Senior Data Engineer Contracts

Senior Data Engineer
UK

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 560 629
Rank change year-on-year +62 +69 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 93 126 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.24% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 84 170
10th Percentile £432 £500 £500
25th Percentile £513 £534 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £713
90th Percentile £750 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £595 £670
% change year-on-year -16.97% -11.13% +39.48%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £44.62 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,530 52,517 83,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,076 36,648 58,643
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,932 1,488 1,934
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.99%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +68 79 £613 -2.00% 119
London +79 61 £625 - 65
Work from Home +82 33 £600 - 53
UK excluding London +11 19 £494 -16.97% 54
North of England +16 6 £520 -20.00% 30
Midlands - 5 £420 - 6
Scotland +36 4 £445 -24.58% 5
North West -1 4 £520 -20.00% 18
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +12 2 - - 8
East of England +3 2 £563 +2.27% 3
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 4
South East +10 1 - - 6
South West 0 1 £625 -13.79% 4

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 (63.44%) Python
2 54 (58.06%) SQL
3 46 (49.46%) Data Pipeline
4 37 (39.78%) AWS
5 34 (36.56%) Azure
5 34 (36.56%) ETL
5 34 (36.56%) Data Engineering
6 32 (34.41%) Data Modelling
7 25 (26.88%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (26.88%) DevOps
8 22 (23.66%) Databricks
9 21 (22.58%) Analytics
9 21 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (22.58%) Agile
10 19 (20.43%) Apache Spark
11 18 (19.35%) PySpark
11 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (18.28%) Data Quality
12 17 (18.28%) Snowflake
13 16 (17.20%) Social Skills
13 16 (17.20%) Big Data
13 16 (17.20%) Data Governance
14 15 (16.13%) Data Lake
14 15 (16.13%) CI/CD
15 14 (15.05%) Serverless
15 14 (15.05%) Public Sector
15 14 (15.05%) Finance
16 13 (13.98%) Java
16 13 (13.98%) Data Science
17 12 (12.90%) Kafka

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 19 (20.43%) Apache Spark
2 8 (8.60%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.38%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.08%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 37 (39.78%) AWS
2 34 (36.56%) Azure
3 17 (18.28%) Snowflake
4 14 (15.05%) Serverless
5 12 (12.90%) Amazon S3
6 11 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (11.83%) dbt
7 10 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (9.68%) GCP
9 8 (8.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (6.45%) GitHub
12 5 (5.38%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (5.38%) Matillion
12 5 (5.38%) OpenShift
13 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.30%) Power Platform
14 3 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (26.88%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (17.20%) Big Data
3 15 (16.13%) Data Lake
4 9 (9.68%) Delta Lake
5 8 (8.60%) BigQuery
5 8 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (7.53%) MySQL
6 7 (7.53%) Tableau
7 6 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (6.45%) Hadoop
8 5 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (4.30%) MongoDB
9 4 (4.30%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.30%) Power BI
9 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
10 3 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (3.23%) HBase
10 3 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Git
2 4 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.15%) Ant
3 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.15%) Gradle
3 2 (2.15%) JIRA
3 2 (2.15%) JUnit
3 2 (2.15%) Maven
4 1 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.08%) kappa
4 1 (1.08%) MLflow
4 1 (1.08%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.05%) Finance
2 14 (15.05%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Banking
5 2 (2.15%) Retail
6 1 (1.08%) Back Office
6 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.08%) Law
6 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.08%) Marketing
6 1 (1.08%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.35%) PySpark
2 12 (12.90%) Kafka
3 4 (4.30%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.08%) JSON
4 1 (1.08%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.08%) NumPy
4 1 (1.08%) ODBC
4 1 (1.08%) Pandas
4 1 (1.08%) pytest
4 1 (1.08%) XML
4 1 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.23%) Replication
2 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.08%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.08%) Life Science
4 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.08%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.08%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (49.46%) Data Pipeline
2 34 (36.56%) Data Engineering
2 34 (36.56%) ETL
3 32 (34.41%) Data Modelling
4 25 (26.88%) DevOps
5 21 (22.58%) Agile
5 21 (22.58%) Analytics
5 21 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (17.20%) Data Governance
8 15 (16.13%) CI/CD
9 13 (13.98%) Data Science
10 11 (11.83%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (9.68%) Continuous Deployment
12 8 (8.60%) Migration
13 7 (7.53%) Data Strategy
13 7 (7.53%) Data Transformation
13 7 (7.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 6 (6.45%) Data Ingestion
14 6 (6.45%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 59 (63.44%) Python
2 54 (58.06%) SQL
3 13 (13.98%) Java
4 11 (11.83%) Scala
5 5 (5.38%) Bash
6 4 (4.30%) Go
6 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.15%) C
7 2 (2.15%) C++
7 2 (2.15%) Perl
7 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.08%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
1 8 (8.60%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.23%) Degree
3 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.08%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.28%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.30%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.38%) Grafana
2 5 (5.38%) Terraform
3 4 (4.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.08%) Packer
4 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (23.66%) Databricks
2 6 (6.45%) Google
3 5 (5.38%) Oracle
4 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.15%) Palantir
5 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.15%) SAP
5 2 (2.15%) Splunk
6 1 (1.08%) Commvault
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.08%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.08%) VMware