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 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 96 120
Rank change year-on-year +29 +24 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 40 22 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.09% 1.06% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 1.16% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 20
10th Percentile - £324 £361
25th Percentile £80 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -63.90% +13.89% -19.64%
75th Percentile £386 £556 £496
90th Percentile £563 £598 £578
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 £45.20
% change year-on-year +5.47% +41.59% -14.72%

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 1,713 1,893 2,402
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 91.45% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 1,156 1,380
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £315 £298 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £540
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 297 374
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -5.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 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 +24 23 £80 -82.22% 3
Cambridgeshire -3 9 £185 -64.76% 2
Norfolk - 3 £213 - 2
Suffolk +6 2 £370 +13.85%
Essex - 2 £388 - 3
Bedfordshire -9 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 25 April 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 18 (45.00%) Migration
2 16 (40.00%) Micro Focus
2 16 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 16 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 10 (25.00%) Python
4 9 (22.50%) SQL
5 8 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (15.00%) ETL
6 6 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
7 5 (12.50%) Git
7 5 (12.50%) Agile
7 5 (12.50%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
8 4 (10.00%) SDLC
8 4 (10.00%) Apache
8 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (10.00%) Degree
8 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (10.00%) Azure
8 4 (10.00%) AWS
8 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (10.00%) Scrum
8 4 (10.00%) C#
9 3 (7.50%) Java
9 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
9 3 (7.50%) Windows
9 3 (7.50%) Informatica

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 4 (10.00%) Apache
1 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) AWS
1 4 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (7.50%) dbt
2 3 (7.50%) Serverless
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (5.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) PaaS
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (5.00%) Big Data
2 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 2 (5.00%) Presto
2 2 (5.00%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.50%) DTS
3 1 (2.50%) HBase
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (2.50%) Parquet
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 3 (7.50%) Mercurial
3 2 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (7.50%) Multimedia
1 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) NumPy
1 3 (7.50%) Pandas
1 3 (7.50%) React
1 3 (7.50%) SciPy
2 2 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
2 3 (7.50%) Social Media
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Migration
2 16 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 16 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 8 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (15.00%) ETL
5 5 (12.50%) Agile
6 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.00%) Scrum
6 4 (10.00%) SDLC
6 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (7.50%) Computer Science
7 3 (7.50%) Data Engineering
7 3 (7.50%) Data Integration
7 3 (7.50%) Machine Learning
7 3 (7.50%) Signal Processing
7 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) SQL
3 4 (10.00%) C#
4 3 (7.50%) Java
4 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.50%) Jython
6 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
1 1 (2.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Micro Focus
2 3 (7.50%) Informatica
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) Talend
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) Hortonworks
4 1 (2.50%) Teradata