Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Data Engineering
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 3 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 14.29% 14.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 22.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £318 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.73% - -
Essex median daily rate £450 £318 £319
% change year-on-year +41.51% -0.24% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basildon

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21 9 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 100.00% 64.29% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 19
10th Percentile £152 £316 £222
25th Percentile £349 £318 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.98% -28.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £561 £385 £583
90th Percentile £687 £424 £596
Essex median daily rate £408 £315 £450
% change year-on-year +29.37% -30.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £71.40 - £30.80
25th Percentile £72.75 - £43.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £47.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.18%
75th Percentile - - £55.50
90th Percentile - - £55.54
Essex median hourly rate £18.87 £23.75 £40.31
% change year-on-year -20.55% -41.08% +61.24%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Basildon

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) StreamSets