Senior Data Engineer Contracts in Reading

Senior Data Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Reading is £663, 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 56 90 86
Rank change year-on-year +34 -4 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 0.084% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.090% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £589 - -
25th Percentile £609 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.07%
75th Percentile £709 - £613
90th Percentile £726 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £663 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +17.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Reading

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in Reading

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

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 Reading region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) SAP
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) Electronics
3 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (50.00%) PySpark

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Collibra
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Electronics
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media