Data Engineer Contracts in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the South West is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 92 109
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 36 66 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.15% 2.06% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 2.21% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 41 54
10th Percentile £281 £80 £375
25th Percentile £413 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £563 £544 £647
90th Percentile £638 £613 £688
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.47% +41.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the South West 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
Bristol -7 13 £438 +12.90% 28
Gloucestershire +22 8 £625 -10.71% 18
Wiltshire +34 4 £575 +2.22% 5
Somerset +5 4 £475 - 12
Devon +11 1 £190 -52.50% 3
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (63.89%) SQL
2 14 (38.89%) ETL
3 13 (36.11%) Snowflake
4 12 (33.33%) Python
4 12 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 11 (30.56%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (30.56%) Matillion
6 10 (27.78%) Analytics
6 10 (27.78%) Data Modelling
7 9 (25.00%) Azure
8 8 (22.22%) Finance
9 7 (19.44%) Data Engineering
9 7 (19.44%) Databricks
9 7 (19.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (19.44%) DV Cleared
9 7 (19.44%) Data Integration
10 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
10 6 (16.67%) Apache
11 5 (13.89%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
11 5 (13.89%) PL/SQL
11 5 (13.89%) AWS
12 4 (11.11%) Git
12 4 (11.11%) Informatica
12 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
12 4 (11.11%) Power BI
13 3 (8.33%) DevOps

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Snowflake
2 11 (30.56%) Matillion
3 9 (25.00%) Azure
4 7 (19.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (13.89%) AWS
6 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 3 (8.33%) GitHub
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.11%) Power BI
4 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.78%) CockroachDB
6 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Flyway
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 8 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (8.33%) Marketing
2 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Local Government
3 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) ETL
2 11 (30.56%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (27.78%) Analytics
3 10 (27.78%) Data Modelling
4 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (19.44%) Data Engineering
4 7 (19.44%) Data Integration
5 3 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 3 (8.33%) DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.33%) Thought Leadership
6 2 (5.56%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (5.56%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (5.56%) Data Strategy
6 2 (5.56%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (5.56%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (5.56%) Project Planning
6 2 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) SQL
2 12 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (13.89%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
4 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) DV Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kibana
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.56%) logstash
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Databricks
2 4 (11.11%) Informatica
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) SAP