Data Engineering Contracts in the South East

Data Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 160 152
Rank change year-on-year +35 -8 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 30 43 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.99% 0.74% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.90% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 36 43
10th Percentile £400 £326 £424
25th Percentile £450 £409 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -14.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £805
90th Percentile £625 £625 £1,100
England median daily rate £540 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -6.09% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.49
75th Percentile - - £20.35
90th Percentile - - £48.11
England median hourly rate £38.96 £48.50 £76.75
% change year-on-year -19.67% -36.81% +37.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,775 4,777 5,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.34% 82.43% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,745 2,749 3,484
10th Percentile £250 £260 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £619
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 479 231
10th Percentile £13.28 £13.04 £15.99
25th Percentile £15.09 £18.32 £22.20
Median hourly rate £24.33 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.34% -4.76% +133.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.09 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.75 £38.06 £35.25
% change year-on-year -29.72% +7.97% +37.27%

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 21 June 2025.

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 21 June 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
Thames Valley +25 18 £525 +2.74% 174
Berkshire +25 10 £505 +15.43% 110
Buckinghamshire +7 7 £525 -4.55% 33
Hampshire +29 5 £402 -30.09% 61
West Sussex - 3 £469 - 19
Surrey +22 2 £413 -17.50% 40
Oxfordshire +3 1 - - 31
East Sussex - 1 £475 - 30
Home Counties - 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 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) CATIA
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.00%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.33%) Collibra
6 1 (3.33%) Contentsquare
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) SAN
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (16.67%) Big Data
4 4 (13.33%) Metadata
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.67%) NewSQL
6 2 (6.67%) Power BI
6 2 (6.67%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.33%) DataStage
7 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (3.33%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Billing
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Advertising
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Data Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Senior
3 7 (23.33%) Architect
4 6 (20.00%) Data Architect
5 5 (16.67%) Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Python Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Platform Architect
7 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Kafka
1 5 (16.67%) PySpark
2 2 (6.67%) JDBC
2 2 (6.67%) scikit-learn
2 2 (6.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.33%) NumPy
3 1 (3.33%) Pandas
3 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Replication
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) Debian
2 4 (13.33%) Ubuntu
2 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 12 (40.00%) ETL
2 10 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 10 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 9 (30.00%) Analytics
3 9 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (26.67%) Agile
4 8 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (23.33%) Data Ingestion
5 7 (23.33%) Data Security
5 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (16.67%) DevOps
7 5 (16.67%) Generative AI
7 5 (16.67%) LLM
7 5 (16.67%) Validation
8 4 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) Python
2 15 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) Scala
4 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) C++
5 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Foundry
2 4 (13.33%) Palantir
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Databricks
4 2 (6.67%) Adobe
4 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Talend
5 1 (3.33%) Virgin Media