Data Engineering Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineering
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 37 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 +39 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 5 17 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.12% 3.57% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 4.33% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 4
10th Percentile £420 £506 £522
25th Percentile £450 £517 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -0.90% +5.71%
75th Percentile £540 - £576
90th Percentile £546 £557 £606
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes 0 4 £519 -5.68% 12
Bletchley - 1 £500 -
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Telecoms Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft