Senior Data Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in England is £600, 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 399 496 637
Rank change year-on-year +97 +141 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 115 93 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 62 96
10th Percentile £468 £448 £475
25th Percentile £513 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £610 £571
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.78% -4.79%
75th Percentile £650 £697 £666
90th Percentile £675 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £593 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £92.50 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £75.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +26.67% +219.15% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +69 81 £650 +3.17% 30
Midlands +14 12 £575 +9.52% 9
West Midlands +10 10 £575 +9.52% 6
North of England +27 9 £550 -4.35% 15
Yorkshire - 5 £485 - 1
East of England - 3 £320 - 3
North West +19 2 £560 -3.66% 8
North East -7 2 £598 +23.20% 6
East Midlands - 2 - - 3
South East +35 1 - - 7
South West +22 1 £625 -13.79% 1
Senior Data Engineer
UK

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (66.96%) Python
2 72 (62.61%) SQL
3 59 (51.30%) Data Pipeline
4 54 (46.96%) AWS
5 49 (42.61%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (34.78%) Data Modelling
7 39 (33.91%) Data Engineering
8 38 (33.04%) ETL
9 37 (32.17%) PySpark
10 36 (31.30%) Azure
11 32 (27.83%) Databricks
12 29 (25.22%) Data Quality
13 27 (23.48%) dbt
14 25 (21.74%) Agile
15 23 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
16 22 (19.13%) Migration
16 22 (19.13%) Snowflake
17 21 (18.26%) CI/CD
17 21 (18.26%) Security Cleared
17 21 (18.26%) Analytics
17 21 (18.26%) Data Lake
18 20 (17.39%) Data Migration
19 19 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
19 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
20 18 (15.65%) Data Structures
20 18 (15.65%) SC Cleared
21 17 (14.78%) Microsoft
21 17 (14.78%) Azure SQL Database
21 17 (14.78%) Azure Data Factory
21 17 (14.78%) Problem-Solving

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (9.57%) Apache Spark
2 10 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (6.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.74%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 54 (46.96%) AWS
2 36 (31.30%) Azure
3 27 (23.48%) dbt
4 22 (19.13%) Snowflake
5 17 (14.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (10.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (9.57%) GitHub
7 11 (9.57%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.09%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.22%) Serverless
10 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.48%) Azure Stack
10 4 (3.48%) GCP
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.74%) Matillion
12 2 (1.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) DAB
2 4 (3.48%) Firewall
3 2 (1.74%) SMS
3 2 (1.74%) VPN
4 1 (0.87%) BGP
4 1 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.87%) OSPF
4 1 (0.87%) VLAN
4 1 (0.87%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (42.61%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (18.26%) Data Lake
3 17 (14.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (13.04%) SQL Server
5 11 (9.57%) Power BI
6 9 (7.83%) Big Data
6 9 (7.83%) Delta Lake
7 7 (6.09%) MySQL
7 7 (6.09%) NoSQL
7 7 (6.09%) Tableau
8 6 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.48%) Parquet
9 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (3.48%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.61%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.61%) Metadata
10 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.83%) Git
2 4 (3.48%) GitLab
3 3 (2.61%) Deequ
4 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
1 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.91%) Finance
3 7 (6.09%) Banking
4 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.35%) Retail
5 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.87%) Front Office
6 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (32.17%) PySpark
2 7 (6.09%) Kafka
3 3 (2.61%) Apache Avro
3 3 (2.61%) Great Expectations
3 3 (2.61%) Jinja
3 3 (2.61%) JSON
4 2 (1.74%) NumPy
4 2 (1.74%) Pandas
4 2 (1.74%) Spring
4 2 (1.74%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.87%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.87%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.87%) React
5 1 (0.87%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Data Structures
2 10 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.87%) Blockchain
3 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
3 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (0.87%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (0.87%) Life Science
3 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.87%) NHS
3 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.87%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Windows
1 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.30%) Data Pipeline
2 40 (34.78%) Data Modelling
3 39 (33.91%) Data Engineering
4 38 (33.04%) ETL
5 25 (21.74%) Agile
6 23 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (19.13%) Migration
8 21 (18.26%) Analytics
8 21 (18.26%) CI/CD
9 20 (17.39%) Data Migration
10 17 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (13.91%) Data Strategy
11 16 (13.91%) Decision-Making
11 16 (13.91%) DevOps
11 16 (13.91%) E-Commerce
12 14 (12.17%) Data Management
13 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (9.57%) Data Science
14 11 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (8.70%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 77 (66.96%) Python
2 72 (62.61%) SQL
3 7 (6.09%) Java
4 6 (5.22%) Scala
4 6 (5.22%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.61%) Go
7 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.87%) Bash
8 1 (0.87%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.48%) Degree
3 4 (3.48%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.87%) CCNA
5 1 (0.87%) CCNP
5 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.87%) JNCIP
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (25.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.74%) QA
3 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (3.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) Grafana
3 1 (0.87%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (27.83%) Databricks
2 17 (14.78%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.22%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.48%) Oracle
4 4 (3.48%) SAP
5 3 (2.61%) Foundry
5 3 (2.61%) Palantir
6 2 (1.74%) Google
6 2 (1.74%) IFS
6 2 (1.74%) Informatica
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.87%) Aruba
7 1 (0.87%) Cisco
7 1 (0.87%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.87%) IBM
7 1 (0.87%) Juniper
7 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.87%) Snow
7 1 (0.87%) Talend
7 1 (0.87%) VMware