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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 85 96
Rank change year-on-year +40 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 108 44 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.60% 2.35% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 2.49% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 29 20
10th Percentile £416 £473 £448
25th Percentile £455 £481 £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 2,056 1,764 1,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.53% 94.28% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,158 1,266
10th Percentile £381 £325 £379
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 £773 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -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 17 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 19 (17.59%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.19%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.78%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (44.44%) Azure
2 34 (31.48%) AWS
3 28 (25.93%) Power Platform
4 23 (21.30%) Snowflake
5 19 (17.59%) dbt
6 16 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 16 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (13.89%) GCP
7 15 (13.89%) Serverless
8 13 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (7.41%) GitHub
12 7 (6.48%) Prefect
13 6 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (4.63%) Amazon Bedrock
14 5 (4.63%) Amazon EMR
14 5 (4.63%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (4.63%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.30%) Data Warehouse
1 23 (21.30%) Power BI
2 15 (13.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (10.19%) Data Lake
3 11 (10.19%) Tableau
4 8 (7.41%) Metadata
5 7 (6.48%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (6.48%) Big Data
5 7 (6.48%) Delta Lake
5 7 (6.48%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (6.48%) SQL Server
6 6 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.63%) Looker
7 5 (4.63%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.70%) Data Mart
8 4 (3.70%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.70%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Git
2 5 (4.63%) GitLab
3 4 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.85%) JIRA
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.93%) MLflow
6 1 (0.93%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.93%) Selenium
6 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.93%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (40.74%) Finance
2 20 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.11%) Banking
5 6 (5.56%) Legal
6 5 (4.63%) Marketing
7 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.78%) Back Office
8 3 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.85%) Front Office
9 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Billing
10 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (45.37%) Data Engineer
2 14 (12.96%) Architect
3 11 (10.19%) Senior
4 8 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (7.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 8 (7.41%) Snowflake Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) Analyst
5 7 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) Data Architect
5 7 (6.48%) Lead
6 6 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Product Manager
7 5 (4.63%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Developer
8 4 (3.70%) Python Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Analytics Manager
9 3 (2.78%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.59%) PySpark
2 10 (9.26%) Kafka
3 4 (3.70%) Spring
4 3 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.78%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.85%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.85%) pytest
5 2 (1.85%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.85%) React
5 2 (1.85%) REST
5 2 (1.85%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.85%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.93%) ADO
6 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.93%) Django
6 1 (0.93%) HTML
6 1 (0.93%) Jinja
6 1 (0.93%) RESTful
6 1 (0.93%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.63%) Life Science
4 4 (3.70%) Clustering
4 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.78%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.93%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.26%) Analytics
2 48 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 47 (43.52%) CI/CD
4 41 (37.96%) AI
5 40 (37.04%) Data Modelling
6 38 (35.19%) ETL
7 34 (31.48%) DevOps
8 29 (26.85%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (25.00%) Data Governance
10 22 (20.37%) Decision-Making
11 19 (17.59%) Data Architecture
11 19 (17.59%) Machine Learning
12 18 (16.67%) Agile
13 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (14.81%) Validation
15 15 (13.89%) Migration
16 14 (12.96%) Software Engineering
16 14 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 14 (12.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (55.56%) Python
1 60 (55.56%) SQL
2 7 (6.48%) Java
3 4 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.78%) Bicep
4 3 (2.78%) C#
4 3 (2.78%) Korn
4 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.78%) Scala
4 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.56%) DBS Check
1 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.63%) Degree
2 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.85%) CSPO
4 2 (1.85%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.19%) GDPR
3 8 (7.41%) QA
4 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.78%) GxP
5 2 (1.85%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.85%) EMIR
5 2 (1.85%) MiFID
6 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.93%) PERC
6 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.93%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (12.04%) Terraform
2 8 (7.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (32.41%) Databricks
2 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle
4 5 (4.63%) Google
4 5 (4.63%) Informatica
4 5 (4.63%) Workday
5 4 (3.70%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.93%) Adobe
7 1 (0.93%) Apple
7 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.93%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.93%) Denodo
7 1 (0.93%) Foundry
7 1 (0.93%) Palantir
7 1 (0.93%) Pardot
7 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) Teradata