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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 79 101
Rank change year-on-year +35 +22 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 99 39 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.46% 2.21% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 2.38% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 22 23
10th Percentile £371 £429 £463
25th Percentile £425 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £648 £750
90th Percentile £805 £735 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -2.22% -13.46% +6.12%
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 1,914 1,637 2,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.18% 92.70% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,045 1,428
10th Percentile £363 £363 £352
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.44% -4.58%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £803
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -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 18 April 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 15 (15.15%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.04%) Apache
4 2 (2.02%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.01%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.48%) Azure
2 35 (35.35%) Power Platform
3 31 (31.31%) AWS
4 23 (23.23%) Snowflake
5 15 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (15.15%) dbt
5 15 (15.15%) GCP
6 11 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (10.10%) Serverless
8 8 (8.08%) Prefect
9 7 (7.07%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.07%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (6.06%) Dagster
10 6 (6.06%) GitHub
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.31%) Power BI
2 21 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (17.17%) Tableau
4 12 (12.12%) Snowflake Schema
5 10 (10.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (10.10%) Metadata
6 8 (8.08%) Big Data
6 8 (8.08%) Data Lake
7 6 (6.06%) Looker
7 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
7 6 (6.06%) SQL Server
8 5 (5.05%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.04%) Star Schema
10 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.03%) Delta Lake
10 3 (3.03%) Hadoop
11 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.02%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (2.02%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (2.02%) GitLab
2 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.01%) ERwin
3 1 (1.01%) Postman
3 1 (1.01%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.01%) Selenium
General
1 41 (41.41%) Finance
2 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.10%) Banking
4 9 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.06%) Legal
6 5 (5.05%) Front Office
6 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.04%) Back Office
7 4 (4.04%) Marketing
7 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (34.34%) Data Engineer
2 16 (16.16%) Architect
3 10 (10.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (10.10%) Snowflake Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) Developer
5 7 (7.07%) Analyst
5 7 (7.07%) Lead
6 6 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 6 (6.06%) Consultant
7 5 (5.05%) Senior
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.04%) Data Consultant
8 4 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.03%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.03%) Governance Consultant
9 3 (3.03%) Product Manager
9 3 (3.03%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.12%) PySpark
2 9 (9.09%) Kafka
3 6 (6.06%) PyTorch
3 6 (6.06%) TensorFlow
4 5 (5.05%) Middleware
4 5 (5.05%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.03%) Spring
5 3 (3.03%) Vert.x
6 2 (2.02%) Dask
6 2 (2.02%) Google JAX
6 2 (2.02%) JAX
6 2 (2.02%) JSON
6 2 (2.02%) LightGBM
6 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.02%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.02%) REST
6 2 (2.02%) XGBoost
6 2 (2.02%) XML
6 2 (2.02%) YAML
7 1 (1.01%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.08%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.05%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.05%) Clustering
5 4 (4.04%) Derivative
5 4 (4.04%) Equities
6 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.02%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.02%) Life Science
7 2 (2.02%) Replication
8 1 (1.01%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.01%) Linux
1 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (51.52%) Analytics
2 49 (49.49%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (42.42%) AI
4 33 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (32.32%) ETL
6 31 (31.31%) CI/CD
7 29 (29.29%) Data Modelling
8 24 (24.24%) Machine Learning
9 22 (22.22%) DevOps
10 19 (19.19%) Data Governance
11 18 (18.18%) Data Science
12 16 (16.16%) Use Case
12 16 (16.16%) Validation
13 15 (15.15%) Decision-Making
13 15 (15.15%) Generative AI
14 14 (14.14%) Agile
14 14 (14.14%) Performance Tuning
15 13 (13.13%) Test Automation
16 11 (11.11%) LLM
16 11 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (52.53%) Python
1 52 (52.53%) SQL
2 8 (8.08%) Java
3 6 (6.06%) Scala
4 4 (4.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.03%) Bicep
5 3 (3.03%) Korn
6 2 (2.02%) C#
6 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.02%) R
6 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.01%) Bash
7 1 (1.01%) C++
7 1 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (8.08%) Degree
2 6 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.02%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.02%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (29.29%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.10%) GDPR
3 3 (3.03%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.01%) GxP
5 1 (1.01%) NIST
5 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.01%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (9.09%) Terraform
2 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (32.32%) Databricks
2 20 (20.20%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.05%) Google
3 5 (5.05%) Workday
4 4 (4.04%) Informatica
5 3 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.02%) Foundry
6 2 (2.02%) Palantir
6 2 (2.02%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.02%) Vermilion
7 1 (1.01%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.01%) Apple
7 1 (1.01%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.01%) Denodo
7 1 (1.01%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.01%) Oracle