Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineering
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 49 58
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 8 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.19% 1.01% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 1.22% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £409 £419 £517
25th Percentile £413 £447 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £680
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -25.40% +23.69%
75th Percentile £541 £543 £850
90th Percentile £551 £547 -
South East median daily rate £445 £531 £594
% change year-on-year -16.24% -10.53% +3.26%

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 325 329 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 88.80% 83.08% 92.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 233 443
10th Percentile £226 £239 £275
25th Percentile £350 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -7.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £613
90th Percentile £640 £648 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £523
% change year-on-year -2.01% -2.34% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 9 17
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.58 £13.17
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.70 £16.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +46.34% +49.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.75 £24.00
90th Percentile £29.61 £41.15 £26.40
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.30
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.47% +39.47%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 4 November 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 +10 8 £475 -6.40% 9
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) ChatGPT
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (50.00%) NumPy
1 4 (50.00%) Pandas
1 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (37.50%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Debian
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 4 (50.00%) Data Science
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) LLM
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) OCR
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 4 (50.00%) Use Case
3 3 (37.50%) ARIMA
3 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
3 3 (37.50%) Linear Regression
3 3 (37.50%) Logistic Regression
3 3 (37.50%) Random Forest
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Sage
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft