Data Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 92 111
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 32 29 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.85% 1.35% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 1.41% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 23
10th Percentile £163 £463 £303
25th Percentile £170 £504 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +18.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £539 £694 £650
90th Percentile £576 £706 £760
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,567 2,058 2,572
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 95.94% 96.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,399 1,889
10th Percentile £234 £225 £210
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 30 90
10th Percentile £11.30 £12.00 £10.98
25th Percentile £12.53 £16.75 £12.47
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.07% -1.35%
75th Percentile £25.83 £43.38 £22.39
90th Percentile £53.75 £56.78 £26.55
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire +14 13 £500 -23.08% 11
South Yorkshire 0 12 £170 -70.43% 12
North Yorkshire - 3 - - 2
East Yorkshire +2 1 £160 -78.67%
Humberside - 1 £160 -
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 12 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 Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 9 (28.13%) Data Engineering
4 9 (28.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (25.00%) Python
5 8 (25.00%) Analytics
6 7 (21.88%) ETL
6 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (21.88%) Databricks
7 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
7 6 (18.75%) Windows
7 6 (18.75%) Linux
7 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
7 6 (18.75%) Change Management
7 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (18.75%) Replication
7 6 (18.75%) Puppet
7 6 (18.75%) Data Protection
8 5 (15.63%) VLAN
8 5 (15.63%) NetBackup
8 5 (15.63%) Data Integration
8 5 (15.63%) Ansible
8 5 (15.63%) Veritas
8 5 (15.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (15.63%) Data Lake
9 4 (12.50%) Data Centre

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (9.38%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.13%) dbt
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) VLAN
2 2 (6.25%) Wireless
3 1 (3.13%) DAB
3 1 (3.13%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.63%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.50%) Tableau
4 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (6.25%) Metadata
4 2 (6.25%) Power BI
4 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) Flink
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Health Technology
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.13%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) PySpark
2 1 (3.13%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Replication
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) NHS
3 2 (6.25%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
1 10 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (28.13%) Data Engineering
3 8 (25.00%) Analytics
4 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (21.88%) ETL
5 6 (18.75%) Change Management
5 6 (18.75%) Data Protection
5 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) Data Integration
7 4 (12.50%) Data Extraction
7 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (9.38%) Open Source
9 2 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
9 2 (6.25%) Data Governance
9 2 (6.25%) Data Security
9 2 (6.25%) Data Strategy
9 2 (6.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 2 (6.25%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Puppet
2 5 (15.63%) Ansible
2 5 (15.63%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Databricks
2 5 (15.63%) Veritas
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) Brio
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle