Palantir Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Palantir Engineer
UK > England

The median Palantir Engineer daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 506 527
Rank change year-on-year -101 +21 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Palantir Engineer 11 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.024% 0.029% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.032% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £480 £488 -
25th Percentile £563 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £750 £694 £663
90th Percentile £870 £719 -
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +56.25%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 42,263 25,262 30,879
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.54% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,421 16,297 19,929
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,239 1,381 1,691
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.20 £17.38 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

Palantir Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Palantir Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Palantir Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Palantir Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Palantir Engineer job vacancies in England

Palantir Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palantir Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palantir Engineer in England

Palantir Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Palantir Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
London -74 6 £613 +2.08% 9
Yorkshire - 4 - -
North of England - 4 - - 2
Palantir Engineer
UK

Palantir Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 August 2026, Palantir 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 England region featuring Palantir Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Palantir
2 10 (90.91%) Foundry
2 10 (90.91%) Palantir Foundry
3 9 (81.82%) PySpark
3 9 (81.82%) Python
3 9 (81.82%) SQL
4 8 (72.73%) Ontologies
5 7 (63.64%) AWS
5 7 (63.64%) Data Engineering
6 6 (54.55%) Azure
7 5 (45.45%) Analytics
7 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
7 5 (45.45%) Data Transformation
8 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
8 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (36.36%) GitHub
8 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (36.36%) GitLab
8 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (36.36%) Terraform
9 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
9 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
9 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
9 3 (27.27%) Big Data
9 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
9 3 (27.27%) Databricks
9 3 (27.27%) Delta Lake
9 3 (27.27%) DevOps
9 3 (27.27%) ETL
9 3 (27.27%) JSON

Palantir Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (90.91%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
5 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
1 3 (27.27%) Delta Lake
1 3 (27.27%) Metadata
1 3 (27.27%) Parquet
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) PySpark
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) JSON
4 2 (18.18%) NumPy
4 2 (18.18%) Pandas
5 1 (9.09%) Kafka
5 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Ontologies
2 7 (63.64%) Data Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Analytics
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Data Transformation
4 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) ETL
6 2 (18.18%) AI
6 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Data Science
6 2 (18.18%) Data Sharing
6 2 (18.18%) Parallel Computing
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (18.18%) Validation
6 2 (18.18%) Workflow
7 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Palantir
2 10 (90.91%) Foundry
3 3 (27.27%) Databricks
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft