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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 73 97
Rank change year-on-year +37 +24 0
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 117 46 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.82% 2.62% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 2.79% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 30 23
10th Percentile £400 £424 £433
25th Percentile £450 £475 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £544 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -16.35% +8.33%
75th Percentile £656 £605 £744
90th Percentile £758 £647 £760
Central London median daily rate £550 £544 £650
% change year-on-year +1.15% -16.35% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

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 2,083 1,648 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.80% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,053 1,355
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.96 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.21 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.83 £52.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £68.75 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.39 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -18.82% +16.86% -20.54%

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 28 June 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 (16.24%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.42%) Apache
4 3 (2.56%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.85%) Confluence
6 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.71%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (45.30%) Azure
2 36 (30.77%) AWS
2 36 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 25 (21.37%) Snowflake
4 17 (14.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (14.53%) dbt
5 16 (13.68%) Serverless
6 15 (12.82%) GCP
7 14 (11.97%) Amazon S3
8 12 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.98%) GitHub
11 7 (5.98%) Prefect
12 6 (5.13%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (5.13%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (4.27%) Amazon Bedrock
13 5 (4.27%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (4.27%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.50%) Power BI
2 24 (20.51%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (13.68%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (11.11%) Tableau
5 10 (8.55%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 9 (7.69%) Metadata
6 9 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.13%) Big Data
7 6 (5.13%) BigQuery
7 6 (5.13%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.27%) Delta Lake
8 5 (4.27%) Looker
8 5 (4.27%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.42%) Data Mart
9 4 (3.42%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.42%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Git
2 2 (1.71%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.85%) ERwin
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) Postman
3 1 (0.85%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 46 (39.32%) Finance
2 18 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.53%) Social Skills
4 15 (12.82%) Banking
5 6 (5.13%) Legal
5 6 (5.13%) Marketing
6 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.71%) Front Office
9 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Billing
10 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 20 (17.09%) Architect
3 10 (8.55%) Lead
3 10 (8.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (8.55%) Snowflake Engineer
4 9 (7.69%) Senior
5 8 (6.84%) Analyst
6 6 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.13%) Consultant
6 6 (5.13%) Data Architect
6 6 (5.13%) Product Manager
6 6 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 5 (4.27%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (4.27%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.42%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.42%) Data Consultant
8 4 (3.42%) Developer
8 4 (3.42%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.38%) PySpark
2 13 (11.11%) Kafka
3 5 (4.27%) Spring
4 3 (2.56%) Middleware
4 3 (2.56%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.56%) Vert.x
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.71%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.71%) REST
5 2 (1.71%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.71%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.85%) ADO
6 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.85%) CSS
6 1 (0.85%) Django
6 1 (0.85%) HTML
6 1 (0.85%) JSON
6 1 (0.85%) XML
6 1 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.42%) Clustering
5 4 (3.42%) Life Science
6 3 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.56%) Equities
6 3 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.71%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.85%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.71%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (57.26%) Analytics
2 53 (45.30%) AI
3 48 (41.03%) Data Pipeline
4 42 (35.90%) CI/CD
5 38 (32.48%) Data Modelling
6 37 (31.62%) ETL
7 36 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (27.35%) DevOps
9 26 (22.22%) Data Governance
10 22 (18.80%) Machine Learning
11 20 (17.09%) Agile
11 20 (17.09%) Decision-Making
12 18 (15.38%) Generative AI
12 18 (15.38%) Validation
13 16 (13.68%) Data Architecture
13 16 (13.68%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (12.82%) Data Science
14 15 (12.82%) Roadmaps
15 14 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (11.97%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 65 (55.56%) SQL
2 64 (54.70%) Python
3 10 (8.55%) Java
4 5 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.42%) Scala
5 4 (3.42%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.56%) Bicep
6 3 (2.56%) Korn
7 2 (1.71%) C#
7 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (5.98%) Degree
1 7 (5.98%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.13%) DBS Check
2 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.71%) CSPO
4 2 (1.71%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (24.79%) Data Quality
2 13 (11.11%) GDPR
3 7 (5.98%) QA
4 3 (2.56%) GxP
5 2 (1.71%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.71%) EMIR
5 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.71%) MiFID
6 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.85%) PERC
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.85%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (8.55%) Terraform
2 7 (5.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (30.77%) Databricks
2 27 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.27%) Google
3 5 (4.27%) Informatica
3 5 (4.27%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.27%) Oracle
3 5 (4.27%) Workday
4 4 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.56%) Foundry
5 3 (2.56%) Palantir
6 2 (1.71%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.71%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.85%) Apple
7 1 (0.85%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.85%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.85%) Denodo
7 1 (0.85%) Pardot
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow