Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Data Engineer
Essex > Basildon

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Basildon is £380, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 1.45% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
Essex median daily rate £380 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basildon. 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 Basildon with a recognized job title 65 28 47
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 100.00% 95.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 14 7
10th Percentile £353 £366 £254
25th Percentile £464 £401 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £458 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% +14.38% -21.10%
75th Percentile £600 £488 -
90th Percentile - £511 £420
Essex median daily rate £460 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +15.00% +14.29% -33.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 26
10th Percentile £21.23 £41.90 £29.09
25th Percentile £28.25 £50.00 £54.75
Median hourly rate £73.00 £71.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -5.33% +83.65%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £80.00
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median hourly rate £17.73 £31.33 £65.00
% change year-on-year -43.42% -51.81% +13.04%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Basildon

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Basildon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Basildon

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon

For the 6 months to 29 August 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Basildon region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (100.00%) SnowPro
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP