Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Data Engineering
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 22 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 1.25% 2.15% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.27% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 £463 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -26.92% -31.58%
75th Percentile £613 £488 £675
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £480 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -16.52% +2.58% -2.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 88 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 85.00% 94.62% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 61 46
10th Percentile £160 £306 £305
25th Percentile £295 £380 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -5.21% -8.26%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £810 £675 £745
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 0
10th Percentile £12.56 - -
25th Percentile £12.60 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.48% - -
75th Percentile £17.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £18.45 - -
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £47.51 £54.39
% change year-on-year -53.14% -12.64% +45.03%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Brighton +7 1 £600 +26.32% 1
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL