Data Engineer Contracts in South Wales

Data Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Data Engineer daily rate in South Wales is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 51 65
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 11 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.37% 1.05% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.77% 1.10% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile - - £366
25th Percentile £199 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £568 £574
90th Percentile £550 £617 £633
Wales median daily rate £400 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 292 453 828
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.57% 94.77% 96.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 347 616
10th Percentile £143 £182 £213
25th Percentile £313 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 26 30
10th Percentile £12.10 £13.00 £11.09
25th Percentile £15.48 £16.98 £12.99
Median hourly rate £20.35 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -8.89% +10.61%
75th Percentile £52.81 £21.50 £25.56
90th Percentile £86.54 £49.38 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +5.68% -8.89% +17.12%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in South Wales

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in South Wales

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in South Wales

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in South Wales

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Cardiff +13 8 £350 -32.74% 4
Newport - 3 £450 -
Data Engineer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 South Wales region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (36.36%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (27.27%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Kafka
3 2 (18.18%) Batch Processing
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Beam
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 2 (18.18%) Apache
3 2 (18.18%) Replication
3 2 (18.18%) Data Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Confluence
4 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) SLA
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Confluent
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (18.18%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Mandarin Language
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Beam
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Batch Processing
1 2 (18.18%) Data Management
1 2 (18.18%) ETL
2 1 (9.09%) Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
2 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (9.09%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
2 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
2 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Confluent