%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Snow