Data Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Data Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 87 91
Rank change year-on-year +34 +4 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.89% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £513 £519 -
25th Percentile £531 £528 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £630
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.71% +7.23%
75th Percentile £594 £603 -
90th Percentile £598 £616 -
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 401 860 1,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 91.10% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 641 866
10th Percentile £270 £263 £338
25th Percentile £463 £460 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.18%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £651
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 24 16
10th Percentile £18.58 - £40.63
25th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £61.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% -68.32% +19.09%
75th Percentile £39.44 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 - £83.75
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Wiltshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Wiltshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Wiltshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Wiltshire 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
Corsham +32 2 £538 -10.42% 1
Swindon 0 1 £600 +14.29% 5
Data Engineer
South West

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wiltshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (25.00%) Matillion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Migration

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes