Data Engineer Contracts in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the South West is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 109 119
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 66 57 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.04% 1.66% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.20% 1.79% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 54 40
10th Percentile £80 £375 £287
25th Percentile £375 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +1.52%
75th Percentile £550 £684 £589
90th Percentile £613 £723 £670
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 5
10th Percentile £37.50 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £45.00
75th Percentile £80.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £45.12
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £46.78
% change year-on-year -10.60% +61.39% +24.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,003 3,177 3,525
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 92.60% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,899 2,368 2,539
10th Percentile £213 £281 £225
25th Percentile £400 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £594
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.81% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 250 212
10th Percentile £13.99 £17.72 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £48.60 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.07 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +41.75% +3.91%
75th Percentile £71.25 £70.30 £62.78
90th Percentile £75.25 £83.40 £69.05
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +8.05%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Bristol +19 38 £400 -15.79% 20
Devon - 4 £400 - 4
Wiltshire +5 3 £600 -4.76%
Dorset 0 3 £400 -39.62% 6
Gloucestershire -4 3 £630 -3.08% 2
Somerset -9 2 £475 -34.48% 5
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 26 (39.39%) SQL
2 26 (39.39%) ETL
3 25 (37.88%) Migration
3 25 (37.88%) Azure
4 24 (36.36%) Power BI
4 24 (36.36%) SC Cleared
4 24 (36.36%) Power Platform
5 22 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 22 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (30.30%) Micro Focus
7 18 (27.27%) Data Modelling
7 18 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (25.76%) SQL Server
9 16 (24.24%) Python
9 16 (24.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (24.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (21.21%) Translating Business Requirements
10 14 (21.21%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (21.21%) Tableau
11 13 (19.70%) Relational Database
11 13 (19.70%) QA
12 12 (18.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 12 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (18.18%) T-SQL
13 11 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (15.15%) Aerospace
14 10 (15.15%) Databricks
14 10 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
15 9 (13.64%) DevSecOps

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) ENOVIA
1 3 (4.55%) SAP PLM
1 3 (4.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.88%) Azure
2 24 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 16 (24.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (13.64%) AWS
5 5 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (6.06%) GCP
6 4 (6.06%) OCI
7 3 (4.55%) Matillion
8 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.52%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (36.36%) Power BI
2 17 (25.76%) SQL Server
3 16 (24.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (21.21%) Tableau
5 13 (19.70%) Relational Database
6 12 (18.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (10.61%) Data Lake
8 7 (10.61%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.55%) Big Data
10 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (3.03%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (3.03%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.52%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 18 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (15.15%) Aerospace
3 4 (6.06%) Aviation
3 4 (6.06%) Electronics
3 4 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.55%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Finance
5 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) PySpark
2 4 (6.06%) OpenID
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.03%) .NET
3 2 (3.03%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.52%) Flask
4 1 (1.52%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.52%) pytest
4 1 (1.52%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.06%) Blockchain
3 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (39.39%) ETL
2 25 (37.88%) Migration
3 22 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 18 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 14 (21.21%) Performance Optimisation
5 14 (21.21%) Translating Business Requirements
6 10 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (13.64%) DevSecOps
8 6 (9.09%) Analytics
8 6 (9.09%) Data Engineering
8 6 (9.09%) Microservices
9 5 (7.58%) Low Latency
9 5 (7.58%) Visualisation
10 4 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (6.06%) Data Management
10 4 (6.06%) DevOps
10 4 (6.06%) Domain-Driven Design
10 4 (6.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (6.06%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 26 (39.39%) SQL
2 16 (24.24%) Python
3 12 (18.18%) T-SQL
4 4 (6.06%) Java
5 3 (4.55%) R
6 2 (3.03%) Bash
6 2 (3.03%) C#
6 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.03%) Perl
6 2 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (9.09%) Degree
5 5 (7.58%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.03%) IBM Certification
7 2 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) QA
2 7 (10.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (30.30%) Micro Focus
2 10 (15.15%) Databricks
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle
3 4 (6.06%) SAP
3 4 (6.06%) Twitter
4 2 (3.03%) IBM
4 2 (3.03%) Informatica
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk