Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sutton

Data Engineer
South London > Sutton

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Sutton is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sutton 16.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
South London median daily rate £500 £458 £513
% change year-on-year +9.29% -10.73% -6.82%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sutton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sutton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sutton with a recognized job title 3 1 4
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 50.00% 11.11% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £381 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £210
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £444 - £333
90th Percentile £448 - £403
South London median daily rate £525 £509 £500
% change year-on-year +3.19% +1.75% -5.48%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sutton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sutton.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Sutton

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sutton

For the 6 months to 12 August 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sutton region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sutton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft