Senior Data Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior Data Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £445 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 107 127
Rank change year-on-year +40 +20 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.49% 0.38% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.40% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £406 £501 -
25th Percentile £415 £558 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £590 £775
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% -23.87% -
75th Percentile £470 - £788
90th Percentile £485 - -
Scotland median daily rate £445 £590 £775
% change year-on-year -24.58% -23.87% +82.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 778 1,245 1,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.46% 95.55% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 887 1,280
10th Percentile £205 £247 £230
25th Percentile £406 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £561
90th Percentile £664 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £455
% change year-on-year - +4.40% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 12 22
10th Percentile £16.10 £13.62 £11.66
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.43 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.91
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.53% -33.14%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Senior 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 Edinburgh region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Informix
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Informix
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (25.00%) InfluxDB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat