Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 94 103
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 501 750 1,072
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.83% 2.77% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.04% 2.91% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 577 785
10th Percentile £350 £450 £425
25th Percentile £438 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £48.75 £45.80 £34.35
25th Percentile £49.25 £62.00 £44.25
Median hourly rate £51.75 £64.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +24.27% -22.56%
75th Percentile £61.75 £82.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £66.13 £87.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year +5.47% +41.59% -14.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in London

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 Data Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +3 61 £500 -11.70% 8
South London +20 10 £475 -29.63% 2
West London +10 7 £355 -38.26% 3
East London - 3 £285 - 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 273 (54.49%) SQL
2 265 (52.89%) Python
3 203 (40.52%) Azure
4 180 (35.93%) ETL
5 178 (35.53%) AWS
6 167 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
7 158 (31.54%) Data Modelling
8 147 (29.34%) Data Engineering
9 118 (23.55%) Data Warehouse
10 115 (22.95%) Analytics
11 112 (22.36%) Databricks
12 108 (21.56%) Security Cleared
13 95 (18.96%) SC Cleared
13 95 (18.96%) Social Skills
14 90 (17.96%) Finance
15 87 (17.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 82 (16.37%) Serverless
17 81 (16.17%) Agile
18 80 (15.97%) Data Quality
19 77 (15.37%) PySpark
20 71 (14.17%) Data Lake
21 69 (13.77%) DevOps
22 68 (13.57%) Kafka
22 68 (13.57%) Business Intelligence
23 62 (12.38%) AWS Lambda
24 54 (10.78%) Big Data
25 53 (10.58%) Public Sector
26 51 (10.18%) Amazon Redshift
26 51 (10.18%) CI/CD
27 50 (9.98%) SQL Server

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 45 (8.98%) Apache
2 43 (8.58%) Apache Spark
3 41 (8.18%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.20%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) Luigi
6 3 (0.60%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 203 (40.52%) Azure
2 178 (35.53%) AWS
3 87 (17.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 82 (16.37%) Serverless
5 62 (12.38%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (9.78%) Amazon S3
7 47 (9.38%) Power Platform
8 44 (8.78%) GCP
9 38 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 32 (6.39%) Snowflake
11 31 (6.19%) Amazon Kinesis
12 26 (5.19%) AWS Step Functions
13 24 (4.79%) dbt
14 23 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (3.59%) Amazon MSK
16 13 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
17 12 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
18 11 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 11 (2.20%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) BGP
2 1 (0.20%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.20%) DHCP
2 1 (0.20%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.20%) LAN
2 1 (0.20%) OSPF
2 1 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.20%) WAN
2 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (23.55%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (14.17%) Data Lake
3 54 (10.78%) Big Data
4 51 (10.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 50 (9.98%) SQL Server
6 47 (9.38%) Power BI
7 32 (6.39%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (5.19%) Flink
10 23 (4.59%) DynamoDB
10 23 (4.59%) Parquet
10 23 (4.59%) Relational Database
11 22 (4.39%) Tableau
12 21 (4.19%) BigQuery
12 21 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (3.99%) NoSQL
14 14 (2.79%) Spark SQL
15 12 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 10 (2.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (5.19%) Git
2 21 (4.19%) JIRA
3 9 (1.80%) GitLab
4 6 (1.20%) MLflow
5 4 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.60%) Deequ
6 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.40%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.20%) Ant
8 1 (0.20%) Gradle
8 1 (0.20%) JUnit
8 1 (0.20%) kappa
8 1 (0.20%) Maven
8 1 (0.20%) RStudio
General
1 95 (18.96%) Social Skills
2 90 (17.96%) Finance
3 53 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 44 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.79%) Banking
6 12 (2.40%) Investment Banking
7 11 (2.20%) Front Office
8 10 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.60%) Retail
10 6 (1.20%) Marketing
11 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.60%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.60%) Law
13 2 (0.40%) Advertising
13 2 (0.40%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.40%) Electronics
13 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.37%) PySpark
2 68 (13.57%) Kafka
3 24 (4.79%) JSON
4 22 (4.39%) Apache Avro
5 18 (3.59%) Pandas
6 13 (2.59%) NumPy
7 11 (2.20%) REST
8 8 (1.60%) YAML
9 7 (1.40%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.20%) SOAP
11 5 (1.00%) .NET
11 5 (1.00%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.80%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.80%) JSON Schema
12 4 (0.80%) Lambda Expressions
12 4 (0.80%) Middleware
13 3 (0.60%) ODBC
13 3 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
13 3 (0.60%) RESTful
13 3 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (2.59%) Algorithms
2 10 (2.00%) Data Structures
2 10 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (1.80%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.00%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.00%) Derivative
6 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (0.60%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.60%) Social Media
7 3 (0.60%) Wiki
8 2 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.40%) Life Science
8 2 (0.40%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.40%) Linux
2 8 (1.60%) Unix
3 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (35.93%) ETL
2 167 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 158 (31.54%) Data Modelling
4 147 (29.34%) Data Engineering
5 115 (22.95%) Analytics
6 81 (16.17%) Agile
7 69 (13.77%) DevOps
8 68 (13.57%) Business Intelligence
9 51 (10.18%) CI/CD
10 49 (9.78%) Data Integration
11 47 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (8.58%) Data Governance
13 38 (7.58%) Data Transformation
14 37 (7.39%) Data Ingestion
15 34 (6.79%) Migration
16 32 (6.39%) Visualisation
17 30 (5.99%) Data Science
18 28 (5.59%) Data Management
19 26 (5.19%) Computer Science
20 25 (4.99%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 273 (54.49%) SQL
2 265 (52.89%) Python
3 50 (9.98%) Java
4 41 (8.18%) Scala
5 23 (4.59%) C#
6 20 (3.99%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.80%) Bicep
7 9 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.20%) R
9 5 (1.00%) Bash
9 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.00%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.80%) C++
10 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.60%) Perl
12 2 (0.40%) Lua
12 2 (0.40%) PHP
12 2 (0.40%) Ruby
12 2 (0.40%) XPath
12 2 (0.40%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 108 (21.56%) Security Cleared
2 95 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.19%) Degree
4 14 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (15.97%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.00%) QA
3 8 (1.60%) SLA
4 3 (0.60%) GDPR
5 2 (0.40%) IFRS
5 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 16 (3.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (8.78%) Terraform
2 22 (4.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.80%) Ansible
3 4 (0.80%) Argo
4 1 (0.20%) Ganglia
4 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.20%) Matomo
4 1 (0.20%) NetMRI
Vendors
1 112 (22.36%) Databricks
2 40 (7.98%) Microsoft
3 38 (7.58%) Oracle
4 20 (3.99%) Google
5 12 (2.40%) Informatica
6 7 (1.40%) SAP
7 6 (1.20%) Splunk
8 5 (1.00%) Adobe
8 5 (1.00%) Talend
9 3 (0.60%) Palantir
10 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.40%) Cadence
10 2 (0.40%) ESRI
10 2 (0.40%) Foundry
10 2 (0.40%) Genesys
10 2 (0.40%) NEC
10 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.40%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.40%) SnapLogic