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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 72 96
Rank change year-on-year +33 +24 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 111 45 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.75% 2.68% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 2.86% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 25 23
10th Percentile £400 £440 £433
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £731
90th Percentile £763 £663 £750
Central London median daily rate £553 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +0.45% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 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 1,982 1,571 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.85% 93.51% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,355 988 1,374
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £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 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.74% +2.88% -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 24 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 18 (16.22%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.60%) Apache
4 2 (1.80%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.90%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 53 (47.75%) Azure
2 35 (31.53%) Power Platform
3 34 (30.63%) AWS
4 24 (21.62%) Snowflake
5 18 (16.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (14.41%) dbt
7 14 (12.61%) GCP
8 13 (11.71%) Serverless
9 10 (9.01%) Amazon S3
9 10 (9.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (6.31%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (6.31%) Prefect
12 6 (5.41%) GitHub
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (4.50%) Dagster
14 4 (3.60%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (27.93%) Power BI
2 21 (18.92%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (12.61%) Tableau
4 13 (11.71%) Snowflake Schema
5 12 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (9.01%) Metadata
7 9 (8.11%) SQL Server
8 7 (6.31%) Data Lake
9 6 (5.41%) Big Data
9 6 (5.41%) Delta Lake
9 6 (5.41%) Looker
10 5 (4.50%) BigQuery
10 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.60%) Star Schema
12 3 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.80%) Data Mining
13 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) Git
2 2 (1.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.90%) ERwin
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) JIRA
3 1 (0.90%) Postman
3 1 (0.90%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 44 (39.64%) Finance
2 15 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Banking
3 10 (9.01%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.41%) Legal
5 5 (4.50%) Front Office
6 4 (3.60%) Back Office
6 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.60%) Marketing
6 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Billing
8 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (40.54%) Data Engineer
2 17 (15.32%) Architect
3 10 (9.01%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (9.01%) Snowflake Engineer
4 8 (7.21%) Analyst
4 8 (7.21%) Developer
5 7 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Lead
6 6 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 6 (5.41%) Consultant
6 6 (5.41%) Senior
7 5 (4.50%) Azure Data Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Product Manager
7 5 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (3.60%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.60%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.60%) Data Consultant
8 4 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) PySpark
2 13 (11.71%) Kafka
3 5 (4.50%) Middleware
3 5 (4.50%) Spring
4 3 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.70%) Vert.x
5 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.80%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.80%) REST
5 2 (1.80%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.80%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.80%) YAML
6 1 (0.90%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.90%) Django
6 1 (0.90%) HTML
6 1 (0.90%) Jinja
6 1 (0.90%) JSON
6 1 (0.90%) pytest
6 1 (0.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.21%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.60%) Clustering
4 4 (3.60%) Equities
5 3 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.70%) Derivative
5 3 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.80%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Life Science
6 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
1 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (51.35%) Analytics
2 49 (44.14%) Data Pipeline
3 45 (40.54%) AI
4 37 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 35 (31.53%) ETL
6 33 (29.73%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (28.83%) Data Modelling
8 28 (25.23%) DevOps
9 23 (20.72%) Data Governance
10 18 (16.22%) Machine Learning
11 17 (15.32%) Generative AI
11 17 (15.32%) Validation
12 16 (14.41%) Data Science
13 15 (13.51%) Decision-Making
13 15 (13.51%) Use Case
14 13 (11.71%) Agile
14 13 (11.71%) Test Automation
15 12 (10.81%) LLM
15 12 (10.81%) Performance Optimisation
15 12 (10.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (52.25%) SQL
2 57 (51.35%) Python
3 10 (9.01%) Java
4 5 (4.50%) Scala
5 4 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.60%) Korn
6 3 (2.70%) Bicep
6 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.80%) C#
7 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.90%) Bash
8 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.41%) DBS Check
2 6 (5.41%) Degree
2 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.80%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (27.03%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.81%) GDPR
3 4 (3.60%) QA
4 2 (1.80%) EMIR
4 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.80%) MiFID
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) GxP
5 1 (0.90%) NIST
5 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.90%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (9.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.21%) Terraform
2 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (29.73%) Databricks
2 23 (20.72%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.50%) Google
3 5 (4.50%) Workday
4 4 (3.60%) Informatica
4 4 (3.60%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.80%) Foundry
6 2 (1.80%) Oracle
6 2 (1.80%) Palantir
6 2 (1.80%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.80%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.90%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.90%) Apple
7 1 (0.90%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.90%) Denodo
7 1 (0.90%) Guidewire