Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Senior Data Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% 0.23% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £531 £560 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% - -
75th Percentile £544 £580 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £513 £463 £575
% change year-on-year +10.81% -19.57% -11.54%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 605 384 490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 88.68% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 241 335
10th Percentile £313 £296 £265
25th Percentile £368 £356 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £708 £645 £610
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -4.21% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 45
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.87 £16.79
Median hourly rate £22.85 £35.20 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.09% +60.00% +6.02%
75th Percentile £33.73 £86.00 £37.25
90th Percentile £83.68 - £43.75
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £31.52 £24.15
% change year-on-year +35.42% +30.54% -19.52%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 March 2026. 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
Knutsford - 1 £538 - 1
Senior Data Engineer
North West

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 8 March 2026, Senior Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Varonis