Data Engineering Contracts in Bristol

Data Engineering
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 73 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.74% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.57% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £311 - £520
25th Percentile £384 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £738
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -38.98% +25.53%
75th Percentile £622 £556 £784
90th Percentile £639 £620 £801
South West median daily rate £513 £463 £675
% change year-on-year +10.81% -31.48% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 618 883 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.15% 81.76% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 486 685
10th Percentile £243 £260 £313
25th Percentile £363 £383 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £638
90th Percentile £649 £688 £716
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 212 130
10th Percentile £18.13 £40.00 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £50.94 £54.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £74.69
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -58.08% -7.69% +30.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Bristol

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Bristol

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Bristol over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Bristol

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) IBM