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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 71 98
Rank change year-on-year +33 +27 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 118 45 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.87% 2.61% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 2.78% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 29 23
10th Percentile £400 £423 £433
25th Percentile £450 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £613 £744
90th Percentile £763 £650 £760
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -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 2,078 1,617 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.74% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,029 1,372
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
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 30 16 14
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.25 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.29
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.91 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £76.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.44% +8.00% -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 21 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 19 (16.10%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.63%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.39%) Apache
4 3 (2.54%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.85%) Confluence
6 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.69%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (44.92%) Azure
2 36 (30.51%) AWS
2 36 (30.51%) Power Platform
3 25 (21.19%) Snowflake
4 17 (14.41%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (14.41%) dbt
5 16 (13.56%) Serverless
6 14 (11.86%) Amazon S3
6 14 (11.86%) GCP
7 12 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.93%) GitHub
10 7 (5.93%) Prefect
11 6 (5.08%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (5.08%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (4.24%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (4.24%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.24%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.27%) Power BI
2 24 (20.34%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (13.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (11.02%) Tableau
5 11 (9.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (8.47%) Metadata
7 9 (7.63%) Data Lake
7 9 (7.63%) SQL Server
8 6 (5.08%) Big Data
8 6 (5.08%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.08%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.24%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.24%) Looker
9 5 (4.24%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (3.39%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.54%) Data Mart
11 3 (2.54%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Git
2 2 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.85%) ERwin
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) Postman
3 1 (0.85%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 46 (38.98%) Finance
2 17 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.56%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.02%) Banking
5 6 (5.08%) Legal
5 6 (5.08%) Marketing
6 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Front Office
9 2 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Billing
10 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (37.29%) Data Engineer
2 21 (17.80%) Architect
3 10 (8.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (8.47%) Snowflake Engineer
4 9 (7.63%) Analyst
4 9 (7.63%) Lead
4 9 (7.63%) Senior
5 6 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 6 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (5.08%) Consultant
5 6 (5.08%) Product Manager
5 6 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.24%) Data Architect
6 5 (4.24%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.39%) Data Consultant
7 4 (3.39%) Developer
7 4 (3.39%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.25%) PySpark
2 13 (11.02%) Kafka
3 5 (4.24%) Spring
4 4 (3.39%) Middleware
5 3 (2.54%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.54%) Vert.x
6 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.69%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.69%) REST
6 2 (1.69%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.69%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.85%) ADO
7 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.85%) CSS
7 1 (0.85%) Django
7 1 (0.85%) HTML
7 1 (0.85%) JSON
7 1 (0.85%) XML
7 1 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.88%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.39%) Clustering
4 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.54%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.54%) Equities
5 3 (2.54%) Life Science
5 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.69%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.85%) NHS
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (55.93%) Analytics
2 52 (44.07%) AI
3 50 (42.37%) Data Pipeline
4 42 (35.59%) CI/CD
5 37 (31.36%) Data Modelling
5 37 (31.36%) ETL
6 36 (30.51%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (27.12%) DevOps
8 25 (21.19%) Data Governance
9 21 (17.80%) Machine Learning
10 19 (16.10%) Agile
10 19 (16.10%) Decision-Making
10 19 (16.10%) Generative AI
11 18 (15.25%) Validation
12 16 (13.56%) Data Science
12 16 (13.56%) Use Case
13 15 (12.71%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (11.86%) Data Architecture
14 14 (11.86%) Roadmaps
15 13 (11.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (55.08%) SQL
2 64 (54.24%) Python
3 10 (8.47%) Java
4 5 (4.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.39%) Korn
5 4 (3.39%) Scala
5 4 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.54%) Bicep
7 2 (1.69%) C#
7 2 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (5.93%) Degree
1 7 (5.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.08%) DBS Check
2 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.69%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.85%) CSPO
5 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (25.42%) Data Quality
2 13 (11.02%) GDPR
3 6 (5.08%) QA
4 2 (1.69%) EMIR
4 2 (1.69%) GxP
4 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.69%) MiFID
5 1 (0.85%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) PERC
5 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.85%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (7.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (8.47%) Terraform
2 7 (5.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (29.66%) Databricks
2 27 (22.88%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.24%) Google
3 5 (4.24%) Informatica
3 5 (4.24%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.24%) Workday
4 4 (3.39%) Oracle
4 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.54%) Foundry
5 3 (2.54%) Palantir
6 2 (1.69%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.69%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.85%) Apple
7 1 (0.85%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.85%) Denodo
7 1 (0.85%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.85%) Pardot
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow