Data Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £425 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 91 103 125
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 42 53 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.50% 1.63% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.73% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 62
10th Percentile £310 £450 £326
25th Percentile £363 £513 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £541 £638 £572
90th Percentile £635 £675 £656
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £23.46 - -
25th Percentile £26.05 - -
Median hourly rate £30.37 - -
75th Percentile £35.44 - -
90th Percentile £38.47 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -10.60% +67.78% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,572 3,071 4,819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 94.52% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 2,168 3,508
10th Percentile £213 £228 £212
25th Percentile £336 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +1.60% +15.43%
75th Percentile £587 £594 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 108 155
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.55
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.52 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.06 £20.41 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +15.31% +18.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.63
90th Percentile £52.01 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -5 30 £469 -18.48% 26
East Midlands +20 12 £400 -11.11% 8
Data Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (69.05%) SQL
2 23 (54.76%) Azure
3 18 (42.86%) Python
4 16 (38.10%) Data Modelling
5 15 (35.71%) Power BI
5 15 (35.71%) Power Platform
6 12 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (23.81%) ETL
8 10 (23.81%) Analytics
8 10 (23.81%) dbt
9 9 (21.43%) AWS
10 8 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
10 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
10 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (16.67%) Snowflake
11 7 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (16.67%) DevOps
12 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
12 6 (14.29%) Data Analytics
12 6 (14.29%) Tableau
12 6 (14.29%) Data Governance
12 6 (14.29%) Data Management
12 6 (14.29%) Data Migration
12 6 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (14.29%) Migration
12 6 (14.29%) Data Analysis
12 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 15 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 10 (23.81%) dbt
4 9 (21.43%) AWS
5 7 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (9.52%) Fivetran
6 4 (9.52%) GitHub
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.76%) Matillion
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.38%) GCP
9 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
1 2 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (35.71%) Power BI
2 8 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
4 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 6 (14.29%) Tableau
5 5 (11.90%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
6 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
6 4 (9.52%) Star Schema
7 3 (7.14%) MySQL
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (4.76%) Apache Hive
8 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.76%) OLAP
8 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) Ant
3 1 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (2.38%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Gradle
3 1 (2.38%) JUnit
3 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (4.76%) Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Back Office
4 1 (2.38%) Police
4 1 (2.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) ADO
1 3 (7.14%) Flask
1 3 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (2.38%) Kafka
2 1 (2.38%) PySpark
2 1 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Algorithms
1 5 (11.90%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.38%) FMCG
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Data Modelling
2 12 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (23.81%) Analytics
4 10 (23.81%) ETL
5 7 (16.67%) DevOps
6 6 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 6 (14.29%) Data Analytics
6 6 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 6 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 6 (14.29%) Data Management
6 6 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 6 (14.29%) Migration
6 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.90%) Visualisation
8 4 (9.52%) Change Data Capture
8 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (9.52%) Data Transformation
8 4 (9.52%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) SQL
2 18 (42.86%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) C
4 2 (4.76%) C++
4 2 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.76%) MATLAB
4 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.76%) Scala
4 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.38%) HiveQL
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Perl
5 1 (2.38%) R
5 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) CISSP
4 2 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.29%) Databricks
3 5 (11.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.76%) Informatica
4 2 (4.76%) JD Edwards
5 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.38%) Cognos
5 1 (2.38%) Denodo
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) QAD
5 1 (2.38%) Sage
5 1 (2.38%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) Talend