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 during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 524 603
Rank change year-on-year +57 +79 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 76 114 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 78 133
10th Percentile £459 £460 £500
25th Percentile £513 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £610 £613
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -0.41% +6.52%
75th Percentile £678 £694 £713
90th Percentile £750 £741 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £26.18 - -
25th Percentile £32.86 - -
Median hourly rate £44.62 - £78.75
75th Percentile £57.00 - -
90th Percentile £64.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £44.62 - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

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 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 May 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 +77 58 £625 - 69
North of England +13 6 £520 -20.00% 13
Midlands - 5 £420 - 3
North West +5 4 £520 -20.00% 11
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +17 2 - - 1
East of England +5 2 £563 +2.27% 2
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 2
South West +7 1 £625 -13.79% 4
South East 0 1 - - 4
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

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

1 51 (67.11%) Python
2 44 (57.89%) Data Pipeline
3 43 (56.58%) SQL
4 33 (43.42%) ETL
5 30 (39.47%) Data Engineering
6 29 (38.16%) Data Modelling
6 29 (38.16%) Azure
6 29 (38.16%) AWS
7 21 (27.63%) DevOps
7 21 (27.63%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (27.63%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (26.32%) Databricks
9 19 (25.00%) Apache Spark
9 19 (25.00%) Analytics
10 16 (21.05%) Data Governance
10 16 (21.05%) Agile
10 16 (21.05%) PySpark
11 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (19.74%) Data Quality
11 15 (19.74%) Big Data
12 14 (18.42%) Data Lake
13 13 (17.11%) Data Science
13 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
13 13 (17.11%) Snowflake
13 13 (17.11%) CI/CD
13 13 (17.11%) Finance
14 12 (15.79%) Java
14 12 (15.79%) Kafka
15 11 (14.47%) Scala
15 11 (14.47%) Git

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 19 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.26%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (1.32%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) AWS
1 29 (38.16%) Azure
2 13 (17.11%) Snowflake
3 10 (13.16%) Serverless
4 8 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (10.53%) GCP
5 7 (9.21%) dbt
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (6.58%) Matillion
8 4 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.26%) GitHub
8 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.95%) Fivetran
10 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.63%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (19.74%) Big Data
3 14 (18.42%) Data Lake
4 9 (11.84%) Delta Lake
5 7 (9.21%) BigQuery
5 7 (9.21%) Tableau
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (7.89%) Hadoop
6 6 (7.89%) MySQL
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (5.26%) Power BI
8 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (3.95%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (3.95%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (3.95%) HBase
9 3 (3.95%) Metadata
9 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.63%) Looker
10 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Git
2 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.63%) Ant
3 2 (2.63%) Gradle
3 2 (2.63%) JIRA
3 2 (2.63%) JUnit
3 2 (2.63%) Maven
4 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.32%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.32%) kappa
4 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (17.11%) Finance
1 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Back Office
5 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Law
5 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.32%) Marketing
5 1 (1.32%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) PySpark
2 12 (15.79%) Kafka
3 1 (1.32%) JSON
3 1 (1.32%) NumPy
3 1 (1.32%) ODBC
3 1 (1.32%) Pandas
3 1 (1.32%) pytest
3 1 (1.32%) XML
3 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
1 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.95%) Data Structures
1 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.32%) Life Science
3 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Unix
2 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (57.89%) Data Pipeline
2 33 (43.42%) ETL
3 30 (39.47%) Data Engineering
4 29 (38.16%) Data Modelling
5 21 (27.63%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (27.63%) DevOps
6 19 (25.00%) Analytics
7 16 (21.05%) Agile
7 16 (21.05%) Data Governance
8 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (17.11%) CI/CD
9 13 (17.11%) Data Science
10 10 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (11.84%) Continuous Deployment
12 7 (9.21%) Data Strategy
12 7 (9.21%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 6 (7.89%) Design Patterns
13 6 (7.89%) E-Commerce
14 5 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 5 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (67.11%) Python
2 43 (56.58%) SQL
3 12 (15.79%) Java
4 11 (14.47%) Scala
5 4 (5.26%) Bash
6 3 (3.95%) Go
7 2 (2.63%) C
7 2 (2.63%) C++
7 2 (2.63%) Perl
7 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.32%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.95%) Degree
3 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.95%) QA
3 2 (2.63%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.58%) Terraform
2 1 (1.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (26.32%) Databricks
2 5 (6.58%) Google
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.95%) Oracle
5 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.32%) IBM
6 1 (1.32%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.32%) VMware