Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
30 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 55 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 16 14 25
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.89% 2.07% 2.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 2.14% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 12
10th Percentile £415 £350 £414
25th Percentile £455 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £430 £463
Median % change year-on-year +13.37% -7.03% -11.90%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £658 £650 £619
South West median daily rate £550 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £38.28 - -
25th Percentile £45.06 - -
Median hourly rate £58.25 - -
75th Percentile £69.56 - -
90th Percentile £75.23 - -
South West median hourly rate £58.25 - -

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 788 653 925
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 96.74% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 360 572
10th Percentile £231 £200 £263
25th Percentile £400 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £726 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.21% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 78 126
10th Percentile £17.69 £32.08 £40.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £58.31 £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £76.81
90th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £40.27 £65.00 £59.68
% change year-on-year -38.05% +8.91% -8.18%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025, 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 13 (81.25%) Python
2 12 (75.00%) SQL
3 11 (68.75%) Analytics
3 11 (68.75%) AWS
4 10 (62.50%) ETL
5 7 (43.75%) Agile
5 7 (43.75%) Azure
5 7 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
6 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (37.50%) Databricks
6 6 (37.50%) Dimensional Modelling
6 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
6 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
7 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
7 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (31.25%) DBeaver
7 5 (31.25%) Oracle
7 5 (31.25%) Oracle Application Server
7 5 (31.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 5 (31.25%) Oracle ODI
7 5 (31.25%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (31.25%) Power BI
7 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
7 5 (31.25%) Star Schema
7 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
8 4 (25.00%) Apache
9 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark

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 (31.25%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (25.00%) Apache
3 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle ODI
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 5 (31.25%) Star Schema
3 3 (18.75%) ClickHouse
3 3 (18.75%) MySQL
4 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data
5 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) DBeaver
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Tech for Good
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (12.50%) PySpark
4 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.25%) JWT
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Replication
2 3 (18.75%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (12.50%) IoT
4 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Analytics
2 10 (62.50%) ETL
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) Dimensional Modelling
5 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
5 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
7 2 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 12 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (18.75%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) logstash
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Databricks
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle
30 Data Engineer jobs in Bristol