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 £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 97 96
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 321 577 1,249
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.19% 2.41% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 2.53% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 440 924
10th Percentile £363 £413 £410
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £48.70 - £18.55
25th Percentile £51.63 £62.00 £18.62
Median hourly rate £58.00 £72.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +59.29% +73.85%
75th Percentile £64.13 £84.38 £65.77
90th Percentile £66.90 £87.75 £73.56
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.60% +67.04% +55.86%

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 13,702 22,790 42,423
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,229 16,154 30,827
10th Percentile £325 £357 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 528 568
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.32 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +32.44% +70.19%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.71 £58.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 June 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.

1 163 (50.78%) SQL
2 158 (49.22%) Python
3 145 (45.17%) Azure
4 115 (35.83%) ETL
5 100 (31.15%) Analytics
6 98 (30.53%) Data Pipeline
7 97 (30.22%) Data Engineering
8 95 (29.60%) Data Warehouse
9 87 (27.10%) Data Modelling
10 81 (25.23%) Databricks
11 75 (23.36%) AWS
12 70 (21.81%) Social Skills
13 68 (21.18%) Business Intelligence
14 64 (19.94%) Agile
15 59 (18.38%) DevOps
16 58 (18.07%) PySpark
17 57 (17.76%) Data Lake
18 53 (16.51%) Azure Data Factory
18 53 (16.51%) Finance
18 53 (16.51%) Data Quality
19 51 (15.89%) CI/CD
20 43 (13.40%) Power Platform
20 43 (13.40%) Power BI
21 41 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
21 41 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
21 41 (12.77%) SQL Server
22 38 (11.84%) GCP
23 36 (11.21%) Java
23 36 (11.21%) Migration
23 36 (11.21%) Data Integration

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 34 (10.59%) Apache Spark
2 30 (9.35%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.74%) Apache
4 4 (1.25%) Confluence
4 4 (1.25%) Luigi
5 2 (0.62%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) MIS ActiveH
1 4 (1.25%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.62%) OPENHousing
2 2 (0.62%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 145 (45.17%) Azure
2 75 (23.36%) AWS
3 53 (16.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 43 (13.40%) Power Platform
5 38 (11.84%) GCP
6 34 (10.59%) Snowflake
7 33 (10.28%) dbt
8 27 (8.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (7.48%) GitHub
10 22 (6.85%) Serverless
11 20 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (4.98%) Amazon S3
13 14 (4.36%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (3.43%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 9 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
18 7 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) BGP
1 4 (1.25%) VLAN
2 2 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.62%) DHCP
2 2 (0.62%) DMZ
2 2 (0.62%) DNS
2 2 (0.62%) EIGRP
2 2 (0.62%) LAN
2 2 (0.62%) Multicast
2 2 (0.62%) Network Security
2 2 (0.62%) OSPF
2 2 (0.62%) SSL
2 2 (0.62%) VPN
2 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
2 2 (0.62%) WAN
2 2 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.62%) Wireless
3 1 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (29.60%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (17.76%) Data Lake
3 43 (13.40%) Power BI
4 41 (12.77%) SQL Server
5 35 (10.90%) Big Data
6 27 (8.41%) BigQuery
7 25 (7.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (6.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (6.23%) Tableau
10 19 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (4.67%) Metadata
12 13 (4.05%) Delta Lake
12 13 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
13 12 (3.74%) Relational Database
14 11 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (2.80%) Flink
16 8 (2.49%) Data Mining
16 8 (2.49%) Spark SQL
17 7 (2.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (4.98%) Git
1 16 (4.98%) JIRA
2 8 (2.49%) GitLab
3 7 (2.18%) MLflow
4 5 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.62%) RStudio
7 1 (0.31%) Deequ
7 1 (0.31%) Gradle
General
1 70 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.51%) Finance
3 41 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.48%) Banking
6 9 (2.80%) Front Office
7 7 (2.18%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.18%) Retail
8 6 (1.87%) Marketing
9 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.93%) Law
10 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Czech Language
11 2 (0.62%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Legal
12 1 (0.31%) Local Government
12 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.07%) PySpark
2 25 (7.79%) Kafka
3 11 (3.43%) Pandas
4 5 (1.56%) .NET
4 5 (1.56%) AWS CDK
4 5 (1.56%) NumPy
4 5 (1.56%) REST
4 5 (1.56%) Spark Streaming
5 4 (1.25%) Web Services
6 3 (0.93%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Avro
6 3 (0.93%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.93%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.93%) JSON
6 3 (0.93%) pytest
6 3 (0.93%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.93%) SciPy
6 3 (0.93%) SOAP
6 3 (0.93%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.43%) Replication
2 8 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.87%) Derivative
5 5 (1.56%) NHS
5 5 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.62%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.62%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.62%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.31%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.31%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.31%) Social Media
8 1 (0.31%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.67%) Linux
2 5 (1.56%) Unix
3 4 (1.25%) Windows
4 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.31%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (35.83%) ETL
2 100 (31.15%) Analytics
3 98 (30.53%) Data Pipeline
4 97 (30.22%) Data Engineering
5 87 (27.10%) Data Modelling
6 68 (21.18%) Business Intelligence
7 64 (19.94%) Agile
8 59 (18.38%) DevOps
9 51 (15.89%) CI/CD
10 41 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (11.21%) Data Integration
11 36 (11.21%) Migration
12 26 (8.10%) Data Governance
12 26 (8.10%) Data Management
12 26 (8.10%) Data Science
13 23 (7.17%) Data Migration
14 22 (6.85%) Visualisation
15 20 (6.23%) Data Ingestion
15 20 (6.23%) Data Transformation
16 18 (5.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 163 (50.78%) SQL
2 158 (49.22%) Python
3 36 (11.21%) Java
4 28 (8.72%) Scala
5 12 (3.74%) C#
6 8 (2.49%) Bicep
6 8 (2.49%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.18%) Bash
8 6 (1.87%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.25%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.93%) C++
10 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.93%) R
11 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) Go
12 1 (0.31%) Perl
12 1 (0.31%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 30 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.85%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.05%) Degree
4 12 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.31%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (16.51%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.87%) QA
3 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.31%) IFRS
5 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (6.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) HDFS
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (10.59%) Terraform
2 18 (5.61%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.05%) Ansible
4 5 (1.56%) Grafana
5 4 (1.25%) NetBackup
5 4 (1.25%) Puppet
6 1 (0.31%) Matomo
6 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 81 (25.23%) Databricks
2 24 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.23%) Oracle
4 13 (4.05%) Google
5 10 (3.12%) Informatica
6 8 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.25%) Cisco
7 4 (1.25%) NEC
7 4 (1.25%) Veritas
8 3 (0.93%) Aruba
9 2 (0.62%) Commvault
9 2 (0.62%) F5
9 2 (0.62%) Facebook
9 2 (0.62%) Northgate
9 2 (0.62%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.62%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.62%) SAP
9 2 (0.62%) Twitter
10 1 (0.31%) Brio
10 1 (0.31%) Fortinet