Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Herefordshire is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 3.77% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Herefordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Herefordshire. 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 Herefordshire with a recognized job title 50 53 31
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 84.13% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 40 19
10th Percentile £468 £524 £370
25th Percentile £553 £572 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% +16.57% +20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £685 £631
90th Percentile £750 £783 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
Median hourly rate £25.15 £11.92 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.99% -76.16% -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.80 £23.00
% change year-on-year +15.39% -5.24% +29.80%

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Ledbury - 2 £650 -
Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire

For the 6 months to 11 October 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 Herefordshire region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DataOps
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DataOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes