Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Data Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 121 138
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 9 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.50% 0.24% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.26% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £369 £488 £535
25th Percentile £488 £525 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £580 £675 £744
90th Percentile £582 £724 £785
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,701 1,915 2,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 92.92% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,176 1,730
10th Percentile £326 £354 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +134.69% -30.00%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.29% +40.08% -23.12%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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 the City of London.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the City of London

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 5 (55.56%) Python
4 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
4 4 (44.44%) dbt
4 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 3 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
5 3 (33.33%) ETL
5 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Serverless
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (22.22%) Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) Apache
6 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
6 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
6 2 (22.22%) Databricks
6 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (22.22%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) dbt
4 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (33.33%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
5 1 (11.11%) Dagster
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) Prefect
5 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Star Schema
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) DataStage
3 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Metadata
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) OLAP
3 1 (11.11%) Parquet
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) EDI
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 3 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) SFIA
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Palantir