Live market evidence
Data Engineer Contract Job Market
Current contract Data Engineer opportunity volume, freshness, engagement mix, sources, and compensation evidence from Radar's normalized live inventory.
Updated September 11, 2026 from persisted Radar inventory.
Find my Data Engineer matches →Current opportunities
1,407
New · 24h
219
New · 7d
1,143
Sources represented
6
Compensation evidence
Current stated hourly rates
Based on 41 current listings with structured USD hourly evidence. This is observed listing data, not a salary estimate or guarantee.
- 25th percentile
- $38/hr
- Median
- $58/hr
- 75th percentile
- $73/hr
What is in this market
Contract types
- W2 Contract1,341
- 109981
- C2c5
Top sources
- LinkedIn1,271
- Dice48
- Upwork40
- Indeed25
- FreelancerMap22
- Randstad Digital1
Relevant specialties
- Data Platform91
- Cloud52
- Artificial Intelligence51
- Generative Ai11
- Machine Learning3
- Large Language Models2
Current examples
A bounded preview of current persisted jobs. Open a result for normalized facts or use RadarJobs for the full live set.
Data Engineering Technical Consultant - Client Discovery & Requirements
1099 · Remote
Web Scraping Specialist for Manta.com
1099 · Remote
TITLE: GIS Data Engineer Needed to Repair & Layer Multidisciplinary Deep-Time Research Dataset
1099 · Remote
Senior Healthcare Data Engineer
1099 · Remote
Associate Data Engineer
W2 Contract · Eden Prairie, MN
Data Engineer – AWS Lakehouse (Mandarin Required)
W2 Contract · Irvine, CA
Data Engineer, Ring Agent Platforms
W2 Contract · Hawthorne, CA
Sr Engineers, Data
W2 Contract · Atlanta, GA
Senior Logistics Data Engineer
W2 Contract · Ridgeville, SC
Data Engineer
W2 Contract · Tampa, FL
Data Engineer
W2 Contract · Nashville, TN
Sr. Data Engineer - Only USC & local to MN
W2 Contract · Minneapolis, MN
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Methodology
Current live, classified Data Engineer opportunities with a 1099, C2C, or W-2 contract engagement in Radar's normalized inventory.
Global current inventory; location and remote status are reported as observed, including unknown values rather than inferring them.
Current counts use Radar liveness; new counts use the first-seen timestamp over rolling 24-hour and seven-day windows.
Compensation includes only structured USD hourly evidence. Ranges use the midpoint; single stated bounds use that bound. Statistics require at least 20 observations.
Listings and source classifications can change after the latest verification; observed postings are not a census of all contract work.