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 £185 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 107 116
Rank change year-on-year +29 +9 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 36 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.90% 0.75% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 0.82% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 18
10th Percentile - £313 £359
25th Percentile £80 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £538 £443
Median % change year-on-year -65.58% +21.47% -20.27%
75th Percentile £268 £563 £499
90th Percentile £563 £600 £600
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £45.10
% change year-on-year +5.47% +41.91% +18.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,688 1,835 2,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.03% 91.80% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 1,110 1,381
10th Percentile £206 £195 £163
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 597 288 360
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £39.03 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% +151.77% -11.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.08 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

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 9 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 May 2024. 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
Hertfordshire +19 21 £80 - 8
Cambridgeshire +2 9 £185 -58.89% 3
Norfolk - 3 £213 - 2
Suffolk +9 2 £370 +13.85% 1
Bedfordshire -5 1 £170 -70.43% 5
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 17 (47.22%) Migration
2 16 (44.44%) Micro Focus
2 16 (44.44%) Data Migration
2 16 (44.44%) DevSecOps
3 8 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (19.44%) Python
5 5 (13.89%) SQL
5 5 (13.89%) Structured Cabling
5 5 (13.89%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (11.11%) C#
6 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
7 3 (8.33%) Git
7 3 (8.33%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.33%) Mercurial
7 3 (8.33%) Azure
7 3 (8.33%) Social Media
7 3 (8.33%) SciPy
7 3 (8.33%) NumPy
7 3 (8.33%) Signal Processing
7 3 (8.33%) Machine Learning
7 3 (8.33%) Pandas
7 3 (8.33%) Degree
7 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
7 3 (8.33%) Multimedia
7 3 (8.33%) Windows
7 3 (8.33%) JavaScript

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 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
1 3 (8.33%) dbt
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
1 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.78%) DTS
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
1 3 (8.33%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 3 (8.33%) Multimedia
2 2 (5.56%) Military
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) NumPy
1 3 (8.33%) Pandas
1 3 (8.33%) React
1 3 (8.33%) SciPy
2 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Fibre Optics
2 3 (8.33%) Social Media
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Migration
2 16 (44.44%) Data Migration
2 16 (44.44%) DevSecOps
3 8 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 3 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (8.33%) Code Quality
5 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (8.33%) Data Collection
5 3 (8.33%) ETL
5 3 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 3 (8.33%) Signal Processing
5 3 (8.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.56%) Data Engineering
6 2 (5.56%) Data Modelling
6 2 (5.56%) Database Migration
6 2 (5.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) SQL
3 4 (11.11%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Micro Focus
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Databricks