Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the South East

Senior Data Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the South East is £650, 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 152 194 209
Rank change year-on-year +42 +15 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 7 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 9
10th Percentile £585 £621 -
25th Percentile £600 £644 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £455
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +48.35% -35.00%
75th Percentile £706 £691 £500
90th Percentile £725 £700 £541
England median daily rate £528 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -15.60% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £43.50
England median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +158.03% -29.89% -44.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the South East

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the South East

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the South East

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +48 6 £663 - 19
Berkshire +35 5 £663 - 9
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 6
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) Analytics
3 5 (71.43%) Databricks
4 4 (57.14%) ETL
5 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
5 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
5 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
6 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
6 2 (28.57%) Big Data
6 2 (28.57%) AWS
6 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
6 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (28.57%) PySpark
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
6 2 (28.57%) GCP
6 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) Electronics
6 2 (28.57%) Marketing
6 2 (28.57%) QA

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Collibra
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
4 2 (28.57%) System Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Alteryx
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Virgin Media