Data Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 66 74
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 40 29 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 3.77% 2.39% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.97% 2.65% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 18
10th Percentile - £370 £370
25th Percentile £80 £375 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £531
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -10.59% +11.84%
75th Percentile £506 £556 £556
90th Percentile £569 £660 £629
South West median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £45.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £77.50 - £45.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,007 1,093 1,311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 90.18% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 786 901
10th Percentile £250 £293 £256
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £610 £631 £575
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 136 116
10th Percentile £36.25 £29.50 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £57.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.50 £42.29
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +54.90% +5.71%
75th Percentile £72.81 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £67.63
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £47.25
% change year-on-year -14.82% +36.66% +11.18%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 Bristol region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (55.00%) Migration
1 22 (55.00%) Data Migration
2 20 (50.00%) Micro Focus
3 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (35.00%) Security Cleared
4 11 (27.50%) SQL
4 11 (27.50%) Python
5 10 (25.00%) ETL
5 10 (25.00%) Aerospace
5 10 (25.00%) Azure
6 9 (22.50%) Power BI
6 9 (22.50%) Power Platform
6 9 (22.50%) DevSecOps
7 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (17.50%) Data Lake
9 6 (15.00%) Databricks
9 6 (15.00%) PySpark
9 6 (15.00%) DevOps
10 5 (12.50%) AWS
10 5 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (10.00%) OCI
11 4 (10.00%) Event-Driven
11 4 (10.00%) Zero Trust
11 4 (10.00%) Aviation
11 4 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (10.00%) Blockchain
11 4 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (10.00%) OpenID

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) Power Platform
3 5 (12.50%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) OCI
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Power BI
2 7 (17.50%) Data Lake
2 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
5 2 (5.00%) Tableau
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.50%) Parquet
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 10 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (10.00%) Aviation
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) PySpark
2 4 (10.00%) OpenID
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.50%) Flask
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.50%) IoT
2 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Data Migration
1 22 (55.00%) Migration
2 10 (25.00%) ETL
3 9 (22.50%) DevSecOps
4 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (15.00%) DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (10.00%) Event-Driven
7 4 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (10.00%) Machine Learning
7 4 (10.00%) Microservices
7 4 (10.00%) Zero Trust
8 3 (7.50%) Analytics
8 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
8 3 (7.50%) Data Acquisition
8 3 (7.50%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Python
1 11 (27.50%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) Java
2 2 (5.00%) R
2 2 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) IBM Certification
3 2 (5.00%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Micro Focus
2 6 (15.00%) Databricks
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) Twitter
4 2 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Informatica