Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 84 99
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 416 503 660
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.24% 2.88% 2.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.47% 3.07% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 401 502
10th Percentile £400 £350 £438
25th Percentile £455 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% -0.86%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £750 £738 £742
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £47.65 £48.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.25 £62.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -29.86% +58.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.94 £84.38
90th Percentile £84.00 £61.48 £87.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £67.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% -6.25% +58.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,986 16,408 23,935
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 93.88% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,103 11,759 17,463
10th Percentile £336 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 316 270
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.34 £20.17 £22.93
Median hourly rate £32.70 £27.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -26.51% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.50 £45.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +77.50%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
Central London +13 68 £500 -4.76% 172
West London +13 8 £552 +75.24% 17
East London +10 1 - - 47
South London -4 1 £475 -1.30% 1
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 284 (68.27%) Python
2 244 (58.65%) SQL
3 188 (45.19%) AWS
4 177 (42.55%) Azure
5 174 (41.83%) Data Engineering
6 170 (40.87%) Data Pipeline
7 147 (35.34%) ETL
8 116 (27.88%) Data Modelling
8 116 (27.88%) Analytics
9 111 (26.68%) Security Cleared
10 106 (25.48%) CI/CD
11 102 (24.52%) SC Cleared
12 101 (24.28%) Finance
13 95 (22.84%) Agile
13 95 (22.84%) Apache Airflow
14 94 (22.60%) Databricks
15 89 (21.39%) dbt
16 85 (20.43%) PySpark
17 84 (20.19%) DevOps
18 83 (19.95%) Data Warehouse
19 81 (19.47%) Terraform
20 77 (18.51%) Azure Data Factory
21 75 (18.03%) Data Quality
21 75 (18.03%) Social Skills
22 70 (16.83%) Apache Spark
23 65 (15.63%) Power Platform
24 64 (15.38%) Power BI
25 60 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
25 60 (14.42%) Snowflake
26 59 (14.18%) Kafka

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 95 (22.84%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (16.83%) Apache Spark
3 57 (13.70%) Apache
4 6 (1.44%) Confluence
4 6 (1.44%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.72%) Luigi
6 3 (0.72%) SAS
7 2 (0.48%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.24%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.20%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.24%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.24%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 188 (45.19%) AWS
2 177 (42.55%) Azure
3 89 (21.39%) dbt
4 77 (18.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 65 (15.63%) Power Platform
6 60 (14.42%) Snowflake
7 57 (13.70%) Serverless
8 48 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (11.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 46 (11.06%) GCP
11 36 (8.65%) Amazon S3
12 32 (7.69%) GitHub
13 28 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (3.85%) OpenShift
16 15 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
18 9 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
18 9 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
18 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.96%) SSH
2 2 (0.48%) Internet
2 2 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (19.95%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (15.38%) Power BI
3 59 (14.18%) Data Lake
4 45 (10.82%) Big Data
5 44 (10.58%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (7.21%) Tableau
7 29 (6.97%) Relational Database
8 28 (6.73%) NoSQL
9 27 (6.49%) SQL Server
10 25 (6.01%) Apache Iceberg
11 24 (5.77%) BigQuery
12 23 (5.53%) Metadata
13 21 (5.05%) Delta Lake
13 21 (5.05%) Hadoop
14 20 (4.81%) Dremio
15 19 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (3.85%) Apache Arrow
16 16 (3.85%) Apache Ignite
16 16 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
17 15 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (7.45%) Git
2 20 (4.81%) JIRA
3 16 (3.85%) Artifactory
4 7 (1.68%) GitLab
4 7 (1.68%) MLflow
5 5 (1.20%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.96%) RStudio
7 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Mockito
8 1 (0.24%) Poetry
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) Subversion
8 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (24.28%) Finance
2 75 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 60 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 30 (7.21%) Banking
6 20 (4.81%) Front Office
7 11 (2.64%) Retail
8 10 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.92%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.44%) Marketing
11 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.20%) Local Government
11 5 (1.20%) Police
12 4 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.72%) Legal
13 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (20.43%) PySpark
2 59 (14.18%) Kafka
3 16 (3.85%) J2EE
4 12 (2.88%) JSON
5 11 (2.64%) Jinja
6 9 (2.16%) pytest
6 9 (2.16%) Web Services
7 8 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
7 8 (1.92%) REST
7 8 (1.92%) YAML
8 7 (1.68%) Pandas
8 7 (1.68%) Plotly
9 6 (1.44%) .NET
9 6 (1.44%) pydantic
9 6 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.20%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.20%) ASP.NET
10 5 (1.20%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (1.20%) Entity Framework
10 5 (1.20%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (2.16%) Data Structures
2 9 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
2 9 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (1.68%) Algorithms
3 7 (1.68%) Reference Data
4 6 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.20%) N-Tier
5 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.48%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.48%) NHS
8 1 (0.24%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.24%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.24%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.37%) Linux
2 7 (1.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (41.83%) Data Engineering
2 170 (40.87%) Data Pipeline
3 147 (35.34%) ETL
4 116 (27.88%) Analytics
4 116 (27.88%) Data Modelling
5 106 (25.48%) CI/CD
6 95 (22.84%) Agile
7 84 (20.19%) DevOps
8 57 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (13.70%) Visualisation
9 56 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
9 56 (13.46%) Data Science
10 48 (11.54%) Data Governance
10 48 (11.54%) Data Ingestion
11 43 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
11 43 (10.34%) Data Integration
12 42 (10.10%) Machine Learning
13 38 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (9.13%) Migration
13 38 (9.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 284 (68.27%) Python
2 244 (58.65%) SQL
3 53 (12.74%) Java
4 39 (9.38%) Scala
5 16 (3.85%) Go
6 10 (2.40%) Bash
6 10 (2.40%) T-SQL
7 9 (2.16%) C#
8 8 (1.92%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.92%) R
9 5 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.48%) SAS Macro
11 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.24%) C
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.24%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 111 (26.68%) Security Cleared
2 102 (24.52%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.29%) Degree
4 13 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.68%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.20%) MCPD
7 5 (1.20%) MCSD
8 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.24%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.64%) QA
3 9 (2.16%) GDPR
4 8 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.96%) SLA
6 2 (0.48%) NIST
7 1 (0.24%) HL7
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (8.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 81 (19.47%) Terraform
2 42 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.72%) Grafana
3 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.48%) Ansible
4 2 (0.48%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.24%) Argo
Vendors
1 94 (22.60%) Databricks
2 45 (10.82%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.53%) Palantir
4 19 (4.57%) Google
4 19 (4.57%) Oracle
5 14 (3.37%) Foundry
5 14 (3.37%) Informatica
6 12 (2.88%) SAP
7 7 (1.68%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.44%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.72%) Teradata
9 3 (0.72%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.48%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.24%) Dataiku
11 1 (0.24%) DataRobot
11 1 (0.24%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.24%) Spotify
11 1 (0.24%) TikTok