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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 76 92
Rank change year-on-year +33 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 112 43 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.91% 2.40% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 2.55% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 30 20
10th Percentile £424 £475 £424
25th Percentile £463 £503 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £644 £686
90th Percentile £763 £715 £739
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 2,013 1,683 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 94.02% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,107 1,242
10th Percentile £375 £325 £386
25th Percentile £456 £424 £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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 7 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 21 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.36%) Apache
4 3 (2.68%) Confluence
5 2 (1.79%) SAS
5 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.79%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (48.21%) Azure
2 43 (38.39%) AWS
3 26 (23.21%) Power Platform
4 23 (20.54%) Snowflake
5 21 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (18.75%) dbt
6 19 (16.96%) Amazon S3
7 18 (16.07%) GCP
7 18 (16.07%) Serverless
8 16 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (10.71%) Azure Databricks
11 9 (8.04%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (8.04%) GitHub
12 8 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (5.36%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (4.46%) Amazon Bedrock
15 5 (4.46%) Amazon EMR
16 4 (3.57%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (24.11%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (20.54%) Power BI
3 14 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 13 (11.61%) Metadata
5 12 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (8.04%) Delta Lake
7 8 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (5.36%) Tableau
9 5 (4.46%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.46%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.46%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.57%) Big Data
10 4 (3.57%) Data Mart
10 4 (3.57%) Looker
10 4 (3.57%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.57%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Git
2 5 (4.46%) Bitbucket
2 5 (4.46%) JIRA
3 4 (3.57%) GitLab
4 2 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.79%) MLflow
5 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 46 (41.07%) Finance
2 25 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.18%) Banking
5 6 (5.36%) Marketing
6 4 (3.57%) Back Office
6 4 (3.57%) Legal
6 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.68%) Front Office
7 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.89%) Billing
9 1 (0.89%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.89%) Law
9 1 (0.89%) Military
9 1 (0.89%) Publishing
9 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (44.64%) Data Engineer
2 17 (15.18%) Senior
3 16 (14.29%) Architect
4 12 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Data Architect
6 9 (8.04%) Lead
7 7 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Analyst
8 6 (5.36%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Data Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Databricks Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Analytics Manager
10 4 (3.57%) Developer
10 4 (3.57%) Product Manager
10 4 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.64%) PySpark
2 17 (15.18%) Terraform
3 12 (10.71%) Kafka
4 3 (2.68%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.68%) REST
4 3 (2.68%) Spring
4 3 (2.68%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.79%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.79%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.79%) React
5 2 (1.79%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.79%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.89%) JSON
6 1 (0.89%) pytest
6 1 (0.89%) SOAP
6 1 (0.89%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.68%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.46%) AI Agents
3 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.68%) Life Science
6 2 (1.79%) Clustering
6 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.79%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.89%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.89%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.89%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.89%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.93%) Analytics
2 52 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 51 (45.54%) Data Pipeline
4 43 (38.39%) AI
4 43 (38.39%) Data Modelling
5 38 (33.93%) ETL
6 37 (33.04%) DevOps
7 34 (30.36%) Data Governance
8 30 (26.79%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (23.21%) Data Architecture
10 23 (20.54%) Agile
10 23 (20.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (19.64%) Decision-Making
11 22 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (17.86%) Machine Learning
14 19 (16.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (16.07%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (15.18%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 62 (55.36%) Python
1 62 (55.36%) SQL
2 7 (6.25%) Java
3 5 (4.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.57%) Scala
5 3 (2.68%) Bicep
5 3 (2.68%) Korn
5 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.68%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.79%) Bash
6 2 (1.79%) C#
6 2 (1.79%) LookML
7 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.25%) DBS Check
3 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.57%) Degree
5 3 (2.68%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.79%) CSPO
6 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (33.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.25%) GDPR
3 5 (4.46%) QA
4 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.79%) EMIR
5 2 (1.79%) GxP
5 2 (1.79%) MiFID
6 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (8.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (34.82%) Databricks
2 24 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle
4 4 (3.57%) Google
4 4 (3.57%) Informatica
4 4 (3.57%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.79%) Teradata
5 2 (1.79%) Workday
6 1 (0.89%) Adobe
6 1 (0.89%) Apple
6 1 (0.89%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.89%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.89%) Foundry
6 1 (0.89%) Palantir
6 1 (0.89%) Pardot
6 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow