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 during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 111 117
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 64 57 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.00% 1.55% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 1.68% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 53 36
10th Percentile £80 £375 £233
25th Percentile £363 £438 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +13.16%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £619
90th Percentile £570 £688 £694
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 5
10th Percentile £37.50 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £45.00
75th Percentile £80.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £45.12
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year +5.47% +41.59% -14.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,985 3,400 3,576
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 92.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,927 2,534 2,546
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £391 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £703 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 279 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £51.25 £16.99
Median hourly rate £48.29 £65.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +43.81% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

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 24 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 April 2024. 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 +23 37 £228 -52.11% 9
Devon - 4 £400 - 2
Gloucestershire +3 3 £700 +27.27% 3
Wiltshire +1 2 £563 -10.71%
Somerset 0 2 £475 - 1
Dorset -2 2 £350 -48.15%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 30 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 25 (39.06%) Migration
3 24 (37.50%) SQL
3 24 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 22 (34.38%) Data Migration
4 22 (34.38%) ETL
5 21 (32.81%) Azure
6 20 (31.25%) Micro Focus
6 20 (31.25%) Power BI
6 20 (31.25%) Power Platform
7 18 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (26.56%) Python
9 16 (25.00%) Data Modelling
10 14 (21.88%) SQL Server
10 14 (21.88%) AWS
10 14 (21.88%) Performance Optimisation
11 13 (20.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (20.31%) Translating Business Requirements
11 13 (20.31%) Relational Database
11 13 (20.31%) QA
11 13 (20.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (18.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (18.75%) T-SQL
12 12 (18.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 12 (18.75%) Tableau
13 11 (17.19%) Data Quality
13 11 (17.19%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (15.63%) Aerospace
15 9 (14.06%) Data Lake

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 1 (1.56%) Apache
1 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) ENOVIA
1 3 (4.69%) SAP PLM
1 3 (4.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.81%) Azure
2 20 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 14 (21.88%) AWS
4 13 (20.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (6.25%) GCP
6 4 (6.25%) OCI
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (4.69%) AWS CodeCommit
7 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (4.69%) Serverless
8 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) IaaS
8 2 (3.13%) PaaS
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.56%) AWS CodeBuild
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (31.25%) Power BI
2 14 (21.88%) SQL Server
3 13 (20.31%) Relational Database
3 13 (20.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (18.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 12 (18.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (18.75%) Tableau
5 9 (14.06%) Data Lake
6 8 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (10.94%) NoSQL
8 5 (7.81%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (3.13%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.56%) Big Data
10 1 (1.56%) Flink
10 1 (1.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 18 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Aerospace
3 4 (6.25%) Aviation
3 4 (6.25%) Electronics
3 4 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.69%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Finance
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) PySpark
2 4 (6.25%) OpenID
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.13%) JSON
3 2 (3.13%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.56%) Flask
4 1 (1.56%) pytest
4 1 (1.56%) REST
4 1 (1.56%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.25%) Blockchain
3 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.56%) CMDB
5 1 (1.56%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.06%) Migration
2 22 (34.38%) Data Migration
2 22 (34.38%) ETL
3 18 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 14 (21.88%) Performance Optimisation
6 13 (20.31%) Translating Business Requirements
7 9 (14.06%) DevSecOps
8 7 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (9.38%) Data Engineering
10 5 (7.81%) DevOps
10 5 (7.81%) Mentoring
11 4 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (6.25%) Configuration Management
11 4 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (6.25%) Data Management
11 4 (6.25%) Domain-Driven Design
11 4 (6.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 4 (6.25%) Machine Learning
11 4 (6.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 24 (37.50%) SQL
2 17 (26.56%) Python
3 12 (18.75%) T-SQL
4 3 (4.69%) R
5 2 (3.13%) Java
5 2 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 24 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (17.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (9.38%) Degree
5 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.13%) IBM Certification
7 2 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) QA
2 11 (17.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (31.25%) Micro Focus
2 8 (12.50%) Databricks
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 4 (6.25%) SAP
3 4 (6.25%) Twitter
4 2 (3.13%) IBM
4 2 (3.13%) Informatica
5 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow