Senior Data Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £575, 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 271 313 414
Rank change year-on-year +42 +101 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 33 32 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 38
10th Percentile £410 £427 £460
25th Percentile £426 £503 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £590
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +3.39% -1.67%
75th Percentile £650 £697 £669
90th Percentile £688 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year - +55.17% -44.76%
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +158.03% -29.89% -44.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Data Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Data Engineer.

Senior Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Data Engineer.

Senior Data Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (78.79%) SQL
2 22 (66.67%) Azure
3 20 (60.61%) ETL
4 16 (48.48%) Python
4 16 (48.48%) AWS
5 15 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (45.45%) Data Modelling
5 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
6 13 (39.39%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (39.39%) Data Engineering
6 13 (39.39%) Analytics
7 12 (36.36%) Databricks
8 10 (30.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (27.27%) Public Sector
9 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
9 9 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
10 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
10 8 (24.24%) GitHub
10 8 (24.24%) Data Quality
10 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
11 7 (21.21%) Data Science
11 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
11 7 (21.21%) DevOps
11 7 (21.21%) Power BI
11 7 (21.21%) Data Lake
12 6 (18.18%) Kafka
12 6 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
12 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.06%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (66.67%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) AWS
3 10 (30.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (24.24%) GitHub
5 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
6 6 (18.18%) Snowflake
7 5 (15.15%) dbt
7 5 (15.15%) GCP
8 4 (12.12%) Azure Storage
8 4 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (12.12%) Power Automate
8 4 (12.12%) PowerApps
9 2 (6.06%) Alation
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Stack
10 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (21.21%) Data Lake
2 7 (21.21%) Power BI
3 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (12.12%) Big Data
4 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (6.06%) Data Vault
6 2 (6.06%) Flink
6 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.03%) InfluxDB
7 1 (3.03%) Metadata
7 1 (3.03%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.03%) Parquet
7 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) MLflow
1 2 (6.06%) Terragrunt
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Local Government
6 1 (3.03%) Games
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Kafka
2 5 (15.15%) PySpark
3 3 (9.09%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) Apache Beam
4 2 (6.06%) PyTorch
4 2 (6.06%) scikit-learn
4 2 (6.06%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (6.06%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.03%) Autofac
5 1 (3.03%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.03%) JSON
5 1 (3.03%) Plotly
5 1 (3.03%) StructureMap
5 1 (3.03%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (3.03%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.06%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) ETL
2 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 15 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 13 (39.39%) Analytics
3 13 (39.39%) Data Engineering
3 13 (39.39%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.21%) Data Science
6 7 (21.21%) DevOps
7 6 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (15.15%) Visualisation
9 4 (12.12%) Data Strategy
9 4 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (12.12%) Validation
10 3 (9.09%) Data Governance
10 3 (9.09%) Data Transformation
10 3 (9.09%) High Availability
10 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) SQL
2 16 (48.48%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) Scala
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) MCPD
5 1 (3.03%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Kubeflow
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Databricks
2 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (6.06%) NVIDIA
3 2 (6.06%) Talend
4 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) Remedy
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