Data Engineer Contracts in Watford

Data Engineer
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Watford is £410 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 2.56% - 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.68% - 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £180
75th Percentile £415 - £210
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £80 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -82.22% +20.00% -33.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Watford

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Watford. 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 Watford with a recognized job title 112 140 152
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.73% 95.89% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 98 108
10th Percentile £276 £186 £144
25th Percentile £325 £400 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +41.18% -
75th Percentile £550 £747 £538
90th Percentile £720 £895 £638
Hertfordshire median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 6
10th Percentile - - £18.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £21.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% -37.14% +112.12%
75th Percentile £14.75 £35.08 £36.88
90th Percentile - £35.80 £43.25
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +27.55% +22.50%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Watford

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Watford

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 Watford region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) Presto
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Talend
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Hive
2 2 (66.67%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Informatica
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Athena

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Hive
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Presto
2 2 (66.67%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (33.33%) DTS
3 1 (33.33%) HBase
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Informatica
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) Talend
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 Data Engineer jobs in Hertfordshire