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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 171 143
Rank change year-on-year +68 -28 +73
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 354 255 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.63% 1.57% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 1.76% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 195 272
10th Percentile £363 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £719 £775
90th Percentile £775 £820 £825
England median daily rate £520 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -9.57% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £41.65 - £34.85
25th Percentile £51.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £65.00 - £90.00
90th Percentile £92.00 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.08% +56.00%

All Process and 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 12,457 14,510 20,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.60% 89.17% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,237 9,749 14,729
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £696
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 181 229
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.43
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £22.25
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -12.50% +7.79%
75th Percentile £48.94 £55.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +47.41%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering 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 13 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in London

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 13 September 2025. 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 +20 44 £550 -15.38% 69
West London -1 2 £493 -6.19% 10
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 56 (15.82%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (10.17%) Apache Spark
3 19 (5.37%) Apache
4 6 (1.69%) Confluence
5 2 (0.56%) Luigi
5 2 (0.56%) SAS
5 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.26%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.56%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.56%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Endur
3 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 176 (49.72%) Azure
2 136 (38.42%) AWS
3 67 (18.93%) GCP
4 66 (18.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 62 (17.51%) Power Platform
6 51 (14.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 47 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (12.15%) dbt
9 41 (11.58%) GitHub
10 37 (10.45%) Snowflake
11 30 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (7.63%) Amazon S3
13 21 (5.93%) Serverless
14 13 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (3.11%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (2.82%) Azure Machine Learning
16 10 (2.82%) Collibra
17 9 (2.54%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.69%) Firewall
2 5 (1.41%) VPN
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.51%) Data Warehouse
2 61 (17.23%) Power BI
3 47 (13.28%) Data Lake
4 37 (10.45%) Metadata
5 26 (7.34%) Big Data
6 24 (6.78%) BigQuery
7 21 (5.93%) Delta Lake
8 19 (5.37%) SQL Server
9 17 (4.80%) NoSQL
10 15 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (4.24%) Tableau
11 14 (3.95%) Hadoop
12 13 (3.67%) Snowflake Schema
13 12 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (3.39%) Power Query
14 11 (3.11%) Relational Database
15 10 (2.82%) Star Schema
16 8 (2.26%) Apache Hive
16 8 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (2.26%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 47 (13.28%) Git
2 15 (4.24%) JIRA
3 6 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.69%) MLflow
4 4 (1.13%) GitLab
4 4 (1.13%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.56%) PROIV
5 2 (0.56%) TestRail
6 1 (0.28%) GoCD
6 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (27.68%) Finance
2 95 (26.84%) Social Skills
3 54 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (14.12%) Banking
5 33 (9.32%) Investment Banking
6 20 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.52%) Front Office
8 12 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.11%) Marketing
10 10 (2.82%) Retail
11 5 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.41%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.13%) Legal
12 4 (1.13%) Local Government
12 4 (1.13%) Police
12 4 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 162 (45.76%) Data Engineer
2 56 (15.82%) Senior
3 47 (13.28%) Developer
4 42 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
5 37 (10.45%) Azure Engineer
6 35 (9.89%) Architect
7 31 (8.76%) Azure Data Engineer
8 24 (6.78%) Python Developer
9 22 (6.21%) Lead
10 19 (5.37%) Analyst
11 16 (4.52%) AWS Developer
11 16 (4.52%) JavaScript Developer
12 13 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.67%) Data Analyst
13 12 (3.39%) Python Engineer
14 11 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (3.11%) Data Architect
15 10 (2.82%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (2.82%) Software Engineer
16 9 (2.54%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.02%) PySpark
2 36 (10.17%) Kafka
3 24 (6.78%) FastAPI
4 22 (6.21%) NumPy
4 22 (6.21%) Pandas
5 19 (5.37%) Flask
5 19 (5.37%) React
6 17 (4.80%) Vue
7 16 (4.52%) AngularJS
7 16 (4.52%) Polars
7 16 (4.52%) SciPy
8 10 (2.82%) RESTful
9 8 (2.26%) Jinja
9 8 (2.26%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.26%) TensorFlow
10 7 (1.98%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.98%) JSON
10 7 (1.98%) LangChain
11 6 (1.69%) .NET
12 5 (1.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.52%) Hedge funds
4 12 (3.39%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.39%) Fixed Income
5 9 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.26%) Equities
6 8 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.69%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.41%) Derivative
8 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.41%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.93%) Linux
2 3 (0.85%) Android
2 3 (0.85%) Windows
3 2 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (44.07%) Data Pipeline
2 135 (38.14%) CI/CD
3 133 (37.57%) Analytics
4 131 (37.01%) Data Modelling
5 126 (35.59%) ETL
6 87 (24.58%) DevOps
7 80 (22.60%) Agile
7 80 (22.60%) Business Intelligence
8 76 (21.47%) Artificial Intelligence
9 72 (20.34%) Data Science
10 68 (19.21%) Data Governance
11 63 (17.80%) Machine Learning
12 56 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (15.25%) Decision-Making
14 50 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 47 (13.28%) Visualisation
16 45 (12.71%) Data Integration
16 45 (12.71%) Software Engineering
17 39 (11.02%) Data Architecture
18 34 (9.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 227 (64.12%) Python
2 179 (50.56%) SQL
3 40 (11.30%) Java
4 32 (9.04%) Scala
5 27 (7.63%) C#
6 25 (7.06%) C++
7 20 (5.65%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.80%) Rust
9 14 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (3.67%) Bicep
11 8 (2.26%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.69%) R
13 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.13%) VBA
15 3 (0.85%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.56%) Korn
16 2 (0.56%) PHP
17 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.28%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 48 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 40 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.50%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.21%) Degree
5 12 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.41%) PMP
10 4 (1.13%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.56%) MCP
12 2 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.28%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (22.88%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.21%) GDPR
3 10 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.82%) QA
4 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.69%) NIST
5 5 (1.41%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.85%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (13.84%) Docker
2 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 67 (18.93%) Terraform
2 42 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.13%) Control-M
3 4 (1.13%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.85%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.56%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) Argo
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 90 (25.42%) Databricks
2 59 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.06%) Google
4 16 (4.52%) Oracle
5 11 (3.11%) Informatica
6 10 (2.82%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.98%) Palantir
8 6 (1.69%) SAP
9 5 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
10 4 (1.13%) EMC
10 4 (1.13%) Murex
10 4 (1.13%) VMware
11 3 (0.85%) Foundry
11 3 (0.85%) IBM
11 3 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.85%) Splunk
11 3 (0.85%) Talend
11 3 (0.85%) Wallstreet Suite
12 2 (0.56%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.56%) Cloudera