Data Engineering Contracts in the East of England

Data Engineering
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 113 123
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 7 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.37% 0.48% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.56% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £468 £458 £400
25th Percentile £475 £469 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £415
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +17.47% -19.42%
75th Percentile £600 £502 £531
90th Percentile £623 £516 £538
England median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £38.65 £73.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% +29.20% +47.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,645 1,801 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 87.13% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 1,065 1,274
10th Percentile £206 £201 £185
25th Percentile £333 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 340 385
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 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 +5 5 £625 - 1
Essex +2 1 £475 -
Cambridgeshire -1 1 £525 +10.53% 3
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (14.29%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) IntelliJ
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Data Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Avro
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ETL
1 3 (42.86%) Use Case
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) OOP
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Jython
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle