Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Data Engineering
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 53 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.12% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.25% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £445
25th Percentile £300 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -9.09% -18.52%
75th Percentile £566 - £625
90th Percentile £616 - £655
South East median daily rate £440 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -16.19% -12.50% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 336 405 687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.12% 86.91% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 280 549
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £224 £274 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £444 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% -15.48% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £619
90th Percentile £636 £600 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 21 35
10th Percentile £20.70 £20.30 £24.44
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £44.80
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year - -10.76% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £65.10 £75.00 £78.02
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.05 £51.76
% change year-on-year -64.32% +12.14% +39.40%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Surrey

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Surrey over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Surrey

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Chertsey - 2 £300 -
Woking - 1 £650 - 1
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Contentsquare
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Electronics
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Web Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SnowPro
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks