Data Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Data Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 99 147
Rank change year-on-year +4 +48 -29
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 32 73 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.45% 2.00% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.17% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 36
10th Percentile £463 £450 £475
25th Percentile £503 £489 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -2.95%
75th Percentile £742 £754 £609
90th Percentile £763 £775 £718
Central London median daily rate £650 £613 £575
% change year-on-year +6.12% +6.52% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,357 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,258 2,945
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the City of London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London Bridge - 1 £700 -
Data Engineering
Central London

Data Engineering
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 2 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) Tornado
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (9.38%) dbt
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) WhatsApp
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.13%) NuGet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.63%) Big Data
2 5 (15.63%) Data Lake
2 5 (15.63%) Data Mart
2 5 (15.63%) Delta Lake
2 5 (15.63%) Power BI
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (9.38%) Star Schema
4 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.25%) Presto
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) Airbyte
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.13%) Flink
5 1 (3.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
1 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Banking
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Marketing
3 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Data Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (3.13%) GCP Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) PySpark
2 5 (15.63%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Avro
4 1 (3.13%) Bokeh
4 1 (3.13%) Django
4 1 (3.13%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) JSON Schema
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.13%) SOAP
4 1 (3.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Market Risk
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Life Science
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Data Modelling
2 13 (40.63%) Analytics
2 13 (40.63%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (31.25%) ETL
4 6 (18.75%) Agile
4 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.75%) Data Integration
4 6 (18.75%) SDLC
5 5 (15.63%) Data Science
5 5 (15.63%) DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Business Analysis
7 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (9.38%) Data Security
7 3 (9.38%) Visualisation
8 2 (6.25%) Migration
8 2 (6.25%) Scrum
8 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Scala
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Databricks
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Foundry
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Palantir
3 2 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) Confluent
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) SnapLogic
4 1 (3.13%) Workday