Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £463, 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 147 179 203
Rank change year-on-year +32 +24 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 19 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.14% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 12
10th Percentile £405 - £468
25th Percentile £425 £510 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -20.00% +20.93%
75th Percentile £488 £530 £681
90th Percentile £513 - £700
England median daily rate £528 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -15.60% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +26 13 £475 -8.65% 32
Yorkshire +12 6 £450 - 26
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
4 7 (36.84%) ETL
5 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
5 6 (31.58%) REST
5 6 (31.58%) Analytics
6 5 (26.32%) Databricks
6 5 (26.32%) Azure
7 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
7 4 (21.05%) Open Source
7 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (21.05%) SPARQL
7 4 (21.05%) RDF
7 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (21.05%) Digital Twin
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
7 4 (21.05%) Docker
7 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 4 (21.05%) Airbyte
7 4 (21.05%) dbt

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.53%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (21.05%) dbt
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Airbyte
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.53%) Delta Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Digital Healthcare
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) ADO
2 2 (10.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
1 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
1 8 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (36.84%) ETL
3 6 (31.58%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Digital Twin
4 4 (21.05%) Open Source
4 4 (21.05%) RDF
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Data Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.53%) DataOps
6 2 (10.53%) Quality Management
6 2 (10.53%) Runbook
7 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Talend
3 1 (5.26%) Google