Data Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Data Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 81 99
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 49 96 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.26% 2.70% 2.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 2.84% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 68 59
10th Percentile £413 £438 £424
25th Percentile £463 £474 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% -0.43% -
75th Percentile £588 £681 £638
90th Percentile £719 £741 £735
Central London median daily rate £500 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -12.28% -0.87% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.75
25th Percentile £46.75 - £48.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £53.00
75th Percentile £50.25 - £58.00
90th Percentile - - £60.25
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 - £53.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,060 3,377 3,976
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 2,292 3,001
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £563
% change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (69.39%) SQL
2 27 (55.10%) Python
3 26 (53.06%) Data Modelling
4 24 (48.98%) ETL
5 20 (40.82%) Data Pipeline
6 19 (38.78%) AWS
7 17 (34.69%) Azure
8 16 (32.65%) Data Engineering
9 14 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
10 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
10 13 (26.53%) Kafka
10 13 (26.53%) Analytics
11 12 (24.49%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (24.49%) Serverless
12 11 (22.45%) Public Sector
12 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
13 10 (20.41%) Data Quality
13 10 (20.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (20.41%) Agile
14 9 (18.37%) JSON
14 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (18.37%) Databricks
14 9 (18.37%) Parquet
15 8 (16.33%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (16.33%) Finance
15 8 (16.33%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (16.33%) DevOps
15 8 (16.33%) Apache Avro
16 7 (14.29%) Big Data

Data Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (8.16%) Apache
1 4 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.08%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (4.08%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) AWS
2 17 (34.69%) Azure
3 12 (24.49%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (24.49%) Serverless
4 8 (16.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 7 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (6.12%) dbt
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.08%) GCP
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (20.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (18.37%) Parquet
4 8 (16.33%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (14.29%) Big Data
5 7 (14.29%) DynamoDB
5 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (10.20%) Data Lake
7 4 (8.16%) Power BI
7 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
8 3 (6.12%) Data Mining
8 3 (6.12%) Hadoop
8 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (6.12%) Tableau
9 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.08%) Delta Lake
9 2 (4.08%) Presto
10 1 (2.04%) Airbyte
10 1 (2.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 11 (22.45%) Public Sector
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Finance
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) Kafka
2 9 (18.37%) JSON
3 8 (16.33%) Apache Avro
4 7 (14.29%) PySpark
5 2 (4.08%) Pandas
5 2 (4.08%) REST
6 1 (2.04%) .NET
6 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.04%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.04%) JSON Schema
6 1 (2.04%) Middleware
6 1 (2.04%) Node.js
6 1 (2.04%) RESTful
6 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
1 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.04%) Life Science
2 1 (2.04%) Market Risk
2 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) Data Modelling
2 24 (48.98%) ETL
3 20 (40.82%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (32.65%) Data Engineering
5 13 (26.53%) Analytics
6 10 (20.41%) Agile
7 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (16.33%) DevOps
9 7 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 7 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
9 7 (14.29%) Visualisation
10 6 (12.24%) Data Integration
10 6 (12.24%) Migration
10 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.24%) SFIA
11 5 (10.20%) Data Governance
11 5 (10.20%) Data Management
11 5 (10.20%) Data Migration
11 5 (10.20%) Data Science
11 5 (10.20%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (69.39%) SQL
2 27 (55.10%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) Java
3 4 (8.16%) Scala
4 3 (6.12%) C#
5 2 (4.08%) Bicep
5 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) R
6 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Terraform
2 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Databricks
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.16%) Informatica
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) Bloomberg
5 2 (4.08%) Foundry
5 2 (4.08%) NEC
5 2 (4.08%) Palantir
5 2 (4.08%) Refinitiv
5 2 (4.08%) SAP
6 1 (2.04%) Citrix
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.04%) SnapLogic