Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bath

Data Engineering
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 17 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 7.14% 4.48% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% 4.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £501 £440 -
25th Percentile £508 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £550 £500 -
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bath

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77 63 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 91.67% 94.03% 82.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 50 40
10th Percentile £380 £225 £370
25th Percentile £441 £407 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £578 £675 £528
90th Percentile £675 - £589
Somerset median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £12.75
90th Percentile £15.50 - -
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Bath

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Data Migration Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) ETL Development
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) InterSystems
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft