Data Engineering Contracts in Somerset

Data Engineering
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.40% - 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £477 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - £390
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.75%
75th Percentile £567 - £395
90th Percentile £632 - -
South West median daily rate £544 £463 £675
% change year-on-year +17.57% -31.48% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 158 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 94.01% 72.48% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 96 119
10th Percentile £225 £206 £202
25th Percentile £378 £411 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +8.72% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £675
90th Percentile £775 £644 £727
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 21
10th Percentile £16.47 £12.50 £32.40
25th Percentile - - £46.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -51.46% +3.00%
75th Percentile £62.81 £40.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £51.98 £71.17
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -58.08% -7.69% +30.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Somerset

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Somerset.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Somerset

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Somerset over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Somerset

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Bath - 2 £475 - 2
Data Engineering
South West

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks