Data Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 49 57
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 18 37 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.81% 3.31% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.00% 3.50% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 28
10th Percentile £274 - £375
25th Percentile £375 £80 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £538 £530 £497
90th Percentile £571 £608 £641
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 0
10th Percentile £29.97 - -
25th Percentile £48.25 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £78.70 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% - -
75th Percentile £79.35 - -
90th Percentile £79.74 - -
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 600 1,057 1,067
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 94.46% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 583 748
10th Percentile £235 £260 £313
25th Percentile £358 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £638
90th Percentile £644 £688 £706
South West median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.24% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 254 129
10th Percentile £17.69 £27.65 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £44.94 £53.75
Median hourly rate £50.49 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.21% +3.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.20 £80.00 £84.00
South West median hourly rate £32.75 £56.49 £62.50
% change year-on-year -42.03% -9.62% +31.21%

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 4 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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 10 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (50.00%) Analytics
3 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 8 (44.44%) ETL
3 8 (44.44%) Snowflake
4 6 (33.33%) Python
4 6 (33.33%) Data Quality
4 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 5 (27.78%) Replication
5 5 (27.78%) Matillion
6 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 4 (22.22%) PL/SQL
6 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
6 4 (22.22%) AWS
7 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
7 3 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (16.67%) Marketing
7 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
7 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (16.67%) High Availability
7 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (16.67%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (16.67%) Informatica

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 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Snowflake
2 5 (27.78%) Matillion
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Azure
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.56%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) 802.11
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Star Schema
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) DBeaver
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Analytics
2 8 (44.44%) ETL
3 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Business Development
4 3 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (16.67%) High Availability
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (16.67%) Project Planning
4 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kibana
1 3 (16.67%) logstash
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Informatica
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto