Data Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £398 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 109 120
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 23 42 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 1.43% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.52% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 34
10th Percentile £171 £451 £362
25th Percentile £173 £470 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £522 £619 £636
90th Percentile £594 £784 £713
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £43.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +55.17% -37.86% +382.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,507 2,770 3,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 94.31% 96.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,919 2,284
10th Percentile £210 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 76 103
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.31 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.75 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +166.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £84.48 £79.19 £64.48
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire -16 15 £453 -21.30% 10
Buckinghamshire +18 4 £500 +3.09% 3
Oxfordshire +5 4 £175 -65.00% 2
Data Engineer
South East

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 Thames Valley region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (34.78%) SQL
1 8 (34.78%) ETL
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
3 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
3 6 (26.09%) Python
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) Analytics
3 6 (26.09%) Power BI
3 6 (26.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 6 (26.09%) Data Science
4 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (21.74%) XML
4 5 (21.74%) Ab Initio
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) Unix
5 4 (17.39%) Windows
5 4 (17.39%) Linux
5 4 (17.39%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (17.39%) Smart Meter
5 4 (17.39%) AWS
5 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (17.39%) User Stories
5 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (17.39%) ETL Development

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
6 1 (4.35%) Google App Engine
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) 3G
1 2 (8.70%) 4G
2 1 (4.35%) 2G
2 1 (4.35%) 5G
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) GPRS
2 1 (4.35%) RNC
2 1 (4.35%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (4.35%) VoLTE
2 1 (4.35%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) GIS
3 2 (8.70%) Impala
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) PowerCenter
4 1 (4.35%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) ERwin
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) gRPC
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) NumPy
2 1 (4.35%) Pandas
2 1 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Fibre Optics
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
1 4 (17.39%) Smart Meter
2 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
1 4 (17.39%) Unix
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) ETL
2 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
3 6 (26.09%) Analytics
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) Data Science
4 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (17.39%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (17.39%) ETL Development
5 4 (17.39%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) User Stories
6 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (13.04%) Migration
7 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) MBCS
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) HDFS
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Ab Initio
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Cloudera
3 2 (8.70%) Informatica
4 1 (4.35%) Ericsson
4 1 (4.35%) Mavenir
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Remedy