Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 84 110
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 11 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.86% 0.72% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.88% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £363 £481 £488
25th Percentile £400 £509 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -7.69% +15.56%
75th Percentile £763 £634 £678
90th Percentile £808 £694 £706
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.08% +56.00%

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 1,147 1,248 1,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.26% 82.11% 87.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 458 904
10th Percentile £200 £200 £226
25th Percentile £375 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% +1.01%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £620
90th Percentile £676 £638 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 409 355
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.42 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.34 £39.50 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -33.32% +99.39% -2.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Engineering

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 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Engineering

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 7 September 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
Cambridgeshire +3 5 £750 +42.86% 3
Essex - 4 £450 - 5
Bedfordshire -6 2 £350 -53.33% 6
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 Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Amazon S3
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Snowflake
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (36.36%) dbt
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle Database
2 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (27.27%) Power BI
4 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (9.09%) Big Data
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Pentaho
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Snowflake Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft BI Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Data Modelling
2 7 (63.64%) ETL
3 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (45.45%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
5 3 (27.27%) High Availability
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) CRM
6 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 2 (18.18%) LLM
6 2 (18.18%) Prototyping
6 2 (18.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
1 4 (36.36%) StreamSets
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) Vertica