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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 114 158
Rank change year-on-year +56 +44 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 806 341 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 2.52% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 2.73% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 238 207
10th Percentile £401 £408 £413
25th Percentile £457 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £763 £838 £783
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -56.25%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.38 £38.81
90th Percentile - £62.75 £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
% change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -35.76%

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 17,684 12,469 15,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.20% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,337 11,045
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 233 283
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.73 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +6.24% -27.42%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +48 129 £575 +5.75% 57
West London +5 25 £625 -19.35% 6
South London - 4 £545 - 2
East London - 4 £450 - 4
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
1 113 (14.02%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (11.29%) Apache Spark
3 61 (7.57%) Apache
4 15 (1.86%) Palantir Foundry
4 15 (1.86%) SAS
5 13 (1.61%) Confluence
6 11 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.50%) Appian
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 14 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.62%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.25%) Endur
3 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.25%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 346 (42.93%) Azure
2 327 (40.57%) AWS
3 165 (20.47%) Power Platform
4 130 (16.13%) Snowflake
5 124 (15.38%) GCP
6 112 (13.90%) dbt
7 109 (13.52%) Amazon S3
8 96 (11.91%) Azure Data Factory
9 88 (10.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 81 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
10 81 (10.05%) GitHub
11 77 (9.55%) Serverless
12 69 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (3.72%) Amazon EMR
15 28 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
17 25 (3.10%) Dagster
18 24 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 23 (2.85%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.62%) RTP
2 2 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
3 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (19.73%) Data Warehouse
2 151 (18.73%) Power BI
3 140 (17.37%) Data Lake
4 84 (10.42%) Metadata
5 70 (8.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 61 (7.57%) BigQuery
7 56 (6.95%) Delta Lake
8 54 (6.70%) Big Data
9 51 (6.33%) Amazon Athena
10 50 (6.20%) Tableau
11 44 (5.46%) NoSQL
12 43 (5.33%) SQL Server
13 38 (4.71%) Snowflake Schema
14 30 (3.72%) Relational Database
15 29 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
16 25 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (2.85%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.36%) MongoDB
19 18 (2.23%) Spark SQL
20 17 (2.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 98 (12.16%) Git
2 34 (4.22%) GitLab
3 26 (3.23%) JIRA
4 25 (3.10%) MLflow
5 10 (1.24%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.50%) Postman
7 4 (0.50%) Selenium
8 3 (0.37%) Snyk
9 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.25%) ERwin
9 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Ant
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.12%) JUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Maven
10 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 258 (32.01%) Finance
2 179 (22.21%) Social Skills
3 135 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (10.05%) Banking
5 63 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.47%) Marketing
7 21 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.36%) Front Office
8 19 (2.36%) Retail
9 18 (2.23%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.87%) Legal
15 5 (0.62%) Back Office
15 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.50%) Billing
17 3 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 358 (44.42%) Data Engineer
2 119 (14.76%) Senior
3 105 (13.03%) Architect
4 97 (12.03%) Lead
5 71 (8.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (6.33%) Developer
7 44 (5.46%) Lead Data Engineer
8 43 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
9 41 (5.09%) Data Architect
10 40 (4.96%) Analyst
11 37 (4.59%) Data Scientist
12 36 (4.47%) Snowflake Engineer
13 35 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (4.09%) AWS Data Engineer
14 33 (4.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 29 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 28 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
17 27 (3.35%) Data Analyst
18 24 (2.98%) Azure Data Engineer
19 23 (2.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (16.13%) PySpark
2 75 (9.31%) Kafka
3 32 (3.97%) Pandas
4 27 (3.35%) scikit-learn
5 26 (3.23%) REST
6 23 (2.85%) NumPy
7 18 (2.23%) PyTorch
8 15 (1.86%) JSON
9 14 (1.74%) Spring
10 13 (1.61%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.36%) .NET
11 11 (1.36%) Great Expectations
11 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Graph
11 11 (1.36%) React
12 10 (1.24%) pytest
13 9 (1.12%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.12%) LangChain
13 9 (1.12%) Spring Boot
13 9 (1.12%) XML
13 9 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 138 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 30 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.23%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
9 15 (1.86%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.49%) NHS
13 10 (1.24%) Clustering
13 10 (1.24%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.12%) Equities
14 9 (1.12%) Management Information System
15 8 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.10%) Linux
2 15 (1.86%) Unix
3 4 (0.50%) VMS
4 3 (0.37%) Windows
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (52.11%) Analytics
2 390 (48.39%) Data Pipeline
3 310 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 294 (36.48%) Data Modelling
5 282 (34.99%) ETL
6 265 (32.88%) AI
7 212 (26.30%) DevOps
8 189 (23.45%) Business Intelligence
9 187 (23.20%) Agile
10 180 (22.33%) Machine Learning
11 166 (20.60%) Data Governance
12 145 (17.99%) Data Science
13 130 (16.13%) Data Architecture
14 129 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (14.64%) Decision-Making
16 115 (14.27%) Migration
17 114 (14.14%) Validation
18 110 (13.65%) Infrastructure as Code
19 108 (13.40%) Use Case
20 99 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 465 (57.69%) SQL
2 454 (56.33%) Python
3 79 (9.80%) Java
4 31 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.72%) Scala
6 25 (3.10%) C#
7 18 (2.23%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.49%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.49%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.49%) SAS Macro
9 11 (1.36%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.36%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.24%) Bicep
10 10 (1.24%) R
11 9 (1.12%) Bash
12 6 (0.74%) SPARQL
13 4 (0.50%) Cypher
13 4 (0.50%) Korn
14 3 (0.37%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.95%) Degree
4 28 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.98%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.86%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.24%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.74%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.50%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.37%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.25%) CSPO
16 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 1 (0.12%) CCSP
16 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (30.40%) Data Quality
2 59 (7.32%) GDPR
3 46 (5.71%) QA
4 16 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.50%) MiFID
6 3 (0.37%) GxP
6 3 (0.37%) NIST
6 3 (0.37%) PMO
6 3 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.37%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.25%) EMIR
7 2 (0.25%) GRC
7 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) Basel II
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.12%) PERC
System Software
1 70 (8.68%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (14.52%) Terraform
2 60 (7.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.62%) Grafana
4 4 (0.50%) Ansible
5 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.25%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.12%) Oozie
Vendors
1 191 (23.70%) Databricks
2 141 (17.49%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.84%) Google
3 39 (4.84%) Informatica
4 22 (2.73%) OpenAI
4 22 (2.73%) Oracle
5 21 (2.61%) Foundry
5 21 (2.61%) Palantir
6 14 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 7 (0.87%) SAP
8 6 (0.74%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.62%) Amplitude
9 5 (0.62%) Workday
10 4 (0.50%) Automation Anywhere
10 4 (0.50%) Charles River
10 4 (0.50%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.50%) Denodo
10 4 (0.50%) Hortonworks
10 4 (0.50%) Murex
10 4 (0.50%) UiPath