Data Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 110 155
Rank change year-on-year +6 +45 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 82 97 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.69% 1.78% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 1.87% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 72 78
10th Percentile £170 £406 £325
25th Percentile £199 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £539
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +11.37% +19.72%
75th Percentile £534 £675 £635
90th Percentile £573 £700 £704
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £18.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £19.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £19.87
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.35
% change year-on-year -10.60% +66.48% +20.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West +3 50 £425 -27.66% 60
Yorkshire +17 32 £480 -26.15% 22
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 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 job ads across the North of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (40.24%) Data Pipeline
2 32 (39.02%) SQL
3 28 (34.15%) ETL
4 27 (32.93%) Azure
5 26 (31.71%) Python
6 25 (30.49%) Data Modelling
7 22 (26.83%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (26.83%) Data Engineering
8 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
9 18 (21.95%) AWS
10 17 (20.73%) Analytics
11 16 (19.51%) Data Lake
12 15 (18.29%) Databricks
12 15 (18.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (15.85%) Java
14 13 (15.85%) Data Integration
15 12 (14.63%) Public Sector
16 11 (13.41%) Apache Spark
17 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
17 10 (12.20%) Data Quality
17 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
18 9 (10.98%) Migration
18 9 (10.98%) Snowflake
18 9 (10.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
19 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
19 8 (9.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 8 (9.76%) Data Management
19 8 (9.76%) Data Security

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 11 (13.41%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.32%) Apache
2 6 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.93%) Azure
2 18 (21.95%) AWS
3 15 (18.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (10.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (10.98%) Snowflake
5 8 (9.76%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (7.32%) Serverless
8 5 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.10%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (6.10%) GCP
9 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.44%) GitHub
9 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.22%) dbt
10 1 (1.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (6.10%) FTP
2 5 (6.10%) VLAN
3 2 (2.44%) Wireless
4 1 (1.22%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.83%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (19.51%) Data Lake
3 8 (9.76%) Big Data
4 7 (8.54%) Power BI
4 7 (8.54%) Tableau
5 6 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (6.10%) MySQL
7 4 (4.88%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.88%) Hadoop
7 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.66%) Delta Lake
8 3 (3.66%) HBase
8 3 (3.66%) Metadata
8 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) JIRA
2 5 (6.10%) Git
3 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.22%) RStudio
General
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.10%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.88%) Finance
6 4 (4.88%) Local Government
7 2 (2.44%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.22%) Advertising
8 1 (1.22%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) PySpark
2 5 (6.10%) JSON
2 5 (6.10%) Kafka
2 5 (6.10%) XML
3 2 (2.44%) ODBC
4 1 (1.22%) pytest
4 1 (1.22%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Replication
2 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.88%) NHS
2 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.44%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.22%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Linux
1 6 (7.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.24%) Data Pipeline
2 28 (34.15%) ETL
3 25 (30.49%) Data Modelling
4 22 (26.83%) Data Engineering
5 17 (20.73%) Analytics
6 14 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (15.85%) Data Integration
8 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.98%) Migration
10 8 (9.76%) Data Management
10 8 (9.76%) Data Security
10 8 (9.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (8.54%) Agile
11 7 (8.54%) Service Delivery
12 6 (7.32%) Change Management
12 6 (7.32%) Containerisation
12 6 (7.32%) Data Protection
12 6 (7.32%) Test Automation
13 5 (6.10%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.02%) SQL
2 26 (31.71%) Python
3 13 (15.85%) Java
4 5 (6.10%) C#
4 5 (6.10%) Scala
5 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.44%) Perl
7 1 (1.22%) Bash
7 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.22%) Degree
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.32%) Puppet
1 6 (7.32%) Terraform
2 5 (6.10%) Ansible
2 5 (6.10%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.44%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Databricks
2 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.10%) Informatica
3 5 (6.10%) Talend
3 5 (6.10%) Veritas
4 4 (4.88%) Google
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) Brio
6 1 (1.22%) Facebook
6 1 (1.22%) Isilon
6 1 (1.22%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.22%) Novell
6 1 (1.22%) OpenText
6 1 (1.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Teradata
6 1 (1.22%) Twitter
6 1 (1.22%) VMware