Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Data Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 84 89
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 7 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.72% 0.84% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.06% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 4
10th Percentile £349 £400 -
25th Percentile £377 £441 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £575 £374
Median % change year-on-year -30.09% +53.85% -44.63%
75th Percentile £426 £650 £659
90th Percentile £615 £668 £676
South East median daily rate £445 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -17.21% -10.42% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.49
75th Percentile - - £19.98
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £19.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 842 1,129 1,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.27% 79.45% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 696 645
10th Percentile £313 £363 £263
25th Percentile £456 £455 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £623
90th Percentile £653 £725 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £518
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 116 110
10th Percentile - £20.06 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £52.14 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £74.06 £64.41
90th Percentile £64.50 £77.81 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £52.10
% change year-on-year -61.81% +10.08% +60.31%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Hampshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Hampshire over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Hampshire

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Data Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Fleet - 3 £402 -
Basingstoke +3 1 £375 -17.58% 2
Hook +1 1 £320 -29.86%
Portsmouth - 1 £384 - 2
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Dagster
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SSH
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (28.57%) Metadata
4 1 (14.29%) Big Data
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
4 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (14.29%) Parquet
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Poetry
2 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) MLflow
3 1 (14.29%) PyCharm
3 1 (14.29%) Pylint
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Avro
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Data Lineage
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) Data Security
4 3 (42.86%) Data Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Argo
2 1 (14.29%) Istio
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
1 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat