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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 118 173
Rank change year-on-year +60 +55 -33
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 755 294 259
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.11% 2.43% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 2.63% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 204 194
10th Percentile £406 £409 £404
25th Percentile £463 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.92% -6.57%
75th Percentile £662 £775 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
England median daily rate £530 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.30% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £30.78 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £43.94 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -56.25%
75th Percentile £60.25 £56.56 £38.81
90th Percentile - £61.63 £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £28.75 £48.50
% change year-on-year +143.48% -40.72% -35.33%

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 16,287 11,179 15,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.56% 92.25% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,870 7,505 11,106
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 190 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £31.17 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% +11.33% -29.34%
75th Percentile £58.88 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.74 £63.03 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +43 125 £553 +0.45% 24
West London +2 34 £603 -23.49% 3
South London - 5 £500 - 1
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
1 103 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 96 (12.72%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (7.15%) Apache
4 12 (1.59%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (1.19%) SAS
6 8 (1.06%) Appian
7 6 (0.79%) Confluence
8 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 17 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.40%) Trello
6 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.26%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 348 (46.09%) Azure
2 285 (37.75%) AWS
3 178 (23.58%) Power Platform
4 119 (15.76%) GCP
5 114 (15.10%) Snowflake
6 113 (14.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 95 (12.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 90 (11.92%) Amazon S3
8 90 (11.92%) dbt
8 90 (11.92%) GitHub
9 83 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (7.42%) Serverless
11 53 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.31%) Dagster
15 22 (2.91%) Azure AI
16 21 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
16 21 (2.78%) Collibra
17 20 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.66%) RTP
2 1 (0.13%) 4G
2 1 (0.13%) 5G
2 1 (0.13%) Firewall
2 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.13%) MIMO
2 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (21.85%) Power BI
2 154 (20.40%) Data Lake
3 149 (19.74%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (9.93%) Metadata
5 60 (7.95%) SQL Server
6 59 (7.81%) BigQuery
6 59 (7.81%) Delta Lake
7 51 (6.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (6.49%) Big Data
9 47 (6.23%) NoSQL
9 47 (6.23%) Snowflake Schema
10 46 (6.09%) Tableau
11 43 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
12 42 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (4.11%) Relational Database
14 26 (3.44%) Spark SQL
15 23 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
15 23 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (2.78%) Star Schema
17 19 (2.52%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 98 (12.98%) Git
2 31 (4.11%) GitLab
3 29 (3.84%) MLflow
4 20 (2.65%) JIRA
5 13 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.79%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.66%) Postman
7 5 (0.66%) Selenium
8 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.40%) Snyk
9 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.26%) ERwin
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 258 (34.17%) Finance
2 167 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 110 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.34%) Banking
5 41 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.44%) Marketing
7 19 (2.52%) Retail
8 18 (2.38%) Front Office
8 18 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.72%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.93%) Legal
14 6 (0.79%) Back Office
14 6 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.40%) Billing
15 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 345 (45.70%) Data Engineer
2 106 (14.04%) Senior
3 89 (11.79%) Architect
4 88 (11.66%) Lead
5 70 (9.27%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (5.83%) Developer
7 39 (5.17%) Lead Data Engineer
8 36 (4.77%) Data Architect
8 36 (4.77%) Snowflake Engineer
9 33 (4.37%) Analyst
10 32 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
10 32 (4.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 32 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
12 29 (3.84%) Data Scientist
13 27 (3.58%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (3.31%) Azure Data Engineer
15 24 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 24 (3.18%) Cloud Architect
16 22 (2.91%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (16.29%) PySpark
2 73 (9.67%) Kafka
3 42 (5.56%) Pandas
4 35 (4.64%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.84%) NumPy
6 27 (3.58%) PyTorch
7 26 (3.44%) REST
8 21 (2.78%) TensorFlow
9 16 (2.12%) Great Expectations
10 15 (1.99%) LangChain
11 14 (1.85%) pytest
12 13 (1.72%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.59%) Hugging Face
13 12 (1.59%) Spring
14 11 (1.46%) Flask
14 11 (1.46%) JSON
14 11 (1.46%) YAML
15 10 (1.32%) Django
15 10 (1.32%) React
16 9 (1.19%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 120 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
7 17 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.12%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.99%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.72%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.32%) Equities
14 9 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.06%) Clustering
15 8 (1.06%) Derivative
15 8 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.93%) Reference Data
16 7 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.18%) Linux
2 15 (1.99%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) VMS
4 3 (0.40%) Windows
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (51.26%) Analytics
2 346 (45.83%) Data Pipeline
3 295 (39.07%) ETL
4 290 (38.41%) Data Modelling
5 286 (37.88%) CI/CD
6 251 (33.25%) AI
7 211 (27.95%) DevOps
8 193 (25.56%) Business Intelligence
9 171 (22.65%) Agile
10 168 (22.25%) Data Governance
11 162 (21.46%) Machine Learning
12 127 (16.82%) Data Science
13 119 (15.76%) Data Architecture
14 114 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
15 97 (12.85%) Migration
15 97 (12.85%) Validation
16 95 (12.58%) Decision-Making
17 94 (12.45%) LLM
18 92 (12.19%) Use Case
19 90 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 441 (58.41%) SQL
2 419 (55.50%) Python
3 73 (9.67%) Java
4 44 (5.83%) Scala
5 33 (4.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (3.71%) C#
7 20 (2.65%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.32%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.19%) Bicep
11 8 (1.06%) Bash
11 8 (1.06%) R
11 8 (1.06%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.66%) Korn
14 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.26%) C++
15 2 (0.26%) Go
15 2 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 120 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 106 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.49%) Degree
4 27 (3.58%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.46%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.66%) PhD
12 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.13%) CCSP
15 1 (0.13%) CSPO
15 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (30.20%) Data Quality
2 64 (8.48%) GDPR
3 44 (5.83%) QA
4 9 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.53%) MiFID
7 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.40%) PMO
7 3 (0.40%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.26%) EMIR
8 2 (0.26%) GRC
8 2 (0.26%) GxP
8 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.26%) NIST
9 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.13%) Basel II
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (9.80%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (13.91%) Terraform
2 64 (8.48%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.53%) Ansible
4 3 (0.40%) Grafana
4 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.26%) Argo
5 2 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 195 (25.83%) Databricks
2 135 (17.88%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.09%) Google
4 27 (3.58%) Informatica
5 24 (3.18%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.38%) Foundry
6 18 (2.38%) Oracle
7 12 (1.59%) Palantir
8 8 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.06%) UiPath
9 5 (0.66%) Cloudera
9 5 (0.66%) Workday
10 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.53%) Denodo
10 4 (0.53%) Hortonworks
10 4 (0.53%) SAP
11 3 (0.40%) Charles River
11 3 (0.40%) IBM
11 3 (0.40%) MicroStrategy