Senior Data Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in England is £528, 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 365 467 535
Rank change year-on-year +102 +68 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 120 75 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 50 78
10th Percentile £410 £474 £460
25th Percentile £458 £513 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -15.60% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £700
90th Percentile £675 £728 £739
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £73.74 £22.93 -
25th Percentile £75.60 £24.74 -
Median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +158.03% -29.89% -44.76%
75th Percentile £86.23 £51.00 -
90th Percentile £90.74 £61.65 -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +158.03% -29.89% -44.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +64 76 £562 -10.08% 105
North of England +32 19 £463 -11.06% 33
North West +26 13 £475 -8.65% 16
South West - 8 £525 - 17
South East +42 7 £650 -3.70% 53
Midlands +25 7 £550 +30.95% 19
Yorkshire +12 6 £450 - 13
West Midlands +17 5 £600 +42.86% 11
East of England +33 4 £318 -39.34% 18
East Midlands +10 2 £421 - 6
Senior Data Engineer
UK

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

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 England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 75 (62.50%) SQL
2 67 (55.83%) Python
3 55 (45.83%) Azure
4 54 (45.00%) ETL
5 48 (40.00%) AWS
6 46 (38.33%) Data Pipeline
7 42 (35.00%) Analytics
8 37 (30.83%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (28.33%) Data Engineering
10 32 (26.67%) Data Modelling
10 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
11 29 (24.17%) Security Cleared
12 28 (23.33%) Databricks
12 28 (23.33%) CI/CD
13 25 (20.83%) dbt
13 25 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (20.83%) Data Quality
14 23 (19.17%) Agile
14 23 (19.17%) Finance
14 23 (19.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (18.33%) Snowflake
16 20 (16.67%) Microsoft
16 20 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
17 19 (15.83%) Kubernetes
17 19 (15.83%) Business Intelligence
17 19 (15.83%) Visualisation
17 19 (15.83%) PySpark
18 18 (15.00%) SC Cleared
19 17 (14.17%) Relational Database
20 16 (13.33%) DevOps

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (10.83%) Apache
2 13 (10.83%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.83%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.83%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.83%) SAP CAR
1 1 (0.83%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 55 (45.83%) Azure
2 48 (40.00%) AWS
3 25 (20.83%) dbt
4 23 (19.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (18.33%) Snowflake
6 16 (13.33%) Power Platform
7 13 (10.83%) GCP
8 11 (9.17%) Amazon S3
8 11 (9.17%) GitHub
9 8 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (6.67%) Serverless
10 5 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.17%) Matillion
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.83%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (14.17%) Relational Database
3 16 (13.33%) Power BI
4 12 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 10 (8.33%) Big Data
6 9 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (7.50%) Hadoop
6 9 (7.50%) SQL Server
7 8 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (5.00%) Airbyte
9 6 (5.00%) Delta Lake
9 6 (5.00%) Tableau
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (4.17%) Metadata
10 5 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
12 3 (2.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Terragrunt
2 2 (1.67%) Git
2 2 (1.67%) MLflow
2 2 (1.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) Postman
3 1 (0.83%) Selenium
General
1 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.17%) Finance
3 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Banking
5 4 (3.33%) Marketing
6 3 (2.50%) Retail
6 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.67%) Automotive
7 2 (1.67%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.67%) Electronics
7 2 (1.67%) Games
7 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Local Government
7 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Billing
8 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.83%) PySpark
2 14 (11.67%) REST
3 11 (9.17%) Kafka
4 6 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (4.17%) .NET
5 5 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (4.17%) Autofac
5 5 (4.17%) Dapper ORM
5 5 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 5 (4.17%) StructureMap
5 5 (4.17%) WCF
5 5 (4.17%) Web Services
6 4 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.50%) PyTorch
7 3 (2.50%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 5 (4.17%) N-Tier
2 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.33%) Replication
3 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.67%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Smart City
5 1 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.00%) ETL
2 46 (38.33%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (35.00%) Analytics
4 34 (28.33%) Data Engineering
5 32 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 28 (23.33%) CI/CD
7 25 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (19.17%) Agile
9 19 (15.83%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (15.83%) Visualisation
10 16 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 16 (13.33%) DevOps
11 15 (12.50%) Data Science
12 13 (10.83%) Artificial Intelligence
12 13 (10.83%) Data Governance
13 12 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
13 12 (10.00%) Machine Learning
14 11 (9.17%) Mentoring
15 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
16 9 (7.50%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 75 (62.50%) SQL
2 67 (55.83%) Python
3 7 (5.83%) C#
4 6 (5.00%) Java
4 6 (5.00%) SPARQL
5 5 (4.17%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.33%) Scala
7 1 (0.83%) Bash
7 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) Degree
4 5 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.17%) MCPD
4 5 (4.17%) MCSD
4 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.83%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.17%) QA
3 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (10.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.50%) Terraform
3 4 (3.33%) Kibana
3 4 (3.33%) logstash
4 3 (2.50%) Grafana
4 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.67%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (23.33%) Databricks
2 20 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.33%) Oracle
3 4 (3.33%) SAP
4 3 (2.50%) Google
4 3 (2.50%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (1.67%) Talend
6 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.83%) IBM
6 1 (0.83%) Informatica
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.83%) Virgin Media
239 Senior Data Engineer jobs Nationwide