Data Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Data Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 102 95
Rank change year-on-year +26 -7 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 46 28 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.53% 1.31% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.43% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 39
10th Percentile £424 £425 £460
25th Percentile £475 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.35% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £605 £738 £730
90th Percentile £647 £763 £765
Central London median daily rate £544 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -16.35% +4.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

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 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (19.57%) Apache Spark
2 7 (15.22%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (10.87%) Apache
4 2 (4.35%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) Azure
2 18 (39.13%) AWS
3 14 (30.43%) GCP
4 12 (26.09%) Power Platform
5 5 (10.87%) Collibra
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (8.70%) dbt
7 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.35%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (4.35%) GitHub
8 2 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) Data Lake
2 12 (26.09%) Power BI
3 11 (23.91%) Metadata
4 9 (19.57%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (17.39%) Big Data
5 8 (17.39%) BigQuery
5 8 (17.39%) NoSQL
6 6 (13.04%) Delta Lake
7 5 (10.87%) Hadoop
8 4 (8.70%) Data Mining
8 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
8 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
9 3 (6.52%) Looker
9 3 (6.52%) Tableau
10 2 (4.35%) Parquet
10 2 (4.35%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (4.35%) Spotfire
11 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
1 2 (4.35%) MLflow
2 1 (2.17%) ERwin
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (32.61%) Finance
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Banking
4 4 (8.70%) Police
4 4 (8.70%) Retail
5 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (69.57%) Data Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Azure Data Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 4 (8.70%) Architect
3 4 (8.70%) AWS Data Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Data Modeller
4 3 (6.52%) Data Scientist
4 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Implementation Project Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Lead
5 2 (4.35%) Project Implementation Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) Kafka
2 6 (13.04%) PySpark
3 2 (4.35%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.17%) Credit Risk
2 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Replication
2 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) Data Modelling
2 21 (45.65%) Data Pipeline
3 20 (43.48%) Analytics
3 20 (43.48%) ETL
4 16 (34.78%) Data Governance
5 15 (32.61%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (30.43%) Data Science
6 14 (30.43%) Decision-Making
7 13 (28.26%) Data Integration
8 11 (23.91%) Agile
9 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
10 9 (19.57%) Data Analytics
10 9 (19.57%) DevOps
10 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (17.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 7 (15.22%) Data Ingestion
12 7 (15.22%) Data Security
12 7 (15.22%) Data Transformation
12 7 (15.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Python
1 29 (63.04%) SQL
2 11 (23.91%) Scala
3 5 (10.87%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.35%) R
5 1 (2.17%) CodeQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) PMI Certification
2 3 (6.52%) PMP
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Terraform
2 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Databricks
2 8 (17.39%) Google
3 5 (10.87%) Informatica
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.35%) SAP
6 1 (2.17%) Dataiku
6 1 (2.17%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Sparx