Data Engineer Contracts in Croydon

Data Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 26 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 3.30% 5.52% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 5.59% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 £425 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -28.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £497 £519 £688
90th Percentile £503 - -
South London median daily rate £481 £475 £675
% change year-on-year +1.32% -29.63% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 89 143 154
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.80% 98.62% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 123
10th Percentile £380 £360 £430
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £663 £630 £679
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Croydon

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Croydon

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Croydon region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 3 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (100.00%) Parquet
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Lua
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PHP

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (100.00%) Parquet
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Lua
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared