Data Engineer Contracts in the South East

Data Engineer
England > South East

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the South East is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 May 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
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 132 140
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 45 85 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% 1.51% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.60% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 64 77
10th Percentile £171 £425 £252
25th Percentile £180 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £675
90th Percentile £585 £605 £715
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £46.78
% change year-on-year -10.60% +61.39% +24.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,176 5,316 7,307
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 94.61% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,066 3,686 5,010
10th Percentile £231 £221 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 234 314
10th Percentile £12.86 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.15
Median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +138.10% -16.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.05
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -16.67% +89.04% +10.72%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Thames Valley -4 26 £276 -44.85% 9
Berkshire -2 17 £425 -19.05% 5
Hampshire +4 16 £463 -9.76% 5
Surrey -8 10 £463 -7.50% 4
Oxfordshire +10 5 £175 -65.00% 2
Buckinghamshire +21 4 £500 +3.09% 2
Kent +6 2 £500 -
West Sussex - 1 £425 -
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 30 May 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 South East region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (31.11%) SQL
1 14 (31.11%) Analytics
2 13 (28.89%) ETL
3 12 (26.67%) Python
3 12 (26.67%) Azure
4 11 (24.44%) Data Modelling
4 11 (24.44%) Power BI
4 11 (24.44%) Power Platform
5 10 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 10 (22.22%) Data Science
6 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (13.33%) Snowflake
8 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.33%) Data Lake
8 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (13.33%) Telecoms
8 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
8 6 (13.33%) AWS
8 6 (13.33%) Tableau
8 6 (13.33%) GCP
9 5 (11.11%) GitHub
9 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
9 5 (11.11%) Finance
9 5 (11.11%) Scrum
9 5 (11.11%) Ab Initio
9 5 (11.11%) XML
9 5 (11.11%) Serverless
9 5 (11.11%) ETL Development
10 4 (8.89%) Collaborative Working

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) Power Platform
3 6 (13.33%) AWS
3 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (13.33%) GCP
3 6 (13.33%) Snowflake
4 5 (11.11%) GitHub
4 5 (11.11%) Serverless
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Functions
5 4 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.44%) SaaS
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.22%) dbt
7 1 (2.22%) Fivetran
7 1 (2.22%) Google App Engine
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (6.67%) DMZ
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
1 3 (6.67%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (4.44%) 3G
2 2 (4.44%) 4G
3 1 (2.22%) 2G
3 1 (2.22%) 5G
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) GPRS
3 1 (2.22%) RNC
3 1 (2.22%) VoLTE
3 1 (2.22%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Power BI
2 8 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 6 (13.33%) Tableau
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (8.89%) BigQuery
4 4 (8.89%) Metadata
5 3 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (4.44%) Big Data
6 2 (4.44%) GIS
6 2 (4.44%) Impala
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.22%) Data Hub
7 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.22%) PowerCenter
7 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.22%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) ERwin
1 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 6 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) gRPC
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) NumPy
2 1 (2.22%) Pandas
2 1 (2.22%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (2.22%) PySpark
2 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Fibre Optics
1 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
1 4 (8.89%) Smart Meter
2 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
1 4 (8.89%) Unix
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Analytics
2 13 (28.89%) ETL
3 11 (24.44%) Data Modelling
4 10 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 10 (22.22%) Data Science
5 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.11%) ETL Development
7 5 (11.11%) Scrum
7 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
8 4 (8.89%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (8.89%) Change Control
8 4 (8.89%) Data Munging
8 4 (8.89%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (8.89%) Decision-Making
8 4 (8.89%) Dimensional Modelling
8 4 (8.89%) ITSM
8 4 (8.89%) Performance Improvement
8 4 (8.89%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (8.89%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) SQL
2 12 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) Java
3 2 (4.44%) Scala
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Degree
2 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) GDPR
2 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) HDFS
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Ab Initio
2 4 (8.89%) Databricks
3 3 (6.67%) Blue Coat
3 3 (6.67%) CheckPoint
3 3 (6.67%) Cisco
3 3 (6.67%) Cloudera
3 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 3 (6.67%) Juniper
4 2 (4.44%) Informatica
5 1 (2.22%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.22%) Mavenir
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.22%) Remedy
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow