Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Data Engineer
South East > West Sussex

The median Data Engineer daily rate in West Sussex is £459, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 14 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 3.44% 0.54% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.66% 0.62% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £348 - -
25th Percentile £458 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 - £425
75th Percentile £468 - £438
90th Percentile £469 - -
South East median daily rate £467 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.78% -10.00% -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 383 161 169
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 87.03% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 113 130
10th Percentile £202 £200 £200
25th Percentile £299 £255 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £504 £537 £528
90th Percentile £629 £700 £588
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 28 5
10th Percentile £22.23 - £24.45
25th Percentile £27.06 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £48.46 £18.82 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.47% -32.79% +14.47%
75th Percentile £53.75 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £54.38 £44.50 £35.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +108.75% -56.15% +14.70%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in West Sussex.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in West Sussex

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in West Sussex over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in West Sussex

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in West Sussex.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in West Sussex

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
Worthing - 8 £462 -
Horsham - 2 - -
Chichester - 1 £230 - 4
Crawley - 1 £375 - 1
Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 West Sussex region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 10 (71.43%) Data Integration
2 10 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 9 (64.29%) AWS
3 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
3 9 (64.29%) Talend
4 8 (57.14%) Agile
4 8 (57.14%) Data Engineering
5 7 (50.00%) Pentaho
6 4 (28.57%) Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Azure
7 3 (21.43%) Business Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Confluence
7 3 (21.43%) GitLab
7 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
7 3 (21.43%) Unix
8 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
8 2 (14.29%) Databricks
8 2 (14.29%) ETL
8 2 (14.29%) Informatica
8 2 (14.29%) JIRA
9 1 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
9 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Data Integration
1 10 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
3 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) Data Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Business Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 2 (14.29%) ETL
7 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
7 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis
7 1 (7.14%) Data Architecture
7 1 (7.14%) Data Security
7 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Project Management
7 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 9 (64.29%) Talend
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) Informatica
4 1 (7.14%) Denodo
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow