Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in East London

Data Engineering
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East London 3.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £449 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £545 - -
London median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 105 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 84.48% 98.13% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 88 165
10th Percentile £311 £296 £305
25th Percentile £412 £415 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -
75th Percentile £675 £588 £625
90th Percentile £775 £644 £745
London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile £20.25 £16.33 £11.95
25th Percentile £21.85 £25.65 £14.21
Median hourly rate £24.43 £30.30 £23.32
Median % change year-on-year -19.39% +29.93% +3.71%
75th Percentile £26.44 £35.75 £33.78
90th Percentile £28.00 £38.50 £38.28
London median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.50
% change year-on-year +13.26% +15.40% -28.60%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in East London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in East London over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in East London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the East London region over the 6 months to 19 June 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 - 4 £450 -
Data Engineering
London

Data Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Base SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SAS Macro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft