Senior Data Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 550 600
Rank change year-on-year +77 +50 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 75 118 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 80 134
10th Percentile £475 £463 £500
25th Percentile £513 £513 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £709
90th Percentile £725 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £22.93 - -
25th Percentile £24.74 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 £43.50 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.89% -44.76% +18.42%
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile £61.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £43.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -29.89% -44.76% +18.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
London +84 52 £613 -3.92% 71
South East +9 10 £675 +48.35% 11
North of England +22 5 £520 -20.00% 11
Midlands - 4 £420 - 7
North West +4 3 £520 -20.00% 9
Yorkshire +28 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 5
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
East of England +8 1 £525 -8.70% 6
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (61.33%) Python
2 36 (48.00%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (46.67%) SQL
4 34 (45.33%) Data Engineering
5 28 (37.33%) AWS
6 27 (36.00%) ETL
7 23 (30.67%) Data Modelling
8 21 (28.00%) Security Cleared
9 19 (25.33%) Azure
9 19 (25.33%) SC Cleared
10 16 (21.33%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (20.00%) Agile
12 14 (18.67%) Analytics
12 14 (18.67%) DevOps
12 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
13 13 (17.33%) Apache Spark
14 12 (16.00%) Data Governance
14 12 (16.00%) Data Analysis
14 12 (16.00%) Java
14 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
14 12 (16.00%) Databricks
15 11 (14.67%) Data Science
15 11 (14.67%) Data Quality
16 10 (13.33%) Kafka
16 10 (13.33%) Scala
16 10 (13.33%) Finance
16 10 (13.33%) Serverless
17 9 (12.00%) Data Lake

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (17.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.67%) Apache
4 2 (2.67%) Confluence
5 1 (1.33%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.33%) AWS
2 19 (25.33%) Azure
3 10 (13.33%) Serverless
4 9 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (12.00%) GCP
4 9 (12.00%) Snowflake
5 6 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (6.67%) dbt
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (5.33%) Matillion
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.67%) GitHub
10 1 (1.33%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (12.00%) Big Data
2 9 (12.00%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (10.67%) BigQuery
4 5 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (5.33%) Delta Lake
5 4 (5.33%) Metadata
5 4 (5.33%) MySQL
6 3 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.00%) HBase
6 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.00%) Power BI
6 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.00%) Tableau
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (2.67%) Flink
7 2 (2.67%) Looker
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Git
2 7 (9.33%) JIRA
3 2 (2.67%) Ant
3 2 (2.67%) Gradle
3 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.67%) JUnit
3 2 (2.67%) Maven
4 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.33%) kappa
General
1 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
2 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Finance
4 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Back Office
6 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Law
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) Kafka
2 8 (10.67%) PySpark
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.33%) JSON
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.33%) pytest
3 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.00%) Data Pipeline
2 34 (45.33%) Data Engineering
3 27 (36.00%) ETL
4 23 (30.67%) Data Modelling
5 16 (21.33%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (20.00%) Agile
7 14 (18.67%) Analytics
7 14 (18.67%) DevOps
7 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (16.00%) Data Analysis
8 12 (16.00%) Data Governance
9 11 (14.67%) Data Science
10 7 (9.33%) CI/CD
10 7 (9.33%) Data Strategy
11 6 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (8.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 6 (8.00%) Design Patterns
11 6 (8.00%) Visualisation
12 5 (6.67%) Computer Science
12 5 (6.67%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (61.33%) Python
2 35 (46.67%) SQL
3 12 (16.00%) Java
4 10 (13.33%) Scala
5 3 (4.00%) Bash
6 2 (2.67%) C
6 2 (2.67%) C++
6 2 (2.67%) Perl
6 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.33%) Go
7 1 (1.33%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.33%) GxP
3 1 (1.33%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Databricks
2 5 (6.67%) Google
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) Veritas
5 1 (1.33%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.33%) Talend
5 1 (1.33%) TIBCO