Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in East London

Data Engineer
London > East London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in East London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in East London 2.50% - 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.75% - 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £285
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 109 92 200
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 93.88% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 76 172
10th Percentile £188 £268 £323
25th Percentile £381 £355 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £518 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% -4.17% +8.00%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £628
90th Percentile £715 £675 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 16
10th Percentile £20.96 £14.66 £11.95
25th Percentile £23.06 £24.66 £12.84
Median hourly rate £24.03 £28.60 £22.91
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% +24.84% -16.58%
75th Percentile £24.16 £37.00 £28.37
90th Percentile £26.62 £38.80 £38.28
London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -23.08%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in East London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in East London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in East London

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in East London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in East London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the East London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 3 £450 - 1
Data Engineer
London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Pricing Data
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle