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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 92 159
Rank change year-on-year +34 +67 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 879 405 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.29% 3.02% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 3.27% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 253 198
10th Percentile £400 £377 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £785 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £57.00 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% - -
England median hourly rate £62.45 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.95% -12.50% -23.08%

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 18,249 12,388 14,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.48% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,954 8,186 9,270
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £665 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 242 178
10th Percentile £15.93 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +32 114 £600 +9.09% 115
West London 0 25 £520 -4.81% 13
South London -9 5 £450 -9.91% 4
East London - 3 £470 - 9
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
1 138 (15.70%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (12.17%) Apache Spark
3 83 (9.44%) Apache
4 14 (1.59%) SAS
5 13 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.37%) Confluence
7 11 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.57%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (1.02%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.34%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 376 (42.78%) Azure
2 340 (38.68%) AWS
3 167 (19.00%) Snowflake
4 153 (17.41%) dbt
5 138 (15.70%) Power Platform
6 133 (15.13%) GCP
7 119 (13.54%) Amazon S3
8 111 (12.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 93 (10.58%) Serverless
10 81 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 80 (9.10%) Azure DevOps
12 79 (8.99%) GitHub
13 73 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (5.92%) Azure Databricks
15 40 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
16 29 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
17 28 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 27 (3.07%) Amazon EMR
19 24 (2.73%) Azure AI
20 23 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.68%) Network Security
2 2 (0.23%) DNS
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.11%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.11%) SMS
3 1 (0.11%) SSL
3 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.11%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (22.53%) Data Warehouse
2 133 (15.13%) Power BI
3 112 (12.74%) Data Lake
4 95 (10.81%) Metadata
5 79 (8.99%) Delta Lake
6 71 (8.08%) BigQuery
7 67 (7.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 47 (5.35%) Big Data
9 43 (4.89%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (4.32%) NoSQL
11 34 (3.87%) Tableau
12 31 (3.53%) SQL Server
13 28 (3.19%) Snowflake Schema
14 27 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (2.62%) Relational Database
17 19 (2.16%) Spark SQL
18 18 (2.05%) Data Vault
19 17 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
19 17 (1.93%) Looker
Development Applications
1 119 (13.54%) Git
2 48 (5.46%) GitLab
3 23 (2.62%) JIRA
4 18 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.93%) MLflow
6 8 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.91%) Claude Code
6 8 (0.91%) Terragrunt
7 7 (0.80%) RStudio
7 7 (0.80%) Selenium
8 6 (0.68%) ERwin
9 4 (0.46%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.11%) JUnit
11 1 (0.11%) TestRail
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 252 (28.67%) Finance
2 220 (25.03%) Social Skills
3 141 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (12.29%) Banking
5 58 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.10%) Marketing
7 24 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.62%) Front Office
9 20 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (1.48%) Retail
12 12 (1.37%) Back Office
12 12 (1.37%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.02%) Billing
14 7 (0.80%) Legal
15 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.57%) Law
16 5 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 399 (45.39%) Data Engineer
2 140 (15.93%) Senior
3 115 (13.08%) Lead
4 93 (10.58%) Senior Data Engineer
5 87 (9.90%) Architect
6 52 (5.92%) Developer
7 50 (5.69%) Databricks Engineer
8 48 (5.46%) Analyst
9 42 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
10 41 (4.66%) Data Architect
10 41 (4.66%) Lead Data Engineer
11 40 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
12 39 (4.44%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 38 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
14 34 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 34 (3.87%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 33 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
16 29 (3.30%) Data Analyst
16 29 (3.30%) Data Scientist
17 28 (3.19%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (18.09%) PySpark
2 133 (15.13%) Terraform
3 73 (8.30%) Kafka
4 37 (4.21%) REST
5 27 (3.07%) React
6 23 (2.62%) .NET
7 20 (2.28%) Pandas
8 16 (1.82%) JSON
9 13 (1.48%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.37%) NumPy
11 11 (1.25%) LangChain
12 10 (1.14%) scikit-learn
12 10 (1.14%) TensorFlow
13 9 (1.02%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.02%) LangGraph
13 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (1.02%) pytest
13 9 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (0.91%) Great Expectations
15 7 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 142 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 47 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.23%) Data Structures
5 38 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.64%) AI Agents
7 29 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.25%) NHS
11 11 (1.25%) Taxonomies
12 10 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.14%) Life Science
13 9 (1.02%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.16%) Linux
2 8 (0.91%) Windows
3 7 (0.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (50.51%) Data Pipeline
2 407 (46.30%) Analytics
3 363 (41.30%) CI/CD
4 315 (35.84%) Data Modelling
5 303 (34.47%) ETL
6 301 (34.24%) AI
7 231 (26.28%) Agile
8 222 (25.26%) DevOps
9 191 (21.73%) Data Governance
10 189 (21.50%) Business Intelligence
11 176 (20.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 171 (19.45%) Machine Learning
13 148 (16.84%) Data Transformation
14 141 (16.04%) Data Architecture
15 139 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
16 130 (14.79%) Validation
17 129 (14.68%) Decision-Making
18 128 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
19 126 (14.33%) Data Science
20 123 (13.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 495 (56.31%) SQL
2 494 (56.20%) Python
3 56 (6.37%) Java
4 32 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (3.30%) Scala
6 27 (3.07%) PowerShell
7 24 (2.73%) C#
8 23 (2.62%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.59%) Bash
9 14 (1.59%) R
10 11 (1.25%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.25%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.02%) Bicep
11 9 (1.02%) Korn
12 8 (0.91%) SAS Macro
12 8 (0.91%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.80%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.68%) LookML
14 6 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.12%) Degree
4 24 (2.73%) AWS Certification
4 24 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.46%) PhD
13 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.46%) PMP
13 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.23%) CAPM
14 2 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (34.93%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.21%) QA
3 33 (3.75%) GDPR
4 18 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.57%) GRC
6 4 (0.46%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.46%) PMO
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
7 3 (0.34%) IFRS
7 3 (0.34%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.34%) MiFID
8 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.23%) Basel III
8 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.23%) EMIR
8 2 (0.23%) GxP
8 2 (0.23%) NIST
8 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.11%) PERC
System Software
1 71 (8.08%) Docker
2 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.59%) Ansible
3 8 (0.91%) Grafana
4 7 (0.80%) Control-M
5 6 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
7 1 (0.11%) Cilium
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 262 (29.81%) Databricks
2 153 (17.41%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.89%) Oracle
4 40 (4.55%) Google
5 31 (3.53%) Informatica
6 19 (2.16%) Palantir
7 18 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.93%) Foundry
8 17 (1.93%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.25%) Teradata
10 9 (1.02%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.02%) SAP
11 7 (0.80%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.68%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.68%) Denodo
12 6 (0.68%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.68%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.57%) Adobe
13 5 (0.57%) Amplitude
14 4 (0.46%) Splunk