Data Engineering Contracts in the North West

Data Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 104 125 167
Rank change year-on-year +21 +42 -37
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 31 25 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.11% 0.83% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.92% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 14
10th Percentile £385 £413 £342
25th Percentile £463 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +17.84% -15.91%
75th Percentile £585 £700 £628
90th Percentile £595 £725 £680
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +5 17 £480 -12.33% 29
Cheshire +7 13 £510 +13.33% 3
Lancashire - 1 £600 - 11
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (32.26%) Apache Spark
2 6 (19.35%) Apache
2 6 (19.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
3 7 (22.58%) Amazon S3
3 7 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) Serverless
3 7 (22.58%) Snowflake
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (9.68%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) dbt
7 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) FTP
2 1 (3.23%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Data Lake
2 11 (35.48%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (25.81%) Power BI
4 7 (22.58%) Big Data
5 4 (12.90%) Hadoop
5 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (9.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (9.68%) HBase
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (9.68%) MySQL
6 3 (9.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (9.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (9.68%) Tableau
7 2 (6.45%) BigQuery
7 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
General
1 12 (38.71%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Finance
6 1 (3.23%) Advertising
6 1 (3.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Data Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Snowflake Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Data Manager
3 5 (16.13%) Product Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Data Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Data Integration Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Integration Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) SSIS Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) JSON
1 5 (16.13%) XML
2 3 (9.68%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
1 5 (16.13%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) ETL
2 15 (48.39%) Data Modelling
3 14 (45.16%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (41.94%) Agile
5 11 (35.48%) Analytics
6 9 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (22.58%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
8 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (19.35%) Product Management
8 6 (19.35%) Product Roadmap
8 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (19.35%) Supply Chain Management
9 5 (16.13%) Data Architecture
9 5 (16.13%) Data Governance
9 5 (16.13%) Data Integration
9 5 (16.13%) Scrum
9 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
9 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 5 (16.13%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) SQL
2 14 (45.16%) Python
3 9 (29.03%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) C#
5 4 (12.90%) Scala
6 2 (6.45%) Perl
7 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Informatica
1 5 (16.13%) Talend
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Ab Initio
4 1 (3.23%) Anaplan
4 1 (3.23%) Facebook
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Twitter