Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Worcestershire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 8.09% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 8.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile £675 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Worcestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Worcestershire. 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 Worcestershire with a recognized job title 123 66 79
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 91.67% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 43 59
10th Percentile £463 £210 £163
25th Percentile £525 £356 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £613 £628
90th Percentile £738 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £14.13 £17.25 £16.35
25th Percentile £16.04 £20.30 £16.54
Median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% +21.84% +0.11%
75th Percentile £19.31 £24.18 £33.81
90th Percentile £30.00 £30.67 £77.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £23.71 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.44% +5.38% +26.98%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Malvern - 11 £550 -
Worcester - 11 £550 -
Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, 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 Worcestershire region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 11 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 11 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 11 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 11 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 11 (100.00%) DataOps
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (100.00%) ETL
1 11 (100.00%) Go
1 11 (100.00%) Kafka
1 11 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (100.00%) Python
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
2 10 (90.91%) Data Architecture
2 10 (90.91%) Docker
2 10 (90.91%) GitHub
2 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 10 (90.91%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Kafka
1 11 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 11 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 11 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 11 (100.00%) DataOps
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) ETL
2 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
2 10 (90.91%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Go
1 11 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes