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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 112 170
Rank change year-on-year +54 +58 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 729 308 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 2.45% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 2.66% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 223 184
10th Percentile £400 £401 £413
25th Percentile £461 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.92% -8.18%
75th Percentile £638 £794 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £761
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £29.31 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -53.33%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.19 £43.51
90th Percentile - £65.00 £47.55
England median hourly rate £70.00 £26.47 £38.65
% change year-on-year +164.50% -31.53% -47.05%

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 15,645 11,571 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 92.12% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,478 7,850 11,229
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £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 £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 April 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 April 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 +46 112 £553 +0.45% 47
West London +7 35 £603 -3.60% 3
South London -13 5 £500 -16.67% 1
East London -1 2 £450 -21.83% 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
1 112 (15.36%) Apache Spark
2 86 (11.80%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (6.58%) Apache
4 14 (1.92%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.37%) SAS
6 8 (1.10%) Appian
7 7 (0.96%) Confluence
8 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.41%) Trello
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 343 (47.05%) Azure
2 266 (36.49%) AWS
3 177 (24.28%) Power Platform
4 119 (16.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 115 (15.78%) GCP
6 98 (13.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 93 (12.76%) Snowflake
8 90 (12.35%) GitHub
9 87 (11.93%) Amazon S3
10 74 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (9.47%) dbt
12 62 (8.50%) Serverless
13 56 (7.68%) GitHub Actions
14 55 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.43%) Dagster
17 23 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (3.16%) Collibra
18 21 (2.88%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) RTP
2 4 (0.55%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) 4G
5 1 (0.14%) 5G
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) MIMO
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (22.36%) Power BI
2 148 (20.30%) Data Lake
3 147 (20.16%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (10.29%) Metadata
5 61 (8.37%) SQL Server
6 56 (7.68%) Delta Lake
7 51 (7.00%) NoSQL
8 50 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (6.86%) Big Data
8 50 (6.86%) BigQuery
9 46 (6.31%) Amazon Athena
10 42 (5.76%) Snowflake Schema
10 42 (5.76%) Tableau
11 35 (4.80%) Relational Database
12 27 (3.70%) Spark SQL
13 24 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
15 20 (2.74%) Mixpanel
16 19 (2.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (13.85%) Git
2 35 (4.80%) MLflow
3 30 (4.12%) GitLab
4 18 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.47%) JIRA
5 7 (0.96%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.69%) Selenium
7 3 (0.41%) Postman
7 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.41%) Snyk
7 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) JUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Maven
9 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 247 (33.88%) Finance
2 166 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 109 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.68%) Banking
5 41 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 17 (2.33%) Retail
7 16 (2.19%) Front Office
7 16 (2.19%) Marketing
8 15 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.51%) Legal
10 11 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.37%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.82%) Back Office
14 5 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.55%) Electronics
16 3 (0.41%) Military
16 3 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 323 (44.31%) Data Engineer
2 97 (13.31%) Senior
3 82 (11.25%) Architect
3 82 (11.25%) Lead
4 68 (9.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (7.00%) Developer
6 42 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
7 35 (4.80%) Azure Data Engineer
8 34 (4.66%) Lead Data Engineer
9 32 (4.39%) Data Architect
9 32 (4.39%) Snowflake Engineer
10 30 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (3.98%) Analyst
11 29 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (3.84%) Data Scientist
13 27 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 27 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 24 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
15 23 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
16 22 (3.02%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (18.52%) PySpark
2 77 (10.56%) Kafka
3 42 (5.76%) Pandas
4 38 (5.21%) scikit-learn
5 32 (4.39%) PyTorch
6 31 (4.25%) NumPy
7 25 (3.43%) TensorFlow
8 20 (2.74%) REST
9 19 (2.61%) pytest
10 18 (2.47%) LangChain
11 17 (2.33%) Great Expectations
12 16 (2.19%) YAML
13 15 (2.06%) FastAPI
14 13 (1.78%) Flask
14 13 (1.78%) Hugging Face
15 12 (1.65%) JSON
15 12 (1.65%) Spring
16 11 (1.51%) Django
16 11 (1.51%) RESTful
17 10 (1.37%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 115 (15.78%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
6 22 (3.02%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 15 (2.06%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.78%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.23%) Equities
14 8 (1.10%) Clustering
14 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.10%) Derivative
14 8 (1.10%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.82%) Virtual Team
16 5 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.29%) Linux
2 13 (1.78%) Unix
3 5 (0.69%) VMS
4 3 (0.41%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (50.48%) Analytics
2 332 (45.54%) Data Pipeline
3 290 (39.78%) ETL
4 284 (38.96%) Data Modelling
5 271 (37.17%) CI/CD
6 235 (32.24%) AI
7 205 (28.12%) DevOps
8 191 (26.20%) Business Intelligence
9 179 (24.55%) Agile
10 173 (23.73%) Data Governance
11 161 (22.09%) Machine Learning
12 131 (17.97%) Data Science
13 118 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
14 116 (15.91%) Data Architecture
15 98 (13.44%) Infrastructure as Code
16 95 (13.03%) Validation
17 93 (12.76%) Decision-Making
18 88 (12.07%) LLM
19 86 (11.80%) Migration
20 85 (11.66%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 419 (57.48%) SQL
2 414 (56.79%) Python
3 68 (9.33%) Java
4 57 (7.82%) Scala
5 33 (4.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (3.84%) C#
7 18 (2.47%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.06%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.78%) R
10 12 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.37%) Bicep
12 9 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.96%) Bash
13 7 (0.96%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.69%) Korn
15 2 (0.27%) C++
15 2 (0.27%) Go
16 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 126 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.54%) Degree
4 29 (3.98%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.69%) PhD
11 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.14%) CCSP
14 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (30.86%) Data Quality
2 69 (9.47%) GDPR
3 36 (4.94%) QA
4 10 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.55%) MiFID
6 4 (0.55%) PERC
7 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.27%) EMIR
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) Basel II
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (10.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 114 (15.64%) Terraform
2 68 (9.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.41%) Ansible
3 3 (0.41%) Grafana
3 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Argo
4 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 206 (28.26%) Databricks
2 119 (16.32%) Microsoft
3 48 (6.58%) Google
4 24 (3.29%) Informatica
5 20 (2.74%) Foundry
5 20 (2.74%) OpenAI
6 14 (1.92%) Palantir
7 10 (1.37%) Oracle
8 8 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.10%) UiPath
9 7 (0.96%) Cloudera
10 6 (0.82%) SAP
11 5 (0.69%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (0.69%) Workday
12 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.55%) Denodo
12 4 (0.55%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.55%) IBM
13 3 (0.41%) Murex