Data Engineering Contracts in South Wales

Data Engineering
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 39 54
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.46% 0.30% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 0.37% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £180 - -
25th Percentile £200 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -65.98% - -
75th Percentile £236 £638 -
90th Percentile £249 - -
Wales median daily rate £236 £625 -
% change year-on-year -62.24% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.18
25th Percentile £20.12 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £20.24 - £18.82
75th Percentile £20.35 - £19.81
90th Percentile - - £19.91
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 - £18.82
% change year-on-year - - -5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 269 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.34% 80.06% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 190 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £630 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £420 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in South Wales

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in South Wales

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in South Wales

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cardiff - 5 £213 - 13
Newport +8 1 - - 9
Data Engineering
Wales

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Metadata
2 4 (66.67%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Architect
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Graduate
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
2 5 (83.33%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Metadata Management
3 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (33.33%) Data Development
5 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 1 (16.67%) Applied Mathematics
6 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
6 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Data Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (16.67%) Remedy