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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 108 167
Rank change year-on-year +48 +59 -24
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 832 346 244
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 2.53% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 2.74% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 229 189
10th Percentile £401 £400 £430
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £805 £795
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +67.86% -56.25%
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -39.10%

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 17,940 12,624 14,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,801 8,441 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -14.20%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +38 119 £575 +4.55% 84
West London -2 21 £613 -20.97% 20
South London - 4 £590 - 4
East London - 4 £450 - 6
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
1 125 (15.02%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (11.06%) Apache Spark
3 69 (8.29%) Apache
4 15 (1.80%) Palantir Foundry
4 15 (1.80%) SAS
5 13 (1.56%) Confluence
6 10 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (1.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Endur
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 348 (41.83%) Azure
2 329 (39.54%) AWS
3 160 (19.23%) Power Platform
4 149 (17.91%) Snowflake
5 131 (15.75%) dbt
6 128 (15.38%) GCP
7 99 (11.90%) Amazon S3
8 95 (11.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 91 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (10.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 86 (10.34%) GitHub
12 74 (8.89%) Serverless
13 63 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (3.37%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 24 (2.88%) Dagster
17 22 (2.64%) Amazon Bedrock
18 21 (2.52%) Amazon SageMaker
18 21 (2.52%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) Firewall
1 2 (0.24%) Network Security
1 2 (0.24%) RTP
2 1 (0.12%) 4G
2 1 (0.12%) 5G
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (22.00%) Data Warehouse
2 149 (17.91%) Power BI
3 136 (16.35%) Data Lake
4 87 (10.46%) Metadata
5 70 (8.41%) BigQuery
6 69 (8.29%) Delta Lake
7 67 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (6.37%) Big Data
9 46 (5.53%) Tableau
10 43 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
11 40 (4.81%) NoSQL
12 38 (4.57%) SQL Server
13 36 (4.33%) Snowflake Schema
14 28 (3.37%) Relational Database
15 26 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
16 25 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (2.88%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.28%) Spark SQL
19 17 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
19 17 (2.04%) Looker
Development Applications
1 103 (12.38%) Git
2 39 (4.69%) GitLab
3 28 (3.37%) JIRA
4 17 (2.04%) MLflow
5 16 (1.92%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.60%) ERwin
8 4 (0.48%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.36%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) Snyk
9 3 (0.36%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.12%) RStudio
11 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) TestRail
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 258 (31.01%) Finance
2 189 (22.72%) Social Skills
3 137 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.46%) Banking
5 62 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.85%) Marketing
7 22 (2.64%) Front Office
8 20 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.28%) Retail
10 14 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.96%) Back Office
13 8 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Legal
15 4 (0.48%) Billing
15 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 371 (44.59%) Data Engineer
2 118 (14.18%) Senior
3 110 (13.22%) Architect
4 104 (12.50%) Lead
5 73 (8.77%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (6.13%) Developer
7 47 (5.65%) Data Architect
8 46 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (5.41%) Analyst
10 41 (4.93%) Lead Data Engineer
11 37 (4.45%) AWS Data Engineer
12 36 (4.33%) Snowflake Engineer
13 34 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
14 33 (3.97%) Data Scientist
15 30 (3.61%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 29 (3.49%) Data Analyst
17 27 (3.25%) Azure Data Engineer
18 26 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 25 (3.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (16.35%) PySpark
2 65 (7.81%) Kafka
3 25 (3.00%) Pandas
3 25 (3.00%) REST
4 20 (2.40%) scikit-learn
5 17 (2.04%) JSON
5 17 (2.04%) NumPy
5 17 (2.04%) React
6 14 (1.68%) .NET
7 13 (1.56%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.32%) Spring
9 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (1.08%) TensorFlow
10 8 (0.96%) Great Expectations
10 8 (0.96%) pytest
11 7 (0.84%) LangChain
11 7 (0.84%) XML
12 6 (0.72%) FastAPI
12 6 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (0.72%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 135 (16.23%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
2 42 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.33%) Data Structures
4 33 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 17 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (1.56%) NHS
7 12 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.32%) Clustering
8 11 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
8 11 (1.32%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.08%) Life Science
10 9 (1.08%) Reference Data
11 8 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.13%) Linux
2 14 (1.68%) Unix
3 7 (0.84%) Windows
4 2 (0.24%) VMS
4 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (50.84%) Analytics
2 404 (48.56%) Data Pipeline
3 318 (38.22%) CI/CD
4 305 (36.66%) Data Modelling
5 294 (35.34%) ETL
6 262 (31.49%) AI
7 218 (26.20%) DevOps
8 210 (25.24%) Agile
9 191 (22.96%) Business Intelligence
10 177 (21.27%) Data Governance
11 169 (20.31%) Machine Learning
12 143 (17.19%) Data Science
13 139 (16.71%) Data Architecture
14 137 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
15 132 (15.87%) Decision-Making
16 124 (14.90%) Data Transformation
17 122 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
18 121 (14.54%) Validation
19 117 (14.06%) Migration
20 101 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 472 (56.73%) SQL
2 446 (53.61%) Python
3 71 (8.53%) Java
4 32 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (3.37%) Scala
6 23 (2.76%) C#
7 21 (2.52%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.16%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.92%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.44%) Bicep
10 12 (1.44%) SAS Macro
11 11 (1.32%) Bash
11 11 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.96%) R
13 7 (0.84%) SPARQL
13 7 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.60%) Cypher
14 5 (0.60%) Korn
15 4 (0.48%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 107 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.25%) Degree
4 28 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 16 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.36%) PhD
12 3 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.24%) CSPO
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) CCSP
14 1 (0.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.89%) QA
3 44 (5.29%) GDPR
4 17 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) GxP
5 3 (0.36%) MiFID
5 3 (0.36%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.24%) EMIR
6 2 (0.24%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) COPPA
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.12%) PERC
System Software
1 70 (8.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 111 (13.34%) Terraform
2 59 (7.09%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.08%) Ansible
4 5 (0.60%) Grafana
5 3 (0.36%) Control-M
5 3 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 202 (24.28%) Databricks
2 147 (17.67%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.93%) Google
4 39 (4.69%) Informatica
5 28 (3.37%) Oracle
6 22 (2.64%) Palantir
7 21 (2.52%) Foundry
8 15 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.68%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.08%) SAP
11 7 (0.84%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.84%) Workday
12 6 (0.72%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.72%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.60%) Teradata
14 4 (0.48%) Charles River
14 4 (0.48%) Denodo
14 4 (0.48%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.48%) Murex