Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Coventry is £493, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.89% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £484 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - -
75th Percentile £501 - -
90th Percentile £544 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £420
% change year-on-year -9.09% +30.95% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 286 98 97
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.94% 89.91% 97.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 59 76
10th Percentile £293 £206 £275
25th Percentile £381 £247 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +4.48% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £14.75 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.21 - £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 - £18.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.98 £24.34 £19.00
% change year-on-year +39.61% +28.11% -6.17%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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 Coventry.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Coventry

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Coventry over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Coventry

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 Coventry region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Validation

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft