Data Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £438 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 86 87 109
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 30 42 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.50% 1.90% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 2.01% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 42
10th Percentile £277 £418 £408
25th Percentile £363 £522 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £531
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +12.94% +11.84%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £560
90th Percentile £636 £686 £586
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.38 - -
25th Percentile £32.90 - -
Median hourly rate £35.44 - -
75th Percentile £37.97 - -
90th Percentile £39.49 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.60% +67.04% +20.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,835 2,087 3,458
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 94.39% 96.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 1,422 2,497
10th Percentile £250 £263 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 62 67
10th Percentile £12.16 £12.50 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.90 £14.63 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.77 £20.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +15.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £40.13 £28.56 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £57.13 £24.05
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham -2 13 £375 -34.78% 13
Warwickshire +1 6 £550 -12.00% 2
Coventry +12 3 £450 -14.29% 3
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 - - 2
Data Engineer
England

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

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 West Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 16 (53.33%) Python
3 11 (36.67%) Azure
4 10 (33.33%) Power BI
4 10 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 10 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 9 (30.00%) ETL
6 8 (26.67%) Analytics
6 8 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (20.00%) AWS
8 6 (20.00%) Degree
9 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
9 5 (16.67%) Data Analytics
9 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
9 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 5 (16.67%) Data Analysis
9 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
10 4 (13.33%) Data Management
10 4 (13.33%) Finance
10 4 (13.33%) Migration
10 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
10 4 (13.33%) Java
10 4 (13.33%) Algorithms
10 4 (13.33%) Data Governance

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (20.00%) AWS
4 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.00%) dbt
5 3 (10.00%) Matillion
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
1 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) Power BI
2 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) Impala
5 1 (3.33%) Pentaho
5 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.33%) Ant
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Gradle
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) JUnit
3 1 (3.33%) Maven
General
1 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) ADO
1 2 (6.67%) Flask
1 2 (6.67%) Pandas
2 1 (3.33%) PySpark
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 9 (30.00%) ETL
3 8 (26.67%) Analytics
3 8 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 5 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 5 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 4 (13.33%) Data Management
6 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
6 4 (13.33%) Migration
7 3 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (10.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 16 (53.33%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) C
4 2 (6.67%) C++
4 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (6.67%) MATLAB
5 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.33%) HiveQL
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Scala
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) CISSP
4 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (3.33%) Denodo
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Sage
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Talend