Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Data Engineering
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 3.64% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
West Wales median daily rate £413 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 70.91% 60.00% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 9 3
10th Percentile £375 - £465
25th Percentile £413 £185 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £513
90th Percentile £520 £508 £520
West Wales median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +53.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - £11.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.42%
75th Percentile £18.75 - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate £17.21 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.42%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Swansea

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks