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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 101 112
Rank change year-on-year +23 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 42 27 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.46% 1.29% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 1.41% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 26
10th Percentile £475 £413 £444
25th Percentile £513 £432 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £645 £713 £784
90th Percentile £745 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £575 £673
% change year-on-year -1.74% -14.50% +19.56%

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 1,606 1,918 2,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.08% 91.60% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,173 1,745
10th Percentile £325 £372 £363
25th Percentile £418 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £750 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +54.55% -36.40%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £70.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.05%

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 November 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 10 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (21.43%) Apache Spark
3 6 (14.29%) Apache
4 1 (2.38%) Confluence
4 1 (2.38%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 12 (28.57%) GCP
4 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
5 9 (21.43%) Snowflake
6 5 (11.90%) dbt
7 4 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (7.14%) Collibra
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.76%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (4.76%) GitHub
9 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.76%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Data Lake
2 10 (23.81%) Power BI
3 8 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (14.29%) Delta Lake
5 5 (11.90%) Big Data
5 5 (11.90%) BigQuery
5 5 (11.90%) Metadata
6 4 (9.52%) Tableau
7 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
7 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.38%) Data Mining
9 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.38%) Parquet
9 1 (2.38%) Pentaho
9 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) MLflow
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 15 (35.71%) Finance
2 10 (23.81%) Banking
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.76%) Front Office
4 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Back Office
5 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.38%) Police
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Data Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.76%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Kafka
1 5 (11.90%) PySpark
2 3 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 3 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 3 (7.14%) TensorFlow
3 2 (4.76%) NumPy
3 2 (4.76%) Pandas
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.38%) Dask
4 1 (2.38%) Google JAX
4 1 (2.38%) JAX
4 1 (2.38%) LightGBM
4 1 (2.38%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.76%) Derivative
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Equities
4 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Data Modelling
2 16 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (35.71%) Analytics
4 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 13 (30.95%) Data Governance
5 13 (30.95%) ETL
6 12 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (23.81%) AI
7 10 (23.81%) Data Integration
7 10 (23.81%) Machine Learning
8 9 (21.43%) Agile
8 9 (21.43%) Data Science
9 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (16.67%) Data Architecture
11 6 (14.29%) Data Transformation
12 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
12 5 (11.90%) Data Ingestion
12 5 (11.90%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (11.90%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) Python
2 21 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) Scala
4 2 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) CodeQL
5 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) R
5 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.52%) GDPR
3 2 (4.76%) NIST
3 2 (4.76%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.38%) PMO
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Databricks
2 5 (11.90%) Google
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.14%) Informatica
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) Workday