Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 160 178
Rank change year-on-year -31 +18 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 8 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.27% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 11
10th Percentile £384 - £445
25th Percentile £434 £468 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £628
90th Percentile £593 £595 £738
England median daily rate £560 £600 £633
% change year-on-year -6.67% -5.14% +11.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £92.50 £95.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -2.63% +26.67% -

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 3,898 3,731 4,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 92.01% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,590 2,023 3,202
10th Percentile £230 £263 £263
25th Percentile £370 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £567 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 228 216
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.32 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.88 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.81 £32.50 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% +18.83% +29.19%
75th Percentile £47.78 £49.06 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.40 £70.00 £61.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.61% +59.17%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies 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 22 October 2025.

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

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies 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 22 October 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 -12 3 £475 -15.18% 26
Yorkshire -23 3 - - 12
North East -6 2 £513 -14.23% 1
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Databricks
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Delta Lake
3 3 (37.50%) PySpark
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) Apache
4 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) DataStage
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Docker
4 2 (25.00%) Git

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (37.50%) Delta Lake
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (25.00%) DataStage
3 2 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (12.50%) Power Query
4 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Games
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) Complex ETL
5 1 (12.50%) Data Munging
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Informatica
2 2 (25.00%) Talend
3 1 (12.50%) Google