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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 83 95
Rank change year-on-year +43 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 114 41 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.95% 2.26% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 2.40% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 28 21
10th Percentile £425 £475 £425
25th Percentile £463 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £639 £719
90th Percentile £763 £720 £750
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 2,025 1,709 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.01% 94.26% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,129 1,245
10th Percentile £385 £325 £375
25th Percentile £463 £421 £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 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%

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 31 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 (18.42%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (11.40%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.63%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Confluence
4 2 (1.75%) SAS
4 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.63%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.74%) Azure
2 40 (35.09%) AWS
3 28 (24.56%) Power Platform
4 25 (21.93%) Snowflake
5 24 (21.05%) dbt
6 18 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 18 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (14.91%) Serverless
8 16 (14.04%) GCP
9 15 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (11.40%) Azure Databricks
10 13 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (8.77%) GitHub
12 8 (7.02%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (6.14%) Prefect
14 6 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (4.39%) Amazon Bedrock
15 5 (4.39%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (21.93%) Power BI
3 15 (13.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (8.77%) Data Lake
4 10 (8.77%) Tableau
5 9 (7.89%) Metadata
6 8 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (7.02%) Delta Lake
7 7 (6.14%) BigQuery
7 7 (6.14%) Looker
8 6 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (4.39%) Big Data
9 5 (4.39%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.39%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.51%) Data Mart
10 4 (3.51%) Hadoop
10 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.51%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Git
2 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.51%) GitLab
3 4 (3.51%) JIRA
4 2 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.75%) MLflow
5 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 49 (42.98%) Finance
2 24 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.16%) Banking
5 6 (5.26%) Legal
6 5 (4.39%) Marketing
7 4 (3.51%) Back Office
7 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.63%) Front Office
8 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.88%) Billing
10 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (43.86%) Data Engineer
2 16 (14.04%) Senior
3 15 (13.16%) Architect
4 11 (9.65%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) Lead
7 8 (7.02%) Data Architect
7 8 (7.02%) Snowflake Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Analyst
8 7 (6.14%) AWS Data Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Databricks Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Product Manager
11 4 (3.51%) Analytics Manager
11 4 (3.51%) Data Manager
11 4 (3.51%) Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.42%) PySpark
2 16 (14.04%) Terraform
3 10 (8.77%) Kafka
4 4 (3.51%) Spring
5 3 (2.63%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.63%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.75%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.75%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.75%) React
6 2 (1.75%) REST
6 2 (1.75%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.75%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.88%) Django
7 1 (0.88%) Jinja
7 1 (0.88%) pytest
7 1 (0.88%) RESTful
7 1 (0.88%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.39%) AI Agents
3 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.51%) Life Science
4 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.63%) Clustering
5 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.63%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.88%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (58.77%) Analytics
2 51 (44.74%) Data Pipeline
3 50 (43.86%) CI/CD
4 44 (38.60%) Data Modelling
5 43 (37.72%) AI
6 39 (34.21%) ETL
7 37 (32.46%) DevOps
8 32 (28.07%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (28.07%) Data Governance
9 24 (21.05%) Decision-Making
9 24 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (20.18%) Data Architecture
11 21 (18.42%) Agile
11 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (16.67%) Machine Learning
13 17 (14.91%) Data Transformation
13 17 (14.91%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (14.91%) Software Engineering
13 17 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (57.02%) SQL
2 64 (56.14%) Python
3 7 (6.14%) Java
4 5 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.63%) Bicep
5 3 (2.63%) Korn
5 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.63%) Scala
5 3 (2.63%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.75%) Bash
6 2 (1.75%) C#
6 2 (1.75%) LookML
7 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.14%) DBS Check
1 7 (6.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.39%) Degree
4 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.63%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.75%) CSPO
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (29.82%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.77%) GDPR
3 6 (5.26%) QA
4 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.63%) GxP
5 2 (1.75%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.75%) EMIR
5 2 (1.75%) MiFID
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) PERC
6 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (8.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (35.96%) Databricks
2 24 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.26%) Oracle
4 5 (4.39%) Workday
5 4 (3.51%) Google
5 4 (3.51%) Informatica
5 4 (3.51%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.75%) Teradata
7 1 (0.88%) Adobe
7 1 (0.88%) Apple
7 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.88%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.88%) Foundry
7 1 (0.88%) Palantir
7 1 (0.88%) Pardot
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow