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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 97 91
Rank change year-on-year +19 -6 +70
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 41 32 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.34% 1.52% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 1.65% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 38
10th Percentile £475 £414 £463
25th Percentile £522 £454 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £644 £708 £756
90th Percentile £720 £749 £804
Central London median daily rate £555 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -14.62% +4.00% +19.05%

All Process and 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 1,647 1,941 2,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.17% 91.90% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,225 1,883
10th Percentile £321 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £701
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +8.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £56.75 £82.19 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.07% +34.62% -38.10%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering 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 20 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of 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 10 (24.39%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (14.63%) Apache Spark
3 4 (9.76%) Apache
4 2 (4.88%) Luigi
5 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) Azure
2 20 (48.78%) AWS
3 14 (34.15%) GCP
4 8 (19.51%) Power Platform
5 5 (12.20%) Collibra
5 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Functions
6 3 (7.32%) GitHub
6 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (4.88%) dbt
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.88%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.44%) Alation
8 1 (2.44%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.83%) Data Lake
2 10 (24.39%) Metadata
3 8 (19.51%) Power BI
4 7 (17.07%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (17.07%) NoSQL
5 6 (14.63%) BigQuery
5 6 (14.63%) Delta Lake
6 5 (12.20%) Big Data
7 4 (9.76%) Data Mining
7 4 (9.76%) Hadoop
8 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
9 2 (4.88%) Parquet
9 2 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
10 1 (2.44%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (2.44%) Data Vault
10 1 (2.44%) Flink
10 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) MLflow
3 1 (2.44%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Banking
4 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.76%) Police
6 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.88%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.44%) Front Office
7 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) Data Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Azure Data Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Data Scientist
5 3 (7.32%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Implementation Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Implementation Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Project Implementation Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) Kafka
2 4 (9.76%) PySpark
3 2 (4.88%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.44%) NumPy
4 1 (2.44%) Pandas
4 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.44%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.44%) Credit Risk
2 1 (2.44%) Derivative
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Equities
2 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.44%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) Data Modelling
2 17 (41.46%) Data Governance
2 17 (41.46%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (36.59%) Analytics
4 14 (34.15%) ETL
5 11 (26.83%) Data Science
6 10 (24.39%) Agile
6 10 (24.39%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
7 9 (21.95%) Data Integration
8 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (17.07%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (17.07%) Data Ingestion
9 7 (17.07%) Decision-Making
10 6 (14.63%) Data Architecture
10 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (12.20%) Data Strategy
11 5 (12.20%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (12.20%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) Python
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
3 11 (26.83%) Scala
4 4 (9.76%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.88%) R
6 1 (2.44%) CodeQL
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.88%) PMP
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.76%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) NIST
4 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.44%) PMO
4 1 (2.44%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Terraform
2 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Databricks
2 6 (14.63%) Google
3 5 (12.20%) Informatica
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.44%) Workday