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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 147 179
Rank change year-on-year +63 +32 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 457 284 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.25% 1.78% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.00% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 205 189
10th Percentile £363 £413 £393
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -1.84%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £41.73 £30.60 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.44 £43.50 £35.16
Median hourly rate £70.25 £65.00 £38.97
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% +66.81% -48.04%
75th Percentile £91.44 - £59.63
90th Percentile £102.58 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £74.26 £26.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +180.23% -59.23% +30.00%

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 12,972 14,232 17,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 89.44% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,522 9,196 12,900
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 174 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.61
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +3.36% -6.68%
75th Percentile £47.13 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.43 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%

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 23 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 23 November 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 23 November 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 +24 46 £565 -3.83% 30
West London -11 6 £614 +29.21% 5
South London -6 1 £500 -9.18% 4
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 67 (14.66%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (13.35%) Apache Spark
3 28 (6.13%) Apache
4 7 (1.53%) Confluence
5 3 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.44%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.44%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.19%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.44%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.22%) Actimize
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 192 (42.01%) Azure
2 171 (37.42%) AWS
3 89 (19.47%) Power Platform
4 79 (17.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 73 (15.97%) Snowflake
6 68 (14.88%) GCP
7 53 (11.60%) GitHub
8 50 (10.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 50 (10.94%) dbt
9 48 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (9.85%) Amazon S3
11 38 (8.32%) Serverless
12 37 (8.10%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (4.60%) Azure Machine Learning
15 15 (3.28%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (2.41%) Amazon SageMaker
18 9 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.88%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.44%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.44%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (19.26%) Power BI
2 84 (18.38%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (10.28%) Data Lake
4 42 (9.19%) Metadata
5 34 (7.44%) Big Data
6 27 (5.91%) BigQuery
7 25 (5.47%) Tableau
8 24 (5.25%) Delta Lake
8 24 (5.25%) SQL Server
9 22 (4.81%) Relational Database
10 20 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (4.38%) NoSQL
11 18 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (3.72%) Hadoop
13 14 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (2.84%) Snowflake Schema
15 12 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (2.19%) RDBMS
16 10 (2.19%) Star Schema
17 9 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 73 (15.97%) Git
2 16 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.84%) MLflow
4 12 (2.63%) JIRA
5 10 (2.19%) GitLab
6 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.44%) TestRail
8 1 (0.22%) ERwin
8 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.22%) GoCD
8 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 124 (27.13%) Finance
2 123 (26.91%) Social Skills
3 64 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.38%) Banking
5 33 (7.22%) Investment Banking
6 27 (5.91%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.28%) Retail
9 14 (3.06%) Front Office
10 11 (2.41%) Marketing
10 11 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.97%) Legal
12 8 (1.75%) Publishing
13 6 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.09%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.88%) Military
16 3 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 178 (38.95%) Data Engineer
2 55 (12.04%) Developer
2 55 (12.04%) Senior
3 47 (10.28%) Azure Engineer
4 43 (9.41%) Architect
4 43 (9.41%) Lead
5 37 (8.10%) Senior Data Engineer
6 35 (7.66%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (5.69%) Python Developer
8 23 (5.03%) Analyst
8 23 (5.03%) Snowflake Engineer
9 19 (4.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 19 (4.16%) Data Architect
9 19 (4.16%) Python Engineer
10 18 (3.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 17 (3.72%) AWS Developer
11 17 (3.72%) JavaScript Developer
12 16 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (3.28%) Data Scientist
14 13 (2.84%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.35%) PySpark
2 45 (9.85%) Kafka
3 32 (7.00%) Pandas
4 30 (6.56%) FastAPI
5 29 (6.35%) NumPy
6 22 (4.81%) React
7 21 (4.60%) Flask
7 21 (4.60%) PyTorch
8 19 (4.16%) TensorFlow
9 18 (3.94%) Vue
10 17 (3.72%) AngularJS
10 17 (3.72%) Polars
10 17 (3.72%) RESTful
10 17 (3.72%) SciPy
11 13 (2.84%) JSON
12 12 (2.63%) scikit-learn
13 11 (2.41%) LangChain
14 9 (1.97%) .NET
15 8 (1.75%) pytest
16 7 (1.53%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 23 (5.03%) Algorithms
4 19 (4.16%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.84%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
7 11 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.19%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.97%) Derivative
9 9 (1.97%) Equities
9 9 (1.97%) Genomics
9 9 (1.97%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.75%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.53%) Life Science
11 7 (1.53%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.38%) Linux
2 3 (0.66%) Android
2 3 (0.66%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (43.11%) Data Pipeline
2 179 (39.17%) Data Modelling
3 163 (35.67%) CI/CD
4 162 (35.45%) Analytics
5 159 (34.79%) ETL
6 111 (24.29%) AI
7 108 (23.63%) Machine Learning
8 107 (23.41%) Agile
9 105 (22.98%) Business Intelligence
9 105 (22.98%) Data Governance
10 104 (22.76%) DevOps
11 94 (20.57%) Data Science
12 84 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 63 (13.79%) Data Architecture
15 58 (12.69%) Decision-Making
16 55 (12.04%) Software Engineering
17 53 (11.60%) Visualisation
18 50 (10.94%) Data Integration
19 42 (9.19%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 300 (65.65%) Python
2 230 (50.33%) SQL
3 41 (8.97%) Java
4 33 (7.22%) C#
5 30 (6.56%) Scala
6 29 (6.35%) C++
6 29 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 18 (3.94%) Rust
8 13 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.41%) Bicep
11 9 (1.97%) Bash
11 9 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.97%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.75%) R
13 5 (1.09%) Korn
13 5 (1.09%) VBA
14 3 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.44%) PHP
15 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 63 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.63%) Degree
4 26 (5.69%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.94%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.06%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.97%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.09%) PhD
11 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.66%) MCP
11 3 (0.66%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.44%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (22.76%) Data Quality
2 41 (8.97%) GDPR
3 19 (4.16%) QA
4 12 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.75%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.31%) NIST
7 5 (1.09%) PERC
8 3 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.44%) PMO
9 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.22%) EMIR
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (14.22%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) HDFS
3 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 81 (17.72%) Terraform
2 50 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.88%) Control-M
3 4 (0.88%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.66%) Grafana
5 2 (0.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Argo
6 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.22%) Kibana
6 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 121 (26.48%) Databricks
2 60 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.13%) Google
4 16 (3.50%) Oracle
5 13 (2.84%) Palantir
6 12 (2.63%) Foundry
6 12 (2.63%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.19%) SAP
8 8 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.53%) Informatica
10 6 (1.31%) Murex
11 5 (1.09%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.09%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.88%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.88%) Denodo
12 4 (0.88%) EMC
12 4 (0.88%) VMware
13 3 (0.66%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.66%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.66%) ServiceNow