Senior Data Engineer Contracts

Senior Data Engineer
UK

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 510 582
Rank change year-on-year +119 +72 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 128 90 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 62 86
10th Percentile £409 £432 £463
25th Percentile £456 £511 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £620 £590
% change year-on-year -23.39% +5.08% -5.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £73.74 £22.93 -
25th Percentile £75.60 £24.74 -
Median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +158.03% -29.89% -44.76%
75th Percentile £86.23 £51.00 -
90th Percentile £90.74 £61.65 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +158.03% -29.89% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +106 121 £530 -15.20% 112
London +60 77 £570 -6.94% 76
UK excluding London +73 45 £475 -23.39% 37
Work from Home +49 33 £575 -4.17% 70
North of England +41 19 £463 -11.06% 11
North West +20 13 £475 -8.65% 5
South West - 8 £525 - 7
South East +39 7 £650 -3.70% 9
Midlands +27 7 £550 +30.95% 3
Yorkshire +19 6 £450 - 4
West Midlands +19 5 £600 +42.86% 3
East of England +36 4 £318 -39.34% 2
East Midlands +10 2 £421 -
Scotland +6 1 £463 +3.93% 4
Wales - 1 £167 - 1

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (61.72%) SQL
2 71 (55.47%) Python
3 59 (46.09%) Azure
4 56 (43.75%) ETL
5 53 (41.41%) AWS
6 52 (40.63%) Data Pipeline
7 44 (34.38%) Analytics
8 39 (30.47%) Data Engineering
9 38 (29.69%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (26.56%) Data Modelling
11 32 (25.00%) Social Skills
12 31 (24.22%) Databricks
13 30 (23.44%) Security Cleared
14 29 (22.66%) CI/CD
15 27 (21.09%) Data Quality
16 26 (20.31%) Finance
16 26 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (19.53%) dbt
18 23 (17.97%) Snowflake
18 23 (17.97%) PySpark
18 23 (17.97%) Azure Data Factory
18 23 (17.97%) Agile
19 21 (16.41%) Microsoft
19 21 (16.41%) Business Intelligence
19 21 (16.41%) Apache Airflow
20 19 (14.84%) Kubernetes
20 19 (14.84%) SC Cleared
20 19 (14.84%) Visualisation
21 18 (14.06%) Relational Database
22 17 (13.28%) Power BI

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (16.41%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (11.72%) Apache Spark
3 14 (10.94%) Apache
4 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.78%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.78%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.78%) SAP CAR
1 1 (0.78%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 59 (46.09%) Azure
2 53 (41.41%) AWS
3 25 (19.53%) dbt
4 23 (17.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (17.97%) Snowflake
5 17 (13.28%) Power Platform
6 15 (11.72%) GCP
7 11 (8.59%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.59%) GitHub
8 9 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (6.25%) Serverless
10 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.91%) Matillion
11 4 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.13%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.13%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (29.69%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (14.06%) Relational Database
3 17 (13.28%) Power BI
4 13 (10.16%) Data Lake
5 12 (9.38%) Big Data
6 10 (7.81%) Hadoop
7 9 (7.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (7.03%) SQL Server
8 8 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (5.47%) Delta Lake
9 7 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (4.69%) Airbyte
10 6 (4.69%) Metadata
10 6 (4.69%) Tableau
11 5 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.91%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
13 3 (2.34%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Git
1 3 (2.34%) Terragrunt
2 2 (1.56%) MLflow
2 2 (1.56%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) JIRA
3 1 (0.78%) Postman
3 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 32 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.31%) Finance
3 14 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.91%) Banking
6 4 (3.13%) Marketing
7 3 (2.34%) Retail
7 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.56%) Automotive
8 2 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.56%) Electronics
8 2 (1.56%) Games
8 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Local Government
8 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.78%) Billing
9 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.78%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.97%) PySpark
2 14 (10.94%) REST
3 12 (9.38%) Kafka
4 6 (4.69%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (3.91%) .NET
5 5 (3.91%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.91%) .NET Framework
5 5 (3.91%) ASP.NET
5 5 (3.91%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (3.91%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (3.91%) Autofac
5 5 (3.91%) Dapper ORM
5 5 (3.91%) Entity Framework
5 5 (3.91%) StructureMap
5 5 (3.91%) WCF
5 5 (3.91%) Web Services
6 4 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.34%) PyTorch
7 3 (2.34%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.91%) Cloud Native
1 5 (3.91%) N-Tier
2 4 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.13%) Replication
3 3 (2.34%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.56%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.78%) Smart City
5 1 (0.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (43.75%) ETL
2 52 (40.63%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (34.38%) Analytics
4 39 (30.47%) Data Engineering
5 34 (26.56%) Data Modelling
6 29 (22.66%) CI/CD
7 26 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (17.97%) Agile
9 21 (16.41%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (14.84%) Visualisation
11 17 (13.28%) Containerisation
12 16 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 16 (12.50%) Data Science
12 16 (12.50%) DevOps
13 13 (10.16%) Data Governance
13 13 (10.16%) Data Ingestion
13 13 (10.16%) Machine Learning
14 11 (8.59%) Mentoring
15 10 (7.81%) Data Integration
15 10 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 79 (61.72%) SQL
2 71 (55.47%) Python
3 7 (5.47%) C#
4 6 (4.69%) Java
4 6 (4.69%) SPARQL
5 5 (3.91%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.13%) Scala
7 1 (0.78%) Bash
7 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.81%) Degree
4 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.91%) MCPD
5 5 (3.91%) MCSD
6 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.78%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.09%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.69%) QA
3 2 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (10.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (14.84%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.03%) Terraform
3 4 (3.13%) Kibana
3 4 (3.13%) logstash
4 3 (2.34%) Grafana
4 3 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.56%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (24.22%) Databricks
2 21 (16.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.13%) Google
3 4 (3.13%) Oracle
3 4 (3.13%) SAP
4 3 (2.34%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (1.56%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.56%) Talend
6 1 (0.78%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.78%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.78%) IBM
6 1 (0.78%) Informatica
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.78%) Remedy
6 1 (0.78%) Virgin Media
129 Senior Data Engineer jobs Nationwide