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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 86 101
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 59 31 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.22% 1.66% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 1.80% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 15 26
10th Percentile £355 £413 £415
25th Percentile £413 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.29% -6.12%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £697
90th Percentile £865 £745 £781
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% -0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 -

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 1,633 1,723 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.23% 91.99% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,047 1,548
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £770 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +35.24% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.12 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.08 £114.55 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 19 January 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 10 (16.95%) Apache Spark
2 7 (11.86%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (6.78%) Apache
4 1 (1.69%) Confluence
4 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.29%) AWS
1 22 (37.29%) Azure
2 17 (28.81%) Power Platform
3 12 (20.34%) Snowflake
4 10 (16.95%) GCP
5 6 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.17%) dbt
6 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (5.08%) Serverless
8 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub
8 2 (3.39%) SaaS
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 1 (1.69%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.81%) Power BI
2 9 (15.25%) Tableau
3 7 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.17%) Metadata
4 6 (10.17%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (8.47%) Big Data
6 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.08%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.69%) Looker
8 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.69%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.69%) GitLab
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 25 (42.37%) Finance
2 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Banking
4 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Front Office
5 5 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.78%) Back Office
7 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Data Engineer
2 10 (16.95%) Architect
3 6 (10.17%) Developer
3 6 (10.17%) Lead
4 5 (8.47%) Analyst
4 5 (8.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Data Scientist
6 3 (5.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Configuration Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.39%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) PySpark
1 9 (15.25%) PyTorch
1 9 (15.25%) TensorFlow
2 8 (13.56%) scikit-learn
3 3 (5.08%) Dask
3 3 (5.08%) Google JAX
3 3 (5.08%) JAX
3 3 (5.08%) Kafka
3 3 (5.08%) LightGBM
3 3 (5.08%) Middleware
3 3 (5.08%) XGBoost
4 2 (3.39%) NumPy
4 2 (3.39%) Pandas
5 1 (1.69%) JSON
5 1 (1.69%) LangChain
5 1 (1.69%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.69%) Ray
5 1 (1.69%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.69%) XML
5 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Algorithms
1 8 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Derivative
2 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (6.78%) Equities
4 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.39%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.39%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.69%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.69%) Clustering
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Replication
5 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.07%) Data Pipeline
2 24 (40.68%) Analytics
3 19 (32.20%) AI
4 18 (30.51%) Machine Learning
5 17 (28.81%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
6 16 (27.12%) Data Governance
7 13 (22.03%) Agile
7 13 (22.03%) Data Modelling
7 13 (22.03%) ETL
8 12 (20.34%) Data Science
9 9 (15.25%) Generative AI
10 8 (13.56%) Data Analysis
10 8 (13.56%) DevOps
10 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (13.56%) Use Case
11 7 (11.86%) Decision-Making
11 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (11.86%) Validation
11 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (52.54%) Python
2 25 (42.37%) SQL
3 4 (6.78%) Scala
4 2 (3.39%) Korn
4 2 (3.39%) R
4 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.69%) C#
5 1 (1.69%) C++
5 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) Degree
1 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.39%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.69%) MCP
3 1 (1.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.03%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.56%) GDPR
3 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.39%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (33.90%) Databricks
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.39%) Google
3 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.39%) SimCorp
3 2 (3.39%) Vermilion
4 1 (1.69%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.69%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.69%) Foundry
4 1 (1.69%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) Palantir
4 1 (1.69%) Workday