Senior Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, 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 279 362 508
Rank change year-on-year +83 +146 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 43 37 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.21% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 60
10th Percentile £468 £423 £475
25th Percentile £500 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £568
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +9.25% +3.18%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £652
90th Percentile - £730 £716
UK median daily rate £593 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £75.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +26.67% +219.15% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Data Engineer.

Senior Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Senior Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Data Engineer.

Senior Data Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (74.42%) SQL
2 29 (67.44%) Python
3 26 (60.47%) AWS
4 20 (46.51%) Data Engineering
5 18 (41.86%) PySpark
5 18 (41.86%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (37.21%) Databricks
6 16 (37.21%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (34.88%) ETL
8 13 (30.23%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (30.23%) Azure
8 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
9 12 (27.91%) Analytics
9 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
10 11 (25.58%) Data Modelling
11 10 (23.26%) SC Cleared
11 10 (23.26%) dbt
11 10 (23.26%) Snowflake
12 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (20.93%) Data Lake
12 9 (20.93%) Data Quality
13 8 (18.60%) Apache Spark
13 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (18.60%) Apache Airflow
14 7 (16.28%) Delta Lake
14 7 (16.28%) GitHub
14 7 (16.28%) Amazon S3
14 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
14 7 (16.28%) Finance
15 6 (13.95%) Apache

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (18.60%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (18.60%) Apache Spark
2 6 (13.95%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 26 (60.47%) AWS
2 13 (30.23%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) dbt
3 10 (23.26%) Snowflake
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon S3
4 7 (16.28%) GitHub
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.30%) Serverless
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.98%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) DAB
2 1 (2.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (20.93%) Data Lake
3 7 (16.28%) Delta Lake
3 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
4 5 (11.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (11.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (11.63%) Big Data
5 4 (9.30%) Power BI
5 4 (9.30%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (9.30%) Tableau
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (6.98%) Data Vault
6 3 (6.98%) Star Schema
7 2 (4.65%) MySQL
7 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) CircleCI
1 3 (6.98%) Git
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Deequ
3 1 (2.33%) PEAR
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
2 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (41.86%) PySpark
2 5 (11.63%) Kafka
3 3 (6.98%) Jinja
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.33%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.33%) JSON
4 1 (2.33%) JSON Schema
4 1 (2.33%) Spring
4 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.33%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.33%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.33%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Data Engineering
2 18 (41.86%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (34.88%) ETL
4 13 (30.23%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (27.91%) Analytics
5 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
6 11 (25.58%) Data Modelling
7 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.63%) Agile
9 5 (11.63%) Data Science
9 5 (11.63%) DataOps
9 5 (11.63%) Kimball Methodology
10 4 (9.30%) Data Transformation
10 4 (9.30%) DevOps
11 3 (6.98%) Change Data Capture
11 3 (6.98%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (6.98%) Dimensional Modelling
11 3 (6.98%) Migration
12 2 (4.65%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (74.42%) SQL
2 29 (67.44%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) Java
3 2 (4.65%) Scala
3 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Bash
4 1 (2.33%) Go
4 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Databricks
2 4 (9.30%) Foundry
2 4 (9.30%) Palantir
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) Dataiku
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