Data Engineering Contracts in the South East

Data Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 150 168
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 46 67 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 1.16% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.30% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 52 50
10th Percentile £348 £401 £475
25th Percentile £506 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% +22.50%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £693
90th Percentile £678 £1,188 £726
England median daily rate £561 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -8.37% +2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £19.49 -
England median hourly rate £38.65 £75.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +27.12% +53.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,676 5,160 6,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.69% 89.37% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,738 3,592 4,709
10th Percentile £250 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 222 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.53 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £62.70
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 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 +21 24 £550 +4.76% 14
Buckinghamshire +41 17 £550 -0.90% 4
Hampshire +4 15 £650 +31.31% 10
Berkshire -9 7 £438 -16.67% 5
Surrey +10 5 £620 +24.00% 1
East Sussex +8 1 £650 - 1
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Sketch
1 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
2 10 (21.74%) Power Platform
3 5 (10.87%) GCP
4 4 (8.70%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Functions
4 4 (8.70%) GitHub
4 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (8.70%) Serverless
5 3 (6.52%) PowerApps
5 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.17%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.17%) Collibra
6 1 (2.17%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.26%) SAN
1 13 (28.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) Power BI
2 8 (17.39%) Metadata
3 4 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.52%) Big Data
4 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.52%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.17%) Ataccama
5 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.17%) Impala
5 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Data Engineer
2 15 (32.61%) Developer
3 13 (28.26%) Python Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Senior
5 6 (13.04%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Analyst
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Backend Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Head of Engineering
8 3 (6.52%) Analyst Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Developer Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) Linux Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Programmer
8 3 (6.52%) Python Programmer
8 3 (6.52%) Security Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) Consultant
9 2 (4.35%) Data Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) Data Consultant
9 2 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) XML
2 3 (6.52%) PySpark
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) CSS
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.17%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) LangChain
3 1 (2.17%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.17%) React
3 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Smart Meter
2 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) EPoS
4 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Linux
2 13 (28.26%) Debian
2 13 (28.26%) Ubuntu
3 3 (6.52%) Unix
3 3 (6.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Data Modelling
2 24 (52.17%) Agile
3 18 (39.13%) Analytics
4 13 (28.26%) Configuration Management
4 13 (28.26%) Customer Service
4 13 (28.26%) ITIL
4 13 (28.26%) Prototyping
4 13 (28.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 12 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (21.74%) Data Analysis
6 10 (21.74%) Data Science
6 10 (21.74%) Matrix Organization
7 9 (19.57%) DevOps
7 9 (19.57%) ETL
8 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.04%) Machine Learning
8 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
8 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
9 4 (8.70%) ETL Development
9 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Python
2 15 (32.61%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) Scala
4 2 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 20 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 11 (23.91%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
1 13 (28.26%) Red Hat
1 13 (28.26%) VMware
2 5 (10.87%) Ab Initio
2 5 (10.87%) Databricks
3 1 (2.17%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.17%) Dataiku
3 1 (2.17%) Informatica
3 1 (2.17%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.17%) Talend