Data Engineering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 132 146
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 24 19 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.89% 0.65% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.71% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 15
10th Percentile £408 - £428
25th Percentile £466 £488 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £563 £681
90th Percentile £560 £618 £763
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% +22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £19.49 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Buckinghamshire +41 17 £550 -0.90% 5
Berkshire -13 7 £438 -16.67% 5
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Sketch
1 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (4.17%) ChatGPT
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Figma
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) SAN
1 13 (54.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.17%) Impala
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Developer
2 13 (54.17%) Python Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Backend Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Linux Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Programmer
5 3 (12.50%) Python Programmer
5 3 (12.50%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (8.33%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) LangChain
3 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Smart Meter
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Linux
2 13 (54.17%) Debian
2 13 (54.17%) Ubuntu
3 3 (12.50%) Unix
3 3 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Data Modelling
2 16 (66.67%) Agile
3 13 (54.17%) Configuration Management
3 13 (54.17%) ITIL
3 13 (54.17%) Prototyping
3 13 (54.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 10 (41.67%) Customer Service
4 10 (41.67%) Matrix Organization
5 9 (37.50%) Analytics
6 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (20.83%) ETL
7 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
8 4 (16.67%) ETL Development
8 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (12.50%) Data Science
9 3 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
9 3 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
9 3 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) R
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) HDFS
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
1 13 (54.17%) Red Hat
1 13 (54.17%) VMware
2 4 (16.67%) Ab Initio
3 1 (4.17%) Cloudera
3 1 (4.17%) Informatica