Senior Data Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Senior Data Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £450, 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 59 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.22% - 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £475 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Leeds

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in Leeds

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

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 Leeds region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google