Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 161 160
Rank change year-on-year +26 -1 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 331 346 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.57% 1.52% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.62% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 270 366
10th Percentile £167 £405 £328
25th Percentile £199 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £636 £628
90th Percentile £588 £693 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 9
10th Percentile £37.50 - £39.72
25th Percentile £58.75 £75.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +67.78% +78.22%
75th Percentile £80.00 £75.75 £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.60% +67.04% +55.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,497 21,400 29,228
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.21% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,649 14,865 20,542
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £684 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,477 1,094 1,390
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £46.42
90th Percentile £74.15 £75.50 £61.71
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 of England +13 81 £463 -22.92% 96
South West +17 67 £500 -4.76% 31
North West 0 50 £425 -27.66% 60
South East -12 49 £463 -10.19% 30
Midlands +18 42 £423 -26.52% 31
East of England +24 37 £185 -64.76% 6
Scotland +21 34 £453 -9.04% 23
Yorkshire +13 31 £475 -26.92% 24
West Midlands +1 30 £438 -27.08% 22
Wales +31 15 £500 - 4
East Midlands +20 12 £400 -11.11% 7
Northern Ireland +7 6 £175 -65.00% 5
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 124 (37.46%) SQL
2 99 (29.91%) Python
3 98 (29.61%) Azure
4 87 (26.28%) ETL
5 81 (24.47%) Data Modelling
6 67 (20.24%) Data Pipeline
7 66 (19.94%) Migration
8 63 (19.03%) AWS
9 60 (18.13%) Power Platform
9 60 (18.13%) Power BI
10 59 (17.82%) Business Intelligence
11 55 (16.62%) Data Engineering
12 54 (16.31%) Data Warehouse
13 52 (15.71%) Analytics
14 49 (14.80%) Data Migration
15 47 (14.20%) Azure Data Factory
16 46 (13.90%) Security Cleared
17 41 (12.39%) Databricks
17 41 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
18 40 (12.08%) Social Skills
19 37 (11.18%) Micro Focus
20 36 (10.88%) SQL Server
20 36 (10.88%) Data Lake
21 35 (10.57%) Tableau
22 33 (9.97%) SC Cleared
23 32 (9.67%) Snowflake
23 32 (9.67%) DevOps
24 31 (9.37%) CI/CD
24 31 (9.37%) Java
25 28 (8.46%) Agile

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (6.95%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.83%) Apache
4 4 (1.21%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) SAS
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) ENOVIA
1 3 (0.91%) SAP PLM
1 3 (0.91%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 98 (29.61%) Azure
2 63 (19.03%) AWS
3 60 (18.13%) Power Platform
4 47 (14.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 32 (9.67%) Snowflake
6 23 (6.95%) GCP
7 20 (6.04%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 20 (6.04%) Serverless
8 16 (4.83%) dbt
9 15 (4.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.93%) GitHub
12 12 (3.63%) OpenShift
13 11 (3.32%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
16 7 (2.11%) Matillion
17 5 (1.51%) Amazon SQS
17 5 (1.51%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.55%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (1.51%) Firewall
2 5 (1.51%) FTP
2 5 (1.51%) VLAN
3 3 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.91%) DMZ
3 3 (0.91%) VPN
3 3 (0.91%) Wireless
4 2 (0.60%) Network Security
4 2 (0.60%) SSL
5 1 (0.30%) 3G
5 1 (0.30%) 4G
5 1 (0.30%) 5G
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) GPRS
5 1 (0.30%) Internet
5 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.30%) VoWiFi
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.13%) Power BI
2 54 (16.31%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (10.88%) Data Lake
3 36 (10.88%) SQL Server
4 35 (10.57%) Tableau
5 23 (6.95%) Relational Database
6 22 (6.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (4.23%) Big Data
9 13 (3.93%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 13 (3.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (3.63%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.32%) BigQuery
12 9 (2.72%) Hadoop
12 9 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (2.42%) Metadata
13 8 (2.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (4.23%) Git
2 11 (3.32%) JIRA
3 9 (2.72%) GitLab
4 4 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.91%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.60%) Gradle
7 1 (0.30%) Ant
7 1 (0.30%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.30%) ERwin
7 1 (0.30%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) Maven
7 1 (0.30%) RStudio
General
1 41 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (12.08%) Social Skills
3 25 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.34%) Finance
5 11 (3.32%) Aerospace
5 11 (3.32%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.02%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.72%) Banking
8 5 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.21%) Aviation
9 4 (1.21%) Electronics
9 4 (1.21%) Local Government
10 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Marketing
10 3 (0.91%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.60%) Military
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.53%) Kafka
1 15 (4.53%) PySpark
2 13 (3.93%) AWS CDK
3 10 (3.02%) XML
4 8 (2.42%) REST
5 6 (1.81%) Pandas
6 5 (1.51%) JSON
7 4 (1.21%) .NET
7 4 (1.21%) NumPy
7 4 (1.21%) OpenID
7 4 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.21%) PostGIS
8 3 (0.91%) Flask
8 3 (0.91%) React
8 3 (0.91%) SciPy
9 2 (0.60%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.60%) ADO
9 2 (0.60%) Apache Beam
9 2 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.60%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.93%) Fibre Optics
2 12 (3.63%) Replication
3 9 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.72%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.51%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.51%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.51%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.21%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.21%) NHS
7 4 (1.21%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.21%) Smart Meter
8 3 (0.91%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (0.91%) Social Media
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.14%) Linux
1 17 (5.14%) Windows
2 6 (1.81%) Unix
3 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.60%) zOS
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (26.28%) ETL
2 81 (24.47%) Data Modelling
3 67 (20.24%) Data Pipeline
4 66 (19.94%) Migration
5 59 (17.82%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (16.62%) Data Engineering
7 52 (15.71%) Analytics
8 49 (14.80%) Data Migration
9 32 (9.67%) DevOps
10 31 (9.37%) CI/CD
11 28 (8.46%) Agile
12 26 (7.85%) DevSecOps
13 25 (7.55%) Data Integration
14 23 (6.95%) Data Management
14 23 (6.95%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (6.34%) Performance Optimisation
16 20 (6.04%) Scrum
17 19 (5.74%) Computer Science
18 18 (5.44%) Collaborative Working
19 17 (5.14%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 124 (37.46%) SQL
2 99 (29.91%) Python
3 31 (9.37%) Java
4 15 (4.53%) Scala
5 13 (3.93%) T-SQL
6 12 (3.63%) C#
7 7 (2.11%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.81%) R
9 5 (1.51%) Perl
9 5 (1.51%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.21%) Bash
10 4 (1.21%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.60%) C
11 2 (0.60%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.60%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 46 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.97%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.04%) Degree
4 13 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.91%) CISSP
6 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.60%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) SAS Certification
8 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.53%) QA
3 6 (1.81%) GDPR
4 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 15 (4.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) HDFS
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (5.74%) Terraform
2 11 (3.32%) Ansible
3 8 (2.42%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.11%) Grafana
5 6 (1.81%) Puppet
6 5 (1.51%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (12.39%) Databricks
2 37 (11.18%) Micro Focus
3 21 (6.34%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.93%) Informatica
5 12 (3.63%) Oracle
6 8 (2.42%) Google
7 7 (2.11%) SAP
8 6 (1.81%) Talend
9 5 (1.51%) Ab Initio
9 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.51%) Twitter
9 5 (1.51%) Veritas
10 4 (1.21%) Splunk
11 3 (0.91%) Blue Coat
11 3 (0.91%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.91%) Cisco
11 3 (0.91%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.91%) Juniper
12 2 (0.60%) Commvault