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 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 156 180
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 43 59 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.75% 1.04% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.17% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 43 48
10th Percentile £326 £421 £500
25th Percentile £409 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £560 £758 £695
90th Percentile £625 £1,100 £729
England median daily rate £560 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £19.49 -
England median hourly rate £48.50 £76.75 £61.50
% change year-on-year -36.81% +24.80% +68.49%

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 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 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 21 June 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 +19 29 £511 -2.67% 6
Buckinghamshire +39 16 £550 -21.43% 2
Hampshire -10 12 £575 +16.16%
Berkshire -13 11 £438 -16.67% 1
Oxfordshire +3 2 £456 - 3
Surrey +10 1 £500 -2.91% 2
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 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Sketch
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) Power Platform
3 8 (18.60%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (18.60%) GCP
4 5 (11.63%) GitHub
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Functions
5 4 (9.30%) Figma
5 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (9.30%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Stack
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.65%) dbt
6 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.93%) SAN
1 9 (20.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) Power BI
2 6 (13.95%) Big Data
2 6 (13.95%) Metadata
3 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
4 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (9.30%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.98%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.98%) Impala
6 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.33%) Looker
7 1 (2.33%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.33%) Sqoop
7 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Maven
General
1 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (11.63%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.98%) Finance
2 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Banking
3 2 (4.65%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (4.65%) Retail
4 1 (2.33%) Marketing
4 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Developer
2 11 (25.58%) Data Engineer
3 9 (20.93%) Python Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Backend Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Head of Engineering
5 4 (9.30%) React Developer
5 4 (9.30%) UX Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Analyst Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Developer Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Linux Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Power BI Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Programmer
6 3 (6.98%) Python Programmer
6 3 (6.98%) Security Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) PySpark
2 4 (9.30%) CSS
2 4 (9.30%) HTML
2 4 (9.30%) React
2 4 (9.30%) XML
3 3 (6.98%) Kafka
4 2 (4.65%) Redux
4 2 (4.65%) Spring
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) Hugging Face
5 1 (2.33%) LangChain
5 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Biopharmaceutical
1 5 (11.63%) Data Structures
1 5 (11.63%) Smart Meter
2 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) Debian
2 9 (20.93%) Ubuntu
3 5 (11.63%) Unix
4 3 (6.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) Data Modelling
2 20 (46.51%) Agile
3 15 (34.88%) Analytics
4 10 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (23.26%) Data Science
4 10 (23.26%) Visualisation
5 9 (20.93%) Configuration Management
5 9 (20.93%) Customer Service
5 9 (20.93%) ITIL
5 9 (20.93%) Prototyping
5 9 (20.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (18.60%) Validation
7 7 (16.28%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (16.28%) ETL
8 6 (13.95%) Data Analysis
8 6 (13.95%) Data Validation
8 6 (13.95%) DevOps
8 6 (13.95%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Python
2 18 (41.86%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) Java
3 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.98%) Scala
5 2 (4.65%) R
6 1 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.98%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Control-M
2 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.93%) Red Hat
2 9 (20.93%) VMware
3 5 (11.63%) Ab Initio
4 2 (4.65%) BT
4 2 (4.65%) Informatica
5 1 (2.33%) Adobe
5 1 (2.33%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.33%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) Google