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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 114 180
Rank change year-on-year +56 +66 -38
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 861 345 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.26% 2.56% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 2.77% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 222 186
10th Percentile £402 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -57.58%
England median hourly rate £69.50 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +32.38% -12.50% -23.08%

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 18,008 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,281 9,881
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 29 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 29 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 +46 121 £575 +4.55% 53
West London +4 24 £600 +21.83% 26
South London - 4 £500 - 4
East London - 3 £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
1 134 (15.56%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (11.15%) Apache Spark
3 71 (8.25%) Apache
4 15 (1.74%) SAS
5 13 (1.51%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (1.39%) Confluence
7 11 (1.28%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.58%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (1.16%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.58%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 357 (41.46%) Azure
2 338 (39.26%) AWS
3 162 (18.82%) Snowflake
4 158 (18.35%) Power Platform
5 147 (17.07%) dbt
6 126 (14.63%) GCP
7 111 (12.89%) Amazon S3
8 104 (12.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 90 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (10.22%) Serverless
11 86 (9.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 84 (9.76%) GitHub
13 72 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.79%) Amazon Bedrock
17 23 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (2.21%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (2.21%) Dagster
18 19 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Firewall
1 2 (0.23%) Network Security
1 2 (0.23%) RTP
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
2 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (22.53%) Data Warehouse
2 151 (17.54%) Power BI
3 134 (15.56%) Data Lake
4 98 (11.38%) Metadata
5 74 (8.59%) Delta Lake
6 73 (8.48%) BigQuery
7 69 (8.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (5.69%) Big Data
9 47 (5.46%) Tableau
10 45 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
11 37 (4.30%) NoSQL
11 37 (4.30%) Snowflake Schema
12 33 (3.83%) SQL Server
13 29 (3.37%) Relational Database
14 27 (3.14%) Star Schema
15 26 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
17 22 (2.56%) Looker
18 21 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
18 21 (2.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 93 (10.80%) Git
2 41 (4.76%) GitLab
3 29 (3.37%) JIRA
4 17 (1.97%) MLflow
5 15 (1.74%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.81%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.70%) ERwin
7 6 (0.70%) RStudio
7 6 (0.70%) Selenium
8 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.46%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.46%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.35%) Snyk
11 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 257 (29.85%) Finance
2 195 (22.65%) Social Skills
3 142 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.45%) Banking
5 56 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.30%) Marketing
7 23 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.44%) Front Office
9 19 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 18 (2.09%) Retail
11 12 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.39%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.93%) Back Office
14 7 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.81%) Legal
15 6 (0.70%) Billing
16 4 (0.46%) Law
16 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 390 (45.30%) Data Engineer
2 126 (14.63%) Senior
3 112 (13.01%) Architect
4 109 (12.66%) Lead
5 81 (9.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (5.92%) Data Architect
7 47 (5.46%) Developer
8 46 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
9 44 (5.11%) Analyst
10 43 (4.99%) Lead Data Engineer
11 39 (4.53%) Snowflake Engineer
12 37 (4.30%) AWS Data Engineer
13 31 (3.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 30 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
15 29 (3.37%) Data Scientist
16 27 (3.14%) Data Analyst
16 27 (3.14%) Python Engineer
17 26 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 21 (2.44%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (17.42%) PySpark
2 119 (13.82%) Terraform
3 67 (7.78%) Kafka
4 33 (3.83%) REST
5 23 (2.67%) React
6 20 (2.32%) Pandas
7 17 (1.97%) .NET
8 16 (1.86%) JSON
9 14 (1.63%) NumPy
9 14 (1.63%) scikit-learn
10 12 (1.39%) PyTorch
11 11 (1.28%) Great Expectations
12 10 (1.16%) Spring
12 10 (1.16%) TensorFlow
13 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
14 8 (0.93%) pytest
15 7 (0.81%) LangChain
16 6 (0.70%) FastAPI
16 6 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
16 6 (0.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 137 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 44 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (4.30%) Data Structures
6 36 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.67%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.51%) NHS
10 12 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
11 11 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.16%) Clustering
13 9 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
13 9 (1.05%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.93%) Life Science
14 8 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.02%) Linux
2 14 (1.63%) Unix
3 7 (0.81%) Windows
4 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (50.41%) Analytics
2 423 (49.13%) Data Pipeline
3 327 (37.98%) CI/CD
4 316 (36.70%) Data Modelling
5 308 (35.77%) ETL
6 281 (32.64%) AI
7 214 (24.85%) DevOps
8 211 (24.51%) Agile
9 204 (23.69%) Business Intelligence
10 192 (22.30%) Data Governance
11 163 (18.93%) Machine Learning
12 150 (17.42%) Data Architecture
12 150 (17.42%) Data Transformation
13 143 (16.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 137 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
15 131 (15.21%) Data Science
15 131 (15.21%) Decision-Making
16 127 (14.75%) Validation
17 125 (14.52%) Migration
18 113 (13.12%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 490 (56.91%) SQL
2 460 (53.43%) Python
3 66 (7.67%) Java
4 34 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (3.02%) Scala
6 25 (2.90%) PowerShell
7 22 (2.56%) C#
8 21 (2.44%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.51%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.39%) Bash
10 12 (1.39%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.28%) R
12 10 (1.16%) Bicep
13 9 (1.05%) SAS Macro
13 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.81%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.70%) LookML
16 5 (0.58%) Cypher
16 5 (0.58%) Korn
16 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 104 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.57%) Degree
4 26 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.70%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.58%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.35%) PhD
12 3 (0.35%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.23%) CSPO
13 2 (0.23%) PMP
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (32.06%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.23%) QA
3 43 (4.99%) GDPR
4 18 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.35%) GxP
5 3 (0.35%) MiFID
5 3 (0.35%) PMO
5 3 (0.35%) SLA
5 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.23%) EMIR
6 2 (0.23%) IFRS
6 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.12%) COPPA
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) PERC
System Software
1 69 (8.01%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.51%) Ansible
3 6 (0.70%) Control-M
4 4 (0.46%) Grafana
5 2 (0.23%) Kibana
5 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.23%) Puppet
5 2 (0.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.12%) Argo
6 1 (0.12%) Cilium
6 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 226 (26.25%) Databricks
2 147 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.88%) Informatica
4 36 (4.18%) Google
5 33 (3.83%) Oracle
6 20 (2.32%) Palantir
7 17 (1.97%) Foundry
7 17 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.28%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.16%) Cloudera
9 10 (1.16%) Teradata
10 8 (0.93%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.81%) Hitachi
11 7 (0.81%) Workday
12 6 (0.70%) SAP
12 6 (0.70%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.58%) Amplitude
14 4 (0.46%) Adobe
14 4 (0.46%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud