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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 162 168
Rank change year-on-year +63 +6 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 402 257 307
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.02% 1.61% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 1.80% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 198 205
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £473 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £40.05 - £35.00
25th Percentile £47.25 - £35.32
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £76.25 - £87.50
90th Percentile £96.50 - £90.00
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 12,293 14,285 18,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.49% 89.32% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,121 9,275 13,553
10th Percentile £332 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 178 225
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.43 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.02 £24.18 £21.50
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% -8.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £64.98 £78.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +24 46 £550 -6.38% 37
West London -6 2 £546 +4.05% 4
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 63 (15.67%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (10.70%) Apache Spark
3 21 (5.22%) Apache
4 8 (1.99%) Confluence
5 3 (0.75%) Luigi
6 2 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.49%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.50%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.50%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 176 (43.78%) Azure
2 159 (39.55%) AWS
3 70 (17.41%) GCP
4 69 (17.16%) Azure Data Factory
4 69 (17.16%) Power Platform
5 53 (13.18%) Snowflake
6 52 (12.94%) GitHub
7 50 (12.44%) dbt
8 49 (12.19%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (10.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (8.96%) Amazon S3
11 35 (8.71%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (8.21%) Serverless
13 22 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (3.73%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (3.73%) Azure Machine Learning
15 14 (3.48%) Amazon SageMaker
16 11 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (2.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.49%) Firewall
2 5 (1.24%) VPN
3 1 (0.25%) Network Security
3 1 (0.25%) SSL
3 1 (0.25%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (16.92%) Data Warehouse
1 68 (16.92%) Power BI
2 48 (11.94%) Data Lake
3 37 (9.20%) Metadata
4 33 (8.21%) Big Data
5 28 (6.97%) BigQuery
6 26 (6.47%) Delta Lake
7 25 (6.22%) SQL Server
8 20 (4.98%) Tableau
9 19 (4.73%) Relational Database
10 15 (3.73%) Hadoop
11 14 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (2.74%) NoSQL
14 11 (2.74%) Power Query
14 11 (2.74%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.49%) Data Vault
15 10 (2.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (14.18%) Git
2 16 (3.98%) JIRA
3 11 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.24%) MLflow
5 6 (1.49%) GitLab
6 4 (1.00%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.50%) PROIV
7 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.50%) TestRail
7 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.25%) ERwin
8 1 (0.25%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.25%) GoCD
General
1 111 (27.61%) Finance
2 109 (27.11%) Social Skills
3 57 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.94%) Banking
5 35 (8.71%) Investment Banking
6 22 (5.47%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.23%) Front Office
7 17 (4.23%) Retail
8 14 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.48%) Marketing
9 6 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
9 6 (1.49%) Legal
9 6 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.24%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.00%) Publishing
12 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Military
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (40.55%) Data Engineer
2 55 (13.68%) Senior
3 50 (12.44%) Developer
4 44 (10.95%) Architect
5 40 (9.95%) Lead
5 40 (9.95%) Senior Data Engineer
6 38 (9.45%) Azure Engineer
7 30 (7.46%) Azure Data Engineer
8 25 (6.22%) Python Developer
9 19 (4.73%) Analyst
10 17 (4.23%) AWS Developer
10 17 (4.23%) JavaScript Developer
11 16 (3.98%) Data Architect
12 15 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 15 (3.73%) Azure Architect
13 14 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (3.48%) Python Engineer
14 12 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (2.99%) Data Analyst
15 10 (2.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (11.94%) PySpark
2 41 (10.20%) Kafka
3 30 (7.46%) FastAPI
4 27 (6.72%) Pandas
5 26 (6.47%) NumPy
6 22 (5.47%) React
7 21 (5.22%) Flask
8 18 (4.48%) Vue
9 17 (4.23%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.23%) Polars
9 17 (4.23%) SciPy
10 16 (3.98%) PyTorch
11 15 (3.73%) RESTful
12 14 (3.48%) TensorFlow
13 10 (2.49%) ARM Templates
13 10 (2.49%) JSON
13 10 (2.49%) LangChain
14 9 (2.24%) .NET
15 8 (1.99%) Jinja
16 7 (1.74%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (4.73%) Hedge funds
4 16 (3.98%) Algorithms
5 14 (3.48%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.49%) Equities
7 9 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (1.99%) Derivative
8 8 (1.99%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.49%) Genomics
10 6 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.49%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.98%) Linux
2 3 (0.75%) Android
2 3 (0.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (41.79%) Data Pipeline
2 154 (38.31%) Data Modelling
3 149 (37.06%) CI/CD
3 149 (37.06%) ETL
4 146 (36.32%) Analytics
5 98 (24.38%) AI
5 98 (24.38%) DevOps
6 92 (22.89%) Agile
6 92 (22.89%) Data Governance
7 91 (22.64%) Business Intelligence
8 83 (20.65%) Machine Learning
9 80 (19.90%) Data Science
10 69 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 53 (13.18%) Decision-Making
13 50 (12.44%) Software Engineering
14 46 (11.44%) Data Integration
15 45 (11.19%) Migration
16 43 (10.70%) Data Architecture
16 43 (10.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 263 (65.42%) Python
2 203 (50.50%) SQL
3 36 (8.96%) Java
4 31 (7.71%) C#
5 29 (7.21%) C++
6 26 (6.47%) JavaScript
6 26 (6.47%) Scala
7 18 (4.48%) Rust
8 16 (3.98%) Bicep
9 12 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (2.49%) TypeScript
11 9 (2.24%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.24%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.49%) Bash
13 5 (1.24%) R
13 5 (1.24%) VBA
14 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.50%) Korn
15 2 (0.50%) PHP
15 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.45%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.71%) Degree
4 27 (6.72%) Azure Certification
5 17 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.98%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.24%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.00%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.75%) PhD
11 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.75%) PMP
12 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.50%) MCP
12 2 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (23.13%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.71%) GDPR
3 18 (4.48%) QA
4 9 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.24%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.49%) NIST
6 3 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.75%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.25%) EMIR
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) HL7
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 63 (15.67%) Docker
2 5 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 81 (20.15%) Terraform
2 55 (13.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.00%) Control-M
3 4 (1.00%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.75%) Grafana
4 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.50%) Ansible
5 2 (0.50%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
6 1 (0.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 94 (23.38%) Databricks
2 60 (14.93%) Microsoft
3 30 (7.46%) Google
4 14 (3.48%) Oracle
5 12 (2.99%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.74%) Informatica
6 11 (2.74%) Palantir
7 9 (2.24%) SAP
8 7 (1.74%) Foundry
8 7 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.49%) Murex
10 5 (1.24%) Guidewire
10 5 (1.24%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (1.00%) EMC
11 4 (1.00%) Talend
11 4 (1.00%) VMware
12 3 (0.75%) Splunk
12 3 (0.75%) Wallstreet Suite
12 3 (0.75%) Workday
13 2 (0.50%) Tealium