Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 116 123
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 821 1,046 1,545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.23% 2.20% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 2.33% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 796 1,108
10th Percentile £260 £413 £402
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 5 21
10th Percentile £37.50 - £18.50
25th Percentile £49.25 £62.00 £18.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +67.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 £82.50 £50.00
90th Percentile - £87.00 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -10.60% +67.78% +55.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +17 499 £525 -8.70% 225
North of England +12 81 £463 -22.92% 98
South West +16 66 £513 -2.38% 34
North West +6 50 £425 -19.05% 66
South East -24 46 £463 -7.50% 30
Midlands +12 42 £425 -26.09% 33
East of England +25 37 £185 -64.76% 8
Yorkshire +20 31 £475 -26.92% 20
West Midlands -5 30 £469 -18.48% 26
East Midlands +20 12 £400 -11.11% 7
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 391 (47.62%) SQL
2 368 (44.82%) Python
3 327 (39.83%) Azure
4 273 (33.25%) ETL
5 248 (30.21%) Data Pipeline
6 242 (29.48%) Data Modelling
7 220 (26.80%) AWS
8 205 (24.97%) Data Engineering
9 189 (23.02%) Analytics
10 177 (21.56%) Data Warehouse
11 167 (20.34%) Databricks
12 146 (17.78%) Security Cleared
13 140 (17.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 135 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
15 133 (16.20%) Social Skills
16 125 (15.23%) Data Lake
17 118 (14.37%) SC Cleared
18 117 (14.25%) PySpark
19 113 (13.76%) Power BI
19 113 (13.76%) Power Platform
20 112 (13.64%) Data Quality
21 110 (13.40%) DevOps
21 110 (13.40%) Finance
22 104 (12.67%) Migration
23 101 (12.30%) Agile
24 99 (12.06%) CI/CD
25 97 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
26 94 (11.45%) Serverless
27 89 (10.84%) SQL Server
28 84 (10.23%) Big Data

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 81 (9.87%) Apache Spark
2 66 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (7.06%) Apache
4 7 (0.85%) Confluence
5 4 (0.49%) Luigi
6 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) MIS ActiveH
1 4 (0.49%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.37%) ENOVIA
2 3 (0.37%) SAP PLM
2 3 (0.37%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.24%) OPENHousing
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 327 (39.83%) Azure
2 220 (26.80%) AWS
3 140 (17.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 113 (13.76%) Power Platform
5 94 (11.45%) Serverless
6 66 (8.04%) Snowflake
7 65 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (7.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 62 (7.55%) Amazon S3
10 60 (7.31%) GCP
11 46 (5.60%) dbt
12 34 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (3.78%) AWS Step Functions
14 28 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
15 26 (3.17%) GitHub
16 21 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
16 21 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (2.44%) Azure Functions
18 19 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
19 18 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.19%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (0.73%) Firewall
2 6 (0.73%) Internet
3 5 (0.61%) BGP
3 5 (0.61%) DMZ
3 5 (0.61%) FTP
3 5 (0.61%) VLAN
3 5 (0.61%) VPN
3 5 (0.61%) Wireless
4 4 (0.49%) Network Security
5 3 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.37%) DHCP
5 3 (0.37%) DNS
5 3 (0.37%) EIGRP
5 3 (0.37%) LAN
5 3 (0.37%) OSPF
5 3 (0.37%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.37%) WAN
6 2 (0.24%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (21.56%) Data Warehouse
2 125 (15.23%) Data Lake
3 113 (13.76%) Power BI
4 89 (10.84%) SQL Server
5 84 (10.23%) Big Data
6 59 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 57 (6.94%) Tableau
8 50 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 42 (5.12%) Amazon Athena
10 41 (4.99%) Relational Database
11 38 (4.63%) BigQuery
11 38 (4.63%) NoSQL
12 35 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 28 (3.41%) Parquet
14 27 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (2.92%) Flink
15 24 (2.92%) Metadata
16 21 (2.56%) DynamoDB
16 21 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (2.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 47 (5.72%) Git
2 24 (2.92%) JIRA
3 12 (1.46%) GitLab
3 12 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.73%) MLflow
5 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.49%) Deequ
7 3 (0.37%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.24%) Ant
8 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.24%) Gradle
8 2 (0.24%) JUnit
8 2 (0.24%) Maven
8 2 (0.24%) RStudio
8 2 (0.24%) Selenium
8 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.24%) Travis CI
8 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.12%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 133 (16.20%) Social Skills
2 110 (13.40%) Finance
3 97 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.12%) Banking
6 16 (1.95%) Investment Banking
7 13 (1.58%) Retail
8 12 (1.46%) Manufacturing
8 12 (1.46%) Marketing
8 12 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 12 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.34%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.10%) Front Office
10 9 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.49%) Aviation
12 4 (0.49%) Electronics
12 4 (0.49%) Local Government
12 4 (0.49%) Police
13 3 (0.37%) Japanese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (14.25%) PySpark
2 76 (9.26%) Kafka
3 31 (3.78%) JSON
4 26 (3.17%) Apache Avro
5 22 (2.68%) Pandas
6 14 (1.71%) NumPy
7 12 (1.46%) REST
7 12 (1.46%) XML
8 11 (1.34%) .NET
9 9 (1.10%) ARM Templates
9 9 (1.10%) pytest
10 8 (0.97%) YAML
11 7 (0.85%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (0.73%) .NET Core
12 6 (0.73%) SOAP
12 6 (0.73%) Web Services
13 5 (0.61%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.61%) JSON Schema
13 5 (0.61%) ODBC
13 5 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (2.31%) Data Structures
2 17 (2.07%) Algorithms
3 15 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 13 (1.58%) Fibre Optics
5 12 (1.46%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.10%) Cloud Native
9 8 (0.97%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.73%) Replication
11 5 (0.61%) Derivative
11 5 (0.61%) Hedge funds
11 5 (0.61%) NHS
11 5 (0.61%) Smart Meter
11 5 (0.61%) Social Media
12 4 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.49%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.53%) Linux
2 15 (1.83%) Unix
2 15 (1.83%) Windows
3 2 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (33.25%) ETL
2 248 (30.21%) Data Pipeline
3 242 (29.48%) Data Modelling
4 205 (24.97%) Data Engineering
5 189 (23.02%) Analytics
6 135 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
7 110 (13.40%) DevOps
8 104 (12.67%) Migration
9 101 (12.30%) Agile
10 99 (12.06%) CI/CD
11 76 (9.26%) Data Migration
12 69 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (8.04%) Data Governance
13 66 (8.04%) Data Integration
14 54 (6.58%) Data Science
15 50 (6.09%) Data Ingestion
15 50 (6.09%) Data Management
16 49 (5.97%) Data Transformation
17 43 (5.24%) Computer Science
18 42 (5.12%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 391 (47.62%) SQL
2 368 (44.82%) Python
3 76 (9.26%) Java
4 54 (6.58%) Scala
5 35 (4.26%) T-SQL
6 33 (4.02%) C#
7 16 (1.95%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.46%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.22%) Bash
9 10 (1.22%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.10%) Bicep
11 8 (0.97%) C++
11 8 (0.97%) Perl
11 8 (0.97%) R
12 6 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.73%) Go
13 3 (0.37%) C
13 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.24%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 146 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 118 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.36%) Degree
4 28 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.73%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.24%) CISSP
11 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.24%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.12%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.17%) QA
3 9 (1.10%) GDPR
4 7 (0.85%) SLA
5 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 28 (3.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (8.40%) Terraform
2 39 (4.75%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.22%) Ansible
4 6 (0.73%) Puppet
5 5 (0.61%) NetBackup
6 4 (0.49%) Argo
7 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.24%) Grafana
8 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) Matomo
9 1 (0.12%) NetMRI
9 1 (0.12%) Packer
9 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 167 (20.34%) Databricks
2 64 (7.80%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.63%) Oracle
4 37 (4.51%) Micro Focus
5 25 (3.05%) Google
6 24 (2.92%) Informatica
7 14 (1.71%) SAP
8 10 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.10%) Talend
10 8 (0.97%) Cisco
11 7 (0.85%) Splunk
12 6 (0.73%) Adobe
13 5 (0.61%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.61%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.61%) Twitter
13 5 (0.61%) Veritas
14 4 (0.49%) Aruba
14 4 (0.49%) CheckPoint
14 4 (0.49%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.49%) NEC