Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Senior Data Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Portsmouth is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.63% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £600 - £675

All Contract IT Job Roles
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 149 109 258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 94.78% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 61 125
10th Percentile £262 £262 £385
25th Percentile £413 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +7.50%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £634
90th Percentile £630 £638 £800
Hampshire median daily rate £535 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 60
10th Percentile £38.01 £25.19 £33.45
25th Percentile £44.86 £31.25 £59.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £59.13 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -5.02% +12.16%
75th Percentile £56.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.90 £70.63 £80.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £24.29 £40.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -39.28% -15.79% +8.57%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth

For the 6 months to 1 March 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 Portsmouth region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Full Text Search
1 1 (100.00%) Housing Management
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) NEC
1 1 (100.00%) NEC Housing
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Housing Association
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Full Text Search
1 1 (100.00%) Housing Management
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NEC
Senior Data Engineer jobs