Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Data Engineering
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 11 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 10 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 9.43% 4.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.71% 4.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £585 - -
West London median daily rate £603 £625 £530
% change year-on-year -3.60% +17.92% +0.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 103 41 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 97.17% 87.23% 84.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 26 55
10th Percentile £363 £172 £280
25th Percentile £450 £274 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -15.79% -19.15%
75th Percentile £700 £475 £586
90th Percentile £905 £500 £633
West London median daily rate £525 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +31.25% -15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £17.23 - £15.80
25th Percentile £19.46 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.18 £19.20 £23.83
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% -19.43% -13.35%
75th Percentile £21.46 - £30.16
90th Percentile £24.38 - £47.60
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.16 £30.16
% change year-on-year +13.52% -26.54% -53.60%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hillingdon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Hillingdon over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Hillingdon

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 5 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
Uxbridge - 6 - -
Heathrow +3 3 £525 +10.53%
Stockley Park - 1 - -
Data Engineering
West London

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (30.00%) Dagster
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) MLflow
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (30.00%) Dashboard Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (10.00%) Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Pandas
2 3 (30.00%) NumPy
2 3 (30.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (30.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (90.00%) Data Science
3 6 (60.00%) Analytics
4 5 (50.00%) AI
4 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (50.00%) ETL
4 5 (50.00%) Logistics
4 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (50.00%) Use Case
4 5 (50.00%) Visualisation
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Data Architecture
5 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (40.00%) Operations Research
5 4 (40.00%) Workflow
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft