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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 98 105
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 39 30 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.16% 1.40% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.52% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 26
10th Percentile £296 £413 £438
25th Percentile £502 £457 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -9.80% +10.87%
75th Percentile £673 £706 £784
90th Percentile £796 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £650
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 -

All Process and 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 1,662 1,968 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.98% 91.62% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,216 1,650
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +54.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 4 December 2025.

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 11 (28.21%) Apache Spark
2 9 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (15.38%) Apache
4 1 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) Azure
3 11 (28.21%) GCP
4 10 (25.64%) Power Platform
4 10 (25.64%) Snowflake
5 6 (15.38%) dbt
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (5.13%) GitHub
8 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
9 1 (2.56%) Fivetran
9 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) Power BI
2 8 (20.51%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (15.38%) Tableau
4 5 (12.82%) Big Data
4 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (5.13%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
6 2 (5.13%) Metadata
6 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) MLflow
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 18 (46.15%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Banking
4 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Front Office
5 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Data Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Data Scientist
3 4 (10.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Business Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Principal Consultant
6 1 (2.56%) Project Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) PyTorch
1 7 (17.95%) TensorFlow
2 6 (15.38%) scikit-learn
3 4 (10.26%) Kafka
4 3 (7.69%) PySpark
5 2 (5.13%) Dask
5 2 (5.13%) Google JAX
5 2 (5.13%) JAX
5 2 (5.13%) LightGBM
5 2 (5.13%) NumPy
5 2 (5.13%) Pandas
5 2 (5.13%) XGBoost
6 1 (2.56%) JSON
6 1 (2.56%) LangChain
6 1 (2.56%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.56%) Middleware
6 1 (2.56%) Ray
6 1 (2.56%) Seaborn
6 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Derivative
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.56%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (2.56%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.56%) Equities
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) Analytics
2 15 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (38.46%) Machine Learning
3 13 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 12 (30.77%) AI
4 12 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
6 10 (25.64%) Data Governance
6 10 (25.64%) Data Science
7 9 (23.08%) ETL
8 8 (20.51%) Agile
9 7 (17.95%) Data Integration
10 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
11 5 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
12 4 (10.26%) Actionable Insight
12 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) Python
2 17 (43.59%) SQL
3 5 (12.82%) Scala
4 3 (7.69%) R
5 1 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) C++
5 1 (2.56%) CodeQL
5 1 (2.56%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.56%) MCP
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) NIST
3 2 (5.13%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.56%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Databricks
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Workday