Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2024.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 86 112
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 496 524 881
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.19% 2.68% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.41% 2.87% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 391 635
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £751 £725 £738
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - -0.05% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 6
10th Percentile £46.85 £35.00 £38.13
25th Percentile £61.06 £41.54 £44.94
Median hourly rate £78.75 £61.43 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.20% +0.29% +38.42%
75th Percentile £97.50 £64.88 £75.50
90th Percentile - £69.70 £86.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.43 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.82% +2.38% +71.43%

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 14,559 18,281 33,979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 93.47% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,453 13,217 24,293
10th Percentile £338 £335 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £578
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.66% +5.07%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £788 £788
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 212 297
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.18 £16.13
25th Percentile £23.80 £21.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £36.65 £36.31 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +3.73% +7.86%
75th Percentile £54.69 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £80.75 £73.54 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +38.46% +62.50%

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 2 December 2024.

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 2 December 2024.

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 2 December 2024. 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 52 £575 +1.77% 23
West London +15 8 £550 +4.27% 2
South London +9 4 £588 -
East London +12 2 £463 -31.48% 3
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 2024, 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.

1 337 (67.94%) Python
2 270 (54.44%) SQL
3 211 (42.54%) Azure
4 199 (40.12%) AWS
5 185 (37.30%) Data Pipeline
6 151 (30.44%) ETL
6 151 (30.44%) Data Engineering
7 147 (29.64%) Analytics
8 137 (27.62%) Data Modelling
9 130 (26.21%) Data Warehouse
10 122 (24.60%) Finance
11 114 (22.98%) PySpark
12 101 (20.36%) Social Skills
13 100 (20.16%) Databricks
13 100 (20.16%) Agile
14 99 (19.96%) Data Quality
15 97 (19.56%) dbt
16 95 (19.15%) CI/CD
17 92 (18.55%) Data Lake
18 88 (17.74%) Business Intelligence
19 85 (17.14%) Java
20 78 (15.73%) Apache Spark
21 74 (14.92%) Apache Airflow
22 73 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
22 73 (14.72%) Security Cleared
23 72 (14.52%) GCP
24 68 (13.71%) Azure Data Factory
25 67 (13.51%) Snowflake
26 65 (13.10%) Power Platform
26 65 (13.10%) Power BI

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 78 (15.73%) Apache Spark
2 74 (14.92%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (9.07%) Apache
4 8 (1.61%) Confluence
5 4 (0.81%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.60%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.60%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.40%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Luigi
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 211 (42.54%) Azure
2 199 (40.12%) AWS
3 97 (19.56%) dbt
4 72 (14.52%) GCP
5 68 (13.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (13.51%) Snowflake
7 65 (13.10%) Power Platform
8 53 (10.69%) Amazon S3
9 42 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (7.86%) Serverless
11 32 (6.45%) GitHub
12 30 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (4.84%) Dagster
14 15 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (2.62%) WhatsApp
17 12 (2.42%) Azure Stack
18 11 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
19 10 (2.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) DAB
2 2 (0.40%) Firewall
2 2 (0.40%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) FTP
3 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (26.21%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (18.55%) Data Lake
3 65 (13.10%) Power BI
4 57 (11.49%) Big Data
5 53 (10.69%) Amazon Athena
6 44 (8.87%) SQL Server
7 30 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 29 (5.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 28 (5.65%) Dremio
9 28 (5.65%) NoSQL
10 23 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (4.44%) BigQuery
11 22 (4.44%) Hadoop
12 21 (4.23%) Tableau
13 14 (2.82%) Relational Database
13 14 (2.82%) Spark SQL
14 13 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (2.22%) Parquet
16 10 (2.02%) Looker
17 9 (1.81%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 31 (6.25%) Git
2 10 (2.02%) JIRA
3 8 (1.61%) Artifactory
4 7 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.81%) MLflow
6 3 (0.60%) Deequ
7 2 (0.40%) GitLab
7 2 (0.40%) Maven
7 2 (0.40%) Poetry
7 2 (0.40%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.20%) git-flow
8 1 (0.20%) Gradle
8 1 (0.20%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.20%) Mocha
8 1 (0.20%) Mockito
8 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.20%) Spock
8 1 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 122 (24.60%) Finance
2 101 (20.36%) Social Skills
3 73 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (12.10%) Banking
5 49 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 40 (8.06%) Front Office
7 20 (4.03%) Retail
8 13 (2.62%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.41%) Law
10 7 (1.41%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Police
13 3 (0.60%) Legal
13 3 (0.60%) Marketing
13 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.40%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (22.98%) PySpark
2 54 (10.89%) Kafka
3 31 (6.25%) Pandas
4 26 (5.24%) NumPy
5 22 (4.44%) SciPy
6 12 (2.42%) React
7 11 (2.22%) Jinja
8 10 (2.02%) JSON
9 6 (1.21%) J2EE
9 6 (1.21%) REST
10 5 (1.01%) .NET
10 5 (1.01%) Django
10 5 (1.01%) Flask
10 5 (1.01%) Great Expectations
10 5 (1.01%) pytest
10 5 (1.01%) Spring
10 5 (1.01%) XML
11 4 (0.81%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.81%) HTML5 Boilerplate
11 4 (0.81%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 16 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.62%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.21%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.01%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.01%) Smartphone
9 4 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.81%) NHS
9 4 (0.81%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.81%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.60%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.60%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.41%) Linux
1 7 (1.41%) Windows
2 5 (1.01%) Unix
3 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (37.30%) Data Pipeline
2 151 (30.44%) Data Engineering
2 151 (30.44%) ETL
3 147 (29.64%) Analytics
4 137 (27.62%) Data Modelling
5 100 (20.16%) Agile
6 95 (19.15%) CI/CD
7 88 (17.74%) Business Intelligence
8 62 (12.50%) DevOps
9 61 (12.30%) Data Integration
9 61 (12.30%) Data Science
9 61 (12.30%) Migration
10 60 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
11 58 (11.69%) Machine Learning
12 54 (10.89%) Software Engineering
13 48 (9.68%) Data Migration
14 46 (9.27%) Data Governance
15 39 (7.86%) Data Architecture
16 38 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
17 36 (7.26%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 337 (67.94%) Python
2 270 (54.44%) SQL
3 85 (17.14%) Java
4 44 (8.87%) Scala
5 25 (5.04%) T-SQL
6 18 (3.63%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.62%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.62%) R
8 12 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.61%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.41%) Bash
10 7 (1.41%) C#
10 7 (1.41%) Go
11 5 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.60%) RPG
13 2 (0.40%) ANSI SQL
13 2 (0.40%) Bicep
13 2 (0.40%) C++
13 2 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 53 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.85%) Degree
4 22 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.81%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (19.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.01%) QA
4 3 (0.60%) GDPR
4 3 (0.60%) SLA
5 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (3.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.40%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 50 (10.08%) Terraform
2 30 (6.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.21%) Ansible
4 4 (0.81%) Control-M
5 2 (0.40%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.40%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) Ganglia
6 1 (0.20%) Kibana
6 1 (0.20%) logstash
6 1 (0.20%) Oozie
Vendors
1 100 (20.16%) Databricks
2 44 (8.87%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.64%) Google
4 18 (3.63%) Oracle
5 16 (3.23%) Palantir
6 11 (2.22%) Informatica
7 9 (1.81%) SAP
8 7 (1.41%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.01%) Foundry
9 5 (1.01%) IBM
10 4 (0.81%) New Relic
10 4 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.81%) Splunk
11 3 (0.60%) Confluent
11 3 (0.60%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.40%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.40%) Commvault
12 2 (0.40%) Talend
12 2 (0.40%) Veritas