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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 98 98
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 47 29 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.56% 1.42% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 1.54% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 15 28
10th Percentile £340 £418 £416
25th Percentile £463 £457 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £778
90th Percentile £875 £745 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £638
% change year-on-year - -9.80% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 -

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 1,657 1,878 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.30% 92.15% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,145 1,584
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% - -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 15 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.29 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.30 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.25 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +27.27% -34.13%

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 28 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 (21.28%) Apache Spark
2 8 (17.02%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (10.64%) Apache
4 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) Azure
3 14 (29.79%) Power Platform
4 11 (23.40%) Snowflake
5 9 (19.15%) GCP
6 6 (12.77%) dbt
7 4 (8.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.38%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.26%) Serverless
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Storage
10 1 (2.13%) ChatGPT
10 1 (2.13%) Dagster
10 1 (2.13%) Fivetran
10 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (2.13%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) Power BI
2 8 (17.02%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (17.02%) Tableau
3 5 (10.64%) Big Data
3 5 (10.64%) Data Lake
3 5 (10.64%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (6.38%) Delta Lake
4 3 (6.38%) Metadata
4 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.26%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.13%) Looker
6 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.13%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.13%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 21 (44.68%) Finance
2 10 (21.28%) Banking
3 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Front Office
6 4 (8.51%) Back Office
7 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Data Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Lead
5 4 (8.51%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Data Scientist
7 2 (4.26%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Product Owner
8 1 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) PyTorch
1 8 (17.02%) TensorFlow
2 7 (14.89%) scikit-learn
3 5 (10.64%) PySpark
4 3 (6.38%) Dask
4 3 (6.38%) Google JAX
4 3 (6.38%) JAX
4 3 (6.38%) Kafka
4 3 (6.38%) LightGBM
4 3 (6.38%) XGBoost
5 2 (4.26%) Middleware
5 2 (4.26%) NumPy
5 2 (4.26%) Pandas
6 1 (2.13%) JSON
6 1 (2.13%) LangChain
6 1 (2.13%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.13%) Ray
6 1 (2.13%) Seaborn
6 1 (2.13%) XML
6 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.64%) Derivative
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Equities
4 2 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.26%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.13%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (2.13%) Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Analytics
1 20 (42.55%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (31.91%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (31.91%) Machine Learning
3 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
4 12 (25.53%) AI
4 12 (25.53%) Data Governance
4 12 (25.53%) ETL
5 11 (23.40%) Data Modelling
5 11 (23.40%) Data Science
6 8 (17.02%) Agile
6 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (14.89%) Generative AI
8 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
8 6 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.77%) Use Case
9 5 (10.64%) Data Integration
9 5 (10.64%) Deep Learning
9 5 (10.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) Python
2 21 (44.68%) SQL
3 4 (8.51%) Scala
4 2 (4.26%) R
4 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.13%) C#
5 1 (2.13%) C++
5 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) MCP
3 1 (2.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.51%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Databricks
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.13%) Workday