Senior Data Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £420 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 - 200
Rank change year-on-year - - -46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 5 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% - 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £430 - £556
90th Percentile - - £568
England median daily rate £600 £620 £619
% change year-on-year -3.23% +0.20% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
England median hourly rate £44.62 - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,573 3,091 4,831
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 94.53% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 2,185 3,522
10th Percentile £213 £228 £210
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +1.23% +15.86%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £569
90th Percentile £675 £690 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 108 153
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.40
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.52 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.06 £20.41 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +13.39% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £52.01 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 2
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Midlands region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (40.00%) Fivetran
3 2 (40.00%) dbt
3 2 (40.00%) Change Data Capture
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Tableau
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (40.00%) Star Schema
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) RDBMS

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) dbt
2 2 (40.00%) Fivetran
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Star Schema
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Ant
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Police
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Change Data Capture
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Disruptive Innovation
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
4 1 (20.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) R
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft