Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Data Engineering
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 2.38% 4.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 4.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £463 £600 £579
% change year-on-year -22.92% +3.67% +11.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 140 89 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 83.33% 92.71% 77.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 57 61
10th Percentile £305 £252 £200
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £725 £617 £600
Wiltshire median daily rate £530 £563 £545
% change year-on-year -5.78% +3.21% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £24.49 £22.50 £14.54
% change year-on-year +8.83% +54.75% -80.61%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Swindon

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) AI
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Complex ETL
1 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) ETL
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (25.00%) LLM
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks