Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands > Solihull

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Solihull is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 0.93% 3.23% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 3.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £301 -
25th Percentile £575 £303 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £310 -
Median % change year-on-year +93.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £323 -
90th Percentile - £327 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £420
% change year-on-year -9.09% +30.95% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Solihull

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Solihull. 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 Solihull with a recognized job title 106 59 117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.15% 95.16% 99.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 35 65
10th Percentile £396 £220 £164
25th Percentile £413 £357 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £447 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.18% +19.20% -6.31%
75th Percentile £569 £563 £451
90th Percentile £588 £600 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +4.48% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £25.92 - -
25th Percentile £27.30 - £11.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 - £11.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.61%
75th Percentile £40.03 - £11.75
90th Percentile - - £14.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.98 £24.34 £19.00
% change year-on-year +39.61% +28.11% -6.17%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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 Solihull.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Solihull

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Solihull.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Solihull

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 Solihull region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Degree

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks