Data Engineering Contracts in the East of England

Data Engineering
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 114 108
Rank change year-on-year +14 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 9 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.47% 0.36% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.41% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 17
10th Percentile £513 £456 £405
25th Percentile £550 £466 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -7.05% +1.84%
75th Percentile £694 £494 £688
90th Percentile £728 - £722
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £48.50 £75.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -35.33% +21.95% +64.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,611 1,724 2,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.74% 87.74% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 998 1,277
10th Percentile £200 £207 £191
25th Percentile £325 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 328 375
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -8.55%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.63 £42.04
90th Percentile £75.15 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Hertfordshire +7 7 £625 - 4
Bedfordshire +1 1 £750 +53.85%
Cambridgeshire -3 1 £525 +16.67%
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) dbt
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) Use Case
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) OO
2 3 (33.33%) OOP
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
2 3 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) Content Development
4 1 (11.11%) Data Science
4 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes