Data Engineering Contracts in the South West

Data Engineering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 150 158
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -43
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 10 25 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.31% 0.68% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.76% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 14
10th Percentile £410 £444 £468
25th Percentile £450 £484 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +1.96% -5.56%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £697
90th Percentile - £760 £769
England median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -52.05% +29.20% +2.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,664 3,305 3,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 89.61% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,739 2,427 2,347
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £407 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.89%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £588
90th Percentile £706 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 352 189
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.94 £16.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.41% +9.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.21
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the South West

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the South West

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the South West

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the South West

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +12 5 £450 -40.00% 6
Gloucestershire +8 3 £700 +27.27% 1
Wiltshire +7 1 £533 +2.90%
Dorset +5 1 £350 -48.15%
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) IaaS
1 3 (30.00%) PaaS
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Big Data
2 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Flink
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ETL
1 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Data Science
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Data Acquisition
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) R
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) IBM Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle