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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 84 100
Rank change year-on-year +38 +16 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 96 32 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.51% 1.85% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 2.01% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 17 23
10th Percentile £369 £420 £427
25th Percentile £425 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +5.52%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £750
90th Percentile £816 £738 £773
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
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 1,871 1,595 2,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.88% 92.20% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,290 1,026 1,486
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £447 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.19% -5.29%
75th Percentile £669 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 27 March 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 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.25%) Apache
4 2 (2.08%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.04%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 45 (46.88%) Azure
2 33 (34.38%) Power Platform
3 31 (32.29%) AWS
4 25 (26.04%) Snowflake
5 15 (15.63%) dbt
5 15 (15.63%) GCP
6 14 (14.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (9.38%) Serverless
8 6 (6.25%) Prefect
9 5 (5.21%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.21%) GitHub
10 4 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.17%) Dagster
10 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.13%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (3.13%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.25%) Power BI
2 21 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (16.67%) Tableau
4 12 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (8.33%) Big Data
5 8 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.33%) Metadata
6 6 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.17%) Looker
8 4 (4.17%) Star Schema
9 3 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.13%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.13%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.13%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Git
2 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.08%) GitLab
4 1 (1.04%) ERwin
4 1 (1.04%) Postman
4 1 (1.04%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 39 (40.63%) Finance
2 19 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.46%) Banking
4 10 (10.42%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Front Office
6 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.17%) Back Office
7 4 (4.17%) Legal
8 3 (3.13%) Marketing
8 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (35.42%) Data Engineer
2 13 (13.54%) Architect
3 10 (10.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (10.42%) Snowflake Engineer
4 9 (9.38%) Developer
5 8 (8.33%) Lead
6 6 (6.25%) Analyst
6 6 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Consultant
7 5 (5.21%) Senior
8 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Data Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Junior
9 3 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Product Manager
9 3 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.50%) PySpark
2 11 (11.46%) Kafka
3 7 (7.29%) PyTorch
3 7 (7.29%) TensorFlow
4 6 (6.25%) scikit-learn
5 5 (5.21%) Middleware
6 3 (3.13%) Dask
6 3 (3.13%) Google JAX
6 3 (3.13%) JAX
6 3 (3.13%) LightGBM
6 3 (3.13%) Vert.x
6 3 (3.13%) XGBoost
7 2 (2.08%) JSON
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.08%) Spring
7 2 (2.08%) XML
7 2 (2.08%) YAML
8 1 (1.04%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.04%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.21%) Clustering
5 5 (5.21%) Derivative
6 4 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (4.17%) Equities
7 3 (3.13%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.08%) Life Science
8 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.08%) Replication
9 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
1 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.96%) Analytics
1 47 (48.96%) Data Pipeline
2 39 (40.63%) AI
3 31 (32.29%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (32.29%) CI/CD
4 28 (29.17%) Data Modelling
4 28 (29.17%) ETL
5 23 (23.96%) Machine Learning
6 20 (20.83%) Data Governance
6 20 (20.83%) DevOps
7 17 (17.71%) Data Science
8 16 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (15.63%) Agile
9 15 (15.63%) Generative AI
9 15 (15.63%) Validation
10 14 (14.58%) Use Case
11 13 (13.54%) Decision-Making
12 11 (11.46%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
14 9 (9.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 54 (56.25%) SQL
2 51 (53.13%) Python
3 7 (7.29%) Java
4 6 (6.25%) Scala
5 4 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.13%) C#
6 3 (3.13%) Korn
7 2 (2.08%) R
7 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.04%) Bicep
8 1 (1.04%) C++
8 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.29%) Degree
2 5 (5.21%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.08%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.13%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.33%) GDPR
3 4 (4.17%) QA
4 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.04%) GxP
5 1 (1.04%) NIST
5 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) Terraform
2 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (31.25%) Databricks
2 18 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.21%) Google
4 4 (4.17%) Informatica
5 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.13%) Workday
6 2 (2.08%) Foundry
6 2 (2.08%) Palantir
6 2 (2.08%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.08%) Vermilion
7 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.04%) Apple
7 1 (1.04%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.04%) Denodo
7 1 (1.04%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle