Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 49 41
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 27 11 44
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.48% 2.05% 4.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% 2.14% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 19
10th Percentile £403 £259 -
25th Percentile £411 £375 £80
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £503 £531
90th Percentile £678 £646 £585
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £38.28 - -
25th Percentile £45.06 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £58.25 - £80.00
75th Percentile £69.56 - -
90th Percentile £75.23 - -
South West median hourly rate £58.25 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

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 1,027 514 1,015
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 95.72% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 304 565
10th Percentile £299 £183 £250
25th Percentile £400 £317 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £570 £588 £630
90th Percentile £696 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 73 183
10th Percentile £17.87 £35.20 £40.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £82.97
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 21 (77.78%) Analytics
2 15 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 14 (51.85%) SQL
4 12 (44.44%) ETL
5 11 (40.74%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (40.74%) Snowflake
6 10 (37.04%) Data Engineering
6 10 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (33.33%) Data Quality
7 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 9 (33.33%) Power Platform
8 8 (29.63%) AWS
8 8 (29.63%) Azure
8 8 (29.63%) Data Transformation
8 8 (29.63%) Power BI
9 7 (25.93%) Agile
9 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (25.93%) Python
10 6 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (18.52%) Apache
11 5 (18.52%) Data Privacy
11 5 (18.52%) Migration
11 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
11 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
12 4 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
12 4 (14.81%) Data Science
12 4 (14.81%) Databricks
12 4 (14.81%) Dimensional Modelling
12 4 (14.81%) GDPR

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 5 (18.52%) Apache
2 4 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Snowflake
2 9 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) Azure
4 6 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (14.81%) Matillion
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Power BI
2 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.81%) Star Schema
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (7.41%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) DBeaver
2 2 (7.41%) Git
General
1 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Kafka
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (7.41%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.70%) JWT
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) OAuth
3 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Replication
2 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Analytics
2 15 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 12 (44.44%) ETL
4 11 (40.74%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (37.04%) Data Engineering
5 10 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (29.63%) Data Transformation
7 7 (25.93%) Agile
8 5 (18.52%) Data Privacy
8 5 (18.52%) Migration
9 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
9 4 (14.81%) Data Science
9 4 (14.81%) Dimensional Modelling
9 4 (14.81%) Re-Platforming
10 3 (11.11%) AI
10 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
10 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 3 (11.11%) Generative AI
10 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.81%) GDPR
3 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Kibana
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) logstash
2 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Databricks
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.70%) Amplitude
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