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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 81 96
Rank change year-on-year +42 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 115 43 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.79% 2.51% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 2.67% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 27 22
10th Percentile £400 £448 £429
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £656 £598 £747
90th Percentile £758 £656 £761
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +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 2,062 1,609 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.81% 93.76% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,386 1,024 1,363
10th Percentile £361 £355 £356
25th Percentile £450 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -2.04% -5.83%
75th Percentile £674 £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 28 16 13
10th Percentile £17.49 £19.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +13.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £45.29 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.31 £76.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.12% +4.53% -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 14 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 18 (15.65%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.96%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.48%) Apache
4 3 (2.61%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.74%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 52 (45.22%) Azure
2 37 (32.17%) Power Platform
3 34 (29.57%) AWS
4 24 (20.87%) Snowflake
5 17 (14.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (13.91%) dbt
7 15 (13.04%) Serverless
8 13 (11.30%) Amazon S3
9 12 (10.43%) GCP
10 11 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (7.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (6.09%) Prefect
14 6 (5.22%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (5.22%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (5.22%) GitHub
15 5 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
15 5 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (4.35%) Dagster
16 4 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (27.83%) Power BI
2 23 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (11.30%) Tableau
5 11 (9.57%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (7.83%) Metadata
6 9 (7.83%) SQL Server
7 8 (6.96%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.22%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.35%) Big Data
9 5 (4.35%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.35%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.35%) Looker
10 4 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.48%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.61%) Data Mart
11 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Git
2 1 (0.87%) ERwin
2 1 (0.87%) GitLab
2 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.87%) JIRA
2 1 (0.87%) Postman
2 1 (0.87%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 44 (38.26%) Finance
2 15 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.30%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.43%) Banking
5 6 (5.22%) Legal
6 5 (4.35%) Marketing
6 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.61%) Front Office
8 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.74%) Back Office
9 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.87%) Billing
10 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.87%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (38.26%) Data Engineer
2 20 (17.39%) Architect
3 10 (8.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (8.70%) Snowflake Engineer
4 9 (7.83%) Analyst
5 8 (6.96%) Lead
5 8 (6.96%) Senior
6 6 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 6 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Consultant
6 6 (5.22%) Product Manager
6 6 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.35%) Developer
7 5 (4.35%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Data Consultant
8 4 (3.48%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.78%) PySpark
2 13 (11.30%) Kafka
3 5 (4.35%) Spring
4 4 (3.48%) Middleware
5 3 (2.61%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.61%) Vert.x
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.74%) REST
7 1 (0.87%) ADO
7 1 (0.87%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.87%) CSS
7 1 (0.87%) Django
7 1 (0.87%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.87%) HTML
7 1 (0.87%) Jinja
7 1 (0.87%) JSON
7 1 (0.87%) pytest
7 1 (0.87%) XML
7 1 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.61%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.48%) Clustering
4 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.61%) Equities
5 3 (2.61%) Life Science
5 3 (2.61%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.74%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.74%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.87%) Derivative
7 1 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.87%) NHS
7 1 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.87%) Linux
1 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (53.91%) Analytics
2 50 (43.48%) AI
3 49 (42.61%) Data Pipeline
4 40 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 37 (32.17%) ETL
6 36 (31.30%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (31.30%) Data Modelling
7 31 (26.96%) DevOps
8 23 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 19 (16.52%) Machine Learning
10 18 (15.65%) Decision-Making
10 18 (15.65%) Generative AI
10 18 (15.65%) Validation
11 16 (13.91%) Agile
12 15 (13.04%) Data Science
12 15 (13.04%) Use Case
13 14 (12.17%) Performance Optimisation
14 13 (11.30%) Data Architecture
14 13 (11.30%) Roadmaps
15 12 (10.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (53.91%) Python
1 62 (53.91%) SQL
2 10 (8.70%) Java
3 5 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.48%) Korn
4 4 (3.48%) Scala
4 4 (3.48%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.61%) Bicep
6 2 (1.74%) C#
6 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.87%) Bash
7 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.09%) Degree
1 7 (6.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.22%) DBS Check
2 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.74%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.87%) CSPO
5 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (25.22%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.43%) GDPR
3 5 (4.35%) QA
4 2 (1.74%) EMIR
4 2 (1.74%) GxP
4 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.74%) MiFID
5 1 (0.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.87%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (7.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) Terraform
2 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (29.57%) Databricks
2 26 (22.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.35%) Google
3 5 (4.35%) Informatica
3 5 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.35%) Workday
4 4 (3.48%) Oracle
5 3 (2.61%) Foundry
5 3 (2.61%) Palantir
5 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.74%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.74%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.87%) Adobe
7 1 (0.87%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.87%) Apple
7 1 (0.87%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.87%) Denodo
7 1 (0.87%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow