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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 115 166
Rank change year-on-year +55 +51 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 837 343 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.14% 2.53% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 2.74% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 228 189
10th Percentile £401 £400 £423
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £795
England median daily rate £525 £525 £585
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +67.86% -56.25%
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -39.10%

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 18,001 12,519 14,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.32% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,856 8,363 10,133
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 250 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.89% -14.11%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.03 £71.44
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +44 119 £575 +4.55% 82
West London 0 22 £603 -22.26% 20
South London - 4 £590 - 4
East London - 4 £450 - 6
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
1 125 (14.93%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (10.99%) Apache Spark
3 68 (8.12%) Apache
4 15 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
4 15 (1.79%) SAS
5 13 (1.55%) Confluence
6 10 (1.19%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) Appian
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (1.31%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Endur
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 349 (41.70%) Azure
2 333 (39.78%) AWS
3 162 (19.35%) Power Platform
4 150 (17.92%) Snowflake
5 133 (15.89%) dbt
6 130 (15.53%) GCP
7 101 (12.07%) Amazon S3
8 96 (11.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 92 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (10.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 85 (10.16%) GitHub
12 75 (8.96%) Serverless
13 64 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (3.46%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (2.99%) Dagster
17 24 (2.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (2.63%) Amazon Bedrock
18 22 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
18 22 (2.63%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) Firewall
1 2 (0.24%) Network Security
1 2 (0.24%) RTP
2 1 (0.12%) 4G
2 1 (0.12%) 5G
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (21.51%) Data Warehouse
2 150 (17.92%) Power BI
3 138 (16.49%) Data Lake
4 88 (10.51%) Metadata
5 70 (8.36%) BigQuery
6 68 (8.12%) Delta Lake
7 67 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (6.33%) Big Data
9 46 (5.50%) Tableau
10 44 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
11 40 (4.78%) NoSQL
12 39 (4.66%) SQL Server
13 36 (4.30%) Snowflake Schema
14 28 (3.35%) Relational Database
15 25 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (2.87%) Star Schema
17 18 (2.15%) Spark SQL
18 17 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
18 17 (2.03%) Looker
Development Applications
1 102 (12.19%) Git
2 38 (4.54%) GitLab
3 28 (3.35%) JIRA
4 19 (2.27%) MLflow
5 16 (1.91%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.60%) ERwin
8 4 (0.48%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.36%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) Snyk
9 3 (0.36%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.12%) RStudio
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 259 (30.94%) Finance
2 190 (22.70%) Social Skills
3 139 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.39%) Banking
5 61 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.82%) Marketing
7 22 (2.63%) Front Office
8 20 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.27%) Retail
10 14 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.96%) Back Office
13 8 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Legal
15 4 (0.48%) Billing
15 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 374 (44.68%) Data Engineer
2 117 (13.98%) Senior
3 112 (13.38%) Architect
4 108 (12.90%) Lead
5 72 (8.60%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (6.09%) Developer
7 47 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
7 47 (5.62%) Data Architect
8 45 (5.38%) Analyst
8 45 (5.38%) Lead Data Engineer
9 38 (4.54%) AWS Data Engineer
9 38 (4.54%) Snowflake Engineer
10 36 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (3.94%) Data Scientist
12 32 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
12 32 (3.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 29 (3.46%) Data Analyst
14 27 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 26 (3.11%) Azure Data Engineer
16 25 (2.99%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (16.01%) PySpark
2 65 (7.77%) Kafka
3 27 (3.23%) Pandas
4 26 (3.11%) REST
5 22 (2.63%) scikit-learn
6 18 (2.15%) NumPy
7 17 (2.03%) JSON
7 17 (2.03%) React
8 14 (1.67%) .NET
8 14 (1.67%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.31%) Spring
10 10 (1.19%) TensorFlow
11 9 (1.08%) Great Expectations
11 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (1.08%) pytest
12 8 (0.96%) LangChain
13 7 (0.84%) FastAPI
13 7 (0.84%) XML
14 6 (0.72%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.72%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 138 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 42 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.42%) Data Structures
5 34 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.03%) AI Agents
6 17 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.55%) NHS
8 12 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.31%) Clustering
9 11 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
9 11 (1.31%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.08%) Life Science
11 9 (1.08%) Reference Data
12 8 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.99%) Linux
2 14 (1.67%) Unix
3 7 (0.84%) Windows
4 2 (0.24%) VMS
4 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (50.78%) Analytics
2 405 (48.39%) Data Pipeline
3 318 (37.99%) CI/CD
4 307 (36.68%) Data Modelling
5 295 (35.24%) ETL
6 266 (31.78%) AI
7 216 (25.81%) DevOps
8 207 (24.73%) Agile
9 192 (22.94%) Business Intelligence
10 181 (21.62%) Data Governance
11 171 (20.43%) Machine Learning
12 144 (17.20%) Data Science
13 140 (16.73%) Data Architecture
14 137 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
15 131 (15.65%) Decision-Making
16 124 (14.81%) Data Transformation
17 123 (14.70%) Stakeholder Management
18 122 (14.58%) Validation
19 121 (14.46%) Migration
20 103 (12.31%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 474 (56.63%) SQL
2 449 (53.64%) Python
3 71 (8.48%) Java
4 31 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (3.23%) Scala
6 25 (2.99%) C#
7 20 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.15%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.91%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.43%) Bicep
10 12 (1.43%) SAS Macro
11 11 (1.31%) Bash
11 11 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.96%) R
13 7 (0.84%) SPARQL
13 7 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.60%) Cypher
14 5 (0.60%) Korn
15 4 (0.48%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 107 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.09%) Degree
4 28 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 16 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.19%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.24%) CSPO
14 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (31.18%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.85%) QA
3 45 (5.38%) GDPR
4 17 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) GxP
5 3 (0.36%) MiFID
5 3 (0.36%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.24%) EMIR
6 2 (0.24%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) Basel II
7 1 (0.12%) COPPA
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (8.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (13.38%) Terraform
2 61 (7.29%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.08%) Ansible
4 5 (0.60%) Grafana
5 3 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.24%) Control-M
6 2 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 201 (24.01%) Databricks
2 147 (17.56%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.02%) Google
4 38 (4.54%) Informatica
5 28 (3.35%) Oracle
6 22 (2.63%) Palantir
7 21 (2.51%) Foundry
8 16 (1.91%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.79%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.08%) SAP
11 7 (0.84%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.84%) Workday
12 6 (0.72%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.72%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.60%) Teradata
14 4 (0.48%) Charles River
14 4 (0.48%) Denodo
14 4 (0.48%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.48%) Murex