Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £420 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 - 194
Rank change year-on-year - - -42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% - 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £430 - £556
90th Percentile - - £568
England median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.33 - -
25th Percentile £23.24 - -
Median hourly rate £26.12 - -
75th Percentile £30.37 - -
90th Percentile £32.10 - -
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
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,534 3,233 4,817
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 94.62% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,713 2,270 3,532
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 127 173
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.30 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.61%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £52.78 £60.50 £33.90
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
East Midlands - 2 - - 3
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 5
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Midlands region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Scala
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) Power BI
3 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Police
4 1 (25.00%) Matillion
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Beam
4 1 (25.00%) Snowflake

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Matillion
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Ant
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Police
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Beam
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Disruptive Innovation
3 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Scala
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft