Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Shropshire is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.41% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £522 - -
25th Percentile £523 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £558 - -
90th Percentile £560 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 438 121 81
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.31% 89.63% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 78 52
10th Percentile £386 £210 £298
25th Percentile £413 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -5.60% -7.41%
75th Percentile £528 £515 £535
90th Percentile £569 £543 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £14.94
25th Percentile £16.73 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% -18.80% -59.11%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £21.59 £22.50
% change year-on-year +15.79% -4.04% +26.98%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 20 February 2026. 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
Telford - 2 £540 - 3
Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 20 February 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 Shropshire region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) GraalVM
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Mockito
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) GraalVM
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes