Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Telford

Senior Data Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Telford 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 Telford 0.47% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% - -
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 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £540 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 394 99 67
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 90.00% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 69 46
10th Percentile £400 £313 £360
25th Percentile £421 £434 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £477 £511
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -6.70% -5.32%
75th Percentile £534 £529 £536
90th Percentile £569 £549 £538
Shropshire median daily rate £483 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% -5.60% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.73%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £15.00
% change year-on-year +106.49% -18.80% -59.11%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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 Telford.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Telford

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

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 Telford 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 Telford 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