Data Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Data Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 85 100
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 52 95 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.40% 2.62% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 2.75% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 67 60
10th Percentile £413 £438 £424
25th Percentile £459 £473 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +1.10%
75th Percentile £606 £688 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £775
Central London median daily rate £513 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -10.48% -0.43% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.75
25th Percentile £46.75 - £48.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £53.00
75th Percentile £50.25 - £58.00
90th Percentile - - £60.25
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 - £53.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,064 3,451 4,017
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 95.17% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 2,348 3,027
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 City of London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (67.31%) SQL
2 28 (53.85%) Python
2 28 (53.85%) Data Modelling
3 25 (48.08%) ETL
4 21 (40.38%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (36.54%) Azure
5 19 (36.54%) AWS
6 16 (30.77%) Data Engineering
7 15 (28.85%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (26.92%) Analytics
9 13 (25.00%) Kafka
9 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 12 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (23.08%) Serverless
10 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
11 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
11 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (19.23%) Agile
12 10 (19.23%) Data Quality
12 10 (19.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (17.31%) DevOps
13 9 (17.31%) Finance
13 9 (17.31%) JSON
13 9 (17.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (17.31%) Databricks
13 9 (17.31%) Parquet
14 8 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
14 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
14 8 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (7.69%) Apache
1 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.85%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (3.85%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) AWS
1 19 (36.54%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 12 (23.08%) Serverless
3 9 (17.31%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
5 7 (13.46%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (13.46%) Amazon S3
6 6 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (11.54%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.77%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (5.77%) dbt
7 3 (5.77%) GCP
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (19.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (17.31%) Parquet
4 8 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (13.46%) Big Data
5 7 (13.46%) DynamoDB
5 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
6 6 (11.54%) Data Lake
6 6 (11.54%) Power BI
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
9 3 (5.77%) Data Mining
9 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
9 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (5.77%) Tableau
10 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
10 2 (3.85%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.85%) Metadata
10 2 (3.85%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
3 9 (17.31%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Kafka
2 9 (17.31%) JSON
3 8 (15.38%) Apache Avro
4 7 (13.46%) PySpark
5 2 (3.85%) Pandas
5 2 (3.85%) REST
6 1 (1.92%) .NET
6 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.92%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.92%) JSON Schema
6 1 (1.92%) Middleware
6 1 (1.92%) Node.js
6 1 (1.92%) RESTful
6 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
1 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.92%) Life Science
2 1 (1.92%) Market Risk
2 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) Data Modelling
2 25 (48.08%) ETL
3 21 (40.38%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (30.77%) Data Engineering
5 14 (26.92%) Analytics
6 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (19.23%) Agile
8 9 (17.31%) DevOps
9 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 8 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
9 8 (15.38%) Visualisation
10 7 (13.46%) Data Integration
10 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (11.54%) Migration
11 6 (11.54%) SFIA
12 5 (9.62%) Data Governance
12 5 (9.62%) Data Management
12 5 (9.62%) Data Migration
12 5 (9.62%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (67.31%) SQL
2 28 (53.85%) Python
3 5 (9.62%) Scala
4 4 (7.69%) C#
4 4 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (3.85%) Bicep
5 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.85%) R
5 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Terraform
2 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Databricks
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) Informatica
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle
5 2 (3.85%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.85%) Foundry
5 2 (3.85%) NEC
5 2 (3.85%) Palantir
5 2 (3.85%) Refinitiv
5 2 (3.85%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) Brio
6 1 (1.92%) Citrix
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.92%) SnapLogic