Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Senior Data Engineer
England > East of England

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 - 130
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 3 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.23% - 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £318 - £673
25th Percentile £319 - £704
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - £708
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.17%
75th Percentile £460 - £738
90th Percentile £544 - -
England median daily rate £600 £610 £571
% change year-on-year -1.64% +6.78% -4.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,188 1,687 2,284
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 90.12% 91.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 995 1,483
10th Percentile £220 £190 £174
25th Percentile £310 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 282 349
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.41 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £43.15 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +117.82% +41.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.95 £70.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the East of England

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the East of England

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the East of England

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Essex - 2 £319 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £600 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 job ads across the East of England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Vertex AI
2 2 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Looker
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) DataOps
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow Management
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) NumPy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) dbt
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Vertex AI
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Looker
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) DataOps
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft