Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Data Engineering
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Canary Wharf requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 1.82% - 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% - 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £750
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £449 - £750

All Process & Methodology Skills
Canary Wharf

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54 45 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 98.18% 86.54% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 42 122
10th Percentile £433 £466 £426
25th Percentile £450 £503 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -1.61% +17.90%
75th Percentile £653 £630 £650
90th Percentile £717 £638 £770
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £525 £580 £594
% change year-on-year -9.48% -2.36% +18.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.13
25th Percentile - - £16.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +111.30% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year +37.50% +111.30% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Base SAS
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mart
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Macro
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform