Data Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Data Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 97 106
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 40 30 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.28% 1.37% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.51% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 42
10th Percentile £429 £463 £450
25th Percentile £503 £491 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £644 £750 £745
90th Percentile £709 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -15.38% +6.12% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.64% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.00 £48.50 -
% change year-on-year -54.64% - -

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

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 7 (17.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.00%) Apache
2 4 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (60.00%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (17.50%) GCP
5 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) dbt
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) Collibra
7 2 (5.00%) Fivetran
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.00%) WhatsApp
8 1 (2.50%) Alation
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Power BI
2 9 (22.50%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (17.50%) Data Lake
4 6 (15.00%) Metadata
4 6 (15.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (12.50%) Big Data
5 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 4 (10.00%) BigQuery
6 4 (10.00%) Tableau
7 3 (7.50%) Looker
7 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
7 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (7.50%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
8 2 (5.00%) Delta Lake
8 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
8 2 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (5.00%) Spotfire
8 2 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) ERwin
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (37.50%) Finance
2 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Banking
5 4 (10.00%) Retail
6 3 (7.50%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (7.50%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.50%) Retail Banking
7 2 (5.00%) Police
8 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (57.50%) Data Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Architect
2 4 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Data Modeller
2 4 (10.00%) Data Scientist
2 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (7.50%) Lead
3 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Python Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Senior
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Implementation Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Implementation Project Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Project Implementation Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) PySpark
3 3 (7.50%) .NET
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) Plotly
4 1 (2.50%) Spring
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.50%) Replication
2 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) ETL
2 17 (42.50%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (37.50%) Analytics
4 14 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (35.00%) Data Modelling
5 13 (32.50%) Decision-Making
6 12 (30.00%) Data Science
7 11 (27.50%) Data Governance
8 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
9 8 (20.00%) Agile
9 8 (20.00%) Data Integration
9 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.00%) Visualisation
10 7 (17.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 7 (17.50%) DevOps
11 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.00%) Data Analytics
11 6 (15.00%) Data Management
11 6 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (15.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) SQL
2 23 (57.50%) Python
3 6 (15.00%) Scala
4 4 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.50%) R
5 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
1 3 (7.50%) PMI Certification
1 3 (7.50%) PMP
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) PMO
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Databricks
2 4 (10.00%) Google
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Informatica
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Dataiku
4 1 (2.50%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.50%) Murex
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Sparx