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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 95 110
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 40 30 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.30% 1.43% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 1.56% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 26
10th Percentile £296 £413 £444
25th Percentile £513 £451 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £673 £738 £784
90th Percentile £796 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £695
% change year-on-year - -17.27% +20.87%

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 1,623 1,927 2,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.33% 91.59% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,180 1,746
10th Percentile £327 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 17 November 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 & 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 12 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 9 (22.50%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (17.50%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Confluence
4 1 (2.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) AWS
2 16 (40.00%) Azure
3 11 (27.50%) GCP
3 11 (27.50%) Power Platform
4 9 (22.50%) Snowflake
5 5 (12.50%) dbt
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.50%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.50%) Dagster
8 1 (2.50%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.50%) Prefect
8 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) Power BI
2 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (15.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (15.00%) Tableau
4 5 (12.50%) Big Data
5 4 (10.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (7.50%) Delta Lake
6 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.00%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.00%) Metadata
7 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.50%) Pentaho
8 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.00%) MLflow
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 18 (45.00%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Banking
4 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.00%) Front Office
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 4 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Lead
4 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Snowflake Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Scala Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) PyTorch
1 7 (17.50%) TensorFlow
2 6 (15.00%) scikit-learn
3 4 (10.00%) Kafka
4 3 (7.50%) PySpark
5 2 (5.00%) Dask
5 2 (5.00%) Google JAX
5 2 (5.00%) JAX
5 2 (5.00%) LightGBM
5 2 (5.00%) NumPy
5 2 (5.00%) Pandas
5 2 (5.00%) XGBoost
6 1 (2.50%) JSON
6 1 (2.50%) LangChain
6 1 (2.50%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.50%) Ray
6 1 (2.50%) Seaborn
6 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Derivative
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.50%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.50%) Equities
4 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Analytics
1 16 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 16 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 13 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 11 (27.50%) AI
4 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
5 10 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 10 (25.00%) Data Science
5 10 (25.00%) ETL
6 8 (20.00%) Agile
7 7 (17.50%) Data Integration
7 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 4 (10.00%) Deep Learning
10 4 (10.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) Python
2 16 (40.00%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) Scala
4 3 (7.50%) R
5 2 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (2.50%) C#
6 1 (2.50%) C++
6 1 (2.50%) CodeQL
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) MCP
3 1 (2.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.00%) GDPR
3 2 (5.00%) NIST
3 2 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.50%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Databricks
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Workday