Senior Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 408 475
Rank change year-on-year +96 +67 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 34 63 145
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.26% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 113
10th Percentile £408 £461 £500
25th Percentile £500 £531 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £43.50 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -44.76% -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £43.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -29.89% -44.76% +18.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Senior Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 3 May 2024, 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 18 (52.94%) SQL
1 18 (52.94%) Python
2 17 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 13 (38.24%) Agile
4 12 (35.29%) ETL
4 12 (35.29%) Azure
5 10 (29.41%) AWS
6 9 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (26.47%) Analytics
6 9 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
7 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
8 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
8 7 (20.59%) Databricks
8 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
9 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
9 6 (17.65%) Snowflake
9 6 (17.65%) DevOps
9 6 (17.65%) Amazon S3
9 6 (17.65%) Data Analysis
10 5 (14.71%) Finance
10 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
10 5 (14.71%) Data Lake
10 5 (14.71%) PySpark
10 5 (14.71%) Serverless
10 5 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (11.76%) dbt

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 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.94%) Apache
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 6 (17.65%) Snowflake
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (14.71%) Serverless
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.76%) dbt
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (8.82%) GCP
6 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub
7 2 (5.88%) Matillion
7 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (14.71%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (5.88%) Big Data
4 2 (5.88%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.88%) Delta Lake
4 2 (5.88%) Informix
4 2 (5.88%) Looker
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
4 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.88%) Tableau
5 1 (2.94%) Ataccama
5 1 (2.94%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.94%) Metadata
5 1 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) PySpark
2 3 (8.82%) AWS CDK
3 2 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Replication
2 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 13 (38.24%) Agile
3 12 (35.29%) ETL
4 9 (26.47%) Analytics
4 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
6 6 (17.65%) Data Analysis
6 6 (17.65%) DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) Data Transformation
7 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.76%) Scrum
8 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.82%) Data Lineage
8 3 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (8.82%) High Availability
8 3 (8.82%) Kanban
8 3 (8.82%) Migration
8 3 (8.82%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Python
1 18 (52.94%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) Bash
2 4 (11.76%) Scala
3 3 (8.82%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.94%) Perl
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.94%) GxP
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Ansible
1 3 (8.82%) Grafana
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Databricks
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Commvault
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.94%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.94%) Talend
3 1 (2.94%) Veritas