Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Senior Data Engineer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Liverpool is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 0.35% 1.54% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 1.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 266 123 158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 94.62% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 82 82
10th Percentile £133 £140 £143
25th Percentile £150 £201 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £465 £388
Median % change year-on-year -15.48% +20.00% -18.42%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £494
90th Percentile £616 £663 £599
Merseyside median daily rate £381 £413 £388
% change year-on-year -7.58% +6.45% -18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 25
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £23.85 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -3.11% +9.96%
75th Percentile - £19.36 £34.32
90th Percentile - £27.06 £37.18
Merseyside median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £21.43
% change year-on-year +45.53% -18.62% +26.54%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 22 May 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 Liverpool region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Senior Data Engineer jobs