Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Data Engineering
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 31 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.86% 1.20% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.60% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £510 -
25th Percentile £488 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.32% -21.15%
75th Percentile £503 £594 £647
90th Percentile - £620 £724
South Wales median daily rate £495 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.32% -21.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 201 188 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 86.27% 75.20% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 131 164
10th Percentile £226 £140 £168
25th Percentile £293 £210 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £538
90th Percentile £649 £650 £625
South Wales median daily rate £403 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.29% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 5
10th Percentile - - £18.70
25th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.59 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% -16.96% +44.44%
75th Percentile £20.50 £25.60 £26.50
90th Percentile £22.24 £27.50 £36.10
South Wales median hourly rate £17.99 £25.27 £29.83
% change year-on-year -28.82% -15.29% +49.50%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle