Data Engineering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 121 132
Rank change year-on-year +39 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 20 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 0.89% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.03% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 13
10th Percentile £456 £408 -
25th Percentile £482 £466 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £550 - £563
90th Percentile £610 £560 £618
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £19.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Berkshire +38 14 £503 +14.86% 35
Buckinghamshire +4 5 £513 -6.82% 18
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 16
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 8 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) CATIA
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Collibra
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (35.00%) Big Data
3 6 (30.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.00%) Spark SQL
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Data Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Data Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) PySpark
2 3 (15.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (10.00%) JDBC
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (5.00%) NumPy
4 1 (5.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 7 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (35.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) LLM
5 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (20.00%) Generative AI
6 3 (15.00%) Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.00%) High Availability
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
7 2 (10.00%) Data Management
7 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
7 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 4 (20.00%) Foundry
2 4 (20.00%) Palantir
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Virgin Media