Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Ledbury

Data Engineer
Herefordshire > Ledbury

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Ledbury is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 4 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ledbury 6.45% 30.77% -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.45% 30.77% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Herefordshire median daily rate £650 £612 £550
% change year-on-year +6.21% +11.27% -3.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Ledbury

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Ledbury. 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 Ledbury with a recognized job title 31 13 0
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 0
10th Percentile £600 - -
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £612 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.38% - -
75th Percentile - £685 -
90th Percentile £850 - -
Herefordshire median daily rate £650 £612 £525
% change year-on-year +6.21% +16.57% +20.00%

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ledbury

For the 6 months to 11 October 2025, 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 Ledbury region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

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

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