Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in England is £500, 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 97 121 124
Rank change year-on-year +24 +3 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 838 1,027 1,547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.23% 2.18% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.41% 2.31% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 787 1,111
10th Percentile £263 £413 £405
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 £731 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 5 24
10th Percentile £37.50 - £18.50
25th Percentile £49.25 £62.00 £25.47
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.35
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +66.48% +20.93%
75th Percentile £80.00 £82.50 £50.69
90th Percentile - £87.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.35
% change year-on-year -10.60% +66.48% +56.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
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 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 12 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 12 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 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
London +15 507 £525 -8.70% 207
North of England +6 82 £475 -20.83% 94
South West +8 67 £500 -3.61% 27
North West +3 50 £425 -27.66% 61
South East -10 50 £463 -11.06% 26
Midlands +17 46 £425 -26.09% 30
East of England +27 37 £185 -64.76% 7
West Midlands +10 34 £450 -25.00% 21
Yorkshire +17 32 £480 -26.15% 22
East Midlands +15 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 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 England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 400 (47.73%) SQL
2 379 (45.23%) Python
3 337 (40.21%) Azure
4 280 (33.41%) ETL
5 255 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
6 248 (29.59%) Data Modelling
7 234 (27.92%) AWS
8 213 (25.42%) Data Engineering
9 202 (24.11%) Analytics
10 186 (22.20%) Data Warehouse
11 172 (20.53%) Databricks
12 151 (18.02%) Security Cleared
13 143 (17.06%) Social Skills
14 142 (16.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 140 (16.71%) Business Intelligence
16 126 (15.04%) Data Lake
17 123 (14.68%) PySpark
18 121 (14.44%) SC Cleared
19 120 (14.32%) Data Quality
20 117 (13.96%) Power BI
20 117 (13.96%) Power Platform
21 111 (13.25%) Agile
22 110 (13.13%) Finance
22 110 (13.13%) DevOps
23 105 (12.53%) Migration
24 102 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
25 100 (11.93%) CI/CD
26 95 (11.34%) SQL Server
27 92 (10.98%) Serverless
28 86 (10.26%) Apache Spark

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 86 (10.26%) Apache Spark
2 68 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
3 61 (7.28%) Apache
4 8 (0.95%) Confluence
5 4 (0.48%) Luigi
6 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.48%) MIS ActiveH
1 4 (0.48%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.36%) ENOVIA
2 3 (0.36%) SAP PLM
2 3 (0.36%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.24%) OPENHousing
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 337 (40.21%) Azure
2 234 (27.92%) AWS
3 142 (16.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 117 (13.96%) Power Platform
5 92 (10.98%) Serverless
6 70 (8.35%) Snowflake
7 69 (8.23%) Amazon S3
8 65 (7.76%) GCP
9 63 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (7.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 52 (6.21%) dbt
11 35 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
12 31 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
13 29 (3.46%) GitHub
14 23 (2.74%) Amazon MSK
15 22 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
15 22 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
16 19 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (2.27%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.15%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (0.72%) Firewall
2 6 (0.72%) Internet
3 5 (0.60%) BGP
3 5 (0.60%) DMZ
3 5 (0.60%) FTP
3 5 (0.60%) VLAN
3 5 (0.60%) VPN
3 5 (0.60%) Wireless
4 4 (0.48%) Network Security
5 3 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.36%) DHCP
5 3 (0.36%) DNS
5 3 (0.36%) EIGRP
5 3 (0.36%) LAN
5 3 (0.36%) OSPF
5 3 (0.36%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.36%) WAN
6 2 (0.24%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (22.20%) Data Warehouse
2 126 (15.04%) Data Lake
3 117 (13.96%) Power BI
4 95 (11.34%) SQL Server
5 85 (10.14%) Big Data
6 61 (7.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 60 (7.16%) Tableau
8 52 (6.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (5.37%) Amazon Athena
9 45 (5.37%) Relational Database
10 42 (5.01%) NoSQL
11 39 (4.65%) BigQuery
12 35 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
13 29 (3.46%) Parquet
14 26 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
15 24 (2.86%) Flink
15 24 (2.86%) Metadata
16 21 (2.51%) Delta Lake
16 21 (2.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (5.49%) Git
2 25 (2.98%) JIRA
3 12 (1.43%) GitLab
3 12 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.72%) MLflow
5 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.48%) Deequ
6 3 (0.36%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.24%) Ant
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) Gradle
7 2 (0.24%) JUnit
7 2 (0.24%) Maven
7 2 (0.24%) RStudio
7 2 (0.24%) Selenium
7 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.24%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.12%) kappa
General
1 143 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 110 (13.13%) Finance
3 102 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.01%) Banking
6 16 (1.91%) Investment Banking
7 15 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (1.79%) Retail
8 13 (1.55%) Marketing
9 11 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.31%) Front Office
9 11 (1.31%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.60%) Police
13 4 (0.48%) Aviation
13 4 (0.48%) Electronics
13 4 (0.48%) Local Government
13 4 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (14.68%) PySpark
2 77 (9.19%) Kafka
3 32 (3.82%) JSON
4 26 (3.10%) Apache Avro
5 23 (2.74%) Pandas
6 16 (1.91%) NumPy
7 13 (1.55%) .NET
8 12 (1.43%) XML
9 11 (1.31%) REST
10 9 (1.07%) pytest
11 8 (0.95%) ARM Templates
11 8 (0.95%) YAML
12 7 (0.84%) RESTful
12 7 (0.84%) SciPy
12 7 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
13 6 (0.72%) .NET Core
13 6 (0.72%) SOAP
14 5 (0.60%) JSON Schema
14 5 (0.60%) TensorFlow
14 5 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (2.63%) Data Structures
2 18 (2.15%) Algorithms
3 16 (1.91%) Onboarding
4 13 (1.55%) Fibre Optics
5 12 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.19%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.19%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (0.95%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.72%) Replication
10 5 (0.60%) Derivative
10 5 (0.60%) NHS
10 5 (0.60%) Smart Meter
10 5 (0.60%) Social Media
11 4 (0.48%) Blockchain
11 4 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.48%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.46%) Linux
2 17 (2.03%) Windows
3 15 (1.79%) Unix
4 3 (0.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (33.41%) ETL
2 255 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
3 248 (29.59%) Data Modelling
4 213 (25.42%) Data Engineering
5 202 (24.11%) Analytics
6 140 (16.71%) Business Intelligence
7 111 (13.25%) Agile
8 110 (13.13%) DevOps
9 105 (12.53%) Migration
10 100 (11.93%) CI/CD
11 76 (9.07%) Data Migration
11 76 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (8.00%) Data Integration
13 65 (7.76%) Data Governance
14 57 (6.80%) Data Science
15 55 (6.56%) Data Management
16 52 (6.21%) Data Ingestion
17 48 (5.73%) Data Transformation
18 47 (5.61%) Computer Science
19 46 (5.49%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 400 (47.73%) SQL
2 379 (45.23%) Python
3 83 (9.90%) Java
4 54 (6.44%) Scala
5 36 (4.30%) T-SQL
6 35 (4.18%) C#
7 18 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 16 (1.91%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.19%) Bash
9 10 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.19%) R
10 9 (1.07%) Bicep
11 8 (0.95%) C++
12 7 (0.84%) Go
12 7 (0.84%) Perl
13 6 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.36%) C
14 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 151 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 121 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.85%) Degree
4 32 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.24%) CISSP
12 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.24%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.24%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (14.32%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.86%) QA
3 9 (1.07%) GDPR
4 7 (0.84%) SLA
5 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.12%) IFRS
6 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 28 (3.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) HDFS
3 2 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 71 (8.47%) Terraform
2 40 (4.77%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.19%) Ansible
4 6 (0.72%) Puppet
5 5 (0.60%) NetBackup
6 4 (0.48%) Argo
7 3 (0.36%) Grafana
7 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.24%) Ganglia
8 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
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
1 172 (20.53%) Databricks
2 62 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.89%) Oracle
4 37 (4.42%) Micro Focus
5 27 (3.22%) Google
6 26 (3.10%) Informatica
7 17 (2.03%) SAP
8 10 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.19%) Talend
9 8 (0.95%) Cisco
9 8 (0.95%) Splunk
10 7 (0.84%) Adobe
11 5 (0.60%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.60%) Cloudera
11 5 (0.60%) Twitter
11 5 (0.60%) Veritas
12 4 (0.48%) Aruba
12 4 (0.48%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.48%) NEC
12 4 (0.48%) OpenAI