Senior Data Engineer Contracts 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 £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 168 186
Rank change year-on-year +46 +18 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 2 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.092% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.17% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £368 £583 £485
25th Percentile £375 £594 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £425 £681 £750
90th Percentile £433 £693 £780
Central London median daily rate £400 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -36.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,064 3,451 4,017
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 95.17% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 2,348 3,027
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the City of London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 across the City of London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Scala
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks