Data Engineering Contracts in London

Data Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 166 147
Rank change year-on-year +54 -19 +70
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 332 273 459
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.50% 1.55% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 1.75% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 208 301
10th Percentile £409 £413 £463
25th Percentile £475 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £775
90th Percentile £838 £777 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile - - £34.70
25th Percentile £51.25 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -56.25% +4.99%
75th Percentile £59.38 £38.81 £90.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £45.68 -
England median hourly rate £38.96 £48.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year -19.67% -35.76% +51.00%

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 12,241 15,588 23,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.47% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,173 11,098 16,857
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 295 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +21 47 £544 -16.35% 226
West London - 4 £775 - 19
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 60 (18.07%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (17.17%) Apache Spark
3 39 (11.75%) Apache
4 5 (1.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.60%) Luigi
6 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
2 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 168 (50.60%) Azure
2 149 (44.88%) AWS
3 69 (20.78%) Power Platform
4 68 (20.48%) GCP
5 56 (16.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 51 (15.36%) dbt
7 41 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (11.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 39 (11.75%) Serverless
9 34 (10.24%) GitHub
9 34 (10.24%) Snowflake
10 28 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (5.72%) Amazon S3
13 17 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (4.52%) OpenShift
15 13 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
17 9 (2.71%) Amazon SageMaker
17 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.51%) Firewall
1 5 (1.51%) VPN
2 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.30%) Network Security
2 1 (0.30%) SSL
2 1 (0.30%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (20.18%) Power BI
2 61 (18.37%) Data Lake
2 61 (18.37%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (12.65%) Big Data
4 32 (9.64%) Amazon Athena
5 30 (9.04%) Metadata
6 24 (7.23%) BigQuery
7 21 (6.33%) NoSQL
8 20 (6.02%) Apache Iceberg
9 19 (5.72%) Tableau
10 18 (5.42%) Dremio
11 17 (5.12%) Relational Database
12 16 (4.82%) Delta Lake
13 15 (4.52%) Hadoop
13 15 (4.52%) SQL Server
14 14 (4.22%) Apache Arrow
14 14 (4.22%) Apache Ignite
15 13 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (9.04%) Git
2 17 (5.12%) JIRA
3 14 (4.22%) Artifactory
4 7 (2.11%) MLflow
5 5 (1.51%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.20%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.90%) GitLab
8 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.60%) PROIV
9 1 (0.30%) ERwin
9 1 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 126 (37.95%) Finance
2 85 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 53 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (15.96%) Banking
4 34 (10.24%) Investment Banking
5 31 (9.34%) Front Office
6 19 (5.72%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.61%) Retail
8 11 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.71%) Marketing
10 8 (2.41%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.51%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.20%) Local Government
13 4 (1.20%) Police
14 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 175 (52.71%) Data Engineer
2 45 (13.55%) Senior
3 39 (11.75%) Developer
4 33 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
5 32 (9.64%) Senior Data Engineer
6 31 (9.34%) Lead
7 30 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (9.04%) Azure Data Engineer
7 30 (9.04%) Python Engineer
8 28 (8.43%) Architect
9 22 (6.63%) Python Developer
10 20 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.12%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (5.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.82%) AWS Data Engineer
13 15 (4.52%) Lead Data Engineer
14 14 (4.22%) AWS Developer
14 14 (4.22%) JavaScript Developer
14 14 (4.22%) Python Data Engineer
15 12 (3.61%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.66%) PySpark
2 45 (13.55%) Kafka
3 25 (7.53%) NumPy
3 25 (7.53%) Pandas
4 21 (6.33%) React
4 21 (6.33%) SciPy
5 19 (5.72%) FastAPI
6 17 (5.12%) Flask
6 17 (5.12%) Vue
7 16 (4.82%) AngularJS
7 16 (4.82%) Polars
8 14 (4.22%) J2EE
9 8 (2.41%) Jinja
10 7 (2.11%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.11%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.11%) TensorFlow
11 6 (1.81%) Play Framework
12 5 (1.51%) LangChain
12 5 (1.51%) Plotly
12 5 (1.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (5.72%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.82%) Hedge funds
4 12 (3.61%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.41%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.51%) Equities
8 5 (1.51%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.90%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.90%) FMCG
10 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.90%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.90%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.63%) Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.30%) Android
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (40.66%) Analytics
2 131 (39.46%) Data Pipeline
3 125 (37.65%) ETL
4 122 (36.75%) CI/CD
5 108 (32.53%) Data Modelling
6 103 (31.02%) Agile
7 99 (29.82%) DevOps
8 83 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
9 64 (19.28%) Machine Learning
10 63 (18.98%) Data Governance
11 62 (18.67%) Data Science
12 57 (17.17%) Artificial Intelligence
13 56 (16.87%) Software Engineering
14 54 (16.27%) Decision-Making
15 49 (14.76%) Visualisation
16 46 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (13.55%) Data Integration
18 43 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
19 33 (9.94%) Data Architecture
19 33 (9.94%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 216 (65.06%) Python
2 165 (49.70%) SQL
3 62 (18.67%) Java
4 42 (12.65%) Scala
5 22 (6.63%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.72%) C#
6 19 (5.72%) C++
7 15 (4.52%) Rust
8 14 (4.22%) Go
9 13 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (3.01%) Bicep
11 8 (2.41%) R
12 5 (1.51%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.20%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.60%) VBA
15 1 (0.30%) C
15 1 (0.30%) Korn
15 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 39 (11.75%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.33%) Degree
4 19 (5.72%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.01%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.01%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.81%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.81%) PMP
7 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.30%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.30%) MCP
8 1 (0.30%) PhD
8 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (21.39%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.52%) QA
3 10 (3.01%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.41%) GDPR
5 4 (1.20%) NIST
6 3 (0.90%) PMO
7 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 59 (17.77%) Docker
2 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) HDFS
3 1 (0.30%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 80 (24.10%) Terraform
2 62 (18.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.90%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.60%) Control-M
4 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.30%) Ansible
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
5 1 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
5 1 (0.30%) logstash
5 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 90 (27.11%) Databricks
2 46 (13.86%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.83%) Google
4 14 (4.22%) Oracle
5 11 (3.31%) Informatica
6 6 (1.81%) Palantir
6 6 (1.81%) SAP
7 5 (1.51%) MicroStrategy
8 4 (1.20%) IBM
9 3 (0.90%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.90%) Splunk
9 3 (0.90%) Talend
9 3 (0.90%) Wallstreet Suite
10 2 (0.60%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.60%) EMC
10 2 (0.60%) Foundry
10 2 (0.60%) Murex
10 2 (0.60%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.60%) VMware