Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in London

Data Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 111 173
Rank change year-on-year +54 +62 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 731 309 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 2.46% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 2.66% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 222 184
10th Percentile £400 £403 £413
25th Percentile £461 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £29.31 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -53.33%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.19 £43.51
90th Percentile - £65.00 £47.55
England median hourly rate £70.00 £26.47 £38.65
% change year-on-year +164.50% -31.53% -47.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,708 11,595 15,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.55% 92.16% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,519 7,858 11,305
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 168 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.77
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +38 113 £550 - 80
West London +5 35 £603 -3.60% 5
South London -12 5 £500 -16.67% 1
East London -2 2 £450 -21.83% 3
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 112 (15.32%) Apache Spark
2 84 (11.49%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (6.57%) Apache
4 14 (1.92%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.37%) SAS
6 8 (1.09%) Appian
7 7 (0.96%) Confluence
8 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.41%) Trello
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 343 (46.92%) Azure
2 267 (36.53%) AWS
3 180 (24.62%) Power Platform
4 117 (16.01%) GCP
5 115 (15.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 100 (13.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 96 (13.13%) Snowflake
8 92 (12.59%) GitHub
9 88 (12.04%) Amazon S3
10 75 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (9.44%) dbt
12 60 (8.21%) Serverless
13 56 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
14 53 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.42%) Dagster
17 23 (3.15%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (3.15%) Collibra
18 22 (3.01%) Amazon Kinesis
19 21 (2.87%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.68%) RTP
2 4 (0.55%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) 4G
5 1 (0.14%) 5G
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) MIMO
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (22.71%) Power BI
2 153 (20.93%) Data Lake
3 144 (19.70%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (10.26%) Metadata
5 61 (8.34%) SQL Server
6 56 (7.66%) Delta Lake
7 52 (7.11%) Big Data
7 52 (7.11%) BigQuery
8 51 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 50 (6.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (6.84%) NoSQL
10 46 (6.29%) Amazon Athena
11 44 (6.02%) Tableau
12 41 (5.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (4.92%) Relational Database
14 28 (3.83%) Spark SQL
15 24 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (2.74%) Mixpanel
18 19 (2.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (13.82%) Git
2 35 (4.79%) MLflow
3 30 (4.10%) GitLab
4 19 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.46%) JIRA
6 6 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.68%) Selenium
8 3 (0.41%) Postman
8 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.41%) Snyk
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Ant
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) ERwin
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Maven
10 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 250 (34.20%) Finance
2 166 (22.71%) Social Skills
3 110 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.66%) Banking
5 41 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.46%) Marketing
6 18 (2.46%) Retail
7 16 (2.19%) Front Office
8 15 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.50%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.50%) Legal
10 11 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.82%) Back Office
13 5 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.55%) Electronics
14 4 (0.55%) Military
15 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 327 (44.73%) Data Engineer
2 98 (13.41%) Senior
3 83 (11.35%) Architect
4 82 (11.22%) Lead
5 68 (9.30%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (6.98%) Developer
7 39 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
8 33 (4.51%) Azure Data Engineer
8 33 (4.51%) Data Architect
8 33 (4.51%) Lead Data Engineer
8 33 (4.51%) Snowflake Engineer
9 31 (4.24%) Analyst
10 30 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (3.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 27 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 27 (3.69%) Data Scientist
14 24 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
15 23 (3.15%) AWS Data Engineer
16 22 (3.01%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (18.19%) PySpark
2 75 (10.26%) Kafka
3 42 (5.75%) Pandas
4 38 (5.20%) scikit-learn
5 32 (4.38%) PyTorch
6 30 (4.10%) NumPy
7 25 (3.42%) TensorFlow
8 20 (2.74%) REST
9 18 (2.46%) LangChain
9 18 (2.46%) pytest
10 17 (2.33%) Great Expectations
11 16 (2.19%) YAML
12 15 (2.05%) FastAPI
13 13 (1.78%) Flask
13 13 (1.78%) Hugging Face
14 12 (1.64%) JSON
14 12 (1.64%) Spring
15 11 (1.50%) Django
15 11 (1.50%) RESTful
16 10 (1.37%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 114 (15.60%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
6 22 (3.01%) Data Structures
7 18 (2.46%) Algorithms
8 15 (2.05%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.92%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.37%) Equities
12 10 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.09%) Clustering
13 8 (1.09%) Derivative
13 8 (1.09%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.68%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.28%) Linux
2 13 (1.78%) Unix
3 5 (0.68%) VMS
4 3 (0.41%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (50.21%) Analytics
2 332 (45.42%) Data Pipeline
3 295 (40.36%) ETL
4 283 (38.71%) Data Modelling
5 271 (37.07%) CI/CD
6 237 (32.42%) AI
7 206 (28.18%) DevOps
8 193 (26.40%) Business Intelligence
9 174 (23.80%) Agile
10 170 (23.26%) Data Governance
11 160 (21.89%) Machine Learning
12 128 (17.51%) Data Science
13 116 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (15.32%) Data Architecture
15 98 (13.41%) Validation
16 96 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
17 93 (12.72%) Decision-Making
18 90 (12.31%) Use Case
19 88 (12.04%) LLM
19 88 (12.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 423 (57.87%) SQL
2 411 (56.22%) Python
3 70 (9.58%) Java
4 56 (7.66%) Scala
5 34 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (3.83%) C#
7 18 (2.46%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.05%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.92%) R
10 12 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.37%) Bicep
12 9 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.96%) Bash
13 7 (0.96%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.55%) Korn
15 2 (0.27%) C++
15 2 (0.27%) Go
16 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 124 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 109 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.25%) Degree
4 28 (3.83%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.46%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.68%) PhD
11 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.14%) CISM
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (30.64%) Data Quality
2 68 (9.30%) GDPR
3 38 (5.20%) QA
4 10 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.68%) MiFID
6 4 (0.55%) PERC
7 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.27%) EMIR
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) IFRS
9 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (10.81%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (15.32%) Terraform
2 69 (9.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.41%) Ansible
3 3 (0.41%) Grafana
3 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Argo
4 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 203 (27.77%) Databricks
2 123 (16.83%) Microsoft
3 49 (6.70%) Google
4 26 (3.56%) Informatica
5 20 (2.74%) Foundry
5 20 (2.74%) OpenAI
6 14 (1.92%) Palantir
7 10 (1.37%) Oracle
8 9 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.09%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.09%) UiPath
10 7 (0.96%) Cloudera
11 5 (0.68%) SAP
11 5 (0.68%) Workday
12 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.55%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.55%) IBM
12 4 (0.55%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.41%) Charles River
13 3 (0.41%) Denodo