Senior Data Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Senior Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £475, 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 68 93 116
Rank change year-on-year +25 +23 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 11 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 £510 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £725
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -28.28% +34.88%
75th Percentile £488 £530 £738
90th Percentile £513 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £520 £650
% change year-on-year -8.65% -20.00% +35.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Manchester

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in Manchester

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

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 Manchester region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
4 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (36.36%) SPARQL
4 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
4 4 (36.36%) ETL
4 4 (36.36%) RDF
4 4 (36.36%) Open Source
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
4 4 (36.36%) Docker
4 4 (36.36%) REST
4 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Digital Twin
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (36.36%) dbt
4 4 (36.36%) Airbyte
5 3 (27.27%) Databricks
6 2 (18.18%) PySpark
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (18.18%) Runbook

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (9.09%) Apache
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
2 4 (36.36%) dbt
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Airbyte
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (18.18%) Delta Lake
2 2 (18.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) ADO
2 2 (18.18%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
2 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Digital Twin
3 4 (36.36%) ETL
3 4 (36.36%) Open Source
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) RDF
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) DataOps
4 2 (18.18%) Quality Management
4 2 (18.18%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SPARQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft