Senior Data Engineer Contracts

Senior Data Engineer
UK

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £581 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 487 583 649
Rank change year-on-year +96 +66 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 91 133 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 168
10th Percentile £423 £463 £500
25th Percentile £512 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £713
90th Percentile £700 £743 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 £590 £625
% change year-on-year +5.08% -5.60% +38.89%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £43.50 -
% change year-on-year -29.89% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +65 77 £623 -0.40% 116
London +93 52 £600 -7.69% 71
Work from Home +99 33 £600 +1.69% 63
UK excluding London +39 26 £620 +5.08% 49
South East +19 11 £675 +48.35% 9
North of England +15 6 £520 -20.00% 10
Scotland +36 4 £445 -24.58% 5
North West +13 4 £520 -20.00% 7
Midlands - 4 £420 - 7
Yorkshire +22 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 6
East of England +5 1 £525 -4.55% 9

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

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 featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (61.54%) Python
2 47 (51.65%) SQL
3 40 (43.96%) Data Engineering
4 39 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
5 36 (39.56%) AWS
6 32 (35.16%) Azure
6 32 (35.16%) ETL
7 28 (30.77%) Data Modelling
8 24 (26.37%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (23.08%) Agile
9 21 (23.08%) Analytics
10 19 (20.88%) Databricks
11 18 (19.78%) Public Sector
11 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
11 18 (19.78%) DevOps
11 18 (19.78%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
12 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (17.58%) Data Governance
14 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
14 15 (16.48%) Apache Spark
15 14 (15.38%) Serverless
15 14 (15.38%) Data Lake
15 14 (15.38%) Snowflake
16 13 (14.29%) PySpark
16 13 (14.29%) Big Data
16 13 (14.29%) Data Analysis
16 13 (14.29%) Data Quality
16 13 (14.29%) Amazon S3
17 12 (13.19%) Scala

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (16.48%) Apache Spark
2 8 (8.79%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.59%) Apache
4 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.10%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.56%) AWS
2 32 (35.16%) Azure
3 14 (15.38%) Serverless
3 14 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 13 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 11 (12.09%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (10.99%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (9.89%) GCP
8 8 (8.79%) dbt
9 7 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (6.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.49%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (4.40%) GitHub
12 4 (4.40%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.78%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 13 (14.29%) Big Data
4 8 (8.79%) BigQuery
5 6 (6.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (6.59%) Delta Lake
5 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.59%) Power BI
6 5 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (5.49%) MySQL
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.40%) Metadata
7 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.40%) Tableau
8 3 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.30%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.30%) HBase
8 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Git
2 4 (4.40%) JIRA
3 2 (2.20%) Ant
3 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.20%) Gradle
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) JUnit
3 2 (2.20%) Maven
4 1 (1.10%) GitLab
4 1 (1.10%) kappa
4 1 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 18 (19.78%) Public Sector
1 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Finance
4 3 (3.30%) Banking
5 1 (1.10%) Back Office
5 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.10%) Law
5 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.10%) Marketing
5 1 (1.10%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) PySpark
2 10 (10.99%) Kafka
3 4 (4.40%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.10%) JSON
4 1 (1.10%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.10%) NumPy
4 1 (1.10%) ODBC
4 1 (1.10%) Pandas
4 1 (1.10%) pytest
4 1 (1.10%) RESTful
4 1 (1.10%) XML
4 1 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.30%) Replication
3 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.96%) Data Engineering
2 39 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 32 (35.16%) ETL
4 28 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 24 (26.37%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (23.08%) Agile
6 21 (23.08%) Analytics
7 18 (19.78%) DevOps
8 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (17.58%) Data Governance
10 13 (14.29%) Data Analysis
11 12 (13.19%) Data Science
12 10 (10.99%) CI/CD
13 9 (9.89%) Migration
14 8 (8.79%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (8.79%) Data Strategy
15 7 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
15 7 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 6 (6.59%) Data Management
16 6 (6.59%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 56 (61.54%) Python
2 47 (51.65%) SQL
3 12 (13.19%) Java
3 12 (13.19%) Scala
4 4 (4.40%) Bash
4 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.20%) C
5 2 (2.20%) C++
5 2 (2.20%) Perl
5 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.10%) Go
6 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.40%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.10%) GxP
4 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Grafana
2 4 (4.40%) Ansible
2 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.40%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (20.88%) Databricks
2 5 (5.49%) Google
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.40%) Oracle
4 2 (2.20%) Splunk
4 2 (2.20%) Veritas
5 1 (1.10%) Commvault
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.10%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.10%) Talend
5 1 (1.10%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.10%) VMware
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