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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 82 103
Rank change year-on-year +40 +21 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 112 46 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.71% 2.45% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 2.60% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 31 18
10th Percentile £425 £463 £443
25th Percentile £463 £478 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £734
90th Percentile £763 £713 £754
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +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 2,081 1,772 1,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.47% 94.21% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 1,161 1,284
10th Percentile £375 £329 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £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 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 10 August 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 17 (15.18%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.93%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.57%) Apache
4 2 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.89%) Confluence
5 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.46%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.68%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.43%) Azure
2 34 (30.36%) AWS
3 32 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 23 (20.54%) Snowflake
5 17 (15.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (15.18%) dbt
5 17 (15.18%) Serverless
6 16 (14.29%) GCP
7 15 (13.39%) Amazon S3
8 14 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (8.04%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (8.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (8.04%) GitHub
11 7 (6.25%) Prefect
12 5 (4.46%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (4.46%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (4.46%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (4.46%) Dagster
12 5 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (24.11%) Power BI
2 23 (20.54%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (10.71%) Data Lake
4 12 (10.71%) Tableau
5 8 (7.14%) Metadata
5 8 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (6.25%) Big Data
7 6 (5.36%) BigQuery
7 6 (5.36%) Delta Lake
7 6 (5.36%) NoSQL
7 6 (5.36%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.46%) Looker
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.57%) Data Mart
9 4 (3.57%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.57%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) Git
2 5 (4.46%) GitLab
3 4 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.89%) MLflow
5 1 (0.89%) Postman
5 1 (0.89%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.89%) Selenium
5 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (41.07%) Finance
2 19 (16.96%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.71%) Banking
5 6 (5.36%) Legal
6 5 (4.46%) Marketing
7 4 (3.57%) Back Office
7 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.68%) Front Office
8 3 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.89%) Billing
10 1 (0.89%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.89%) Military
10 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (45.54%) Data Engineer
2 16 (14.29%) Architect
3 11 (9.82%) Senior
4 8 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 8 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Analyst
5 7 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 7 (6.25%) Lead
6 6 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Lead Data Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Product Manager
7 5 (4.46%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Architect
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) Python Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.68%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.07%) PySpark
2 10 (8.93%) Kafka
3 5 (4.46%) Spring
4 3 (2.68%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.68%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.79%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.79%) pytest
5 2 (1.79%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.79%) React
5 2 (1.79%) REST
5 2 (1.79%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.79%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.89%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.89%) Django
6 1 (0.89%) Jinja
6 1 (0.89%) JSON
6 1 (0.89%) RESTful
6 1 (0.89%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.46%) Life Science
5 4 (3.57%) Clustering
5 4 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.68%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.68%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.89%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.89%) NHS
8 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.93%) Analytics
2 48 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 48 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (39.29%) AI
4 40 (35.71%) Data Modelling
5 39 (34.82%) ETL
6 35 (31.25%) DevOps
7 33 (29.46%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (24.11%) Data Governance
9 22 (19.64%) Decision-Making
10 19 (16.96%) Agile
10 19 (16.96%) Data Architecture
10 19 (16.96%) Machine Learning
11 17 (15.18%) Validation
12 16 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (13.39%) Data Science
13 15 (13.39%) Migration
13 15 (13.39%) Performance Optimisation
13 15 (13.39%) Software Engineering
13 15 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (57.14%) SQL
2 62 (55.36%) Python
3 8 (7.14%) Java
4 4 (3.57%) Bicep
4 4 (3.57%) C#
4 4 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.57%) Scala
4 4 (3.57%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.68%) Korn
6 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.89%) Bash
7 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.36%) DBS Check
1 6 (5.36%) Degree
1 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.79%) CSPO
4 2 (1.79%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.82%) GDPR
3 8 (7.14%) QA
4 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.68%) GxP
5 2 (1.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.79%) EMIR
5 2 (1.79%) MiFID
6 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.89%) PERC
6 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.89%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (11.61%) Terraform
2 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (30.36%) Databricks
2 25 (22.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.46%) Google
3 5 (4.46%) Informatica
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle
3 5 (4.46%) Workday
4 4 (3.57%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.79%) Foundry
5 2 (1.79%) Palantir
5 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.89%) Adobe
6 1 (0.89%) Apple
6 1 (0.89%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.89%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.89%) Denodo
6 1 (0.89%) Pardot
6 1 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow