Senior Data Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 412 479
Rank change year-on-year +68 +67 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 53 73 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.29% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 47 92
10th Percentile £459 £495 £500
25th Percentile £513 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £785 £800
England median daily rate £600 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate £30.50 £43.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -29.89% -44.76% +18.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,380 25,121 37,063
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,833 18,239 27,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 285 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.24% +1.43% +7.89%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%

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 13 May 2024.

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
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 13 May 2024. 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 +42 2 £400 -36.00% 8
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, 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 39 (73.58%) Python
2 33 (62.26%) SQL
3 28 (52.83%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (49.06%) AWS
5 21 (39.62%) ETL
6 19 (35.85%) Azure
6 19 (35.85%) Data Engineering
7 16 (30.19%) Databricks
8 15 (28.30%) DevOps
9 14 (26.42%) Analytics
9 14 (26.42%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (26.42%) Agile
10 13 (24.53%) Data Modelling
11 12 (22.64%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (22.64%) Big Data
11 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (20.75%) PySpark
12 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
13 10 (18.87%) Serverless
13 10 (18.87%) Apache Spark
14 9 (16.98%) Finance
14 9 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (16.98%) Data Lake
14 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
15 8 (15.09%) Snowflake
15 8 (15.09%) Continuous Deployment
15 8 (15.09%) Data Science
15 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
15 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
15 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda

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 10 (18.87%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) AWS
2 19 (35.85%) Azure
3 10 (18.87%) Serverless
4 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (15.09%) Snowflake
5 7 (13.21%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (11.32%) Amazon S3
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (7.55%) dbt
8 4 (7.55%) GCP
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.77%) GitHub
10 2 (3.77%) Matillion
11 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.89%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) Big Data
1 12 (22.64%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (16.98%) Data Lake
3 7 (13.21%) Delta Lake
4 5 (9.43%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (7.55%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (3.77%) Flink
6 2 (3.77%) Looker
6 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.77%) Tableau
7 1 (1.89%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.89%) Power BI
7 1 (1.89%) QGIS
7 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.89%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Ant
3 1 (1.89%) Gradle
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) JUnit
3 1 (1.89%) kappa
3 1 (1.89%) Maven
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Finance
3 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) PySpark
2 6 (11.32%) Kafka
3 1 (1.89%) JSON
3 1 (1.89%) pytest
3 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (39.62%) ETL
3 19 (35.85%) Data Engineering
4 15 (28.30%) DevOps
5 14 (26.42%) Agile
5 14 (26.42%) Analytics
5 14 (26.42%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (24.53%) Data Modelling
7 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
8 9 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (15.09%) Continuous Deployment
9 8 (15.09%) Data Science
10 6 (11.32%) Data Governance
11 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (7.55%) Data Strategy
12 4 (7.55%) Performance Monitoring
12 4 (7.55%) Project Delivery
12 4 (7.55%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 39 (73.58%) Python
2 33 (62.26%) SQL
3 6 (11.32%) Java
4 4 (7.55%) Scala
5 3 (5.66%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) C
6 1 (1.89%) C++
6 1 (1.89%) Go
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
1 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.66%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Terraform
2 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Databricks
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) TIBCO