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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 165 154
Rank change year-on-year +48 -11 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 307 259 469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.45% 1.45% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 1.64% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 185 314
10th Percentile £403 £413 £475
25th Percentile £469 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £639
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -8.38% +6.42%
75th Percentile £784 £700 £775
90th Percentile £838 £763 £800
England median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £22.00 - £34.70
25th Percentile £29.31 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -53.33% -1.57%
75th Percentile £62.19 £43.51 £78.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £47.55 £85.50
England median hourly rate £26.47 £38.65 £73.00
% change year-on-year -31.53% -47.05% +29.20%

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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +10 41 £550 -15.38% 28
West London +16 5 £625 +17.92% 10
East London +15 1 £575 -23.33% 3
South London +3 1 £600 +17.07% 4
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 69 (22.48%) Apache Spark
2 64 (20.85%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (17.92%) Apache
4 7 (2.28%) Confluence
5 4 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.33%) Endur
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 154 (50.16%) AWS
2 150 (48.86%) Azure
3 63 (20.52%) GCP
4 60 (19.54%) dbt
4 60 (19.54%) Power Platform
5 57 (18.57%) Serverless
6 43 (14.01%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (13.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 34 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (10.42%) GitHub
9 32 (10.42%) OpenShift
10 31 (10.10%) Snowflake
11 30 (9.77%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (6.84%) Amazon S3
14 19 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.93%) Azure Functions
16 9 (2.93%) Dagster
16 9 (2.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) Firewall
1 4 (1.30%) VPN
2 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (19.54%) Data Lake
2 59 (19.22%) Power BI
3 53 (17.26%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (16.61%) Amazon Athena
5 40 (13.03%) Apache Iceberg
6 39 (12.70%) Dremio
7 38 (12.38%) Big Data
8 28 (9.12%) Apache Arrow
8 28 (9.12%) Apache Ignite
9 24 (7.82%) NoSQL
10 20 (6.51%) Tableau
11 19 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (5.54%) Metadata
12 17 (5.54%) Relational Database
13 15 (4.89%) BigQuery
13 15 (4.89%) Snowflake Schema
14 13 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (3.91%) Hadoop
15 12 (3.91%) SQL Server
16 9 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (9.45%) Artifactory
2 18 (5.86%) Git
3 12 (3.91%) JIRA
4 4 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.30%) MLflow
5 3 (0.98%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.65%) GitLab
7 1 (0.33%) ERwin
7 1 (0.33%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 125 (40.72%) Finance
2 72 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 49 (15.96%) Front Office
4 48 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (14.33%) Banking
6 21 (6.84%) Investment Banking
6 21 (6.84%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.89%) Retail
8 10 (3.26%) Marketing
9 8 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.28%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.98%) Local Government
14 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.65%) Police
14 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (57.65%) Data Engineer
2 54 (17.59%) Python Engineer
3 49 (15.96%) AWS Engineer
4 39 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (10.75%) AWS DevOps
5 33 (10.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 32 (10.42%) Lead
6 32 (10.42%) Senior
7 23 (7.49%) Developer
8 21 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (6.84%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (6.19%) Python Data Engineer
10 18 (5.86%) AWS Data Engineer
11 17 (5.54%) Python Developer
12 16 (5.21%) Architect
12 16 (5.21%) Azure Data Engineer
13 15 (4.89%) Lead Data Engineer
14 11 (3.58%) Project Manager
15 10 (3.26%) GCP Engineer
16 8 (2.61%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (21.50%) PySpark
2 64 (20.85%) Kafka
3 28 (9.12%) J2EE
4 23 (7.49%) NumPy
4 23 (7.49%) Pandas
5 21 (6.84%) SciPy
6 18 (5.86%) React
7 17 (5.54%) FastAPI
8 11 (3.58%) Flask
9 9 (2.93%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.93%) Polars
9 9 (2.93%) Vue
10 8 (2.61%) Plotly
11 7 (2.28%) .NET
11 7 (2.28%) ARM Templates
12 6 (1.95%) Play Framework
12 6 (1.95%) pytest
12 6 (1.95%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.95%) REST
12 6 (1.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.23%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.93%) Hedge funds
4 7 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.28%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.98%) FMCG
7 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.65%) Derivative
8 2 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.65%) NHS
8 2 (0.65%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.23%) Linux
2 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (38.44%) Analytics
2 114 (37.13%) CI/CD
3 111 (36.16%) Data Pipeline
4 100 (32.57%) Agile
5 99 (32.25%) ETL
6 96 (31.27%) DevOps
7 78 (25.41%) Data Modelling
8 76 (24.76%) Software Engineering
9 72 (23.45%) Business Intelligence
10 57 (18.57%) Data Science
10 57 (18.57%) Machine Learning
11 52 (16.94%) Data Governance
12 49 (15.96%) Visualisation
13 46 (14.98%) Artificial Intelligence
14 43 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (13.68%) Data Integration
16 40 (13.03%) Asset Management
17 39 (12.70%) Decision-Making
18 35 (11.40%) Data Visualisation
19 31 (10.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 210 (68.40%) Python
2 147 (47.88%) SQL
3 75 (24.43%) Java
4 39 (12.70%) Scala
5 29 (9.45%) Go
6 20 (6.51%) JavaScript
7 12 (3.91%) C++
8 9 (2.93%) C#
8 9 (2.93%) Rust
8 9 (2.93%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.61%) R
10 6 (1.95%) Bicep
11 4 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.65%) ANSI SQL
13 2 (0.65%) Bash
13 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.33%) PROC SQL
14 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 34 (11.07%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.17%) Degree
4 9 (2.93%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.93%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.61%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.30%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.30%) PMP
8 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.65%) MBA
10 1 (0.33%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.33%) PhD
10 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (23.13%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.23%) QA
4 8 (2.61%) GDPR
5 2 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 69 (22.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) HDFS
3 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 71 (23.13%) Kubernetes
1 71 (23.13%) Terraform
2 3 (0.98%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.33%) Ansible
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.33%) Grafana
4 1 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.33%) Kibana
4 1 (0.33%) logstash
4 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 78 (25.41%) Databricks
2 33 (10.75%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.82%) Google
4 11 (3.58%) Oracle
5 6 (1.95%) Informatica
5 6 (1.95%) SAP
6 5 (1.63%) Palantir
7 4 (1.30%) IBM
7 4 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.98%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.65%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.65%) Cribl.io
9 2 (0.65%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.65%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.33%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.33%) Sparx
10 1 (0.33%) Spotify
10 1 (0.33%) Tealium
10 1 (0.33%) TikTok