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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 123 171
Rank change year-on-year +66 +48 -22
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 766 295 264
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.05% 2.38% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 2.58% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 206 200
10th Percentile £402 £413 £400
25th Percentile £458 £470 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £559 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -6.88% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £728
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £525 £539 £575
% change year-on-year -2.55% -6.30% -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% -58.82%
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% -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 16,795 11,414 15,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.28% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 7,654 11,105
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 205 313
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

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 17 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 17 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 +41 123 £550 - 29
West London +4 29 £603 -22.26% 4
South London - 5 £500 -
East London - 4 £450 - 7
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
1 101 (13.19%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (12.01%) Apache Spark
3 53 (6.92%) Apache
4 13 (1.70%) Palantir Foundry
4 13 (1.70%) SAS
5 12 (1.57%) Confluence
6 8 (1.04%) Appian
7 7 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
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 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Notion
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.65%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.26%) Endur
3 2 (0.26%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 339 (44.26%) Azure
2 300 (39.16%) AWS
3 181 (23.63%) Power Platform
4 118 (15.40%) Snowflake
5 112 (14.62%) GCP
6 107 (13.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 104 (13.58%) Amazon S3
8 97 (12.66%) dbt
9 90 (11.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 89 (11.62%) GitHub
11 81 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
12 70 (9.14%) Serverless
13 64 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (3.66%) Amazon EMR
17 25 (3.26%) Azure AI
17 25 (3.26%) Dagster
18 23 (3.00%) Amazon SageMaker
18 23 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) RTP
2 2 (0.26%) 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
1 167 (21.80%) Power BI
2 156 (20.37%) Data Lake
3 152 (19.84%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (10.05%) Metadata
5 68 (8.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 60 (7.83%) Delta Lake
7 59 (7.70%) SQL Server
8 57 (7.44%) BigQuery
9 54 (7.05%) Amazon Athena
10 50 (6.53%) Big Data
11 45 (5.87%) Tableau
12 43 (5.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 42 (5.48%) NoSQL
14 35 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 31 (4.05%) Relational Database
16 25 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
17 24 (3.13%) Spark SQL
18 22 (2.87%) Star Schema
19 21 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 17 (2.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 100 (13.05%) Git
2 34 (4.44%) GitLab
3 29 (3.79%) MLflow
4 24 (3.13%) JIRA
5 11 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.78%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.52%) Postman
7 4 (0.52%) Selenium
8 3 (0.39%) Snyk
9 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.26%) ERwin
9 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
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
1 249 (32.51%) Finance
2 171 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 112 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (8.88%) Banking
5 51 (6.66%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.26%) Marketing
7 19 (2.48%) Retail
8 17 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.09%) Front Office
10 14 (1.83%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.57%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.78%) Legal
16 5 (0.65%) Back Office
17 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.52%) Military
18 3 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 341 (44.52%) Data Engineer
2 115 (15.01%) Senior
3 100 (13.05%) Architect
4 95 (12.40%) Lead
5 73 (9.53%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (5.74%) Lead Data Engineer
7 40 (5.22%) Developer
8 38 (4.96%) Data Architect
9 36 (4.70%) Snowflake Engineer
10 35 (4.57%) Analyst
10 35 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
11 34 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (4.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 30 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 29 (3.79%) Data Scientist
15 27 (3.52%) AWS Data Engineer
16 24 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
17 23 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
18 22 (2.87%) Cloud Solutions Architect
19 20 (2.61%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (15.80%) PySpark
2 68 (8.88%) Kafka
3 38 (4.96%) Pandas
4 31 (4.05%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.79%) REST
6 26 (3.39%) NumPy
7 23 (3.00%) PyTorch
8 18 (2.35%) TensorFlow
9 14 (1.83%) pytest
10 13 (1.70%) FastAPI
10 13 (1.70%) Great Expectations
11 12 (1.57%) Spring
12 11 (1.44%) Flask
12 11 (1.44%) JSON
12 11 (1.44%) LangChain
13 10 (1.31%) Django
13 10 (1.31%) React
13 10 (1.31%) YAML
14 9 (1.17%) Middleware
14 9 (1.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 126 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.52%) Data Structures
5 25 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.35%) AI Agents
7 18 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
8 15 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.83%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.31%) Clustering
13 9 (1.17%) Equities
14 8 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.91%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.91%) Reference Data
16 6 (0.78%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.00%) Linux
2 15 (1.96%) Unix
3 4 (0.52%) VMS
4 3 (0.39%) Windows
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (51.57%) Analytics
2 354 (46.21%) Data Pipeline
3 302 (39.43%) CI/CD
4 287 (37.47%) ETL
5 285 (37.21%) Data Modelling
6 269 (35.12%) AI
7 213 (27.81%) DevOps
8 199 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
9 171 (22.32%) Agile
10 168 (21.93%) Machine Learning
11 156 (20.37%) Data Governance
12 129 (16.84%) Data Science
13 121 (15.80%) Data Architecture
14 120 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
15 108 (14.10%) Migration
16 106 (13.84%) Decision-Making
17 102 (13.32%) Validation
18 101 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
19 98 (12.79%) Use Case
20 96 (12.53%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 446 (58.22%) SQL
2 427 (55.74%) Python
3 71 (9.27%) Java
4 33 (4.31%) Scala
5 32 (4.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (3.00%) C#
7 21 (2.74%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.70%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.44%) Bicep
10 10 (1.31%) R
10 10 (1.31%) SAS Macro
10 10 (1.31%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.17%) JavaScript
11 9 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.91%) Bash
13 5 (0.65%) Korn
14 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.39%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.40%) Degree
4 29 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.31%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.52%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.26%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.26%) PhD
14 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CCSP
15 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (30.68%) Data Quality
2 61 (7.96%) GDPR
3 42 (5.48%) QA
4 6 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.52%) MiFID
7 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.39%) NIST
7 3 (0.39%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.26%) EMIR
8 2 (0.26%) GRC
8 2 (0.26%) GxP
8 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.26%) PMO
9 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) Basel II
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 72 (9.40%) Docker
2 3 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (15.14%) Terraform
2 60 (7.83%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.52%) Ansible
3 4 (0.52%) Grafana
4 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 182 (23.76%) Databricks
2 145 (18.93%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.09%) Google
4 35 (4.57%) Informatica
5 24 (3.13%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.74%) Oracle
7 19 (2.48%) Foundry
8 14 (1.83%) Palantir
9 11 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.04%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.04%) UiPath
11 5 (0.65%) Workday
12 4 (0.52%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.52%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.52%) Denodo
12 4 (0.52%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.52%) SAP
12 4 (0.52%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.39%) Adobe
13 3 (0.39%) IBM