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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 73 96
Rank change year-on-year +25 +23 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 108 45 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.06% 2.63% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 2.79% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 30 21
10th Percentile £425 £475 £413
25th Percentile £463 £513 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £725 £642 £675
90th Percentile £768 £740 £738
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% -6.00%

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 1,937 1,613 1,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.73% 94.33% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,097 1,218
10th Percentile £368 £325 £373
25th Percentile £456 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 19
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £21.81
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -29.78% +23.20%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £102.25
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.53% -22.76% +27.27%

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 12 October 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 17 (15.74%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (12.96%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.48%) Apache
4 3 (2.78%) Confluence
5 2 (1.85%) SAS
5 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (41.67%) Azure
2 38 (35.19%) AWS
3 19 (17.59%) Amazon S3
3 19 (17.59%) Azure Data Factory
3 19 (17.59%) Power Platform
3 19 (17.59%) Serverless
4 18 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (16.67%) dbt
4 18 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 14 (12.96%) GCP
6 12 (11.11%) Azure Databricks
6 12 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (10.19%) GitHub
8 9 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (6.48%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (15.74%) Power BI
3 13 (12.04%) Data Lake
3 13 (12.04%) Metadata
4 11 (10.19%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (8.33%) Delta Lake
6 8 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.70%) Data Mart
7 4 (3.70%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.78%) Big Data
8 3 (2.78%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.78%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.78%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.85%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.85%) Looker
9 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (8.33%) Git
2 8 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.48%) GitLab
4 5 (4.63%) JIRA
5 2 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.85%) MLflow
6 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.93%) Terragrunt
General
1 45 (41.67%) Finance
2 27 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (17.59%) Banking
5 7 (6.48%) Back Office
6 6 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.63%) Marketing
8 4 (3.70%) Front Office
8 4 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.93%) Billing
10 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (49.07%) Data Engineer
2 21 (19.44%) Senior
3 15 (13.89%) Senior Data Engineer
4 14 (12.96%) Architect
5 13 (12.04%) Lead
6 11 (10.19%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Analyst
7 8 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Data Architect
8 6 (5.56%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Databricks Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Data Manager
10 4 (3.70%) Analytics Manager
10 4 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
11 3 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (2.78%) Developer
11 3 (2.78%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.44%) PySpark
2 17 (15.74%) Terraform
3 10 (9.26%) Kafka
4 6 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.85%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.85%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.85%) Spring
5 2 (1.85%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.85%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.93%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.93%) JSON
6 1 (0.93%) pytest
6 1 (0.93%) React
6 1 (0.93%) REST
6 1 (0.93%) RESTful
6 1 (0.93%) SOAP
6 1 (0.93%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 31 (28.70%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.56%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.63%) Life Science
4 5 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.85%) PropTech
7 2 (1.85%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.93%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (51.85%) Analytics
2 50 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 49 (45.37%) Data Pipeline
4 41 (37.96%) Data Modelling
5 35 (32.41%) Data Governance
6 34 (31.48%) AI
7 33 (30.56%) ETL
8 32 (29.63%) DevOps
9 28 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (25.00%) Agile
11 24 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (22.22%) Data Architecture
12 21 (19.44%) Migration
12 21 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (18.52%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (17.59%) Decision-Making
14 19 (17.59%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 61 (56.48%) Python
1 61 (56.48%) SQL
2 5 (4.63%) Java
2 5 (4.63%) Korn
2 5 (4.63%) Scala
3 4 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.85%) Bicep
5 2 (1.85%) C#
5 2 (1.85%) LookML
5 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.93%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (6.48%) DBS Check
1 7 (6.48%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.63%) Degree
3 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.78%) PMP
5 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.85%) CAPM
5 2 (1.85%) CSPO
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.93%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (35.19%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.63%) GDPR
2 5 (4.63%) QA
3 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.85%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 2 (1.85%) EMIR
4 2 (1.85%) GxP
4 2 (1.85%) MiFID
4 2 (1.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.93%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) PERC
System Software
1 7 (6.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (36.11%) Databricks
2 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (2.78%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.85%) Informatica
5 2 (1.85%) JD Edwards
5 2 (1.85%) Palantir
5 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.85%) SAP
5 2 (1.85%) Teradata
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.93%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.93%) FactSet
6 1 (0.93%) Foundry
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) Pardot
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow