Senior Data Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 434 487
Rank change year-on-year +93 +53 -65
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 52 71 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 47 92
10th Percentile £456 £495 £500
25th Percentile £513 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £785 £800
England median daily rate £623 £625 £619
% change year-on-year -0.40% +1.01% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate £30.50 £43.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -29.89% -44.76% +18.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,617 25,468 37,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,021 18,449 27,170
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.21
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Central London +39 2 £400 -36.00% 7
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (73.08%) Python
2 32 (61.54%) SQL
3 27 (51.92%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (50.00%) AWS
5 20 (38.46%) ETL
6 18 (34.62%) Azure
6 18 (34.62%) Data Engineering
7 15 (28.85%) Databricks
8 14 (26.92%) DevOps
9 13 (25.00%) Analytics
9 13 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 13 (25.00%) Agile
10 12 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
11 11 (21.15%) Big Data
12 10 (19.23%) PySpark
12 10 (19.23%) Serverless
13 9 (17.31%) Apache Spark
14 8 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (15.38%) Git
14 8 (15.38%) Finance
14 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
14 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
14 8 (15.38%) Data Lake
14 8 (15.38%) Data Science
14 8 (15.38%) Snowflake
14 8 (15.38%) CI/CD

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (17.31%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.62%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.85%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) AWS
2 18 (34.62%) Azure
3 10 (19.23%) Serverless
4 8 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 6 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (7.69%) dbt
7 4 (7.69%) GCP
8 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.85%) GitHub
9 2 (3.85%) Matillion
10 1 (1.92%) Google App Engine
10 1 (1.92%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (21.15%) Big Data
3 8 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 6 (11.54%) Delta Lake
5 5 (9.62%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (7.69%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (3.85%) Flink
7 2 (3.85%) Looker
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.85%) Tableau
8 1 (1.92%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.92%) Power BI
8 1 (1.92%) QGIS
8 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.92%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Ant
3 1 (1.92%) Gradle
3 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) JUnit
3 1 (1.92%) kappa
3 1 (1.92%) Maven
General
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) PySpark
2 6 (11.54%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) JSON
3 1 (1.92%) pytest
3 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (51.92%) Data Pipeline
2 20 (38.46%) ETL
3 18 (34.62%) Data Engineering
4 14 (26.92%) DevOps
5 13 (25.00%) Agile
5 13 (25.00%) Analytics
5 13 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (15.38%) Data Science
8 7 (13.46%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (11.54%) Data Governance
10 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (7.69%) Data Strategy
11 4 (7.69%) E-Commerce
11 4 (7.69%) Project Delivery
11 4 (7.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 38 (73.08%) Python
2 32 (61.54%) SQL
3 6 (11.54%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) Scala
5 3 (5.77%) Bash
6 1 (1.92%) C
6 1 (1.92%) C++
6 1 (1.92%) Go
6 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Databricks
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) TIBCO