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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 83 96
Rank change year-on-year +43 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 113 43 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.01% 2.43% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 2.58% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 30 19
10th Percentile £425 £475 £423
25th Percentile £463 £503 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £644 £697
90th Percentile £763 £715 £740
Central London median daily rate £588 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.82% -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 2,001 1,669 1,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.74% 94.24% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,107 1,230
10th Percentile £368 £325 £387
25th Percentile £456 £420 £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 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 17
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +4.91% -13.60%
75th Percentile £32.57 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.19% -10.71% +27.27%

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 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 20 (17.70%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (12.39%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.31%) Apache
4 3 (2.65%) Confluence
5 2 (1.77%) SAS
5 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.77%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (47.79%) Azure
2 43 (38.05%) AWS
3 26 (23.01%) Power Platform
4 22 (19.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (19.47%) Snowflake
5 20 (17.70%) dbt
6 19 (16.81%) Amazon S3
6 19 (16.81%) Serverless
7 17 (15.04%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (15.04%) GCP
8 14 (12.39%) Azure Databricks
9 13 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (8.85%) GitHub
11 9 (7.96%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (7.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (6.19%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (4.42%) Amazon Bedrock
14 5 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (4.42%) Amazon EventBridge
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.01%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (19.47%) Power BI
3 14 (12.39%) Data Lake
4 13 (11.50%) Metadata
5 12 (10.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (7.96%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (7.96%) Delta Lake
7 7 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.42%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.42%) Tableau
9 4 (3.54%) Big Data
9 4 (3.54%) Data Mart
9 4 (3.54%) Looker
9 4 (3.54%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.65%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Git
2 6 (5.31%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.42%) GitLab
3 5 (4.42%) JIRA
4 2 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.77%) MLflow
5 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 48 (42.48%) Finance
2 26 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.93%) Banking
4 5 (4.42%) Back Office
4 5 (4.42%) Marketing
4 5 (4.42%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (3.54%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.65%) Front Office
6 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Legal
7 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Billing
8 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Military
8 1 (0.88%) Publishing
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (46.02%) Data Engineer
2 18 (15.93%) Senior
3 16 (14.16%) Architect
4 13 (11.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (9.73%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (9.73%) Lead
6 9 (7.96%) Data Architect
7 8 (7.08%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Databricks Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Data Manager
9 5 (4.42%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Analytics Manager
10 4 (3.54%) Platform Architect
10 4 (3.54%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) Consultant
11 3 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.58%) PySpark
2 18 (15.93%) Terraform
3 11 (9.73%) Kafka
4 4 (3.54%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.65%) REST
5 3 (2.65%) Spring
5 3 (2.65%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.77%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.77%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.77%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.88%) JSON
7 1 (0.88%) pytest
7 1 (0.88%) React
7 1 (0.88%) RESTful
7 1 (0.88%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.31%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.42%) Life Science
4 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.65%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.77%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.88%) NHS
8 1 (0.88%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (56.64%) Analytics
2 53 (46.90%) CI/CD
3 52 (46.02%) Data Pipeline
4 43 (38.05%) Data Modelling
5 42 (37.17%) AI
6 39 (34.51%) ETL
7 37 (32.74%) DevOps
8 35 (30.97%) Data Governance
9 29 (25.66%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (23.01%) Agile
10 26 (23.01%) Data Architecture
10 26 (23.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (19.47%) Decision-Making
11 22 (19.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (16.81%) Machine Learning
13 19 (16.81%) Migration
13 19 (16.81%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (16.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (15.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (54.87%) SQL
2 61 (53.98%) Python
3 6 (5.31%) Java
4 5 (4.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.54%) Korn
5 4 (3.54%) Scala
6 3 (2.65%) Bicep
6 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.65%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.77%) Bash
7 2 (1.77%) C#
7 2 (1.77%) LookML
8 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.19%) DBS Check
3 6 (5.31%) Degree
3 6 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.65%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.65%) PMP
5 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.77%) CAPM
5 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.77%) CSPO
5 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (35.40%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.19%) GDPR
3 5 (4.42%) QA
4 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.77%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.77%) EMIR
5 2 (1.77%) GxP
5 2 (1.77%) MiFID
5 2 (1.77%) PMO
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (8.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (36.28%) Databricks
2 26 (23.01%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.08%) Oracle
4 4 (3.54%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.65%) Informatica
6 2 (1.77%) Google
6 2 (1.77%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.77%) SAP
6 2 (1.77%) Teradata
6 2 (1.77%) Workday
7 1 (0.88%) Adobe
7 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.88%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.88%) Foundry
7 1 (0.88%) Palantir
7 1 (0.88%) Pardot
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow