Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Senior Data Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Merseyside 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 46 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.30% 1.23% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 1.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £560 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +17.89% -8.65% -20.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 305 154 205
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 95.06% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 105 117
10th Percentile £133 £143 £154
25th Percentile £150 £208 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £413 £388
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +6.45% -18.42%
75th Percentile £513 £545 £494
90th Percentile £616 £638 £588
North West median daily rate £475 £465 £488
% change year-on-year +2.15% -4.62% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 31
10th Percentile £17.55 - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -18.62% +26.54%
75th Percentile - £19.36 £35.29
90th Percentile - £27.06 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £30.10 £28.00
% change year-on-year +66.11% +7.50% -8.32%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 22 May 2026. 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
Liverpool -22 1 £575 - 3
Senior Data Engineer
North West

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

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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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