Data Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 167 188 165
Rank change year-on-year +21 -23 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 190 313 712
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.29% 1.27% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.42% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 235 502
10th Percentile £350 £453 £457
25th Percentile £458 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £552
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.70% +1.28%
75th Percentile £634 £722 £650
90th Percentile £700 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile - £18.60 £21.06
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £22.77
Median hourly rate £41.75 £19.49 £26.27
Median % change year-on-year +114.21% -25.81% -5.27%
75th Percentile £57.56 £20.47 £41.70
90th Percentile £64.38 £84.00 £50.58
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £54.25 £56.50
% change year-on-year -35.48% -3.98% +103.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Data Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 Engineering.

Data Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Data Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 Engineering.

Data Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Data Engineering hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 23 (12.11%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (11.05%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.74%) Apache
4 6 (3.16%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 71 (37.37%) Azure
2 57 (30.00%) AWS
3 32 (16.84%) GCP
4 25 (13.16%) Snowflake
5 23 (12.11%) Power Platform
6 21 (11.05%) Serverless
7 20 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (10.00%) dbt
9 13 (6.84%) Amazon S3
9 13 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (6.32%) GitHub
11 10 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.68%) Azure Functions
14 7 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (3.68%) Google Analytics
15 5 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.84%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.79%) SAN
3 2 (1.05%) BGP
3 2 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.05%) DHCP
3 2 (1.05%) DNS
3 2 (1.05%) HTTP
3 2 (1.05%) Network Security
3 2 (1.05%) OSPF
3 2 (1.05%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (29.47%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (18.95%) Data Lake
3 25 (13.16%) Big Data
4 23 (12.11%) Power BI
5 17 (8.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (8.95%) BigQuery
6 12 (6.32%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (6.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (5.26%) Delta Lake
8 9 (4.74%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.68%) Metadata
10 6 (3.16%) Tableau
11 5 (2.63%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.11%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.11%) OLAP
12 4 (2.11%) OLTP
12 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (8.95%) JIRA
2 11 (5.79%) Git
3 4 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 38 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.84%) Finance
3 22 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.16%) Banking
5 6 (3.16%) Marketing
6 5 (2.63%) Retail
7 3 (1.58%) Law
7 3 (1.58%) Legal
7 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.05%) Advertising
8 2 (1.05%) Czech Language
8 2 (1.05%) Electronics
8 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.53%) Front Office
9 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 102 (53.68%) Data Engineer
2 32 (16.84%) Lead
3 24 (12.63%) Developer
4 23 (12.11%) Senior
5 19 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (9.47%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (8.42%) Lead Data Engineer
7 16 (8.42%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (7.89%) Azure Data Engineer
9 14 (7.37%) AWS Data Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.74%) Analyst
11 9 (4.74%) Architect
11 9 (4.74%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.68%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 6 (3.16%) GCP Data Engineer
13 6 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (2.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 5 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (2.63%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.84%) PySpark
2 12 (6.32%) Kafka
3 6 (3.16%) .NET
4 5 (2.63%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.63%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.11%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.11%) RESTful
6 3 (1.58%) Hugging Face
6 3 (1.58%) LangChain
6 3 (1.58%) Middleware
6 3 (1.58%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.05%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.53%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.53%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.53%) JSON
8 1 (0.53%) JSON Schema
8 1 (0.53%) Pandas
8 1 (0.53%) pytest
8 1 (0.53%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.58%) NHS
3 3 (1.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.05%) Clustering
4 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.05%) Replication
4 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.32%) Linux
2 11 (5.79%) Debian
2 11 (5.79%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.32%) ETL
2 68 (35.79%) Data Modelling
3 67 (35.26%) Agile
4 64 (33.68%) Analytics
5 58 (30.53%) Data Pipeline
6 46 (24.21%) DevOps
7 39 (20.53%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (18.42%) CI/CD
9 30 (15.79%) Data Science
10 28 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (11.05%) Visualisation
12 19 (10.00%) Machine Learning
13 18 (9.47%) Data Transformation
13 18 (9.47%) Software Engineering
14 17 (8.95%) Computer Science
14 17 (8.95%) Data Management
15 16 (8.42%) Data Architecture
15 16 (8.42%) Data Governance
15 16 (8.42%) Data Visualisation
15 16 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (57.89%) Python
2 83 (43.68%) SQL
3 29 (15.26%) Scala
4 19 (10.00%) Java
5 6 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (2.63%) C#
7 4 (2.11%) Perl
8 3 (1.58%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.05%) C++
9 2 (1.05%) Groovy
9 2 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.05%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) Bicep
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) R
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.37%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.89%) Degree
4 12 (6.32%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.16%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.05%) CCDP
7 2 (1.05%) CCNP
7 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.05%) IFRS
2 2 (1.05%) IFRS 17
2 2 (1.05%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.53%) GxP
3 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 13 (6.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (10.53%) Terraform
2 12 (6.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.58%) Ansible
4 1 (0.53%) Matomo
Vendors
1 51 (26.84%) Databricks
2 28 (14.74%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.47%) Google
4 12 (6.32%) Oracle
5 11 (5.79%) Red Hat
5 11 (5.79%) VMware
6 7 (3.68%) Ab Initio
7 5 (2.63%) Informatica
7 5 (2.63%) SAP
8 4 (2.11%) Foundry
8 4 (2.11%) Palantir
9 2 (1.05%) Arista
9 2 (1.05%) Aruba
9 2 (1.05%) Cisco
9 2 (1.05%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.05%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.53%) Ariba
10 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.53%) Facebook
10 1 (0.53%) Sage