Senior Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Work from Home 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 313 400 475
Rank change year-on-year +87 +75 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 33 65 142
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.28% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 42 108
10th Percentile £440 £465 £494
25th Percentile £509 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £700 £754
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £78.75
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £44.62 - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,673 23,018 42,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.28% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,245 16,317 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 528 572
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.53 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +47.89% +52.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £76.80 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

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

1 21 (63.64%) SQL
2 20 (60.61%) Python
3 15 (45.45%) Azure
4 14 (42.42%) ETL
4 14 (42.42%) Data Engineering
5 12 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (36.36%) AWS
5 12 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 11 (33.33%) Agile
7 10 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (30.30%) Analytics
8 8 (24.24%) DevOps
8 8 (24.24%) Databricks
8 8 (24.24%) PySpark
9 7 (21.21%) Finance
9 7 (21.21%) Data Quality
9 7 (21.21%) Snowflake
10 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
10 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
10 6 (18.18%) dbt
10 6 (18.18%) Data Lake
10 6 (18.18%) Apache Spark
10 6 (18.18%) Data Transformation
11 5 (15.15%) Serverless
11 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (15.15%) Bash
11 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
11 5 (15.15%) Tableau
11 5 (15.15%) Social Skills

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 6 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) Snowflake
4 6 (18.18%) dbt
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
5 5 (15.15%) Serverless
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (12.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (12.12%) GitHub
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (9.09%) GCP
7 3 (9.09%) Matillion
7 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
7 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 5 (15.15%) Tableau
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (12.12%) Big Data
4 4 (12.12%) Delta Lake
4 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 3 (9.09%) Power BI
5 3 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
6 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.06%) Informix
6 2 (6.06%) Looker
6 2 (6.06%) MySQL
6 2 (6.06%) Star Schema
7 1 (3.03%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) MLflow
General
1 7 (21.21%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.03%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) PySpark
2 3 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 3 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Replication
1 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Data Engineering
1 14 (42.42%) ETL
2 12 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (33.33%) Agile
3 11 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 10 (30.30%) Analytics
4 10 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (24.24%) DevOps
6 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.18%) Data Transformation
7 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.12%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.12%) Data Lineage
8 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (9.09%) Data Analysis
9 3 (9.09%) E-Commerce
9 3 (9.09%) High Availability
9 3 (9.09%) Kanban
9 3 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) SQL
2 20 (60.61%) Python
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) Java
5 3 (9.09%) Scala
5 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) Perl
6 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Ansible
1 3 (9.09%) Grafana
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Databricks
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) Commvault
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
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