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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 114 164
Rank change year-on-year +57 +50 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 751 302 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 2.46% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 2.67% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 212 192
10th Percentile £405 £408 £400
25th Percentile £463 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% -7.57%
75th Percentile £663 £775 £704
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
England median daily rate £528 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.09% -1.79% -10.40%
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% -58.82%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.38 £38.81
90th Percentile - £62.75 £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +133.33% -38.14% -36.81%

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 16,293 11,314 15,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.27% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,880 7,585 11,084
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 194 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.57 £63.60 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% -

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 June 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 June 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 +49 125 £553 +0.45% 78
West London +7 33 £603 -23.49% 10
South London - 5 £500 - 7
East London - 4 £450 - 15
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
1 102 (13.58%) Apache Spark
2 95 (12.65%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (7.06%) Apache
4 12 (1.60%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (1.20%) SAS
6 8 (1.07%) Appian
7 6 (0.80%) Confluence
8 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 17 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.27%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.27%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 345 (45.94%) Azure
2 283 (37.68%) AWS
3 177 (23.57%) Power Platform
4 116 (15.45%) GCP
5 114 (15.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 113 (15.05%) Snowflake
7 94 (12.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 89 (11.85%) Amazon S3
8 89 (11.85%) dbt
8 89 (11.85%) GitHub
9 82 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (7.46%) Serverless
11 52 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.33%) Dagster
15 22 (2.93%) Azure AI
16 21 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 20 (2.66%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.67%) RTP
2 1 (0.13%) 4G
2 1 (0.13%) 5G
2 1 (0.13%) Firewall
2 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.13%) MIMO
2 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (21.84%) Power BI
2 153 (20.37%) Data Lake
3 149 (19.84%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (9.99%) Metadata
5 60 (7.99%) SQL Server
6 59 (7.86%) Delta Lake
7 57 (7.59%) BigQuery
8 51 (6.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (6.52%) Big Data
10 47 (6.26%) NoSQL
11 46 (6.13%) Snowflake Schema
11 46 (6.13%) Tableau
12 42 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
12 42 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (4.13%) Relational Database
14 26 (3.46%) Spark SQL
15 23 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
15 23 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (2.80%) Star Schema
17 18 (2.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 98 (13.05%) Git
2 31 (4.13%) GitLab
3 28 (3.73%) MLflow
4 19 (2.53%) JIRA
5 13 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.67%) Postman
7 5 (0.67%) Selenium
8 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.40%) Snyk
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) ERwin
9 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 257 (34.22%) Finance
2 167 (22.24%) Social Skills
3 109 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.39%) Banking
5 41 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.46%) Marketing
7 19 (2.53%) Retail
8 18 (2.40%) Front Office
9 17 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.86%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.73%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.93%) Legal
15 6 (0.80%) Back Office
15 6 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.40%) Billing
16 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 342 (45.54%) Data Engineer
2 104 (13.85%) Senior
3 89 (11.85%) Architect
3 89 (11.85%) Lead
4 68 (9.05%) Senior Data Engineer
5 43 (5.73%) Developer
6 39 (5.19%) Lead Data Engineer
7 36 (4.79%) Data Architect
7 36 (4.79%) Snowflake Engineer
8 33 (4.39%) Analyst
8 33 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
8 33 (4.39%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 32 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 30 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
10 30 (3.99%) Data Scientist
11 28 (3.73%) AWS Data Engineer
12 25 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
13 24 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 24 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
14 22 (2.93%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (16.11%) PySpark
2 72 (9.59%) Kafka
3 42 (5.59%) Pandas
4 35 (4.66%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.86%) NumPy
6 27 (3.60%) PyTorch
7 26 (3.46%) REST
8 21 (2.80%) TensorFlow
9 15 (2.00%) Great Expectations
9 15 (2.00%) LangChain
10 14 (1.86%) pytest
11 13 (1.73%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.60%) Hugging Face
12 12 (1.60%) Spring
13 11 (1.46%) Flask
13 11 (1.46%) JSON
13 11 (1.46%) YAML
14 10 (1.33%) Django
14 10 (1.33%) React
15 9 (1.20%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 119 (15.85%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.46%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.06%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.66%) Distributed Computing
7 17 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.13%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.73%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.33%) Equities
14 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.07%) Clustering
15 8 (1.07%) Derivative
15 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.93%) Reference Data
16 7 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.20%) Linux
2 15 (2.00%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) VMS
4 3 (0.40%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (51.26%) Analytics
2 347 (46.21%) Data Pipeline
3 291 (38.75%) ETL
4 286 (38.08%) CI/CD
4 286 (38.08%) Data Modelling
5 248 (33.02%) AI
6 210 (27.96%) DevOps
7 191 (25.43%) Business Intelligence
8 171 (22.77%) Agile
9 166 (22.10%) Data Governance
10 160 (21.30%) Machine Learning
11 126 (16.78%) Data Science
12 119 (15.85%) Data Architecture
13 113 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (13.05%) Migration
14 98 (13.05%) Validation
15 94 (12.52%) Decision-Making
16 93 (12.38%) LLM
17 92 (12.25%) Use Case
18 89 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 440 (58.59%) SQL
2 416 (55.39%) Python
3 72 (9.59%) Java
4 42 (5.59%) Scala
5 33 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 27 (3.60%) C#
7 20 (2.66%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.33%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.20%) Bicep
11 8 (1.07%) R
11 8 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.93%) Bash
12 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.67%) Korn
14 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.27%) C++
15 2 (0.27%) Go
15 2 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 119 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.39%) Degree
4 27 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.46%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.53%) PhD
11 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.13%) CCSP
14 1 (0.13%) CSPO
14 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (29.96%) Data Quality
2 63 (8.39%) GDPR
3 44 (5.86%) QA
4 9 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.53%) MiFID
7 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.40%) PMO
7 3 (0.40%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.27%) EMIR
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) GxP
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
9 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.13%) Basel II
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (9.85%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (13.58%) Terraform
2 62 (8.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.53%) Ansible
4 3 (0.40%) Grafana
4 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.27%) Argo
5 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 193 (25.70%) Databricks
2 135 (17.98%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.86%) Google
4 27 (3.60%) Informatica
5 24 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.40%) Foundry
6 18 (2.40%) Oracle
7 12 (1.60%) Palantir
8 8 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.07%) UiPath
9 5 (0.67%) Cloudera
9 5 (0.67%) Workday
10 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.53%) Denodo
10 4 (0.53%) Hortonworks
10 4 (0.53%) SAP
11 3 (0.40%) Charles River
11 3 (0.40%) IBM
11 3 (0.40%) MicroStrategy