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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 84 102
Rank change year-on-year +35 +18 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 95 33 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.54% 1.87% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.14% 2.03% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 17 22
10th Percentile £368 £420 £422
25th Percentile £425 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £750
90th Percentile £824 £738 £774
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - -54.64% -
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year - -54.64% -

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 1,848 1,623 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 91.95% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 1,035 1,497
10th Percentile £362 £368 £350
25th Percentile £444 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £674 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 12
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.03
25th Percentile £19.11 £26.25 £20.15
Median hourly rate £27.75 £33.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% +3.31% -13.91%
75th Percentile £46.29 £47.50 £43.07
90th Percentile £59.13 £112.00 £49.90
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -19.66% +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 20 March 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 15 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (12.63%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.32%) Apache
4 2 (2.11%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.05%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 43 (45.26%) Azure
2 32 (33.68%) Power Platform
3 31 (32.63%) AWS
4 24 (25.26%) Snowflake
5 15 (15.79%) dbt
6 14 (14.74%) GCP
7 13 (13.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (9.47%) Serverless
9 8 (8.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (6.32%) Prefect
11 5 (5.26%) Amazon S3
11 5 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.26%) GitHub
12 4 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (4.21%) Azure Functions
12 4 (4.21%) Dagster
12 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (3.16%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (3.16%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (30.53%) Power BI
2 20 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (16.84%) Tableau
4 11 (11.58%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (8.42%) Big Data
5 8 (8.42%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.42%) Metadata
6 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.21%) Looker
9 3 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.16%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.16%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.16%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.16%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.11%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.05%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Git
2 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.11%) GitLab
4 1 (1.05%) ERwin
4 1 (1.05%) Postman
4 1 (1.05%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.05%) Selenium
General
1 39 (41.05%) Finance
2 19 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.63%) Banking
4 11 (11.58%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Front Office
6 5 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.21%) Back Office
7 4 (4.21%) Legal
8 3 (3.16%) Marketing
8 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (35.79%) Data Engineer
2 13 (13.68%) Architect
3 10 (10.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (10.53%) Snowflake Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) Developer
5 8 (8.42%) Lead
6 6 (6.32%) Analyst
6 6 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 6 (6.32%) Consultant
7 5 (5.26%) Senior
8 4 (4.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Data Consultant
8 4 (4.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.16%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.16%) Junior
9 3 (3.16%) Product Manager
9 3 (3.16%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) PySpark
2 11 (11.58%) Kafka
3 8 (8.42%) PyTorch
3 8 (8.42%) TensorFlow
4 7 (7.37%) scikit-learn
5 5 (5.26%) Middleware
6 3 (3.16%) Dask
6 3 (3.16%) Google JAX
6 3 (3.16%) JAX
6 3 (3.16%) LightGBM
6 3 (3.16%) Vert.x
6 3 (3.16%) XGBoost
7 2 (2.11%) JSON
7 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.11%) Spring
7 2 (2.11%) XML
7 2 (2.11%) YAML
8 1 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.05%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.84%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (9.47%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.37%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.26%) Clustering
5 5 (5.26%) Derivative
6 4 (4.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (4.21%) Equities
7 3 (3.16%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.11%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.11%) Life Science
8 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.11%) Replication
9 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.05%) Linux
1 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.37%) Analytics
1 45 (47.37%) Data Pipeline
2 38 (40.00%) AI
3 31 (32.63%) CI/CD
4 30 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (29.47%) ETL
6 27 (28.42%) Data Modelling
7 23 (24.21%) Machine Learning
8 20 (21.05%) Data Governance
9 19 (20.00%) DevOps
10 17 (17.89%) Data Science
11 15 (15.79%) Agile
11 15 (15.79%) Generative AI
11 15 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (15.79%) Validation
12 14 (14.74%) Use Case
13 12 (12.63%) Decision-Making
14 11 (11.58%) Test Automation
15 10 (10.53%) Roadmaps
16 9 (9.47%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 52 (54.74%) SQL
2 51 (53.68%) Python
3 7 (7.37%) Java
4 6 (6.32%) Scala
5 3 (3.16%) C#
5 3 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.16%) Korn
6 2 (2.11%) R
6 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.05%) Bicep
7 1 (1.05%) C++
7 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (6.32%) Degree
2 5 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.11%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (27.37%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.42%) GDPR
3 4 (4.21%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.05%) GxP
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.05%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (4.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (9.47%) Terraform
2 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (31.58%) Databricks
2 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.26%) Google
4 3 (3.16%) Informatica
4 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.16%) Workday
5 2 (2.11%) Foundry
5 2 (2.11%) Palantir
5 2 (2.11%) SimCorp
5 2 (2.11%) Vermilion
6 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.05%) Apple
6 1 (1.05%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.05%) Denodo
6 1 (1.05%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle