Senior Data Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £450, 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 61 - 106
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.18% - 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £475 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 526 928 1,593
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 92.89% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 561 1,105
10th Percentile £255 £275 £327
25th Percentile £357 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 15
10th Percentile £19.61 £11.75 £12.46
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.25 £14.46
Median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%
75th Percentile £55.29 £29.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £100.28 £53.75 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds - 1 £450 - 3
Senior Data Engineer
Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google