Data Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Data Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 96 144
Rank change year-on-year -2 +48 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 29 70 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.35% 2.03% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 2.22% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 33
10th Percentile £429 £450 £440
25th Percentile £472 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £734 £730 £590
90th Percentile £750 £755 £760
Central London median daily rate £650 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
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 and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 3,155 3,864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.71% 91.48% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 2,124 2,916
10th Percentile £350 £361 £381
25th Percentile £450 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 43
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.06 £23.25
Median hourly rate £26.63 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.46 £61.25 £53.50
90th Percentile £49.41 £88.30 £62.35
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 31 May 2024.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the City of London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £700 -
Data Engineering
Central 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 2 (6.90%) Apache
1 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) dbt
3 4 (13.79%) WhatsApp
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (20.69%) Data Lake
3 5 (17.24%) Big Data
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.90%) Data Mart
5 2 (6.90%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
5 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Power BI
5 2 (6.90%) Presto
6 1 (3.45%) Airbyte
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.45%) Flink
6 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.45%) Parquet
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Data Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Big Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (3.45%) GCP Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) PySpark
2 5 (17.24%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Avro
4 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) JSON Schema
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Life Science
2 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (41.38%) Analytics
3 11 (37.93%) Data Modelling
3 11 (37.93%) ETL
4 7 (24.14%) Data Science
5 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.69%) Data Integration
5 6 (20.69%) DevOps
6 5 (17.24%) SDLC
7 4 (13.79%) Agile
7 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
7 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.34%) Business Analysis
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (10.34%) Data Security
8 3 (10.34%) ETL Development
8 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
8 3 (10.34%) Migration
8 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) SQL
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
1 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Databricks
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Foundry
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Palantir
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
3 2 (6.90%) SnapLogic
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Workday