Senior Data Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 413 485
Rank change year-on-year +77 +72 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 64 69 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.29% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 42 90
10th Percentile £467 £500 £500
25th Percentile £513 £566 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile £688 £709 £722
90th Percentile £750 £798 £805
England median daily rate £600 £625 £619
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.01% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate £44.62 - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +36 2 £400 -36.00% 7
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (70.31%) Python
2 39 (60.94%) SQL
3 36 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
4 28 (43.75%) AWS
5 27 (42.19%) ETL
6 22 (34.38%) Azure
7 21 (32.81%) DevOps
7 21 (32.81%) Databricks
8 20 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (29.69%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (29.69%) Data Engineering
10 18 (28.13%) Data Modelling
10 18 (28.13%) Analytics
11 16 (25.00%) Agile
12 15 (23.44%) PySpark
13 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (21.88%) Apache Spark
13 14 (21.88%) Data Quality
13 14 (21.88%) Big Data
14 12 (18.75%) Finance
14 12 (18.75%) Data Lake
14 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
14 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
15 11 (17.19%) Data Science
16 10 (15.63%) Delta Lake
16 10 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
17 9 (14.06%) Git
17 9 (14.06%) Snowflake
17 9 (14.06%) Serverless
18 8 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (21.88%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.13%) Apache
4 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) AWS
2 22 (34.38%) Azure
3 9 (14.06%) Serverless
3 9 (14.06%) Snowflake
4 8 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.81%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.81%) dbt
6 5 (7.81%) GCP
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.69%) Matillion
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.13%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) DAB
1 1 (1.56%) Firewall
1 1 (1.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (21.88%) Big Data
3 12 (18.75%) Data Lake
4 10 (15.63%) Delta Lake
5 5 (7.81%) BigQuery
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (6.25%) Tableau
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
7 3 (4.69%) MySQL
7 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.13%) Looker
8 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.13%) Power BI
8 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.56%) Data Mart
9 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Git
2 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.13%) JIRA
4 1 (1.56%) Ant
4 1 (1.56%) Gradle
4 1 (1.56%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.56%) JUnit
4 1 (1.56%) kappa
4 1 (1.56%) Maven
4 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (18.75%) Finance
1 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Retail
6 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.44%) PySpark
2 8 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) pytest
3 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) VMS
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (42.19%) ETL
3 21 (32.81%) DevOps
4 19 (29.69%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (29.69%) Data Engineering
5 18 (28.13%) Analytics
5 18 (28.13%) Data Modelling
6 16 (25.00%) Agile
7 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
9 11 (17.19%) Data Science
10 10 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (12.50%) Data Governance
12 6 (9.38%) E-Commerce
13 5 (7.81%) Data Strategy
13 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 4 (6.25%) Project Delivery
14 4 (6.25%) SDLC
14 4 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (70.31%) Python
2 39 (60.94%) SQL
3 8 (12.50%) Java
4 6 (9.38%) Scala
5 4 (6.25%) Bash
5 4 (6.25%) Go
6 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.56%) C
7 1 (1.56%) C++
7 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) Databricks
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Google
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) TIBCO