Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Data Engineering
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 50 89
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 13 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.63% 0.91% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.04% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £450 £530 -
25th Percentile £463 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +33.33% -13.04%
75th Percentile £659 £625 £499
90th Percentile £781 £640 £529
South West median daily rate £550 £631 £625
% change year-on-year -12.87% +1.00% -5.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 646 385 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 80.85% 87.90% 84.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 270 593
10th Percentile £375 £356 £315
25th Percentile £463 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £700 £725
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 2 20
10th Percentile £12.50 - £12.00
25th Percentile £12.60 - £14.36
Median hourly rate £21.01 £60.00 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -64.98% +312.65% -77.80%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £30.25
90th Percentile £41.90 - £74.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year -11.54% +35.90% -22.23%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Wiltshire

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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 - 5 £450 - 2
Swindon -6 4 £500 -16.67% 2
Salisbury - 1 - -
Data Engineering
South West

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Apache Superset
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Power BI
1 6 (46.15%) Tableau
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 3 (23.08%) Platform Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Data Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Product Owner
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Analytics
2 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) Data Science
3 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
4 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
4 3 (23.08%) ETL
4 3 (23.08%) Value Proposition
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) AI
5 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Data Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Workflow
5 2 (15.38%) Workflow Development
6 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Denodo
2 1 (7.69%) Talend