Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £421, 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 54 64 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.37% 0.26% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £377 - -
25th Percentile £391 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 - -
75th Percentile £457 - -
90th Percentile £475 - -
England median daily rate £528 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -15.60% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.12 -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +158.03% -29.89% -44.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 472 725 980
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.06% 93.79% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 483 754
10th Percentile £200 £163 £213
25th Percentile £350 £258 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £565
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 79 62
10th Percentile £11.44 £11.81 £11.80
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.00 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%
75th Percentile £28.79 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £51.91 £64.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands 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
Leicestershire - 1 £475 - 1
Northamptonshire - 1 £367 - 1
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Luigi
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform