Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Essex

Data Engineering
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.58% 3.31% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 3.60% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 111 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 75.79% 91.74% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 51 46
10th Percentile £308 £200 £182
25th Percentile £350 £319 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% +17.86% -30.97%
75th Percentile £575 £504 £497
90th Percentile £600 £550 £575
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 31 30
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £19.60
25th Percentile £15.99 - £29.17
Median hourly rate £19.22 £18.87 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -74.84% +22.45%
75th Percentile £34.94 £41.73 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -25.00% +101.92%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Essex

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. 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
Basildon -15 2 £380 -15.56% 1
Data Engineering
East of England

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP