Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 99 128
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 27 27 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.17% 1.28% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.47% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 21
10th Percentile £513 £453 £438
25th Percentile £525 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £668 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% +6.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £676 - -
England median daily rate £523 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.13% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £74.26 £25.43 £53.65
% change year-on-year +192.02% -52.60% -16.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,938 1,835 2,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.64% 86.88% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,124 1,725
10th Percentile £263 £280 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £733 £718
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 126 270
10th Percentile £15.25 £21.16 £20.48
25th Percentile £19.26 £48.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the South West

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Gloucestershire -9 15 £550 -17.60% 21
Bristol -3 4 £650 +13.04% 30
Wiltshire -14 3 - - 13
Somerset - 2 £650 - 6
Devon +6 1 - - 24
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (40.74%) GitHub
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) Matillion
5 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) dbt
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.70%) Neo4j
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.70%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 15 (55.56%) Senior
3 14 (51.85%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Developer
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) Kafka
2 12 (44.44%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) PySpark
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) ETL
2 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 14 (51.85%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (44.44%) Batch Processing
4 12 (44.44%) DataOps
5 11 (40.74%) Containerisation
6 10 (37.04%) Data Architecture
7 4 (14.81%) Agile
8 3 (11.11%) AI
8 3 (11.11%) Analytics
8 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 3 (11.11%) Data Management
8 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (7.41%) Coaching
9 2 (7.41%) Data Governance
9 2 (7.41%) Data Integration
9 2 (7.41%) Data Science
9 2 (7.41%) Decision-Making
9 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) Go
3 5 (18.52%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Cypher
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 12 (44.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) IBM
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft