Senior Data Engineer Contracts in Basildon

Senior Data Engineer
Essex > Basildon

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Basildon is £318, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 10.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 - -
Essex median daily rate £318 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basildon. 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 Basildon with a recognized job title 19 47 24
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 95.92% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 15
10th Percentile £315 £440 £429
25th Percentile £320 £525 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £505
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +13.86% +1.00%
75th Percentile £487 £600 £533
90th Percentile £488 £660 £565
Essex median daily rate £400 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -12.57% +1.67% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 29 4
10th Percentile £32.00 £35.65 £56.63
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £57.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +11.55% +56.88%
75th Percentile £45.00 £80.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £48.00 - £67.85
Essex median hourly rate £26.25 £40.31 £43.32
% change year-on-year -34.88% -6.94% +80.48%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Basildon

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Basildon region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (50.00%) Agile

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft