Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the South West

Senior Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the South West is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 June 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
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 153 158
Rank change year-on-year +44 +5 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.46% 0.031% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.033% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £463 - £633
25th Percentile £475 £613 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £725
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -13.79% +8.86%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £744
90th Percentile £619 - £748
England median daily rate £525 £600 £623
% change year-on-year -12.50% -3.61% +0.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £78.83 - -
25th Percentile £79.03 - -
Median hourly rate £79.35 - -
75th Percentile £79.68 - -
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
England median hourly rate £79.35 £44.62 -
% change year-on-year +77.85% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,573 3,020 3,116
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.78% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 1,895 2,307
10th Percentile £217 £213 £281
25th Percentile £367 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £720
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 443 248
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £17.72
25th Percentile £21.19 £27.50 £49.92
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year - -14.26% +40.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.73 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £29.17 £37.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.73% -16.11% +88.21%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the South West

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the South West

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the South West

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Bristol - 6 £500 - 13
Wiltshire +35 1 £600 -4.00% 10
Gloucestershire - 1 £625 - 17
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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 West region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Snowflake
2 5 (62.50%) Matillion
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (37.50%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (37.50%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (37.50%) Kibana
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) logstash
4 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) Replication
4 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (37.50%) Apache
4 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Marketing
5 2 (25.00%) Project Planning

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (37.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Matillion
1 5 (62.50%) Snowflake
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kibana
1 3 (37.50%) logstash
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks