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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 80 97
Rank change year-on-year +37 +17 0
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 111 41 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.99% 2.37% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.61% 2.52% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 28 22
10th Percentile £425 £475 £414
25th Percentile £463 £522 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £553 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £675 £644 £708
90th Percentile £763 £720 £749
Central London median daily rate £600 £555 £650
% change year-on-year +8.11% -14.62% +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 1,979 1,629 1,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.90% 94.11% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,082 1,227
10th Percentile £366 £320 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £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 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.40
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -14.05% +31.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £107.13
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +34.62%

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 21 September 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 (17.12%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (12.61%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.41%) Apache
4 3 (2.70%) Confluence
5 2 (1.80%) SAS
5 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.80%) BambooHR
3 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (45.05%) Azure
2 43 (38.74%) AWS
3 23 (20.72%) Power Platform
4 21 (18.92%) Snowflake
5 20 (18.02%) Amazon S3
5 20 (18.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (18.02%) dbt
5 20 (18.02%) Serverless
6 19 (17.12%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (14.41%) GCP
8 14 (12.61%) Azure Databricks
9 13 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (10.81%) GitHub
11 10 (9.01%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (6.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (6.31%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (6.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (5.41%) Amazon Bedrock
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (18.02%) Power BI
3 14 (12.61%) Data Lake
4 13 (11.71%) Metadata
5 11 (9.91%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (9.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (9.01%) Delta Lake
7 9 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.50%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.60%) Big Data
9 4 (3.60%) Data Mart
9 4 (3.60%) Looker
9 4 (3.60%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.60%) Tableau
10 3 (2.70%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.70%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.80%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Git
2 8 (7.21%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.31%) GitLab
4 5 (4.50%) JIRA
5 2 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.80%) MLflow
6 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 49 (44.14%) Finance
2 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (17.12%) Banking
5 7 (6.31%) Back Office
6 6 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.50%) Marketing
8 4 (3.60%) Front Office
8 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.70%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.90%) Law
10 1 (0.90%) Military
10 1 (0.90%) Publishing
10 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (48.65%) Data Engineer
2 21 (18.92%) Senior
3 16 (14.41%) Architect
4 15 (13.51%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Lead
7 9 (8.11%) AWS Data Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Databricks Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Data Manager
10 5 (4.50%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Analytics Manager
11 4 (3.60%) Platform Architect
12 3 (2.70%) Azure Data Engineer
12 3 (2.70%) Product Manager
12 3 (2.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.92%) PySpark
2 19 (17.12%) Terraform
3 10 (9.01%) Kafka
4 6 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.70%) Spring
5 3 (2.70%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.80%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.80%) REST
6 2 (1.80%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.80%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.90%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.90%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.90%) JSON
7 1 (0.90%) pytest
7 1 (0.90%) React
7 1 (0.90%) RESTful
7 1 (0.90%) SOAP
7 1 (0.90%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (29.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.41%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.50%) Life Science
4 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.80%) PropTech
7 2 (1.80%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.90%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.90%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.90%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (55.86%) Analytics
2 53 (47.75%) CI/CD
2 53 (47.75%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (39.64%) Data Modelling
4 38 (34.23%) AI
5 36 (32.43%) ETL
6 34 (30.63%) Data Governance
6 34 (30.63%) DevOps
7 28 (25.23%) Agile
8 27 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (22.52%) Data Architecture
10 23 (20.72%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (18.92%) Decision-Making
13 20 (18.02%) Migration
13 20 (18.02%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (17.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (15.32%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 62 (55.86%) Python
1 62 (55.86%) SQL
2 6 (5.41%) Java
3 5 (4.50%) Scala
4 4 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.60%) Korn
5 3 (2.70%) Bicep
5 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.80%) Bash
6 2 (1.80%) C#
6 2 (1.80%) LookML
7 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) DBS Check
1 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.50%) Degree
2 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.70%) PMP
4 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.80%) CAPM
4 2 (1.80%) CSPO
4 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.90%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (36.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.31%) GDPR
3 5 (4.50%) QA
4 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.80%) EMIR
5 2 (1.80%) GxP
5 2 (1.80%) MiFID
5 2 (1.80%) PMO
6 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.90%) NCSC
6 1 (0.90%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (9.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (37.84%) Databricks
2 26 (23.42%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.21%) Oracle
4 4 (3.60%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.80%) Informatica
5 2 (1.80%) JD Edwards
5 2 (1.80%) SAP
5 2 (1.80%) Teradata
5 2 (1.80%) Workday
6 1 (0.90%) Adobe
6 1 (0.90%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.90%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.90%) FactSet
6 1 (0.90%) Foundry
6 1 (0.90%) Google
6 1 (0.90%) Palantir
6 1 (0.90%) Pardot
6 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow