Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £494 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 387 464
Rank change year-on-year +10 +77 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 20 45 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 38 39
10th Percentile £408 £443 £423
25th Percentile £420 £502 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £590 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -10.94% +47.22%
75th Percentile £563 £675 £731
90th Percentile £608 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £26.18 - -
25th Percentile £32.86 - -
Median hourly rate £44.62 - -
75th Percentile £57.00 - -
90th Percentile £64.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £44.62 - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,038 21,534 29,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.27% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,591 14,985 20,591
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,082 1,440
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.14 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.96
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England +15 6 £520 -20.00% 12
Midlands - 5 £420 - 4
Scotland +36 4 £445 -24.58% 3
North West +9 4 £520 -20.00% 9
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +16 2 - - 2
East of England +5 2 £563 +2.27% 2
South East +5 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 3
South West +2 1 £625 -13.94% 4
Senior Data Engineer
UK

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (55.00%) Data Modelling
2 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 9 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (40.00%) Python
5 7 (35.00%) Data Governance
6 6 (30.00%) ETL
6 6 (30.00%) Azure
6 6 (30.00%) AWS
6 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
7 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 5 (25.00%) Scala
7 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (25.00%) Java
7 5 (25.00%) Apache Spark
7 5 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (20.00%) Grafana
8 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (20.00%) Ansible
8 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
8 4 (20.00%) Kafka
8 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
8 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
8 4 (20.00%) MySQL
8 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (20.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (15.00%) dbt
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.00%) Fivetran
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Matillion
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeCommit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (15.00%) HBase
3 3 (15.00%) Power BI
3 3 (15.00%) Tableau
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (10.00%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (10.00%) Informix
4 2 (10.00%) Metadata
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Ant
1 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Gradle
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JUnit
1 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Back Office
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 4 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) NumPy
2 1 (5.00%) ODBC
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
2 1 (5.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.00%) Life Science
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Data Modelling
2 10 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 9 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (35.00%) Data Governance
5 6 (30.00%) ETL
6 5 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (15.00%) Analytics
8 3 (15.00%) DAMA
8 3 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (15.00%) Data Management
8 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (15.00%) High Availability
8 3 (15.00%) Kanban
8 3 (15.00%) Migration
8 3 (15.00%) Physical Data Model
8 3 (15.00%) Scrum
8 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Java
3 5 (25.00%) Scala
4 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) Perl
6 1 (5.00%) C
6 1 (5.00%) C++
6 1 (5.00%) R
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
1 4 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Commvault
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) VMware