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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 123 167
Rank change year-on-year +64 +44 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 749 298 259
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 2.44% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 2.64% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 207 196
10th Percentile £405 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.37%
75th Percentile £675 £772 £704
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -58.82%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.38 £38.81
90th Percentile - £62.75 £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £34.48 £48.50
% change year-on-year +103.02% -28.91% -36.81%

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 16,491 11,277 15,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.67% 92.29% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,998 7,532 11,159
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 198 318
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.70 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +15.73% -27.95%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.08% -23.73% +3.81%

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 June 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 June 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 +39 122 £555 +0.91% 80
West London +6 32 £614 -20.81% 4
South London - 5 £500 -
East London - 4 £450 - 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 98 (13.08%) Apache Spark
2 96 (12.82%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (6.94%) Apache
4 12 (1.60%) Palantir Foundry
5 11 (1.47%) SAS
6 8 (1.07%) Appian
7 7 (0.93%) Confluence
8 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 15 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.27%) Trello
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.27%) 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
1 337 (44.99%) Azure
2 288 (38.45%) AWS
3 173 (23.10%) Power Platform
4 117 (15.62%) GCP
5 113 (15.09%) Snowflake
6 108 (14.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 91 (12.15%) Amazon S3
7 91 (12.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 91 (12.15%) dbt
8 89 (11.88%) GitHub
9 80 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (7.74%) Serverless
11 53 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.34%) Dagster
15 22 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
15 22 (2.94%) Azure AI
16 21 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
16 21 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.67%) 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
1 160 (21.36%) Power BI
2 149 (19.89%) Data Lake
3 145 (19.36%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (9.75%) Metadata
5 58 (7.74%) SQL Server
6 57 (7.61%) BigQuery
6 57 (7.61%) Delta Lake
7 55 (7.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (6.68%) Big Data
9 45 (6.01%) Amazon Athena
9 45 (6.01%) NoSQL
9 45 (6.01%) Tableau
10 43 (5.74%) Snowflake Schema
11 38 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (4.01%) Relational Database
13 25 (3.34%) Spark SQL
14 23 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
15 21 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (2.80%) Star Schema
16 18 (2.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 97 (12.95%) Git
2 32 (4.27%) GitLab
3 28 (3.74%) MLflow
4 20 (2.67%) JIRA
5 12 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.67%) Postman
7 5 (0.67%) Selenium
8 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.40%) Snyk
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) ERwin
9 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 254 (33.91%) Finance
2 168 (22.43%) Social Skills
3 109 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (8.68%) Banking
5 44 (5.87%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.47%) Marketing
7 19 (2.54%) Retail
8 18 (2.40%) Front Office
9 16 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.87%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.93%) Legal
16 6 (0.80%) Back Office
16 6 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.40%) Billing
17 3 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
17 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 335 (44.73%) Data Engineer
2 105 (14.02%) Senior
3 90 (12.02%) Architect
3 90 (12.02%) Lead
4 68 (9.08%) Senior Data Engineer
5 45 (6.01%) Developer
6 39 (5.21%) Lead Data Engineer
7 36 (4.81%) Data Architect
7 36 (4.81%) Snowflake Engineer
8 33 (4.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 32 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
9 32 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
10 30 (4.01%) Analyst
11 29 (3.87%) Data Scientist
12 27 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 27 (3.60%) AWS Data Engineer
12 27 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
14 22 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
14 22 (2.94%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (15.75%) PySpark
2 71 (9.48%) Kafka
3 40 (5.34%) Pandas
4 33 (4.41%) scikit-learn
5 27 (3.60%) NumPy
5 27 (3.60%) REST
6 26 (3.47%) PyTorch
7 20 (2.67%) TensorFlow
8 15 (2.00%) pytest
9 14 (1.87%) Great Expectations
10 13 (1.74%) FastAPI
10 13 (1.74%) LangChain
11 12 (1.60%) Spring
12 11 (1.47%) Flask
12 11 (1.47%) JSON
13 10 (1.34%) Django
13 10 (1.34%) Hugging Face
13 10 (1.34%) React
13 10 (1.34%) YAML
14 9 (1.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 125 (16.69%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
7 17 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.00%) AI Agents
8 15 (2.00%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.87%) Fixed Income
9 14 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.34%) Equities
12 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.07%) Clustering
13 8 (1.07%) Derivative
13 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.93%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.20%) Linux
2 15 (2.00%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) VMS
4 3 (0.40%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (51.13%) Analytics
2 348 (46.46%) Data Pipeline
3 291 (38.85%) CI/CD
4 286 (38.18%) ETL
5 283 (37.78%) Data Modelling
6 251 (33.51%) AI
7 207 (27.64%) DevOps
8 186 (24.83%) Business Intelligence
9 168 (22.43%) Agile
10 162 (21.63%) Machine Learning
11 158 (21.09%) Data Governance
12 123 (16.42%) Data Science
13 117 (15.62%) Data Architecture
14 114 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
15 100 (13.35%) Validation
16 99 (13.22%) Migration
17 96 (12.82%) Decision-Making
18 92 (12.28%) Use Case
19 91 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
19 91 (12.15%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 437 (58.34%) SQL
2 416 (55.54%) Python
3 73 (9.75%) Java
4 38 (5.07%) Scala
5 31 (4.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (3.47%) C#
7 19 (2.54%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.47%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.34%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.20%) Bicep
10 9 (1.20%) R
10 9 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.07%) SAS Macro
12 7 (0.93%) Bash
13 5 (0.67%) Korn
14 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.27%) C++
15 2 (0.27%) SPARQL
16 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 117 (15.62%) Security Cleared
2 104 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.28%) Degree
4 26 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.47%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.40%) PhD
13 2 (0.27%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.13%) CCSP
14 1 (0.13%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (29.11%) Data Quality
2 61 (8.14%) GDPR
3 44 (5.87%) QA
4 8 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.53%) MiFID
7 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.40%) GRC
7 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.40%) NIST
7 3 (0.40%) PMO
7 3 (0.40%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.27%) EMIR
8 2 (0.27%) GxP
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) Basel II
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 70 (9.35%) 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
1 102 (13.62%) Terraform
2 60 (8.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.53%) Ansible
3 4 (0.53%) Grafana
4 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 182 (24.30%) Databricks
2 136 (18.16%) Microsoft
3 41 (5.47%) Google
4 30 (4.01%) Informatica
5 24 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.40%) Foundry
6 18 (2.40%) Oracle
7 12 (1.60%) Palantir
8 9 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.07%) UiPath
10 5 (0.67%) Cloudera
10 5 (0.67%) Workday
11 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.53%) Denodo
11 4 (0.53%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.53%) SAP
12 3 (0.40%) Apple
12 3 (0.40%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.40%) Murex