Senior Data Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 343 422
Rank change year-on-year +70 +79 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 75 55 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.34% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 41 46
10th Percentile £439 £463 £500
25th Percentile £464 £513 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
England median daily rate £505 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -15.83% -3.23% -0.80%
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 £79.35 £30.50 -
% change year-on-year +160.16% - -

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 11,563 16,328 24,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 93.45% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 11,807 18,005
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £679 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 319 281
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £45.62 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.23 £82.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.97% +95.42%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +10 8 £500 +25.00% 4
West London - 4 £552 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 52 (69.33%) SQL
2 48 (64.00%) Python
3 39 (52.00%) Azure
4 35 (46.67%) AWS
5 33 (44.00%) ETL
6 26 (34.67%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (32.00%) Data Modelling
8 22 (29.33%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (29.33%) dbt
9 21 (28.00%) Data Engineering
10 20 (26.67%) Analytics
11 19 (25.33%) Agile
12 17 (22.67%) Finance
12 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
12 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
13 16 (21.33%) Databricks
13 16 (21.33%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
14 15 (20.00%) Snowflake
15 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (17.33%) Data Quality
16 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
16 12 (16.00%) Data Science
16 12 (16.00%) Data Lake
17 11 (14.67%) Data Ingestion
17 11 (14.67%) Relational Database
17 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
18 10 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
18 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
18 10 (13.33%) Mentoring

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 15 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.33%) SAP CAR
1 1 (1.33%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 39 (52.00%) Azure
2 35 (46.67%) AWS
3 22 (29.33%) dbt
4 16 (21.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (20.00%) Snowflake
6 7 (9.33%) GCP
6 7 (9.33%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.00%) GitHub
7 6 (8.00%) Serverless
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.67%) Alation
11 2 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (2.67%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.67%) Fivetran
12 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (29.33%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (16.00%) Data Lake
3 11 (14.67%) Relational Database
4 7 (9.33%) Power BI
5 6 (8.00%) Big Data
5 6 (8.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.67%) Hadoop
6 5 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (5.33%) Delta Lake
7 4 (5.33%) Tableau
8 3 (4.00%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.00%) Data Vault
8 3 (4.00%) Parquet
8 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Terragrunt
2 2 (2.67%) MLflow
3 1 (1.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.33%) Postman
3 1 (1.33%) Selenium
General
1 17 (22.67%) Finance
1 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Banking
5 1 (1.33%) Billing
5 1 (1.33%) Games
5 1 (1.33%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.33%) Local Government
5 1 (1.33%) Marketing
5 1 (1.33%) Military
5 1 (1.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) PySpark
2 8 (10.67%) REST
3 6 (8.00%) Kafka
4 5 (6.67%) .NET
4 5 (6.67%) .NET Core
4 5 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (6.67%) Autofac
4 5 (6.67%) Dapper ORM
4 5 (6.67%) Entity Framework
4 5 (6.67%) StructureMap
4 5 (6.67%) WCF
4 5 (6.67%) Web Services
5 3 (4.00%) PyTorch
5 3 (4.00%) scikit-learn
5 3 (4.00%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.67%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.67%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) N-Tier
2 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Derivative
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) Smart City
4 1 (1.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) ETL
2 26 (34.67%) Data Pipeline
3 24 (32.00%) Data Modelling
4 21 (28.00%) Data Engineering
5 20 (26.67%) Analytics
6 19 (25.33%) Agile
7 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
8 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (16.00%) Data Science
10 11 (14.67%) Data Ingestion
11 10 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 9 (12.00%) DevOps
13 8 (10.67%) Data Strategy
13 8 (10.67%) Machine Learning
13 8 (10.67%) TDD
14 7 (9.33%) Scrum
14 7 (9.33%) Unit Testing
14 7 (9.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (69.33%) SQL
2 48 (64.00%) Python
3 7 (9.33%) C#
4 5 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.00%) Java
6 2 (2.67%) Scala
6 2 (2.67%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) Degree
4 5 (6.67%) MCPD
4 5 (6.67%) MCSD
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.33%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (9.33%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Grafana
2 2 (2.67%) Kubeflow
2 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (21.33%) Databricks
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.33%) Google
4 3 (4.00%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle
5 2 (2.67%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) Informatica