Data Engineer Contracts in Cardiff

Data Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £206, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 31 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 4 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.50% 1.89% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 2.03% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £177 - -
25th Percentile £192 £199 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £206 £200 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.42% -60.10% -
75th Percentile £271 £200 £540
90th Percentile £375 - £606
South Wales median daily rate £206 £200 £500
% change year-on-year +3.42% -60.10% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 154 197 325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 92.92% 96.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 160 259
10th Percentile £184 £199 £185
25th Percentile £257 £377 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +8.89% -
75th Percentile £492 £550 £550
90th Percentile £619 £620 £626
South Wales median daily rate £400 £460 £460
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.32 £13.00
25th Percentile £13.79 £11.75 £13.81
Median hourly rate £20.51 £13.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.89% -21.75% -7.99%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.00 £22.34
90th Percentile £38.75 £39.45 £24.38
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -0.79% +25.03% -8.89%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Cardiff

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Cardiff

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Cardiff

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Google
2 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Metadata
2 3 (75.00%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (50.00%) Data Development
3 2 (50.00%) Databricks
3 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Development
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) R
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy