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 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 17 15 26
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.07% 2.14% 2.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 2.24% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 15
10th Percentile £433 £338 £413
25th Percentile £463 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £550
90th Percentile £663 £664 £605
South West median daily rate £550 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +11.39% -5.95% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £38.28 - -
25th Percentile £45.06 - -
Median hourly rate £58.25 - -
75th Percentile £69.56 - -
90th Percentile £75.23 - -
South West median hourly rate £58.25 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 766 671 952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 95.86% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 373 591
10th Percentile £239 £206 £275
25th Percentile £400 £363 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £721 £725 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £513 £536
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.43% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 91 121
10th Percentile £15.48 £35.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £60.75 £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -44.62% +10.65% -9.62%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025, 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 14 (82.35%) Python
2 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
3 12 (70.59%) Analytics
4 11 (64.71%) ETL
5 9 (52.94%) Agile
6 8 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
6 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
6 8 (47.06%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (41.18%) DBeaver
7 7 (41.18%) Dimensional Modelling
7 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
7 7 (41.18%) Oracle
7 7 (41.18%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (41.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 7 (41.18%) Oracle ODI
7 7 (41.18%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (41.18%) Power BI
7 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
7 7 (41.18%) Snowflake
7 7 (41.18%) Star Schema
7 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
8 6 (35.29%) Azure
9 5 (29.41%) Databricks
10 4 (23.53%) Apache
10 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
10 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
11 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark

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 7 (41.18%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (23.53%) Apache
3 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
2 7 (41.18%) Snowflake
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (41.18%) Oracle ODI
2 7 (41.18%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (41.18%) Power BI
2 7 (41.18%) Star Schema
3 3 (17.65%) ClickHouse
3 3 (17.65%) MySQL
4 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data
5 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) DBeaver
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Tech for Good
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.76%) PySpark
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) JWT
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Replication
2 3 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (11.76%) IoT
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Analytics
2 11 (64.71%) ETL
3 9 (52.94%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
5 7 (41.18%) Dimensional Modelling
5 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
6 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
7 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) AI
8 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
8 2 (11.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 2 (11.76%) Load Testing
8 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
8 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Kibana
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) logstash
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Databricks