Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Senior Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the South West is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 124 148
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 18 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.78% 0.047% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.050% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% -10.65%
75th Percentile £675 - £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £560 £575 £623
% change year-on-year -2.61% -7.63% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
England median hourly rate £92.00 £95.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.16% +46.15% +49.43%

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 2,068 1,994 2,844
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.07% 93.57% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 1,249 1,873
10th Percentile £228 £215 £263
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £646 £625 £640
90th Percentile £738 £702 £712
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 149 287
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £48.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £65.00 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year -44.62% +12.09% -10.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £74.09 £83.40
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the South West

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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 - 12 £550 -
Somerset 0 5 £686 +52.36%
Bristol - 1 - -
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Senior Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 14 (77.78%) Data Engineering
2 14 (77.78%) ETL
2 14 (77.78%) SC Cleared
2 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
3 13 (72.22%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (72.22%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (72.22%) Kafka
4 12 (66.67%) Azure Certification
4 12 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (66.67%) Batch Processing
4 12 (66.67%) DataOps
4 12 (66.67%) DevOps
4 12 (66.67%) Go
4 12 (66.67%) Keycloak
4 12 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
5 11 (61.11%) Data Architecture
5 11 (61.11%) Docker
5 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
6 10 (55.56%) GitHub
7 5 (27.78%) GCP
8 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
8 3 (16.67%) Data Virtualisation
8 3 (16.67%) Google
8 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (16.67%) SQL
9 2 (11.11%) Analytics
9 2 (11.11%) AWS

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (55.56%) GitHub
4 5 (27.78%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (72.22%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data
4 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) Neo4j
4 1 (5.56%) TigerGraph
General
1 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) Kafka
2 12 (66.67%) Keycloak
3 2 (11.11%) JDBC
4 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Data Engineering
1 14 (77.78%) ETL
2 13 (72.22%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (66.67%) Batch Processing
3 12 (66.67%) DataOps
3 12 (66.67%) DevOps
4 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
4 11 (61.11%) Data Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (16.67%) Data Virtualisation
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (11.11%) Observability
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Runbook
6 2 (11.11%) Secure Coding
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 12 (66.67%) Go
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Cypher
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (66.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kibana
2 1 (5.56%) logstash
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Google