Data Engineering Contracts in Wales

Data Engineering
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 62 74
Rank change year-on-year +20 +12 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.26% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.59% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £507
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.56%
75th Percentile - - £527
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £18.82 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year - -5.50% -19.56%
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -52.05% +23.73% +112.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 506 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 74.68% 86.79% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 385 591
10th Percentile £143 £180 £200
25th Percentile £313 £350 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +0.51% +12.07%
75th Percentile £563 £586 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 26 26
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.63 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.34 £16.98 £18.57
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -15.11% +6.85%
75th Percentile £51.75 £22.93 £42.91
90th Percentile £85.60 £49.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Wales

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Wales

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in Wales

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 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
South Wales +15 1 £550 - 3
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Beam
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent
1 1 (100.00%) Google