Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Warwickshire is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 0.72% - 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £388 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - £700
75th Percentile £480 - £725
90th Percentile £515 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £650 £560
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.07% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Warwickshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Warwickshire. 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 Warwickshire with a recognized job title 488 263 300
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.46% 87.96% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 164 208
10th Percentile £300 £334 £261
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £611 £638
90th Percentile £750 £684 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 23
10th Percentile £23.99 £14.22 £13.47
25th Percentile £26.83 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% +5.87% -
75th Percentile £34.50 £35.00 £27.67
90th Percentile £59.50 £40.58 £34.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.12 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +32.21% -15.56% +26.98%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Warwickshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Warwickshire

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Warwickshire

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. 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
Warwick - 3 £455 - 2
Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 1 March 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 Warwickshire region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Data Design
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Informatica
2 2 (50.00%) Inmon Methodology
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Matillion
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Matillion
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Design
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Inmon Methodology
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) SAP