Data Engineering Contracts in Hertfordshire

Data Engineering
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 68 72
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.31% 0.60% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.66% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £738 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% - -
75th Percentile £813 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £373 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -28.92% +7.69% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £60.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 753 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.79% 90.29% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 277 374
10th Percentile £384 £232 £240
25th Percentile £446 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £705 £768
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 314 156
10th Percentile £22.65 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.00 £53.69
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Hertfordshire

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Hertfordshire

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in Hertfordshire

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hatfield - 1 £775 -
Data Engineering
East of England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Spotify