Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Senior Data Engineer
City of Westminster > Westminster

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Westminster is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
29 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 5.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Westminster

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Westminster. 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 Westminster with a recognized job title 18 21 10
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 95.45% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 7
10th Percentile £450 £398 £163
25th Percentile £463 £463 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £185
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +190.54% -70.40%
75th Percentile £588 £659 £240
90th Percentile £633 £803 £382
City of Westminster median daily rate £481 £525 £700
% change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £26.00
City of Westminster median hourly rate £26.11 - £33.00

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster

For the 6 months to 29 January 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 Westminster region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

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

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
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