Data Engineering Contracts in Central London

Data Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 98 97
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 41 35 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.05% 1.43% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.58% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 44
10th Percentile £429 £463 £450
25th Percentile £503 £503 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £644 £742 £735
90th Percentile £709 £763 £775
London median daily rate £575 £585 £639
% change year-on-year -1.71% -8.38% +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.64% - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -53.33% -1.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +18 40 £550 -15.38% 23
City of Westminster -1 1 - - 1
Data Engineering
London

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 7 (17.07%) Apache Spark
2 4 (9.76%) Apache
2 4 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.44%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) Azure
2 13 (31.71%) AWS
3 11 (26.83%) Power Platform
4 7 (17.07%) GCP
5 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) dbt
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (7.32%) GitHub
7 2 (4.88%) Collibra
7 2 (4.88%) Fivetran
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.88%) WhatsApp
8 1 (2.44%) Alation
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.83%) Power BI
2 9 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (17.07%) Data Lake
4 6 (14.63%) Metadata
4 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
5 5 (12.20%) Big Data
5 5 (12.20%) Relational Database
6 4 (9.76%) BigQuery
6 4 (9.76%) Tableau
7 3 (7.32%) Looker
7 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
7 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (7.32%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.88%) Delta Lake
8 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.88%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (4.88%) Spotfire
8 2 (4.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) ERwin
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (39.02%) Finance
2 14 (34.15%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Banking
5 4 (9.76%) Retail
6 3 (7.32%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.32%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.88%) Police
8 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (56.10%) Data Engineer
2 4 (9.76%) Architect
2 4 (9.76%) AWS Data Engineer
2 4 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (9.76%) Data Modeller
2 4 (9.76%) Data Scientist
2 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (7.32%) Lead
3 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
3 3 (7.32%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) Python Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Implementation Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Implementation Project Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Project Implementation Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Kafka
2 4 (9.76%) PySpark
3 3 (7.32%) .NET
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.44%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) Plotly
4 1 (2.44%) Spring
4 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.44%) Replication
2 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) ETL
2 17 (41.46%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (36.59%) Analytics
3 15 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (34.15%) Data Modelling
4 14 (34.15%) Decision-Making
5 13 (31.71%) Data Science
6 11 (26.83%) Data Governance
7 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
8 8 (19.51%) Agile
8 8 (19.51%) Data Integration
8 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (19.51%) Visualisation
9 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (17.07%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 7 (17.07%) DevOps
10 6 (14.63%) Data Analytics
10 6 (14.63%) Data Management
10 6 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (14.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (60.98%) SQL
2 24 (58.54%) Python
3 6 (14.63%) Scala
4 4 (9.76%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) R
6 1 (2.44%) C++
6 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Degree
1 3 (7.32%) PMI Certification
1 3 (7.32%) PMP
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (34.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) PMO
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Terraform
2 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Databricks
2 4 (9.76%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) Informatica
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle
4 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Dataiku
5 1 (2.44%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.44%) Murex
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.44%) Sparx