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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 89 102
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 45 30 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.47% 1.45% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 1.58% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 27
10th Percentile £335 £419 £416
25th Percentile £466 £460 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £691 £781
90th Percentile £830 £744 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £650
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 -

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 1,654 1,902 2,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.68% 92.06% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,163 1,618
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.54 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.19% +37.25% -37.04%

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 20 December 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 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 8 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (11.11%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) AWS
2 17 (37.78%) Azure
3 15 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 10 (22.22%) GCP
4 10 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 6 (13.33%) dbt
6 5 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.44%) Serverless
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.22%) ChatGPT
9 1 (2.22%) Dagster
9 1 (2.22%) Fivetran
9 1 (2.22%) GitHub
9 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (33.33%) Power BI
2 8 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (17.78%) Tableau
3 6 (13.33%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.89%) Big Data
4 4 (8.89%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (6.67%) Delta Lake
5 3 (6.67%) Metadata
5 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.44%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.22%) Looker
7 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.22%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.22%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) MLflow
General
1 21 (46.67%) Finance
2 10 (22.22%) Banking
3 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Front Office
5 4 (8.89%) Back Office
6 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Lead
4 4 (8.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.22%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Principal Consultant
7 1 (2.22%) Project Analyst
7 1 (2.22%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) PyTorch
1 8 (17.78%) TensorFlow
2 7 (15.56%) scikit-learn
3 5 (11.11%) PySpark
4 3 (6.67%) Dask
4 3 (6.67%) Google JAX
4 3 (6.67%) JAX
4 3 (6.67%) Kafka
4 3 (6.67%) LightGBM
4 3 (6.67%) XGBoost
5 2 (4.44%) NumPy
5 2 (4.44%) Pandas
6 1 (2.22%) JSON
6 1 (2.22%) LangChain
6 1 (2.22%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.22%) Middleware
6 1 (2.22%) Ray
6 1 (2.22%) Seaborn
6 1 (2.22%) XML
6 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Algorithms
2 5 (11.11%) Derivative
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.44%) Equities
5 2 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.44%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.22%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (2.22%) Clustering
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) Replication
6 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Analytics
2 18 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (35.56%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (35.56%) Machine Learning
4 13 (28.89%) Data Governance
5 12 (26.67%) AI
5 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 12 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 11 (24.44%) Data Science
6 11 (24.44%) ETL
7 8 (17.78%) Agile
8 7 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (13.33%) Data Integration
9 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
9 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (11.11%) Data Analysis
10 5 (11.11%) DevOps
10 5 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) Python
2 20 (44.44%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) Scala
4 2 (4.44%) R
4 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.22%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) C++
5 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.44%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) MCP
3 1 (2.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.22%) NIST
4 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Databricks
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.22%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) Workday