Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Data Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +18 -2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.06% 1.35% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.41% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile - £550 £550
25th Percentile £463 £563 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -14.81% +18.42%
75th Percentile £488 £626 £700
90th Percentile - £630 -
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.20% -1.19%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 249 425 473
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.68% 95.29% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 212 288
10th Percentile £191 £351 £363
25th Percentile £338 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £675
90th Percentile £726 £725 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 52 45
10th Percentile £13.50 £18.00 £31.20
25th Percentile £14.51 £33.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £35.17 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.90% -10.00% +130.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £73.75 £84.36
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +11.11%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Gloucestershire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Cheltenham +26 1 - - 1
Gloucester -2 1 £475 -17.39% 3
Data Engineer
South West

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 1 September 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Kimball Methodology
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks