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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 116 169
Rank change year-on-year +57 +53 -22
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 791 333 276
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 2.49% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 2.70% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 235 211
10th Percentile £401 £410 £413
25th Percentile £456 £475 £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 £750 £838 £775
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 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 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 8 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 +47 123 £553 +1.61% 52
West London +5 26 £625 -19.35% 5
South London - 4 £545 - 3
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
1 110 (13.91%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (11.50%) Apache Spark
3 58 (7.33%) Apache
4 15 (1.90%) Palantir Foundry
4 15 (1.90%) SAS
5 13 (1.64%) Confluence
6 11 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.63%) Appian
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.63%) 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 (0.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 341 (43.11%) Azure
2 324 (40.96%) AWS
3 164 (20.73%) Power Platform
4 128 (16.18%) Snowflake
5 122 (15.42%) GCP
6 109 (13.78%) Amazon S3
6 109 (13.78%) dbt
7 93 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (10.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 82 (10.37%) GitHub
10 79 (9.99%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (9.61%) Serverless
12 68 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (3.79%) Amazon EMR
15 28 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.29%) Amazon SageMaker
17 25 (3.16%) Dagster
18 24 (3.03%) Azure AI
18 24 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.63%) RTP
2 2 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (19.60%) Data Warehouse
2 150 (18.96%) Power BI
3 139 (17.57%) Data Lake
4 80 (10.11%) Metadata
5 71 (8.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 60 (7.59%) BigQuery
7 58 (7.33%) Delta Lake
8 54 (6.83%) Big Data
9 51 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
10 50 (6.32%) Tableau
11 46 (5.82%) SQL Server
12 44 (5.56%) NoSQL
13 38 (4.80%) Snowflake Schema
14 30 (3.79%) Relational Database
15 29 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
16 25 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (2.91%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.40%) MongoDB
19 18 (2.28%) Spark SQL
20 17 (2.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 97 (12.26%) Git
2 34 (4.30%) GitLab
3 26 (3.29%) MLflow
4 25 (3.16%) JIRA
5 10 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.51%) Postman
7 4 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Snyk
9 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.25%) ERwin
9 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 255 (32.24%) Finance
2 179 (22.63%) Social Skills
3 127 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.99%) Banking
5 61 (7.71%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.54%) Marketing
7 20 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.40%) Retail
9 18 (2.28%) Front Office
10 17 (2.15%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.77%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.88%) Legal
16 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.51%) Back Office
17 4 (0.51%) Billing
18 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 348 (43.99%) Data Engineer
2 119 (15.04%) Senior
3 104 (13.15%) Architect
4 94 (11.88%) Lead
5 71 (8.98%) Senior Data Engineer
6 48 (6.07%) Developer
7 42 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
7 42 (5.31%) Data Architect
8 41 (5.18%) Lead Data Engineer
9 37 (4.68%) Analyst
10 35 (4.42%) Data Scientist
10 35 (4.42%) Snowflake Engineer
10 35 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
12 32 (4.05%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 30 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 26 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
15 24 (3.03%) Data Analyst
16 23 (2.91%) Python Engineer
17 22 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (16.18%) PySpark
2 74 (9.36%) Kafka
3 34 (4.30%) Pandas
4 28 (3.54%) REST
4 28 (3.54%) scikit-learn
5 24 (3.03%) NumPy
6 19 (2.40%) PyTorch
7 14 (1.77%) JSON
7 14 (1.77%) Spring
7 14 (1.77%) TensorFlow
8 11 (1.39%) .NET
8 11 (1.39%) Great Expectations
8 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (1.39%) pytest
8 11 (1.39%) React
9 10 (1.26%) FastAPI
10 9 (1.14%) LangChain
10 9 (1.14%) Spring Boot
10 9 (1.14%) XML
10 9 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
4 31 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 28 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.28%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
9 15 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.77%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.52%) NHS
13 10 (1.26%) Clustering
13 10 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.14%) Equities
14 9 (1.14%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.88%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.16%) Linux
2 15 (1.90%) Unix
3 4 (0.51%) VMS
4 3 (0.38%) Windows
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (51.83%) Analytics
2 381 (48.17%) Data Pipeline
3 308 (38.94%) CI/CD
4 286 (36.16%) Data Modelling
5 281 (35.52%) ETL
6 266 (33.63%) AI
7 210 (26.55%) DevOps
8 186 (23.51%) Business Intelligence
9 184 (23.26%) Agile
10 179 (22.63%) Machine Learning
11 160 (20.23%) Data Governance
12 143 (18.08%) Data Science
13 128 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (15.80%) Data Architecture
15 116 (14.66%) Decision-Making
16 113 (14.29%) Migration
17 111 (14.03%) Validation
18 108 (13.65%) Infrastructure as Code
19 105 (13.27%) Use Case
20 97 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 457 (57.77%) SQL
2 446 (56.38%) Python
3 78 (9.86%) Java
4 31 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.79%) Scala
6 25 (3.16%) C#
7 19 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.52%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.52%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.39%) Bicep
10 11 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.26%) R
12 9 (1.14%) Bash
13 6 (0.76%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.51%) Cypher
14 4 (0.51%) Korn
15 3 (0.38%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 109 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.08%) Degree
4 28 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.26%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.63%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.51%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.38%) PhD
14 3 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.25%) CSPO
16 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 1 (0.13%) CCSP
16 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (30.34%) Data Quality
2 58 (7.33%) GDPR
3 45 (5.69%) QA
4 14 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.51%) MiFID
6 3 (0.38%) GxP
6 3 (0.38%) NIST
6 3 (0.38%) PMO
6 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) Basel II
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.13%) PERC
System Software
1 71 (8.98%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (14.66%) Terraform
2 61 (7.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.63%) Grafana
4 4 (0.51%) Ansible
5 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.25%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 191 (24.15%) Databricks
2 139 (17.57%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.93%) Informatica
4 37 (4.68%) Google
5 23 (2.91%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.78%) Oracle
7 21 (2.65%) Foundry
7 21 (2.65%) Palantir
8 14 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.88%) SAP
10 6 (0.76%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.63%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.63%) UiPath
11 5 (0.63%) Workday
12 4 (0.51%) Charles River
12 4 (0.51%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.51%) Denodo
12 4 (0.51%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.51%) Murex