Data Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Data Engineer
England > East of England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £315, 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 67 73 104
Rank change year-on-year +6 +31 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 15 39 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.60% 2.04% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.28% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 10
10th Percentile £175 - £313
25th Percentile £194 £80 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £185 £513
Median % change year-on-year +70.27% -63.90% +13.89%
75th Percentile £328 £415 £550
90th Percentile £400 £563 £600
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 0
Median hourly rate £18.22 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.23% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.47% +41.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 829 1,710 1,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 89.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 773 1,156
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £379 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 591 294
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +16 5 £317 -33.37% 5
Hertfordshire +10 5 £187 +133.13% 14
Cambridgeshire +3 2 £400 +116.22% 2
Suffolk -7 2 £258 -30.41% 2
Bedfordshire +2 1 - - 4
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

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 East of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) SQL
1 7 (46.67%) Data Security
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) ETL
3 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Power BI
3 5 (33.33%) PySpark
3 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (26.67%) GDPR
4 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
4 4 (26.67%) Kafka
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
4 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
4 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Apache
4 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (26.67%) Data Management
5 3 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Workflow
5 3 (20.00%) Java
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GCP
1 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) dbt
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) Vertex AI
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (20.00%) Tableau
4 2 (13.33%) Looker
4 2 (13.33%) Metadata
5 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (6.67%) Data Mart
5 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (6.67%) Flink
5 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) PySpark
2 4 (26.67%) Kafka
3 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (20.00%) React
4 2 (13.33%) NumPy
4 2 (13.33%) Pandas
5 1 (6.67%) .NET
5 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Data Security
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) ETL
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (26.67%) Data Management
3 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
4 3 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) DataOps
4 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) Workflow
5 2 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (26.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Google