Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Data Engineering
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.19% 0.85% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.92% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £499 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £500 £550 -
% change year-on-year -9.18% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 109 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.29% 93.16% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 72 94
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £494 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £529
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +1.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £626 £675
South London median daily rate £510 £528 £523
% change year-on-year -3.32% +0.96% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £19.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year +213.94% -52.43% -7.06%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Croydon

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow