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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 112 175
Rank change year-on-year +55 +63 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 862 344 247
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.29% 2.57% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 2.78% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 222 187
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 £69.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +31.43% -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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
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 £660 £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 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +42 120 £575 +4.55% 77
West London +4 23 £560 +13.71% 28
South London - 4 £500 - 4
East London - 3 £450 - 5
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
1 135 (15.66%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (11.14%) Apache Spark
3 72 (8.35%) 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
1 358 (41.53%) Azure
2 338 (39.21%) AWS
3 162 (18.79%) Snowflake
4 154 (17.87%) Power Platform
5 148 (17.17%) dbt
6 125 (14.50%) GCP
7 110 (12.76%) Amazon S3
8 103 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 89 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (10.32%) Serverless
10 86 (9.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 84 (9.74%) GitHub
12 72 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (5.45%) Azure Databricks
14 40 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
17 23 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 20 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
19 19 (2.20%) Azure AI
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
1 196 (22.74%) Data Warehouse
2 148 (17.17%) Power BI
3 133 (15.43%) Data Lake
4 96 (11.14%) Metadata
5 76 (8.82%) Delta Lake
6 72 (8.35%) BigQuery
7 68 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (5.80%) Big Data
9 45 (5.22%) Tableau
10 44 (5.10%) Amazon Athena
11 37 (4.29%) NoSQL
12 36 (4.18%) Snowflake Schema
13 33 (3.83%) SQL Server
14 30 (3.48%) Relational Database
15 26 (3.02%) Star Schema
16 25 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (2.55%) Looker
17 22 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
18 21 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
18 21 (2.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 94 (10.90%) Git
2 41 (4.76%) GitLab
3 29 (3.36%) JIRA
4 18 (2.09%) MLflow
5 15 (1.74%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.81%) RStudio
6 7 (0.81%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.70%) ERwin
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%) TeamCity
General
1 256 (29.70%) Finance
2 195 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 142 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (10.32%) Banking
5 56 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.29%) Marketing
7 23 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.44%) Front Office
9 19 (2.20%) Investment Banking
10 17 (1.97%) 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%) Billing
14 7 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.81%) Legal
15 4 (0.46%) Law
15 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 390 (45.24%) Data Engineer
2 127 (14.73%) Senior
3 111 (12.88%) Architect
4 108 (12.53%) Lead
5 82 (9.51%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (5.92%) Data Architect
7 48 (5.57%) Developer
8 46 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (5.22%) Databricks Engineer
10 43 (4.99%) Analyst
11 42 (4.87%) Lead Data Engineer
12 39 (4.52%) Snowflake Engineer
13 37 (4.29%) AWS Data Engineer
13 37 (4.29%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 31 (3.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 30 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
16 29 (3.36%) Data Scientist
17 27 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 27 (3.13%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (17.40%) PySpark
2 119 (13.81%) Terraform
3 66 (7.66%) Kafka
4 34 (3.94%) REST
5 23 (2.67%) React
6 20 (2.32%) Pandas
7 17 (1.97%) .NET
8 16 (1.86%) JSON
9 14 (1.62%) NumPy
9 14 (1.62%) scikit-learn
10 12 (1.39%) PyTorch
11 10 (1.16%) Great Expectations
11 10 (1.16%) Spring
11 10 (1.16%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.93%) LangChain
13 8 (0.93%) pytest
14 6 (0.70%) FastAPI
14 6 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (0.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 137 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.34%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 44 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (4.18%) Data Structures
5 35 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (2.78%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.51%) NHS
9 12 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
9 12 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.16%) Clustering
12 9 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
12 9 (1.04%) Reference Data
13 8 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.90%) Linux
2 14 (1.62%) 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 (50.35%) Analytics
2 422 (48.96%) Data Pipeline
3 328 (38.05%) CI/CD
4 316 (36.66%) Data Modelling
5 309 (35.85%) ETL
6 282 (32.71%) AI
7 213 (24.71%) Agile
7 213 (24.71%) DevOps
8 202 (23.43%) Business Intelligence
9 191 (22.16%) Data Governance
10 163 (18.91%) Machine Learning
11 151 (17.52%) Data Architecture
12 150 (17.40%) Data Transformation
13 142 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 136 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
15 134 (15.55%) Data Science
16 131 (15.20%) Decision-Making
17 127 (14.73%) Validation
18 126 (14.62%) Migration
19 113 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 491 (56.96%) SQL
2 460 (53.36%) Python
3 66 (7.66%) Java
4 34 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (3.25%) Scala
6 24 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 21 (2.44%) C#
7 21 (2.44%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.39%) R
9 12 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.28%) Bash
11 9 (1.04%) Bicep
11 9 (1.04%) SAS Macro
11 9 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.81%) SPARQL
13 6 (0.70%) LookML
14 5 (0.58%) Cypher
14 5 (0.58%) Korn
14 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 105 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.45%) Degree
4 26 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.20%) 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
10 6 (0.70%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
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
1 278 (32.25%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.10%) QA
3 42 (4.87%) GDPR
4 18 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.46%) SLA
6 3 (0.35%) GxP
6 3 (0.35%) MiFID
6 3 (0.35%) PMO
7 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.23%) EMIR
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.12%) Basel II
8 1 (0.12%) COPPA
8 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.12%) GRC
8 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 69 (8.00%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (6.26%) 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
1 228 (26.45%) Databricks
2 147 (17.05%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.87%) Informatica
4 35 (4.06%) Google
5 34 (3.94%) Oracle
6 20 (2.32%) Palantir
7 18 (2.09%) Foundry
7 18 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.39%) 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%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud