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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 70 96
Rank change year-on-year +30 +26 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 106 46 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.59% 2.63% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 2.81% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 25 22
10th Percentile £394 £440 £463
25th Percentile £450 £475 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £742
90th Percentile £768 £648 £761
Central London median daily rate £553 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +0.45% -13.73% +6.25%
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 1,957 1,635 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.59% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,027 1,378
10th Percentile £363 £353 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 12
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
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 17 May 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 16 (15.09%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.89%) Apache
3 2 (1.89%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.94%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.94%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 50 (47.17%) Azure
2 33 (31.13%) AWS
3 32 (30.19%) Power Platform
4 25 (23.58%) Snowflake
5 17 (16.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (16.04%) dbt
6 14 (13.21%) GCP
7 12 (11.32%) Serverless
8 11 (10.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (8.49%) Amazon S3
10 7 (6.60%) Amazon SageMaker
10 7 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (6.60%) Prefect
11 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (5.66%) GitHub
12 5 (4.72%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (4.72%) Dagster
13 4 (3.77%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.42%) Power BI
2 22 (20.75%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (13.21%) Snowflake Schema
3 14 (13.21%) Tableau
4 12 (11.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (9.43%) Metadata
6 7 (6.60%) Data Lake
6 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.66%) Big Data
7 6 (5.66%) Looker
8 5 (4.72%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.72%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.77%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.77%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.89%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.43%) Git
2 2 (1.89%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) ERwin
3 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) Postman
3 1 (0.94%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.94%) Selenium
General
1 44 (41.51%) Finance
2 16 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.49%) Banking
3 9 (8.49%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.66%) Legal
5 5 (4.72%) Front Office
5 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.77%) Back Office
6 4 (3.77%) Marketing
6 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.94%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (39.62%) Data Engineer
2 17 (16.04%) Architect
3 11 (10.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 11 (10.38%) Snowflake Engineer
4 8 (7.55%) Analyst
4 8 (7.55%) Developer
5 7 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 6 (5.66%) Consultant
6 6 (5.66%) Lead
6 6 (5.66%) Senior
7 5 (4.72%) Azure Data Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Product Manager
7 5 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (3.77%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.77%) Data Consultant
8 4 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.26%) PySpark
2 11 (10.38%) Kafka
3 5 (4.72%) Middleware
3 5 (4.72%) Spring
4 3 (2.83%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.83%) Vert.x
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.89%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.89%) REST
5 2 (1.89%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.89%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.89%) YAML
6 1 (0.94%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.94%) GeoJSON
6 1 (0.94%) Jinja
6 1 (0.94%) JSON
6 1 (0.94%) pytest
6 1 (0.94%) React
6 1 (0.94%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.32%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.77%) Clustering
4 4 (3.77%) Equities
5 3 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.83%) Derivative
5 3 (2.83%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.89%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.89%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.89%) Life Science
6 2 (1.89%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.89%) Replication
7 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.94%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.94%) Linux
1 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (50.00%) Analytics
2 47 (44.34%) Data Pipeline
3 43 (40.57%) AI
4 35 (33.02%) CI/CD
5 32 (30.19%) ETL
6 30 (28.30%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (28.30%) Data Modelling
7 25 (23.58%) DevOps
8 20 (18.87%) Data Governance
9 18 (16.98%) Machine Learning
10 17 (16.04%) Validation
11 16 (15.09%) Generative AI
12 15 (14.15%) Data Science
12 15 (14.15%) Use Case
13 14 (13.21%) Decision-Making
13 14 (13.21%) Test Automation
14 13 (12.26%) Agile
15 12 (11.32%) LLM
15 12 (11.32%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (11.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (51.89%) SQL
2 53 (50.00%) Python
3 10 (9.43%) Java
4 5 (4.72%) Scala
5 4 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.77%) Korn
6 3 (2.83%) Bicep
6 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.89%) C#
7 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.94%) Bash
8 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.66%) Degree
1 6 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.89%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (29.25%) Data Quality
2 12 (11.32%) GDPR
3 4 (3.77%) QA
4 2 (1.89%) EMIR
4 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.89%) MiFID
5 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.94%) GxP
5 1 (0.94%) NIST
5 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.94%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.55%) Terraform
2 7 (6.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (29.25%) Databricks
2 22 (20.75%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.72%) Google
3 5 (4.72%) Workday
4 4 (3.77%) Informatica
5 3 (2.83%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.89%) Foundry
6 2 (1.89%) Palantir
6 2 (1.89%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.89%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.94%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.94%) Apple
7 1 (0.94%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.94%) Denodo
7 1 (0.94%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle