Senior Data Engineer Contracts in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Central London is £525, 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 121 132 166
Rank change year-on-year +11 +34 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 8 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.40% 0.041% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.043% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £449 - £583
25th Percentile £456 £413 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -32.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £589 £438 £681
90th Percentile £661 - £693
London median daily rate £562 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -10.08% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +15 8 £525 +23.53% 2
Senior Data Engineer
London

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

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 Central London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) REST
4 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
4 3 (37.50%) dbt
5 2 (25.00%) Grafana
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Airbyte
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Big Data
5 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
5 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (25.00%) PySpark
5 2 (25.00%) RDF
5 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (25.00%) SPARQL
5 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Fivetran
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) Airbyte
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Impala
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (12.50%) Pandas
3 1 (12.50%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Open Source
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) RDF
4 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) SPARQL
4 1 (12.50%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Informatica
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) SAP