Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Senior Data Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 3.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £675 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% -10.65%

All Contract 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 331 349 392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.20% 96.41% 92.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 218 244
10th Percentile £300 £346 £361
25th Percentile £425 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% -0.44%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £688
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
South West median daily rate £525 £513 £536
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.43% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 43
10th Percentile £13.50 £30.00 £33.40
25th Percentile £17.77 £63.44 -
Median hourly rate £33.17 £67.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -50.86% +38.55% -18.80%
75th Percentile £65.57 £72.50 £78.18
90th Percentile £69.36 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -44.62% +10.65% -9.62%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Gloucester - 12 £550 -
Senior Data Engineer
South West

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Senior Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 12 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 12 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 12 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 12 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 12 (100.00%) DataOps
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (100.00%) ETL
1 12 (100.00%) Go
1 12 (100.00%) Kafka
1 12 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 12 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (100.00%) Python
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (83.33%) Data Architecture
2 10 (83.33%) Docker
2 10 (83.33%) GitHub
2 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 10 (83.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) Kafka
1 12 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 12 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 12 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 12 (100.00%) DataOps
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) ETL
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (83.33%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Go
1 12 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes