Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 45 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 36 14 39
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.91% 2.51% 3.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.10% 2.63% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 20
10th Percentile £382 £274 -
25th Percentile £410 £375 £80
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £514
90th Percentile £528 £571 £573
South West median daily rate £500 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.88% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £19.38 - -
25th Percentile £28.99 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £78.70 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.82% -1.63% -
75th Percentile £62.00 - -
90th Percentile £72.20 - -
South West median hourly rate £45.00 £78.70 £77.50
% change year-on-year -42.82% +1.55% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,160 532 1,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 95.34% 95.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 307 535
10th Percentile £350 £213 £257
25th Percentile £413 £355 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.22%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £613
90th Percentile £652 £668 £688
South West median daily rate £513 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.77% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 92 223
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.51 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.09 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile £67.75 £68.00 £73.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.78 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £62.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.37% +14.09% -15.38%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 8 May 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (61.11%) Analytics
1 22 (61.11%) Data Modelling
2 16 (44.44%) SQL
3 15 (41.67%) Data Engineering
4 14 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (33.33%) Azure
6 11 (30.56%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (27.78%) ETL
8 9 (25.00%) Data Transformation
8 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
8 9 (25.00%) Power Platform
9 8 (22.22%) Power BI
9 8 (22.22%) Python
9 8 (22.22%) Snowflake
10 7 (19.44%) Data Quality
10 7 (19.44%) Databricks
11 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
11 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
12 5 (13.89%) Agile
12 5 (13.89%) Data Science
12 5 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (13.89%) Migration
12 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
13 4 (11.11%) AI
13 4 (11.11%) Apache
13 4 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
13 4 (11.11%) AWS
13 4 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) Apache
1 4 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 4 (11.11%) AWS
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (11.11%) GitHub
5 4 (11.11%) Matillion
6 3 (8.33%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (2.78%) dbt
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.78%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Power BI
2 5 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.33%) Delta Lake
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.56%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Finance
2 2 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (2.78%) Aviation
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Kafka
2 3 (8.33%) PySpark
3 2 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.78%) Spring
4 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.78%) iPad
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Analytics
1 22 (61.11%) Data Modelling
2 15 (41.67%) Data Engineering
3 14 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (30.56%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (27.78%) ETL
6 9 (25.00%) Data Transformation
7 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 5 (13.89%) Agile
8 5 (13.89%) Data Science
8 5 (13.89%) Migration
9 4 (11.11%) AI
9 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 4 (11.11%) Data Governance
9 4 (11.11%) Data Privacy
9 4 (11.11%) DevOps
9 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
10 3 (8.33%) Generative AI
10 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.78%) City & Guilds
5 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.11%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Kibana
3 1 (2.78%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Databricks
3 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.78%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.78%) Braze
3 1 (2.78%) Google
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