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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 109 171
Rank change year-on-year +52 +62 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 729 309 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 2.50% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 2.71% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 215 193
10th Percentile £401 £406 £413
25th Percentile £463 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £794 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £761
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £36.63 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -53.33%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £38.81
90th Percentile - - £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +143.48% -17.86% -53.33%

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 15,594 11,404 15,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,437 7,710 11,153
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 175 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.45
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +42 114 £565 +2.73% 67
West London +3 35 £603 -23.49% 2
South London - 5 £500 - 2
East London - 4 £450 - 9
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
1 107 (14.68%) Apache Spark
2 88 (12.07%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (6.72%) Apache
4 14 (1.92%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.37%) SAS
6 8 (1.10%) Appian
7 7 (0.96%) Confluence
8 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.41%) Trello
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.69%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 340 (46.64%) Azure
2 273 (37.45%) AWS
3 174 (23.87%) Power Platform
4 117 (16.05%) GCP
5 113 (15.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 100 (13.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 99 (13.58%) Snowflake
8 93 (12.76%) Amazon S3
9 92 (12.62%) GitHub
10 78 (10.70%) dbt
11 75 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
12 61 (8.37%) Serverless
13 56 (7.68%) GitHub Actions
14 54 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.43%) Dagster
17 23 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (3.16%) Collibra
18 22 (3.02%) Amazon Kinesis
19 21 (2.88%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) RTP
2 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.14%) 4G
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) MIMO
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (21.95%) Power BI
2 153 (20.99%) Data Lake
3 148 (20.30%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (10.29%) Metadata
5 60 (8.23%) SQL Server
6 58 (7.96%) Delta Lake
7 55 (7.54%) BigQuery
8 54 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (6.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 49 (6.72%) Big Data
10 48 (6.58%) NoSQL
11 47 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
12 45 (6.17%) Snowflake Schema
13 42 (5.76%) Tableau
14 34 (4.66%) Relational Database
15 26 (3.57%) Spark SQL
16 24 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
17 23 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 20 (2.74%) Mixpanel
18 20 (2.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 98 (13.44%) Git
2 34 (4.66%) MLflow
3 30 (4.12%) GitLab
4 18 (2.47%) JIRA
5 17 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.69%) Selenium
8 3 (0.41%) Postman
8 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.41%) Snyk
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Ant
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) ERwin
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Maven
10 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 249 (34.16%) Finance
2 160 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 108 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.68%) Banking
5 39 (5.35%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.47%) Retail
7 17 (2.33%) Front Office
7 17 (2.33%) Marketing
8 16 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.51%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.96%) Legal
12 6 (0.82%) Back Office
13 4 (0.55%) Military
13 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 335 (45.95%) Data Engineer
2 99 (13.58%) Senior
3 84 (11.52%) Architect
4 82 (11.25%) Lead
5 69 (9.47%) Senior Data Engineer
6 48 (6.58%) Developer
7 37 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
7 37 (5.08%) Snowflake Engineer
8 34 (4.66%) Data Architect
9 33 (4.53%) Lead Data Engineer
10 32 (4.39%) Azure Data Engineer
10 32 (4.39%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 31 (4.25%) Analyst
12 30 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
14 26 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 25 (3.43%) Data Scientist
16 24 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
17 23 (3.16%) AWS Data Engineer
18 22 (3.02%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (17.83%) PySpark
2 76 (10.43%) Kafka
3 41 (5.62%) Pandas
4 34 (4.66%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.98%) NumPy
6 28 (3.84%) PyTorch
7 20 (2.74%) REST
7 20 (2.74%) TensorFlow
8 17 (2.33%) Great Expectations
8 17 (2.33%) LangChain
9 16 (2.19%) pytest
10 15 (2.06%) FastAPI
11 14 (1.92%) YAML
12 13 (1.78%) Flask
12 13 (1.78%) Hugging Face
13 12 (1.65%) Spring
14 11 (1.51%) Django
14 11 (1.51%) RESTful
15 10 (1.37%) Faiss
15 10 (1.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 114 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
4 23 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.02%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.92%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.78%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.37%) Equities
12 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.10%) Clustering
13 8 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.96%) Derivative
15 5 (0.69%) Data Fabric
15 5 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.43%) Linux
2 14 (1.92%) Unix
3 5 (0.69%) VMS
4 3 (0.41%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (50.75%) Analytics
2 329 (45.13%) Data Pipeline
3 295 (40.47%) ETL
4 286 (39.23%) Data Modelling
5 271 (37.17%) CI/CD
6 236 (32.37%) AI
7 202 (27.71%) DevOps
8 188 (25.79%) Business Intelligence
9 168 (23.05%) Data Governance
10 164 (22.50%) Agile
11 154 (21.12%) Machine Learning
12 125 (17.15%) Data Science
13 115 (15.78%) Data Architecture
14 114 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
15 97 (13.31%) Validation
16 95 (13.03%) Infrastructure as Code
17 91 (12.48%) LLM
18 90 (12.35%) Use Case
19 89 (12.21%) Decision-Making
20 88 (12.07%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 429 (58.85%) SQL
2 410 (56.24%) Python
3 69 (9.47%) Java
4 52 (7.13%) Scala
5 33 (4.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (3.84%) C#
7 19 (2.61%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.92%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.65%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.51%) R
11 10 (1.37%) Bicep
12 9 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.96%) Bash
13 7 (0.96%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.41%) Korn
15 2 (0.27%) Go
15 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.14%) C++
16 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 120 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 105 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.86%) Degree
4 26 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.69%) PhD
11 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.14%) CCSP
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (31.14%) Data Quality
2 63 (8.64%) GDPR
3 39 (5.35%) QA
4 9 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.69%) MiFID
6 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.41%) PMO
6 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.27%) EMIR
7 2 (0.27%) GRC
7 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (10.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (15.09%) Terraform
2 69 (9.47%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.41%) Ansible
3 3 (0.41%) Grafana
3 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Argo
4 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 198 (27.16%) Databricks
2 125 (17.15%) Microsoft
3 48 (6.58%) Google
4 27 (3.70%) Informatica
5 20 (2.74%) Foundry
5 20 (2.74%) OpenAI
6 14 (1.92%) Palantir
7 11 (1.51%) Oracle
8 8 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.10%) UiPath
9 6 (0.82%) Cloudera
10 5 (0.69%) SAP
10 5 (0.69%) Workday
11 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.55%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.55%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.41%) Apple
12 3 (0.41%) Charles River
12 3 (0.41%) Murex