Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Data Engineer
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Swindon is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 10 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 5.21% 3.03% -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.92% 3.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - -
75th Percentile £546 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £515 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.17% - +3.90%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swindon. 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 Swindon with a recognized job title 169 88 110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.02% 88.89% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 63 75
10th Percentile £305 £241 £180
25th Percentile £423 £308 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £601 £581 £535
90th Percentile £734 £619 £623
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.88% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 6
10th Percentile £11.32 - £13.88
25th Percentile £12.80 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile £50.75 - £30.25
90th Percentile £51.00 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £33.43 £21.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year +53.69% +31.82% -73.81%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Swindon

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Swindon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Swindon

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Swindon.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Swindon

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon

For the 6 months to 22 June 2026, 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 Swindon region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (70.00%) AI
3 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (70.00%) Python
4 6 (60.00%) Analytics
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (50.00%) Serverless
5 5 (50.00%) SQL
6 4 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (40.00%) Generative AI
6 4 (40.00%) Power BI
6 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (40.00%) Terraform
7 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
7 3 (30.00%) Data Science
7 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (30.00%) DataOps
7 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (30.00%) Power Automate
7 3 (30.00%) PowerApps
7 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (30.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) Tableau
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (70.00%) AI
3 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (60.00%) Analytics
5 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (40.00%) Generative AI
7 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (30.00%) Data Science
7 3 (30.00%) DataOps
7 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (30.00%) Prompt Engineering
7 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (30.00%) Use Case
8 2 (20.00%) Business Analytics
8 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft