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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 73 93
Rank change year-on-year +35 +20 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 114 44 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.80% 2.58% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 2.75% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 26 23
10th Percentile £400 £444 £419
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £663 £605 £731
90th Percentile £763 £659 £750
Central London median daily rate £555 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +0.91% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

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 2,034 1,598 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.64% 93.72% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,008 1,378
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £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 25 15 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.48% -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 7 June 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 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.89%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.51%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 52 (45.61%) Azure
2 36 (31.58%) AWS
2 36 (31.58%) Power Platform
3 24 (21.05%) Snowflake
4 17 (14.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (14.04%) dbt
6 14 (12.28%) GCP
6 14 (12.28%) Serverless
7 12 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 10 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (6.14%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (6.14%) Prefect
12 6 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (5.26%) GitHub
13 5 (4.39%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (4.39%) Dagster
14 4 (3.51%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.07%) Power BI
2 21 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (13.16%) Tableau
4 14 (12.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (9.65%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (7.89%) Metadata
6 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.26%) Big Data
7 6 (5.26%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.26%) Looker
8 5 (4.39%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.39%) Delta Lake
8 5 (4.39%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.39%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.51%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (9.65%) Git
2 2 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (0.88%) ERwin
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) JIRA
3 1 (0.88%) Postman
3 1 (0.88%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 46 (40.35%) Finance
2 16 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.40%) Banking
4 12 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Legal
6 5 (4.39%) Front Office
6 5 (4.39%) Marketing
6 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.51%) Back Office
7 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Billing
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (38.60%) Data Engineer
2 18 (15.79%) Architect
3 10 (8.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (8.77%) Snowflake Engineer
4 9 (7.89%) Analyst
5 8 (7.02%) Developer
5 8 (7.02%) Lead
6 7 (6.14%) Senior
7 6 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 6 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Consultant
7 6 (5.26%) Product Manager
7 6 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.51%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.51%) Data Consultant
9 4 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.16%) PySpark
2 13 (11.40%) Kafka
3 5 (4.39%) Spring
4 4 (3.51%) Middleware
5 3 (2.63%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.63%) Vert.x
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.75%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.75%) REST
6 2 (1.75%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.75%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.88%) ADO
7 1 (0.88%) CSS
7 1 (0.88%) Dask
7 1 (0.88%) Django
7 1 (0.88%) HTML
7 1 (0.88%) JSON
7 1 (0.88%) XML
7 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.93%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.51%) Clustering
4 4 (3.51%) Equities
5 3 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.63%) Derivative
5 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.63%) Life Science
5 3 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.75%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
1 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.88%) Analytics
2 48 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
3 47 (41.23%) AI
4 38 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 36 (31.58%) ETL
6 35 (30.70%) Business Intelligence
7 34 (29.82%) Data Modelling
8 29 (25.44%) DevOps
9 22 (19.30%) Data Governance
10 20 (17.54%) Machine Learning
11 18 (15.79%) Validation
12 17 (14.91%) Decision-Making
12 17 (14.91%) Generative AI
13 16 (14.04%) Data Science
14 14 (12.28%) Agile
14 14 (12.28%) Use Case
15 13 (11.40%) Test Automation
16 12 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
16 12 (10.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (52.63%) Python
1 60 (52.63%) SQL
2 10 (8.77%) Java
3 5 (4.39%) Scala
4 4 (3.51%) Korn
5 3 (2.63%) Bicep
5 3 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.75%) C#
6 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.75%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.88%) Bash
7 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.14%) DBS Check
1 7 (6.14%) Degree
1 7 (6.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.75%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) CSPO
5 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (24.56%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.53%) GDPR
3 5 (4.39%) QA
4 2 (1.75%) EMIR
4 2 (1.75%) GxP
4 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.75%) MiFID
5 1 (0.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (8.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.02%) Terraform
2 7 (6.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (27.19%) Databricks
2 23 (20.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.39%) Google
3 5 (4.39%) Informatica
3 5 (4.39%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.39%) Workday
4 3 (2.63%) Oracle
4 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.75%) Foundry
5 2 (1.75%) Palantir
5 2 (1.75%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.75%) Vermilion
6 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.88%) Apple
6 1 (0.88%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.88%) Denodo
6 1 (0.88%) Guidewire