Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £525 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 105 87 84
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 313 627 1,300
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.11% 2.54% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 2.67% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 478 957
10th Percentile £363 £425 £408
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £49.44 - £18.55
25th Percentile £53.46 £62.00 £18.62
Median hourly rate £62.36 £72.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +59.29% +73.85%
75th Percentile £66.64 £84.38 £65.77
90th Percentile £67.91 £87.75 £73.56
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,848 23,488 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.30% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,603 30,429
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 537 595
10th Percentile £14.26 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.37 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +54.29% +44.33%
75th Percentile £64.88 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.55
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineer.

Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineer.

Data Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Data Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 162 (51.76%) Python
2 160 (51.12%) SQL
3 143 (45.69%) Azure
4 122 (38.98%) ETL
5 109 (34.82%) Analytics
6 102 (32.59%) Data Engineering
7 100 (31.95%) Data Pipeline
8 91 (29.07%) Data Warehouse
9 87 (27.80%) Data Modelling
10 80 (25.56%) Databricks
11 78 (24.92%) Business Intelligence
12 77 (24.60%) AWS
13 68 (21.73%) Social Skills
14 63 (20.13%) Agile
15 58 (18.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 56 (17.89%) Data Lake
16 56 (17.89%) DevOps
17 53 (16.93%) Finance
18 52 (16.61%) Data Quality
18 52 (16.61%) PySpark
19 51 (16.29%) CI/CD
20 45 (14.38%) Power Platform
20 45 (14.38%) Power BI
21 41 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
22 40 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
23 37 (11.82%) SQL Server
24 36 (11.50%) Big Data
25 35 (11.18%) Data Integration
25 35 (11.18%) Security Cleared
25 35 (11.18%) Java

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 28 (8.95%) Apache Spark
2 22 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.24%) Apache
4 5 (1.60%) Confluence
5 4 (1.28%) Luigi
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.64%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 143 (45.69%) Azure
2 77 (24.60%) AWS
3 58 (18.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 45 (14.38%) Power Platform
5 32 (10.22%) GCP
6 30 (9.58%) Snowflake
7 28 (8.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (8.63%) Serverless
9 26 (8.31%) dbt
10 18 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (5.11%) Amazon S3
11 16 (5.11%) GitHub
12 15 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.47%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (2.56%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.28%) VLAN
2 2 (0.64%) BGP
3 1 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.32%) DHCP
3 1 (0.32%) DMZ
3 1 (0.32%) DNS
3 1 (0.32%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.32%) LAN
3 1 (0.32%) Multicast
3 1 (0.32%) Network Security
3 1 (0.32%) OSPF
3 1 (0.32%) VPN
3 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.32%) WAN
3 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (29.07%) Data Warehouse
2 56 (17.89%) Data Lake
3 45 (14.38%) Power BI
4 37 (11.82%) SQL Server
5 36 (11.50%) Big Data
6 23 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (7.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (7.03%) BigQuery
8 17 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (5.43%) Tableau
9 14 (4.47%) Metadata
10 11 (3.51%) Delta Lake
10 11 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (3.19%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (2.24%) Flink
14 6 (1.92%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.92%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.43%) Git
1 17 (5.43%) JIRA
2 9 (2.88%) GitLab
3 7 (2.24%) MLflow
4 4 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.64%) RStudio
7 1 (0.32%) Deequ
7 1 (0.32%) Gradle
General
1 68 (21.73%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.93%) Finance
3 41 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.75%) Banking
6 8 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.24%) Front Office
7 7 (2.24%) Marketing
8 6 (1.92%) Retail
9 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.96%) Law
9 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.64%) Czech Language
10 2 (0.64%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.61%) PySpark
2 21 (6.71%) Kafka
3 8 (2.56%) Pandas
4 5 (1.60%) .NET
4 5 (1.60%) AWS CDK
4 5 (1.60%) REST
5 4 (1.28%) Spark Streaming
5 4 (1.28%) Web Services
6 3 (0.96%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.96%) Apache Avro
6 3 (0.96%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.96%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.96%) JSON
6 3 (0.96%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.96%) SOAP
6 3 (0.96%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.96%) YAML
7 2 (0.64%) gRPC
7 2 (0.64%) JSON Schema
7 2 (0.64%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.88%) Replication
2 8 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (1.92%) Derivative
4 5 (1.60%) NHS
4 5 (1.60%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.64%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.64%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.64%) Social Media
8 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.32%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.79%) Linux
2 5 (1.60%) Unix
3 4 (1.28%) Windows
4 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (38.98%) ETL
2 109 (34.82%) Analytics
3 102 (32.59%) Data Engineering
4 100 (31.95%) Data Pipeline
5 87 (27.80%) Data Modelling
6 78 (24.92%) Business Intelligence
7 63 (20.13%) Agile
8 56 (17.89%) DevOps
9 51 (16.29%) CI/CD
10 40 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (11.18%) Data Integration
12 33 (10.54%) Migration
13 28 (8.95%) Data Governance
13 28 (8.95%) Visualisation
14 25 (7.99%) Data Management
14 25 (7.99%) Data Science
15 20 (6.39%) Data Migration
15 20 (6.39%) Data Transformation
16 19 (6.07%) Data Ingestion
16 19 (6.07%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 162 (51.76%) Python
2 160 (51.12%) SQL
3 35 (11.18%) Java
4 32 (10.22%) Scala
5 12 (3.83%) C#
6 8 (2.56%) Bicep
6 8 (2.56%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.24%) Bash
7 7 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.60%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.60%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.28%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.96%) C++
10 3 (0.96%) Perl
10 3 (0.96%) R
11 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.32%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.32%) Ruby
12 1 (0.32%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 35 (11.18%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.47%) Degree
4 13 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.24%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (16.61%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.92%) QA
3 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.64%) IFRS
4 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.64%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) GxP
System Software
1 19 (6.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) HDFS
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 32 (10.22%) Terraform
2 15 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.15%) Ansible
4 5 (1.60%) Grafana
5 4 (1.28%) NetBackup
5 4 (1.28%) Puppet
6 1 (0.32%) Matomo
6 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 80 (25.56%) Databricks
2 26 (8.31%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.39%) Oracle
4 10 (3.19%) Informatica
5 7 (2.24%) Google
6 5 (1.60%) Veritas
7 3 (0.96%) JD Edwards
7 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.96%) Talend
8 2 (0.64%) Cisco
8 2 (0.64%) Commvault
8 2 (0.64%) Facebook
8 2 (0.64%) NEC
8 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.64%) QAD
8 2 (0.64%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.64%) Twitter
9 1 (0.32%) Brio
9 1 (0.32%) Cognos
9 1 (0.32%) SAP