Data Engineering Contracts in London

Data Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 161 194
Rank change year-on-year -10 +33 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 257 469 599
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.45% 1.73% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.90% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 314 440
10th Percentile £413 £475 £488
25th Percentile £475 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £639 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +6.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £700
90th Percentile £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile - £34.70 £61.52
25th Percentile - £55.00 £66.41
Median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £76.20
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% -1.57% +113.51%
75th Percentile £43.51 £78.75 £84.36
90th Percentile £47.55 £85.50 £88.29
England median hourly rate £38.65 £73.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% +29.20% +47.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 28 April 2024.

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
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 28 April 2024. 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 -3 35 £650 +6.12% 14
South London +15 5 £513 -25.45% 3
West London +13 1 £530 +0.95%
East London - 1 £750 - 2
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 27 (10.51%) Apache Spark
2 20 (7.78%) Apache
3 13 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.33%) Tornado
5 3 (1.17%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.39%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 122 (47.47%) Azure
2 94 (36.58%) AWS
3 39 (15.18%) GCP
4 35 (13.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 31 (12.06%) Power Platform
6 30 (11.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 29 (11.28%) Serverless
8 20 (7.78%) Amazon S3
8 20 (7.78%) Snowflake
9 14 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (4.28%) Amazon Kinesis
11 11 (4.28%) Azure Functions
11 11 (4.28%) dbt
12 10 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.50%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (2.33%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) BGP
1 2 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (0.78%) DHCP
1 2 (0.78%) DNS
1 2 (0.78%) HTTP
1 2 (0.78%) Network Security
1 2 (0.78%) OSPF
1 2 (0.78%) SNMP
1 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (25.68%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (17.90%) Data Lake
3 31 (12.06%) Big Data
3 31 (12.06%) Power BI
4 24 (9.34%) SQL Server
5 20 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (6.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (5.84%) Flink
8 14 (5.45%) Delta Lake
9 13 (5.06%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (4.67%) Spark SQL
11 11 (4.28%) NoSQL
12 9 (3.50%) Relational Database
12 9 (3.50%) Tableau
13 8 (3.11%) Data Mart
13 8 (3.11%) Star Schema
14 7 (2.72%) BigQuery
14 7 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.84%) JIRA
2 11 (4.28%) Git
3 3 (1.17%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.39%) Deequ
5 1 (0.39%) MLflow
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.79%) Finance
3 31 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.78%) Banking
6 10 (3.89%) Retail
7 7 (2.72%) Marketing
8 4 (1.56%) Front Office
8 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.17%) Back Office
9 3 (1.17%) Law
9 3 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Advertising
10 2 (0.78%) Czech Language
10 2 (0.78%) Legal
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (57.20%) Data Engineer
2 42 (16.34%) Azure Engineer
3 34 (13.23%) Azure Data Engineer
4 32 (12.45%) Lead
5 30 (11.67%) Senior
6 25 (9.73%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (8.95%) Developer
8 20 (7.78%) AWS Data Engineer
9 19 (7.39%) Lead Data Engineer
9 19 (7.39%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (6.23%) Architect
11 13 (5.06%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.67%) Analyst
12 12 (4.67%) Consultant
13 10 (3.89%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.11%) Python Engineer
15 7 (2.72%) Software Engineer
16 6 (2.33%) Business Analyst
16 6 (2.33%) Project Manager
17 5 (1.95%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (16.73%) PySpark
2 39 (15.18%) Kafka
3 10 (3.89%) Pandas
4 8 (3.11%) Node.js
4 8 (3.11%) pytest
4 8 (3.11%) React
5 7 (2.72%) .NET
6 6 (2.33%) Bokeh
6 6 (2.33%) Django
6 6 (2.33%) FastAPI
6 6 (2.33%) Flask
6 6 (2.33%) OAuth
6 6 (2.33%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.95%) RESTful
7 5 (1.95%) WebSockets
8 4 (1.56%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.17%) gRPC
9 3 (1.17%) NumPy
9 3 (1.17%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (1.17%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.11%) Data Structures
2 7 (2.72%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
3 5 (1.95%) Market Risk
4 4 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.17%) Solar Panel
6 2 (0.78%) Clustering
6 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.39%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.39%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (35.41%) Analytics
2 89 (34.63%) ETL
3 76 (29.57%) Agile
4 75 (29.18%) Data Pipeline
5 70 (27.24%) Data Modelling
6 52 (20.23%) DevOps
7 50 (19.46%) CI/CD
8 46 (17.90%) Business Intelligence
9 40 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (15.18%) Visualisation
11 36 (14.01%) Data Integration
12 32 (12.45%) Data Science
13 31 (12.06%) Data Governance
14 25 (9.73%) Data Visualisation
14 25 (9.73%) Software Engineering
15 22 (8.56%) Computer Science
15 22 (8.56%) Machine Learning
16 21 (8.17%) Data Architecture
17 20 (7.78%) Data Analysis
17 20 (7.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 148 (57.59%) SQL
2 128 (49.81%) Python
3 21 (8.17%) Java
4 17 (6.61%) Scala
5 15 (5.84%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.06%) T-SQL
7 12 (4.67%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.11%) C#
9 6 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.17%) C++
10 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) Perl
11 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.78%) R
11 2 (0.78%) XPath
11 2 (0.78%) XQuery
12 1 (0.39%) Bicep
12 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (22.57%) Security Cleared
2 56 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.56%) Degree
4 13 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.78%) CCDP
7 2 (0.78%) CCNP
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.78%) PhD
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.18%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.56%) QA
3 2 (0.78%) IFRS
3 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
3 2 (0.78%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.39%) GDPR
4 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (3.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 15 (5.84%) Terraform
2 12 (4.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.39%) Matomo
3 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 75 (29.18%) Databricks
2 29 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.34%) Oracle
4 13 (5.06%) Google
5 10 (3.89%) Foundry
5 10 (3.89%) Palantir
6 9 (3.50%) SAP
7 5 (1.95%) Confluent
8 4 (1.56%) Informatica
8 4 (1.56%) Talend
9 2 (0.78%) Arista
9 2 (0.78%) Aruba
9 2 (0.78%) Cadence
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
9 2 (0.78%) ESRI
9 2 (0.78%) IBM
9 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.78%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.78%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.39%) Sitecore