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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 103 118
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 27 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.63% 0.99% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.16% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 19
10th Percentile £413 £363 £468
25th Percentile £446 £381 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £475 £561
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% -15.26% -2.51%
75th Percentile £556 £544 £753
90th Percentile £618 £562 £853
South East median daily rate £469 £481 £600
% change year-on-year -2.49% -19.83% -11.11%

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 1,529 1,975 2,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.05% 84.62% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 1,119 1,731
10th Percentile £303 £263 £313
25th Percentile £401 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £599 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.75% +0.21% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 113 81
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.36% +10.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £21.43 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.63% +14.70% +108.94%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +22 18 £505 +15.43% 18
Buckinghamshire +3 9 £513 +0.29% 3
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 (29.63%) Apache Spark
2 4 (14.81%) Apache
2 4 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) GCP
4 6 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Serverless
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (14.81%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (14.81%) ChatGPT
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (14.81%) dbt
6 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.70%) Collibra
8 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.70%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) SAN
2 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (29.63%) Big Data
3 7 (25.93%) Relational Database
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (14.81%) Power BI
4 4 (14.81%) Tableau
5 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
6 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
6 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (7.41%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
7 1 (3.70%) MySQL
7 1 (3.70%) Neo4j
7 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.70%) Pinecone
7 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Data Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) Data Scientist
3 7 (25.93%) Senior
4 6 (22.22%) Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Python Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Telecoms Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Python Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Data Architect
8 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Python Data Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Python Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 8 (29.63%) NumPy
2 8 (29.63%) Pandas
3 5 (18.52%) PyTorch
4 4 (14.81%) Hugging Face
4 4 (14.81%) PySpark
5 3 (11.11%) Kafka
5 3 (11.11%) Prophet
6 2 (7.41%) JDBC
7 1 (3.70%) Faiss
7 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Debian
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
1 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
1 4 (14.81%) Windows Server
1 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Machine Learning
2 12 (44.44%) LLM
3 10 (37.04%) Agile
3 10 (37.04%) Data Modelling
3 10 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (33.33%) Data Science
4 9 (33.33%) Use Case
5 8 (29.63%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (29.63%) Decision-Making
5 8 (29.63%) ETL
5 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (29.63%) Visualisation
6 5 (18.52%) Data Privacy
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Statistical Modelling
6 5 (18.52%) Time Series Analysis
6 5 (18.52%) Validation
7 4 (14.81%) Data Integration
7 4 (14.81%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (14.81%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 24 (88.89%) Python
2 16 (59.26%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) R
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) Master's Degree
3 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
1 4 (14.81%) VMware
2 3 (11.11%) Databricks
2 3 (11.11%) Foundry
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Palantir
2 3 (11.11%) Sage
3 2 (7.41%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Virgin Media