Data Engineering Contracts in the East of England

Data Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 105 113
Rank change year-on-year +34 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 11 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.17% 0.37% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.43% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £315 £468 £458
25th Percentile £318 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -28.92% +7.69% +17.47%
75th Percentile £466 £600 £502
90th Percentile £700 £623 £516
England median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £26.47 £38.65 £73.00
% change year-on-year -31.53% -47.05% +29.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +18 7 £318 -33.01% 8
Cambridgeshire +11 2 £425 -19.05% 3
Hertfordshire +24 1 £775 +24.00% 12
Bedfordshire - 1 £675 - 5
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 (36.36%) Apache
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) dbt
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) Vertex AI
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) Metadata
2 4 (36.36%) Tableau
3 3 (27.27%) Looker
4 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Automotive
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Aviation
4 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) DBA
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) MongoDB DBA
5 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Associate Director
5 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) SAP Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
5 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) PySpark
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 4 (36.36%) React
3 3 (27.27%) Kafka
3 3 (27.27%) NumPy
3 3 (27.27%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
1 6 (54.55%) Data Security
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Data Management
2 5 (45.45%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
3 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 4 (36.36%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (36.36%) ETL
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Use Case
4 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 3 (27.27%) Open Source
4 3 (27.27%) Workflow
4 3 (27.27%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
2 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Ariba
2 1 (9.09%) Checkmarx
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Spotify