Data Engineering Contracts in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 198 256
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 -36
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 442 636 781
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.18% 1.35% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.50% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 425 550
10th Percentile £375 £459 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £755 £700
90th Percentile £756 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 3
10th Percentile £30.55 £19.00 £51.65
25th Percentile £35.00 £34.44 £54.13
Median hourly rate £48.50 £76.75 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.81% +24.80% +68.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £81.38 £77.83
90th Percentile - £90.00 £85.67
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £55.75
% change year-on-year -52.05% +30.94% +101.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London -19 263 £595 -5.06% 219
North of England +26 53 £510 -15.00% 80
Midlands +43 44 £593 +7.73% 31
South East -1 43 £511 -2.67% 24
West Midlands +36 32 £634 +15.23% 21
North West +21 31 £510 -6.42% 46
Yorkshire +19 22 £605 -3.20% 23
East Midlands +15 12 £550 -4.35% 10
East of England +7 10 £613 +25.64% 7
South West -13 10 £450 -35.71% 13
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 69 (15.61%) Apache Spark
2 43 (9.73%) Apache
3 41 (9.28%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.90%) Confluence
5 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.90%) Sketch
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 191 (43.21%) Azure
2 148 (33.48%) AWS
3 77 (17.42%) GCP
4 63 (14.25%) Power Platform
5 60 (13.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 46 (10.41%) Serverless
7 45 (10.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 41 (9.28%) Snowflake
9 35 (7.92%) Amazon S3
10 29 (6.56%) dbt
11 22 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (4.75%) Azure Functions
13 20 (4.52%) Amazon EMR
14 16 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (3.62%) GitHub
15 15 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
17 12 (2.71%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.52%) Network Security
2 18 (4.07%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.71%) SAN
5 5 (1.13%) FTP
6 3 (0.68%) DAB
7 2 (0.45%) BGP
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.45%) DHCP
7 2 (0.45%) DNS
7 2 (0.45%) HTTP
7 2 (0.45%) OSPF
7 2 (0.45%) SNMP
8 1 (0.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
2 96 (21.72%) Data Lake
3 87 (19.68%) Big Data
4 63 (14.25%) Power BI
5 32 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (7.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (7.01%) SQL Server
7 28 (6.33%) Hadoop
8 26 (5.88%) BigQuery
8 26 (5.88%) Tableau
9 25 (5.66%) NoSQL
10 22 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
10 22 (4.98%) Delta Lake
11 17 (3.85%) Flink
12 16 (3.62%) Metadata
13 15 (3.39%) Spark SQL
14 13 (2.94%) Relational Database
14 13 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
16 10 (2.26%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 32 (7.24%) JIRA
2 26 (5.88%) Git
3 7 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.68%) IntelliJ
4 3 (0.68%) MLflow
4 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.45%) Maven
5 2 (0.45%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.23%) Deequ
6 1 (0.23%) kappa
6 1 (0.23%) Poetry
General
1 90 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (16.97%) Finance
4 32 (7.24%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.33%) Banking
6 21 (4.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 18 (4.07%) Retail
8 14 (3.17%) Marketing
9 8 (1.81%) Front Office
9 8 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.13%) Legal
13 4 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.68%) Czech Language
14 3 (0.68%) Law
14 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 213 (48.19%) Data Engineer
2 55 (12.44%) Developer
3 49 (11.09%) Senior
4 46 (10.41%) Azure Engineer
5 39 (8.82%) Azure Data Engineer
6 38 (8.60%) Lead
7 31 (7.01%) Senior Data Engineer
8 27 (6.11%) Analyst
9 26 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (5.43%) Architect
11 23 (5.20%) AWS Data Engineer
11 23 (5.20%) Python Developer
12 20 (4.52%) Consultant
13 18 (4.07%) Data Architect
13 18 (4.07%) Python Engineer
14 16 (3.62%) Lead Data Engineer
15 14 (3.17%) Data Analyst
15 14 (3.17%) Python Data Engineer
16 11 (2.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 11 (2.49%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (16.97%) PySpark
2 47 (10.63%) Kafka
3 21 (4.75%) Apache NiFi
4 11 (2.49%) XML
5 9 (2.04%) .NET
5 9 (2.04%) Pandas
6 8 (1.81%) JSON
6 8 (1.81%) React
6 8 (1.81%) RESTful
7 7 (1.58%) NumPy
7 7 (1.58%) SciPy
8 6 (1.36%) FastAPI
8 6 (1.36%) Flask
8 6 (1.36%) PyTorch
9 5 (1.13%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.90%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.90%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.90%) Hugging Face
10 4 (0.90%) LangChain
10 4 (0.90%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.07%) Cyber Defence
1 18 (4.07%) Distributed Applications
2 16 (3.62%) Data Structures
2 16 (3.62%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.49%) Algorithms
5 9 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.36%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.13%) Biopharmaceutical
7 5 (1.13%) Smart Meter
8 4 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.90%) FMCG
9 3 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.68%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.68%) Life Science
9 3 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.68%) NHS
9 3 (0.68%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.68%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.69%) Linux
2 22 (4.98%) Windows
3 21 (4.75%) Unix
4 16 (3.62%) Android
4 16 (3.62%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.71%) Debian
5 12 (2.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (38.69%) Analytics
2 164 (37.10%) Data Pipeline
3 156 (35.29%) Data Modelling
3 156 (35.29%) ETL
4 129 (29.19%) Agile
5 89 (20.14%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (18.10%) CI/CD
7 76 (17.19%) DevOps
8 73 (16.52%) Data Science
9 67 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (13.12%) Data Governance
10 58 (13.12%) Data Management
11 55 (12.44%) Visualisation
12 51 (11.54%) Data Analysis
13 50 (11.31%) Data Integration
14 45 (10.18%) Software Engineering
15 44 (9.95%) Machine Learning
16 43 (9.73%) Computer Science
16 43 (9.73%) Data Visualisation
17 41 (9.28%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 226 (51.13%) Python
1 226 (51.13%) SQL
2 46 (10.41%) Java
3 38 (8.60%) Scala
4 14 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.94%) C#
5 13 (2.94%) R
5 13 (2.94%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.58%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.58%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.68%) C++
8 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.68%) Go
8 3 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.45%) Groovy
9 2 (0.45%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.45%) Perl
9 2 (0.45%) XPath
9 2 (0.45%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 83 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 60 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.31%) Degree
4 31 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.71%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.71%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.45%) CCDP
8 2 (0.45%) CCNP
8 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.45%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (16.74%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.07%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (1.58%) GDPR
4 5 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.13%) QA
5 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (5.66%) Docker
2 4 (0.90%) HDFS
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 30 (6.79%) Terraform
2 29 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.68%) Ansible
4 2 (0.45%) Control-M
5 1 (0.23%) Kibana
5 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.23%) Matomo
5 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 101 (22.85%) Databricks
2 50 (11.31%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.24%) Google
4 26 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 24 (5.43%) Oracle
6 17 (3.85%) Informatica
7 14 (3.17%) SAP
8 12 (2.71%) VMware
9 11 (2.49%) Foundry
9 11 (2.49%) Palantir
10 9 (2.04%) Talend
11 8 (1.81%) Ab Initio
12 5 (1.13%) IBM
13 3 (0.68%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.68%) SnapLogic
14 2 (0.45%) Arista
14 2 (0.45%) Aruba
14 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.45%) Zscaler