Data Engineering Contracts in Central London

Data Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 97 144
Rank change year-on-year -3 +47 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 35 75 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.43% 1.94% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.12% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 44 41
10th Percentile £463 £450 £450
25th Percentile £503 £480 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +6.52% -2.95%
75th Percentile £742 £735 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
London median daily rate £586 £639 £600
% change year-on-year -8.18% +6.42% +9.09%
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 - - -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £76.20
% change year-on-year -53.33% -1.57% +113.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,217 3,537 4,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.63% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,569 2,400 3,184
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 41
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.43 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
% change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 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
City of London +12 31 £650 +4.00% 14
West End of London +4 3 - -
City of Westminster 0 2 - -
Camden - 1 £625 -
Southwark - 1 £700 -
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 3 (8.57%) Apache
1 3 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.86%) Tornado
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (11.43%) dbt
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub
6 2 (5.71%) WhatsApp
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.86%) NuGet
7 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (48.57%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (20.00%) Power BI
3 6 (17.14%) Data Lake
4 5 (14.29%) Big Data
4 5 (14.29%) Data Mart
4 5 (14.29%) Delta Lake
5 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
6 3 (8.57%) Star Schema
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (5.71%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.71%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
7 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.71%) Presto
7 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
7 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
1 2 (5.71%) Zephyr
2 1 (2.86%) Deequ
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
2 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) ETL Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (2.86%) GCP Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Lead Big Data Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) PySpark
2 6 (17.14%) Kafka
3 2 (5.71%) .NET
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Avro
3 2 (5.71%) JSON
3 2 (5.71%) JSON Schema
3 2 (5.71%) Middleware
3 2 (5.71%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) React
3 2 (5.71%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) XML
4 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.86%) Bokeh
4 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.86%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.86%) Pandas
4 1 (2.86%) pytest
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Market Risk
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Life Science
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Data Modelling
2 14 (40.00%) Analytics
2 14 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (37.14%) ETL
4 9 (25.71%) Agile
5 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 7 (20.00%) SDLC
6 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (14.29%) DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Scrum
6 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Data Science
7 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.57%) Business Analysis
8 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
8 3 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (8.57%) Kimball Methodology
8 3 (8.57%) Migration
8 3 (8.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) SQL
2 9 (25.71%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.71%) Scala
5 2 (5.71%) XPath
5 2 (5.71%) XQuery
6 1 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Databricks
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle
3 4 (11.43%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) Foundry
4 2 (5.71%) Palantir
5 1 (2.86%) Confluent
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) SnapLogic
5 1 (2.86%) Workday