Senior Data Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £445 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 124 160 168
Rank change year-on-year +36 +8 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 4 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.25% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.26% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile £406 £526 £753
25th Percentile £415 - £756
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £590 £775
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% -23.87% +82.35%
75th Percentile £470 - £788
90th Percentile £485 - -
UK median daily rate £581 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,070 2,677 3,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 95.30% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 1,920 2,387
10th Percentile £200 £232 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 52
10th Percentile £12.33 £12.90 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.26 £21.75 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% -18.99% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.13 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Scotland

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in Scotland

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +40 4 £445 -24.58% 2
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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