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 22 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 43 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 39 15 39
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.04% 2.61% 3.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.24% 2.75% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 21
10th Percentile £382 £375 -
25th Percentile £410 £388 £80
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £506
90th Percentile £584 £575 £569
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £494
% change year-on-year - +1.27% -8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile - £29.97 -
25th Percentile £12.98 £48.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £78.70 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.82% -1.63% -
75th Percentile - £79.35 -
90th Percentile £65.40 £79.74 -
South West median hourly rate £45.00 £78.70 £77.50
% change year-on-year -42.82% +1.55% -

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 1,205 546 1,002
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 95.12% 95.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 321 546
10th Percentile £363 £217 £257
25th Percentile £418 £361 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £652 £650 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 85 230
10th Percentile £18.70 £18.51 £35.00
25th Percentile £42.30 £25.75 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +1.15%
75th Percentile £67.67 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 23 (58.97%) Analytics
1 23 (58.97%) Data Modelling
2 17 (43.59%) SQL
3 16 (41.03%) Data Engineering
4 15 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (33.33%) Azure
6 11 (28.21%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (25.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (25.64%) ETL
8 9 (23.08%) Data Transformation
8 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
8 9 (23.08%) Power Platform
8 9 (23.08%) Python
9 8 (20.51%) Power BI
9 8 (20.51%) Snowflake
10 7 (17.95%) Data Quality
10 7 (17.95%) Databricks
10 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
10 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
11 6 (15.38%) Agile
11 6 (15.38%) Data Science
11 6 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (12.82%) AI
12 5 (12.82%) Apache
12 5 (12.82%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (12.82%) Apache Spark
12 5 (12.82%) AWS
12 5 (12.82%) Data Governance
12 5 (12.82%) DevOps
12 5 (12.82%) 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 (12.82%) Apache
1 5 (12.82%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (12.82%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 8 (20.51%) Snowflake
5 5 (12.82%) AWS
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (10.26%) GCP
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub
6 4 (10.26%) Matillion
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (2.56%) dbt
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (5.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) Power BI
2 6 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.69%) Delta Lake
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.13%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.56%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Aviation
3 2 (5.13%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing
3 2 (5.13%) Retail
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Kafka
2 3 (7.69%) PySpark
3 2 (5.13%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.56%) Spring
4 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.13%) iPad
2 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.56%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Analytics
1 23 (58.97%) Data Modelling
2 16 (41.03%) Data Engineering
3 15 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (28.21%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (25.64%) ETL
6 9 (23.08%) Data Transformation
7 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
8 6 (15.38%) Agile
8 6 (15.38%) Data Science
9 5 (12.82%) AI
9 5 (12.82%) Data Governance
9 5 (12.82%) DevOps
9 5 (12.82%) Migration
10 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
10 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (10.26%) Data Privacy
10 4 (10.26%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (10.26%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) City & Guilds
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.82%) GDPR
3 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Grafana
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) Kibana
3 1 (2.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.56%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.56%) Braze
3 1 (2.56%) Google
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