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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 116 175
Rank change year-on-year +57 +59 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 747 293 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.10% 2.42% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 2.63% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 206 190
10th Percentile £411 £410 £411
25th Percentile £463 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -6.77%
75th Percentile £650 £775 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
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 £27.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +154.55% -43.30% -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 16,097 11,157 15,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.20% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,758 7,514 11,083
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £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 £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 181 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% +10.33% -29.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.84 £63.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%

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 26 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 26 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 +40 123 £553 +0.45% 56
West London +5 36 £603 -23.49% 3
South London - 5 £500 - 1
East London - 4 £450 - 8
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
1 106 (14.19%) Apache Spark
2 95 (12.72%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (6.96%) Apache
4 11 (1.47%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.34%) SAS
6 8 (1.07%) Appian
7 6 (0.80%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.27%) 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 18 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.40%) Trello
6 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.40%) 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 (46.59%) Azure
2 283 (37.88%) AWS
3 178 (23.83%) Power Platform
4 119 (15.93%) GCP
5 116 (15.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 106 (14.19%) Snowflake
7 97 (12.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 92 (12.32%) Amazon S3
9 91 (12.18%) GitHub
10 85 (11.38%) dbt
11 81 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (7.76%) Serverless
13 54 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.35%) Dagster
17 22 (2.95%) Amazon Kinesis
17 22 (2.95%) Azure AI
17 22 (2.95%) Collibra
18 21 (2.81%) Amazon SageMaker
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
1 164 (21.95%) Power BI
2 154 (20.62%) Data Lake
3 150 (20.08%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (10.58%) Metadata
5 62 (8.30%) Delta Lake
6 60 (8.03%) SQL Server
7 59 (7.90%) BigQuery
8 51 (6.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (6.56%) Big Data
10 47 (6.29%) NoSQL
10 47 (6.29%) Snowflake Schema
11 45 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
12 44 (5.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 42 (5.62%) Tableau
14 34 (4.55%) Relational Database
15 28 (3.75%) Spark SQL
16 23 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 21 (2.81%) Star Schema
18 20 (2.68%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 100 (13.39%) Git
2 32 (4.28%) MLflow
3 30 (4.02%) GitLab
4 20 (2.68%) JIRA
5 13 (1.74%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.67%) Selenium
8 4 (0.54%) Postman
9 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.40%) Snyk
10 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.27%) ERwin
10 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Ant
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) Maven
11 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 256 (34.27%) Finance
2 166 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 104 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.17%) Banking
5 39 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.54%) Marketing
7 18 (2.41%) Retail
8 17 (2.28%) Front Office
9 16 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.87%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.94%) Legal
14 6 (0.80%) Back Office
15 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.40%) Billing
16 3 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 344 (46.05%) Data Engineer
2 106 (14.19%) Senior
3 89 (11.91%) Lead
4 87 (11.65%) Architect
5 70 (9.37%) Senior Data Engineer
6 45 (6.02%) Developer
7 38 (5.09%) Lead Data Engineer
8 36 (4.82%) Snowflake Engineer
9 35 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
9 35 (4.69%) Data Architect
10 32 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
10 32 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
11 31 (4.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 30 (4.02%) Analyst
13 29 (3.88%) Azure Data Engineer
14 28 (3.75%) Data Scientist
15 26 (3.48%) AWS Data Engineer
16 24 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 24 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
17 22 (2.95%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (17.67%) PySpark
2 77 (10.31%) Kafka
3 42 (5.62%) Pandas
4 35 (4.69%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.88%) NumPy
5 29 (3.88%) PyTorch
6 23 (3.08%) REST
7 21 (2.81%) TensorFlow
8 17 (2.28%) Great Expectations
8 17 (2.28%) LangChain
9 15 (2.01%) pytest
10 14 (1.87%) FastAPI
11 13 (1.74%) Hugging Face
11 13 (1.74%) YAML
12 12 (1.61%) Flask
12 12 (1.61%) Spring
13 11 (1.47%) Django
13 11 (1.47%) JSON
14 10 (1.34%) React
15 9 (1.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 119 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 23 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
6 17 (2.28%) AI Agents
6 17 (2.28%) Algorithms
6 17 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.87%) Fixed Income
7 14 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.34%) Equities
9 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.07%) Clustering
10 8 (1.07%) Derivative
10 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.80%) Data Fabric
11 6 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.08%) Linux
2 14 (1.87%) Unix
3 5 (0.67%) VMS
4 3 (0.40%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (51.41%) Analytics
2 341 (45.65%) Data Pipeline
3 294 (39.36%) ETL
4 290 (38.82%) Data Modelling
5 281 (37.62%) CI/CD
6 247 (33.07%) AI
7 211 (28.25%) DevOps
8 192 (25.70%) Business Intelligence
9 172 (23.03%) Data Governance
10 170 (22.76%) Agile
11 158 (21.15%) Machine Learning
12 126 (16.87%) Data Science
13 119 (15.93%) Data Architecture
14 111 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (12.85%) Validation
16 95 (12.72%) Decision-Making
16 95 (12.72%) Migration
17 94 (12.58%) LLM
18 92 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
19 91 (12.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 434 (58.10%) SQL
2 415 (55.56%) Python
3 69 (9.24%) Java
4 49 (6.56%) Scala
5 33 (4.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (3.75%) C#
7 20 (2.68%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.61%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.34%) R
10 9 (1.20%) Bicep
10 9 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.07%) Bash
11 8 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.94%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.54%) Korn
14 2 (0.27%) C++
14 2 (0.27%) Go
14 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 118 (15.80%) Security Cleared
2 104 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.69%) Degree
4 27 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.80%) PhD
11 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.54%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.13%) CCSP
14 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (30.92%) Data Quality
2 64 (8.57%) GDPR
3 42 (5.62%) QA
4 9 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.54%) 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 (0.27%) EMIR
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) Basel II
9 1 (0.13%) GxP
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (9.91%) 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
1 108 (14.46%) Terraform
2 66 (8.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Ansible
4 3 (0.40%) Grafana
4 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.27%) Argo
5 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 200 (26.77%) Databricks
2 131 (17.54%) Microsoft
3 48 (6.43%) Google
4 27 (3.61%) Informatica
5 22 (2.95%) OpenAI
6 17 (2.28%) Foundry
7 15 (2.01%) Oracle
8 11 (1.47%) Palantir
9 8 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.07%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.07%) UiPath
10 5 (0.67%) Cloudera
10 5 (0.67%) Workday
11 4 (0.54%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.54%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.54%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.54%) SAP
12 3 (0.40%) Charles River
12 3 (0.40%) IBM
12 3 (0.40%) Murex