Data Engineer Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 60 76
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 5 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.04% 1.72% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.83% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 8
10th Percentile £440 £424 £498
25th Percentile £481 £470 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £719
90th Percentile £580 £803 £749
South East median daily rate £463 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -11.06% -5.45% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 449 821 927
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 94.26% 97.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 655 713
10th Percentile £255 £236 £238
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £559 £585 £575
90th Percentile £646 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 4 42
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.37 -
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.58 £10.77
Median hourly rate £22.90 £18.25 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.47% +43.14% -5.56%
75th Percentile £28.75 £25.56 £20.82
90th Percentile £48.75 £36.48 £53.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Milton Keynes +22 5 £550 +10.00% 2
Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Informatica
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Impala
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Smart Meter

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Google App Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Impala
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) PowerCenter
2 1 (20.00%) Sqoop
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) ERwin
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) gRPC
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Informatica
2 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio