Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Data Engineering
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 26 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.24% 1.14% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 1.28% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +37.63% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £588 £425 £563
% change year-on-year +38.29% -24.44% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 197 156 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.20% 89.14% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 87 85
10th Percentile £183 £296 £235
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £420
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +22.02% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £538
90th Percentile £625 £693 £645
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £475 £420
% change year-on-year +2.63% +13.10% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 32
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.45 £16.85
25th Percentile £15.57 £18.10 £25.00
Median hourly rate £20.44 £60.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.93% +30.43% +159.59%
75th Percentile £42.07 £66.88 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £76.25 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.28 £16.41 £16.23
% change year-on-year -6.92% +1.11% +11.93%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (42.86%) MySQL
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
1 3 (42.86%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (14.29%) Celery
2 1 (14.29%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) JPA
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) LIMS
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) Informatics
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Biotechnology
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft