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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 83 101
Rank change year-on-year +47 +18 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 114 44 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.76% 2.33% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 2.48% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 29 19
10th Percentile £425 £455 £446
25th Percentile £463 £475 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £744
90th Percentile £763 £683 £763
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +1.96%

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 2,090 1,776 1,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.19% 94.02% 91.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,161 1,281
10th Percentile £368 £331 £375
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +14.81% -22.86%

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 3 August 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 (14.91%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.77%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.51%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.63%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.86%) Azure
2 36 (31.58%) AWS
3 33 (28.95%) Power Platform
4 24 (21.05%) Snowflake
5 17 (14.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (14.91%) dbt
5 17 (14.91%) Serverless
6 15 (13.16%) Amazon S3
6 15 (13.16%) GCP
7 14 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.89%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (7.02%) GitHub
11 7 (6.14%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (6.14%) Prefect
12 5 (4.39%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (4.39%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (4.39%) Dagster
12 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.56%) Power BI
2 23 (20.18%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (14.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (10.53%) Tableau
5 11 (9.65%) Data Lake
6 8 (7.02%) Metadata
6 8 (7.02%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (7.02%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.14%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (6.14%) Big Data
8 6 (5.26%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.26%) Delta Lake
8 6 (5.26%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.39%) Looker
10 4 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (3.51%) Data Mart
10 4 (3.51%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.51%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (8.77%) Git
2 5 (4.39%) GitLab
3 4 (3.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.75%) JIRA
5 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.88%) MLflow
5 1 (0.88%) Postman
5 1 (0.88%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.88%) Selenium
5 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (42.11%) Finance
2 19 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.28%) Banking
5 6 (5.26%) Legal
6 5 (4.39%) Marketing
7 4 (3.51%) Back Office
7 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.63%) Front Office
8 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.88%) Billing
10 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (43.86%) Data Engineer
2 15 (13.16%) Architect
3 10 (8.77%) Senior
4 9 (7.89%) Analyst
4 9 (7.89%) Lead
5 8 (7.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 8 (7.02%) Snowflake Engineer
6 7 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (6.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Product Manager
8 5 (4.39%) AWS Data Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.63%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.91%) PySpark
2 13 (11.40%) Kafka
3 5 (4.39%) Spring
4 3 (2.63%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.63%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.63%) Vert.x
5 2 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.75%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.75%) REST
5 2 (1.75%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.75%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.88%) Django
6 1 (0.88%) HTML
6 1 (0.88%) Jinja
6 1 (0.88%) JSON
6 1 (0.88%) Middleware
6 1 (0.88%) pytest
6 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.44%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.51%) Clustering
5 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.51%) Life Science
5 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.63%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.63%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.63%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Equities
8 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.88%) NHS
8 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (58.77%) Analytics
2 50 (43.86%) Data Pipeline
3 47 (41.23%) AI
3 47 (41.23%) CI/CD
4 40 (35.09%) Data Modelling
5 38 (33.33%) ETL
6 35 (30.70%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (28.07%) DevOps
8 28 (24.56%) Data Governance
9 22 (19.30%) Decision-Making
10 20 (17.54%) Machine Learning
11 19 (16.67%) Validation
12 18 (15.79%) Data Architecture
13 17 (14.91%) Agile
14 16 (14.04%) Generative AI
14 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (13.16%) Data Science
15 15 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (13.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 68 (59.65%) SQL
2 64 (56.14%) Python
3 11 (9.65%) Java
4 4 (3.51%) Bicep
4 4 (3.51%) C#
4 4 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.51%) Scala
4 4 (3.51%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.63%) Korn
6 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.88%) Bash
7 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.26%) DBS Check
2 6 (5.26%) Degree
3 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.75%) CSPO
5 2 (1.75%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.65%) GDPR
3 8 (7.02%) QA
4 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.63%) GxP
5 2 (1.75%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.75%) EMIR
5 2 (1.75%) MiFID
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.88%) PERC
6 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (9.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (10.53%) Terraform
2 9 (7.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (28.95%) Databricks
2 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.39%) Informatica
3 5 (4.39%) Oracle
3 5 (4.39%) Workday
4 4 (3.51%) Google
4 4 (3.51%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.75%) Foundry
5 2 (1.75%) Palantir
5 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe
6 1 (0.88%) Apple
6 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.88%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.88%) Denodo
6 1 (0.88%) Pardot
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow