Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Heathrow

Data Engineering
Hillingdon > Heathrow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Heathrow requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Heathrow 25.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
Hillingdon median daily rate £725 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Heathrow

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 Heathrow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8 10 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Heathrow 100.00% 90.91% 81.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 21
10th Percentile £506 £209 £183
25th Percentile £555 £268 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £325 £475
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -31.58% -20.83%
75th Percentile £675 £394 £500
90th Percentile £700 £473 £575
Hillingdon median daily rate £700 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +75.00% -15.79% -20.83%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Heathrow

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Heathrow

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Heathrow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Heathrow 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata