Senior Data Engineer Contracts

Senior Data Engineer
UK

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 557 635
Rank change year-on-year +68 +78 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 87 127 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 87 166
10th Percentile £419 £463 £500
25th Percentile £508 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £713
90th Percentile £703 £745 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £590 £625
% change year-on-year -16.27% -5.60% +38.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £22.93 - -
25th Percentile £24.74 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - £78.75
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile £61.65 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England +73 73 £600 -3.61% 115
London +90 55 £600 -4.00% 74
Work from Home +92 33 £600 - 57
UK excluding London +30 19 £494 -16.27% 45
North of England +15 6 £520 -20.00% 8
Scotland +32 4 £445 -24.58% 4
North West +7 4 £520 -20.00% 4
Midlands - 4 £420 - 6
South East +4 3 £620 +36.26% 8
Yorkshire +15 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 6
South West +7 1 £625 -13.94% 5
East of England +6 1 £525 -4.55% 9

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (67.82%) Python
2 51 (58.62%) SQL
3 42 (48.28%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (44.83%) Data Engineering
5 36 (41.38%) AWS
6 35 (40.23%) Azure
7 34 (39.08%) ETL
8 28 (32.18%) Data Modelling
9 25 (28.74%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (25.29%) Agile
10 22 (25.29%) Analytics
10 22 (25.29%) Databricks
11 20 (22.99%) DevOps
11 20 (22.99%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
13 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (19.54%) Apache Spark
14 16 (18.39%) Data Lake
14 16 (18.39%) PySpark
14 16 (18.39%) Public Sector
14 16 (18.39%) Data Governance
15 15 (17.24%) Snowflake
15 15 (17.24%) Big Data
16 14 (16.09%) Serverless
16 14 (16.09%) Data Quality
17 13 (14.94%) Finance
17 13 (14.94%) Data Science
18 12 (13.79%) Java
18 12 (13.79%) Amazon S3
18 12 (13.79%) Scala

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (19.54%) Apache Spark
2 8 (9.20%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.90%) Apache
4 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.15%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.15%) Confluence
5 1 (1.15%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.38%) AWS
2 35 (40.23%) Azure
3 15 (17.24%) Snowflake
4 14 (16.09%) Serverless
5 12 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 11 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (11.49%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (10.34%) GCP
9 8 (9.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (9.20%) dbt
10 7 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
12 5 (5.75%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (5.75%) Matillion
13 4 (4.60%) GitHub
13 4 (4.60%) OpenShift
14 3 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.99%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (18.39%) Data Lake
3 15 (17.24%) Big Data
4 8 (9.20%) BigQuery
4 8 (9.20%) Delta Lake
5 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.90%) Power BI
6 5 (5.75%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (5.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.75%) MySQL
6 5 (5.75%) Tableau
7 4 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.45%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.45%) HBase
8 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) JIRA
3 2 (2.30%) Ant
3 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.30%) Gradle
3 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.30%) JUnit
3 2 (2.30%) Maven
4 1 (1.15%) GitLab
4 1 (1.15%) kappa
4 1 (1.15%) MLflow
General
1 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.39%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.94%) Finance
4 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Back Office
6 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Law
6 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.39%) PySpark
2 10 (11.49%) Kafka
3 4 (4.60%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.15%) JSON
4 1 (1.15%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.15%) NumPy
4 1 (1.15%) ODBC
4 1 (1.15%) Pandas
4 1 (1.15%) pytest
4 1 (1.15%) RESTful
4 1 (1.15%) XML
4 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.45%) Replication
2 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.28%) Data Pipeline
2 39 (44.83%) Data Engineering
3 34 (39.08%) ETL
4 28 (32.18%) Data Modelling
5 25 (28.74%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (25.29%) Agile
6 22 (25.29%) Analytics
7 20 (22.99%) DevOps
8 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (18.39%) Data Governance
10 13 (14.94%) Data Science
11 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
12 10 (11.49%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (10.34%) Continuous Deployment
13 9 (10.34%) Migration
14 7 (8.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 6 (6.90%) Data Management
15 6 (6.90%) Data Strategy
15 6 (6.90%) Data Transformation
15 6 (6.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 59 (67.82%) Python
2 51 (58.62%) SQL
3 12 (13.79%) Java
3 12 (13.79%) Scala
4 5 (5.75%) Bash
5 4 (4.60%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.30%) C
6 2 (2.30%) C++
6 2 (2.30%) Perl
6 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.15%) Go
7 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
1 9 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.60%) Degree
3 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.09%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.15%) GxP
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) Grafana
2 4 (4.60%) Ansible
2 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Databricks
2 5 (5.75%) Google
2 5 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.60%) Oracle
4 2 (2.30%) Splunk
5 1 (1.15%) Commvault
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.15%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.15%) Talend
5 1 (1.15%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.15%) VMware