Data Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 132 158 204
Rank change year-on-year +26 +46 -50
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 53 44 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.09% 0.81% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.90% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 29 33
10th Percentile £419 £424 £385
25th Percentile £456 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £633 £725 £698
England median daily rate £560 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of 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
North West +21 31 £510 -6.42% 46
Yorkshire +19 22 £605 -3.20% 23
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 14 (26.42%) Apache
1 14 (26.42%) Apache Spark
2 9 (16.98%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 25 (47.17%) AWS
2 18 (33.96%) Azure
3 12 (22.64%) GCP
4 10 (18.87%) Power Platform
5 8 (15.09%) Amazon S3
5 8 (15.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (13.21%) Serverless
6 7 (13.21%) Snowflake
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon EMR
7 6 (11.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (9.43%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (5.66%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 3 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.77%) CloudBees
10 2 (3.77%) Google Compute Engine
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.89%) dbt
11 1 (1.89%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) FTP
2 2 (3.77%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) Data Lake
2 16 (30.19%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (20.75%) Big Data
4 10 (18.87%) Power BI
5 9 (16.98%) BigQuery
6 8 (15.09%) Hadoop
7 7 (13.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (11.32%) Tableau
9 5 (9.43%) Flink
10 4 (7.55%) Delta Lake
10 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
11 3 (5.66%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (5.66%) Apache Hive
11 3 (5.66%) HBase
11 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (5.66%) MySQL
11 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
11 3 (5.66%) Spark SQL
11 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) JIRA
3 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Pharmaceutical
3 11 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.55%) Finance
6 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.77%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.89%) Advertising
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
8 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (41.51%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Developer
3 6 (11.32%) Data Manager
3 6 (11.32%) Product Manager
3 6 (11.32%) Senior
3 6 (11.32%) Senior Data Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Snowflake Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Lead
4 5 (9.43%) Python Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 2 (3.77%) Consultant
7 2 (3.77%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Data Integration Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) Kafka
2 6 (11.32%) FastAPI
3 5 (9.43%) Flask
3 5 (9.43%) JSON
3 5 (9.43%) XML
4 4 (7.55%) PySpark
5 1 (1.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.43%) Reference Data
3 3 (5.66%) NHS
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) Data Modelling
2 29 (54.72%) Data Pipeline
2 29 (54.72%) ETL
3 17 (32.08%) CI/CD
4 16 (30.19%) Agile
4 16 (30.19%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (28.30%) Analytics
5 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (26.42%) Data Governance
7 12 (22.64%) Containerisation
8 10 (18.87%) Data Ingestion
8 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (16.98%) Data Science
10 8 (15.09%) Data Integration
10 8 (15.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 8 (15.09%) Roadmaps
10 8 (15.09%) TDD
10 8 (15.09%) Visualisation
11 7 (13.21%) Data Architecture
11 7 (13.21%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Python
1 32 (60.38%) SQL
2 9 (16.98%) Java
3 7 (13.21%) Scala
4 5 (9.43%) C#
5 2 (3.77%) Groovy
5 2 (3.77%) Perl
5 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Ansible
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Databricks
2 7 (13.21%) Google
3 5 (9.43%) Informatica
3 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.43%) Talend
4 1 (1.89%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.89%) Anaplan
4 1 (1.89%) Brio
4 1 (1.89%) Facebook
4 1 (1.89%) Foundry
4 1 (1.89%) Palantir
4 1 (1.89%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) Twitter