Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Data Engineering
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 2.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £702 - -
25th Percentile £720 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £373 £525
% change year-on-year +54.08% -28.92% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 61 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 66.24% 78.21% 80.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 33 37
10th Percentile £325 £200 £105
25th Percentile £441 £210 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £300 £475
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £666 £450 £550
90th Percentile £725 £584 £650
East of England median daily rate £477 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.70% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £17.27 £53.33 £11.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £64.05 £12.69
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +139.32% +88.71%
75th Percentile £23.69 - £53.69
90th Percentile £24.38 - £68.34
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £50.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -54.74% +31.16% +53.65%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 17 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
Ipswich - 4 £750 - 4
Data Engineering
East of England

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Head of AI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) AI Transformation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks