Senior Data Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in London is £562, 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 277 341 421
Rank change year-on-year +64 +80 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 76 50 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.30% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 37 47
10th Percentile £443 £470 £495
25th Percentile £469 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% - -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £750 £775
England median daily rate £528 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -15.60% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £74.38 - -
25th Percentile £77.19 - -
Median hourly rate £83.75 - -
75th Percentile £89.69 - -
90th Percentile £92.13 - -
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
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +11 8 £525 +23.53% 3
West London - 4 £552 - 2
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (71.05%) SQL
2 48 (63.16%) Python
3 41 (53.95%) Azure
4 35 (46.05%) AWS
5 34 (44.74%) ETL
6 26 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (28.95%) Data Modelling
9 21 (27.63%) Data Engineering
9 21 (27.63%) Analytics
10 20 (26.32%) dbt
11 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
11 19 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
12 18 (23.68%) Finance
13 17 (22.37%) Agile
13 17 (22.37%) Databricks
14 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
15 14 (18.42%) SC Cleared
16 13 (17.11%) Microsoft
16 13 (17.11%) Snowflake
16 13 (17.11%) Data Science
16 13 (17.11%) Apache Airflow
17 12 (15.79%) Data Quality
18 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (14.47%) Power Platform
18 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
18 11 (14.47%) PySpark
18 11 (14.47%) Power BI
18 11 (14.47%) Relational Database

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 13 (17.11%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.26%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.32%) SAP CAR
1 1 (1.32%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 41 (53.95%) Azure
2 35 (46.05%) AWS
3 20 (26.32%) dbt
4 19 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (17.11%) Snowflake
6 11 (14.47%) Power Platform
7 9 (11.84%) GitHub
8 7 (9.21%) Serverless
9 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (6.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (6.58%) GCP
11 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.26%) Azure Storage
11 4 (5.26%) Power Automate
11 4 (5.26%) PowerApps
12 3 (3.95%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (2.63%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (14.47%) Power BI
2 11 (14.47%) Relational Database
3 10 (13.16%) Data Lake
4 9 (11.84%) SQL Server
5 7 (9.21%) Big Data
6 6 (7.89%) Hadoop
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (6.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (6.58%) Tableau
8 4 (5.26%) Delta Lake
8 4 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.95%) Data Vault
9 3 (3.95%) Parquet
10 2 (2.63%) Airbyte
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Terragrunt
2 2 (2.63%) MLflow
3 1 (1.32%) JIRA
3 1 (1.32%) Postman
3 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 18 (23.68%) Finance
1 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Billing
5 1 (1.32%) Games
5 1 (1.32%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.32%) Local Government
5 1 (1.32%) Military
5 1 (1.32%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.47%) PySpark
2 8 (10.53%) REST
3 7 (9.21%) Kafka
4 5 (6.58%) .NET
4 5 (6.58%) .NET Core
4 5 (6.58%) .NET Framework
4 5 (6.58%) ASP.NET
4 5 (6.58%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (6.58%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (6.58%) Autofac
4 5 (6.58%) Dapper ORM
4 5 (6.58%) Entity Framework
4 5 (6.58%) StructureMap
4 5 (6.58%) WCF
4 5 (6.58%) Web Services
5 3 (3.95%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.95%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.95%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.63%) Plotly
7 1 (1.32%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) N-Tier
2 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.32%) Smart City
4 1 (1.32%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.74%) ETL
2 26 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (28.95%) Data Modelling
4 21 (27.63%) Analytics
4 21 (27.63%) Data Engineering
5 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 17 (22.37%) Agile
7 13 (17.11%) Data Science
8 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (13.16%) DevOps
10 8 (10.53%) Machine Learning
10 8 (10.53%) TDD
10 8 (10.53%) Visualisation
11 7 (9.21%) Data Ingestion
11 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (9.21%) Mentoring
11 7 (9.21%) Unit Testing
12 6 (7.89%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 54 (71.05%) SQL
2 48 (63.16%) Python
3 7 (9.21%) C#
4 5 (6.58%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.26%) Java
6 2 (2.63%) Scala
6 2 (2.63%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) Degree
4 5 (6.58%) MCPD
4 5 (6.58%) MCSD
4 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.32%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.95%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (2.63%) Grafana
3 2 (2.63%) Kubeflow
3 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (22.37%) Databricks
2 13 (17.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.95%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (2.63%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle
4 2 (2.63%) SAP
5 1 (1.32%) IBM
5 1 (1.32%) Informatica
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat