Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 80 95
Rank change year-on-year +40 +15 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 111 43 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.78% 2.34% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 2.49% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 29 20
10th Percentile £421 £475 £448
25th Percentile £461 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £728
90th Percentile £763 £718 £751
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,036 1,729 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.68% 94.22% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,136 1,253
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% +5.73% -3.18%
75th Percentile £35.14 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £28.79 £26.78
% change year-on-year -14.38% +7.49% -23.49%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Engineering

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 24 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 21 (18.92%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (11.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.70%) Apache
4 2 (1.80%) Confluence
4 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.90%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.70%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (45.05%) Azure
2 36 (32.43%) AWS
3 28 (25.23%) Power Platform
4 24 (21.62%) Snowflake
5 23 (20.72%) dbt
6 17 (15.32%) Amazon S3
6 17 (15.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (14.41%) GCP
7 16 (14.41%) Serverless
8 14 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (8.11%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (8.11%) GitHub
11 8 (7.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (6.31%) Prefect
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon Bedrock
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (4.50%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.52%) Power BI
2 24 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (14.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (9.91%) Data Lake
4 11 (9.91%) Tableau
5 9 (8.11%) Metadata
6 7 (6.31%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (6.31%) BigQuery
6 7 (6.31%) Delta Lake
6 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.41%) Big Data
7 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.50%) Looker
8 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.60%) Data Mart
9 4 (3.60%) Hadoop
9 4 (3.60%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Git
2 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.60%) GitLab
3 4 (3.60%) JIRA
4 2 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.80%) MLflow
5 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 47 (42.34%) Finance
2 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.61%) Banking
5 6 (5.41%) Legal
6 5 (4.50%) Marketing
7 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.70%) Back Office
8 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.80%) Front Office
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.90%) Military
10 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (45.95%) Data Engineer
2 15 (13.51%) Architect
3 14 (12.61%) Senior
4 11 (9.91%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Data Architect
5 8 (7.21%) Lead
6 7 (6.31%) Analyst
6 7 (6.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Product Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Data Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.70%) Consultant
10 3 (2.70%) Security Consultant
10 3 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.92%) PySpark
2 16 (14.41%) Terraform
3 12 (10.81%) Kafka
4 4 (3.60%) Spring
5 3 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.70%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.80%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.80%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.80%) React
6 2 (1.80%) REST
6 2 (1.80%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.80%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.90%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.90%) Django
7 1 (0.90%) Jinja
7 1 (0.90%) pytest
7 1 (0.90%) RESTful
7 1 (0.90%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.23%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.50%) AI Agents
3 5 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.50%) Life Science
4 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.70%) Clustering
5 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.70%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.90%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.90%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.90%) NHS
7 1 (0.90%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (58.56%) Analytics
2 49 (44.14%) CI/CD
2 49 (44.14%) Data Pipeline
3 41 (36.94%) AI
4 40 (36.04%) Data Modelling
5 37 (33.33%) DevOps
6 36 (32.43%) ETL
7 30 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (26.13%) Data Governance
9 22 (19.82%) Decision-Making
10 21 (18.92%) Data Architecture
11 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (17.12%) Agile
12 19 (17.12%) Machine Learning
12 19 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (14.41%) Migration
14 16 (14.41%) Software Engineering
15 15 (13.51%) Data Transformation
16 14 (12.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 62 (55.86%) Python
1 62 (55.86%) SQL
2 7 (6.31%) Java
3 4 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (3.60%) Scala
4 3 (2.70%) Bicep
4 3 (2.70%) Korn
4 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.80%) C#
6 1 (0.90%) Bash
6 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) DBS Check
2 6 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.50%) Degree
3 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.70%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.80%) CSPO
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (27.93%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.01%) GDPR
3 7 (6.31%) QA
4 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.70%) GxP
5 2 (1.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.80%) EMIR
5 2 (1.80%) MiFID
6 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.90%) PERC
6 1 (0.90%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (10.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (36.04%) Databricks
2 24 (21.62%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.41%) Oracle
4 5 (4.50%) Informatica
4 5 (4.50%) Workday
5 4 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (3.60%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.90%) Adobe
7 1 (0.90%) Apple
7 1 (0.90%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.90%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.90%) Denodo
7 1 (0.90%) Foundry
7 1 (0.90%) Palantir
7 1 (0.90%) Pardot
7 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.90%) Teradata