Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Data Engineer
East of England > Norfolk

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Norfolk is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 1.33% - 5.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% - 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £425 - £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £213
75th Percentile £475 - £219
90th Percentile £483 - -
East of England median daily rate £565 £315 £185
% change year-on-year +79.37% +70.27% -65.58%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Norfolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Norfolk. 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 Norfolk with a recognized job title 209 34 42
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.44% 82.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 15 25
10th Percentile £128 £136 £189
25th Percentile £190 £200 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £292 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -35.22% +20.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £450 - £538
90th Percentile £569 £662 £560
East of England median daily rate £476 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.90% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 7 15
10th Percentile £12.21 £14.02 -
25th Percentile £13.22 £14.35 £12.86
Median hourly rate £14.95 £15.33 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.20% -20.00%
75th Percentile £21.69 £17.49 £17.63
90th Percentile £23.75 £20.04 £26.25
East of England median hourly rate £28.00 £60.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -53.33% +44.58% +18.57%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Norfolk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Norfolk

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Norfolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Norfolk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Norfolk

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

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 Norfolk region over the 6 months to 9 April 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
Norwich - 3 £450 - 5
Data Engineer
East of England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk

For the 6 months to 9 April 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Norfolk region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Change Data Capture
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Change Data Capture
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Talend