Data Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Data Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 97 140 181
Rank change year-on-year +43 +41 -29
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 44 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.49% 0.56% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.64% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 15
10th Percentile £306 £406 £402
25th Percentile £456 £459 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £731 £619 £663
90th Percentile £850 £650 £850
England median daily rate £560 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £23.89 - -
Median hourly rate £26.05 - -
75th Percentile £28.21 - -
90th Percentile £29.51 - -
England median hourly rate £48.50 £76.75 £61.50
% change year-on-year -36.81% +24.80% +68.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +36 32 £634 +15.23% 21
East Midlands +15 12 £550 -4.35% 10
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) AWS
3 5 (11.36%) Google Analytics
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (6.82%) dbt
4 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) Fivetran
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) Matillion
6 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (40.91%) Intrusion Detection
1 18 (40.91%) Network Security
2 3 (6.82%) SAN
2 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (45.45%) Big Data
2 8 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (11.36%) Data Lake
4 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.82%) Power BI
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.55%) Tableau
7 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.27%) DB2
7 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.27%) MySQL
7 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.27%) OLAP
7 1 (2.27%) OLTP
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.27%) Git
General
1 20 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Retail
5 1 (2.27%) Back Office
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Police
5 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Analyst
3 4 (9.09%) Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Senior
4 3 (6.82%) Analytics Consultant
4 3 (6.82%) Consultant
4 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Python Developer
4 3 (6.82%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Data Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Head of Analytics
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.27%) BREW
2 1 (2.27%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) RESTful
2 1 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.91%) Cyber Defence
1 18 (40.91%) Distributed Applications
2 12 (27.27%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.82%) FMCG
3 3 (6.82%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (43.18%) Linux
2 16 (36.36%) Android
2 16 (36.36%) Apple iOS
2 16 (36.36%) Unix
2 16 (36.36%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Debian
3 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (56.82%) Analytics
2 24 (54.55%) Data Management
2 24 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
3 18 (40.91%) Actionable Insight
3 18 (40.91%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (40.91%) Information Security
3 18 (40.91%) Security Architecture
3 18 (40.91%) SIEM
4 17 (38.64%) Security Operations
5 16 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
6 15 (34.09%) Data Analysis
7 14 (31.82%) Data Modelling
8 7 (15.91%) ETL
9 5 (11.36%) Agile
9 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (11.36%) Change Management
9 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
9 5 (11.36%) Logical Data Model
9 5 (11.36%) Use Case
9 5 (11.36%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) SQL
2 10 (22.73%) Python
3 2 (4.55%) R
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.27%) Scala
4 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) DV Cleared
1 20 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) Degree
3 5 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (40.91%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.36%) Google
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.82%) Databricks
4 3 (6.82%) VMware
5 2 (4.55%) Informatica
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
5 2 (4.55%) Sage
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.27%) SAP