Data Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 35 70
Rank change year-on-year -7 +35 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 13 39 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.42% 3.69% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 3.88% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 29
10th Percentile £274 - £373
25th Percentile £375 £80 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -18.42% -10.59%
75th Percentile £538 £475 £538
90th Percentile £571 £582 £655
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% - -
South West median hourly rate £78.70 £77.50 -
% change year-on-year +1.55% - -

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 512 1,004 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 94.99% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 541 805
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £564 £613 £630
90th Percentile £650 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 218 142
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £30.97
25th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +55.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £86.23
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 8 (61.54%) SQL
1 8 (61.54%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) ETL
3 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
3 5 (38.46%) Snowflake
4 4 (30.77%) Matillion
4 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) Informatica
4 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
5 3 (23.08%) Python
5 3 (23.08%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (15.38%) Kibana
6 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
6 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (15.38%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (15.38%) Databricks

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Snowflake
2 4 (30.77%) Matillion
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) CockroachDB
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Flyway
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Marketing
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) ETL
3 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (15.38%) Data Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kibana
1 2 (15.38%) logstash
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Informatica
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle