Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, 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 291 373 419
Rank change year-on-year +82 +46 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 45 26 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 15 33
10th Percentile £348 £414 £430
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £620 £590
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +5.08% -5.60%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £650
90th Percentile £638 £695 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +158.03% -29.89% -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +158.03% -29.89% -44.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +32 19 £463 -11.06% 33
North West +26 13 £475 -8.65% 16
South West - 8 £525 - 17
South East +42 7 £650 -3.70% 53
Midlands +25 7 £550 +30.95% 19
Yorkshire +12 6 £450 - 13
West Midlands +17 5 £600 +42.86% 11
East of England +33 4 £318 -39.34% 18
East Midlands +10 2 £421 - 6
Scotland +10 1 £463 +3.93% 10
Wales - 1 £167 - 3
Senior Data Engineer
UK

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (51.11%) Analytics
2 22 (48.89%) SQL
2 22 (48.89%) Data Pipeline
3 21 (46.67%) ETL
4 20 (44.44%) Python
5 16 (35.56%) Azure
6 15 (33.33%) AWS
6 15 (33.33%) Data Quality
6 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
7 14 (31.11%) Data Engineering
7 14 (31.11%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
9 12 (26.67%) Databricks
9 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
10 11 (24.44%) Data Modelling
10 11 (24.44%) Visualisation
10 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
11 10 (22.22%) GCP
11 10 (22.22%) Apache
11 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
11 10 (22.22%) Snowflake
12 9 (20.00%) PySpark
12 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (17.78%) Docker
13 8 (17.78%) Data Governance
13 8 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
14 7 (15.56%) Relational Database
14 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
14 7 (15.56%) Data Security

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (22.22%) Apache
2 8 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (13.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.22%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) AWS
3 10 (22.22%) GCP
3 10 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 5 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 5 (11.11%) dbt
4 5 (11.11%) Matillion
4 5 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.44%) GitHub
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.22%) PaaS
8 1 (2.22%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (15.56%) Relational Database
3 6 (13.33%) Metadata
4 5 (11.11%) Big Data
4 5 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (11.11%) Power BI
5 4 (8.89%) Airbyte
5 4 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.67%) Delta Lake
6 3 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
7 2 (4.44%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.22%) Flink
8 1 (2.22%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Marketing
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.44%) Automotive
5 2 (4.44%) Digital Healthcare
5 2 (4.44%) Electronics
5 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.44%) Retail
6 1 (2.22%) Games
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Local Government
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) PySpark
2 6 (13.33%) REST
3 5 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (8.89%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (8.89%) Kafka
5 2 (4.44%) ADO
5 2 (4.44%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.22%) Great Expectations
6 1 (2.22%) Keycloak
6 1 (2.22%) Pandas
6 1 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Replication
2 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.44%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) Analytics
2 22 (48.89%) Data Pipeline
3 21 (46.67%) ETL
4 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (31.11%) Data Engineering
6 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 11 (24.44%) Data Modelling
7 11 (24.44%) Visualisation
8 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
9 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (17.78%) Data Governance
11 7 (15.56%) Data Security
12 6 (13.33%) Agile
12 6 (13.33%) Data Architecture
12 6 (13.33%) Data Integration
12 6 (13.33%) DevOps
12 6 (13.33%) High Availability
13 5 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
13 5 (11.11%) Data Management
13 5 (11.11%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) SQL
2 20 (44.44%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) SPARQL
4 2 (4.44%) Java
4 2 (4.44%) Scala
5 1 (2.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Kibana
2 4 (8.89%) logstash
3 3 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (2.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Databricks
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) SAP
3 2 (4.44%) Talend
4 1 (2.22%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.22%) Remedy
4 1 (2.22%) Virgin Media