Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £550, 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 104 129 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 7 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.15% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £463 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% - -
75th Percentile £625 £430 -
90th Percentile £655 - -
England median daily rate £528 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -15.60% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.12 -
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
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +17 5 £600 +42.86% 11
East Midlands +10 2 £421 - 6
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
1 6 (85.71%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) Apache
4 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
4 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (14.29%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
4 1 (14.29%) Flink
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
3 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Analytics
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (71.43%) ETL
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
4 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
5 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Security
5 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kibana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) logstash
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Talend