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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 114 168
Rank change year-on-year +55 +54 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 794 344 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.01% 2.52% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 2.74% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 237 204
10th Percentile £401 £408 £427
25th Percentile £455 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £738
90th Percentile £763 £830 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £584
% change year-on-year - -10.10% -6.56%
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% -57.58%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.38 £38.81
90th Percentile - £62.75 £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
% change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -37.82%

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 17,611 12,570 15,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,652 8,414 10,744
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 254
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.63 £24.66 £20.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.53% -22.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £70.73
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +51 124 £575 +4.55% 42
West London 0 22 £625 -19.35% 3
East London - 4 £450 - 5
South London - 3 £590 - 3
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 (14.11%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (10.45%) Apache Spark
3 62 (7.81%) Apache
4 15 (1.89%) SAS
5 14 (1.76%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (1.64%) Confluence
7 10 (1.26%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.38%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
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 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (1.26%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.25%) Endur
3 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.25%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 336 (42.32%) Azure
2 320 (40.30%) AWS
3 156 (19.65%) Power Platform
4 135 (17.00%) Snowflake
5 125 (15.74%) GCP
6 117 (14.74%) dbt
7 107 (13.48%) Amazon S3
8 93 (11.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 86 (10.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 81 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (9.95%) GitHub
12 76 (9.57%) Serverless
13 67 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
16 27 (3.40%) Amazon SageMaker
17 25 (3.15%) Dagster
18 24 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (3.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 23 (2.90%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.63%) RTP
2 2 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (20.40%) Data Warehouse
2 143 (18.01%) Power BI
3 136 (17.13%) Data Lake
4 84 (10.58%) Metadata
5 68 (8.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 65 (8.19%) BigQuery
7 55 (6.93%) Delta Lake
8 49 (6.17%) Big Data
8 49 (6.17%) Tableau
9 46 (5.79%) Amazon Athena
10 40 (5.04%) NoSQL
11 38 (4.79%) SQL Server
12 37 (4.66%) Snowflake Schema
13 28 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
14 27 (3.40%) Relational Database
15 25 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (2.90%) Star Schema
17 17 (2.14%) MongoDB
17 17 (2.14%) Spark SQL
18 15 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 101 (12.72%) Git
2 31 (3.90%) GitLab
3 27 (3.40%) JIRA
4 24 (3.02%) MLflow
5 11 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.38%) ERwin
8 3 (0.38%) Postman
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Snyk
9 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 247 (31.11%) Finance
2 172 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 139 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.95%) Banking
5 64 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.40%) Marketing
7 19 (2.39%) Front Office
8 18 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.27%) Retail
9 16 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.88%) Legal
14 5 (0.63%) Back Office
14 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.50%) Billing
16 3 (0.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 345 (43.45%) Data Engineer
2 114 (14.36%) Senior
3 106 (13.35%) Architect
4 99 (12.47%) Lead
5 66 (8.31%) Senior Data Engineer
6 49 (6.17%) Developer
7 45 (5.67%) Lead Data Engineer
8 42 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
8 42 (5.29%) Data Architect
9 41 (5.16%) Analyst
10 38 (4.79%) Data Scientist
11 37 (4.66%) Snowflake Engineer
12 35 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
13 33 (4.16%) AWS Data Engineer
14 32 (4.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 29 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 28 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
17 26 (3.27%) Data Analyst
18 24 (3.02%) Azure Data Engineer
19 22 (2.77%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (15.24%) PySpark
2 68 (8.56%) Kafka
3 28 (3.53%) Pandas
4 27 (3.40%) REST
5 25 (3.15%) scikit-learn
6 19 (2.39%) NumPy
7 17 (2.14%) JSON
7 17 (2.14%) PyTorch
8 14 (1.76%) React
9 12 (1.51%) .NET
9 12 (1.51%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.39%) Great Expectations
10 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
10 11 (1.39%) Spring
11 9 (1.13%) LangChain
12 8 (1.01%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (1.01%) Seaborn
12 8 (1.01%) XML
13 7 (0.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 130 (16.37%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
3 34 (4.28%) Data Structures
4 30 (3.78%) Onboarding
4 30 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.52%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
7 15 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 15 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.51%) NHS
9 11 (1.39%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.26%) Clustering
10 10 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.01%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.40%) Linux
2 15 (1.89%) Unix
3 4 (0.50%) VMS
3 4 (0.50%) Windows
4 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (51.64%) Analytics
2 384 (48.36%) Data Pipeline
3 302 (38.04%) CI/CD
4 291 (36.65%) Data Modelling
5 276 (34.76%) ETL
6 257 (32.37%) AI
7 201 (25.31%) DevOps
8 191 (24.06%) Agile
9 183 (23.05%) Business Intelligence
10 176 (22.17%) Machine Learning
11 160 (20.15%) Data Governance
12 140 (17.63%) Data Science
13 131 (16.50%) Data Architecture
14 128 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (14.86%) Migration
15 118 (14.86%) Validation
16 117 (14.74%) Decision-Making
17 109 (13.73%) Use Case
18 101 (12.72%) Infrastructure as Code
18 101 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 454 (57.18%) SQL
2 444 (55.92%) Python
3 78 (9.82%) Java
4 30 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (3.40%) Scala
6 24 (3.02%) C#
7 18 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.51%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.26%) Bash
11 10 (1.26%) Bicep
12 9 (1.13%) R
13 7 (0.88%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.63%) Cypher
15 4 (0.50%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.50%) Korn
15 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.60%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.80%) Degree
4 27 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.26%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.50%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.25%) CSPO
15 2 (0.25%) PhD
16 1 (0.13%) CCSP
16 1 (0.13%) CISSP
16 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (30.48%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.42%) GDPR
3 48 (6.05%) QA
4 18 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.38%) GxP
5 3 (0.38%) MiFID
5 3 (0.38%) NIST
5 3 (0.38%) PMO
5 3 (0.38%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.25%) EMIR
6 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.13%) Basel II
7 1 (0.13%) COPPA
7 1 (0.13%) GRC
7 1 (0.13%) IFRS
7 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (8.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (13.35%) Terraform
2 57 (7.18%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.63%) Ansible
3 5 (0.63%) Grafana
4 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.25%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Kibana
6 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 180 (22.67%) Databricks
2 140 (17.63%) Microsoft
3 41 (5.16%) Google
4 37 (4.66%) Informatica
5 23 (2.90%) Oracle
6 21 (2.64%) Foundry
6 21 (2.64%) Palantir
7 20 (2.52%) OpenAI
8 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.01%) SAP
10 6 (0.76%) Workday
11 5 (0.63%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.63%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.50%) Charles River
12 4 (0.50%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.50%) Denodo
12 4 (0.50%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.50%) Murex
13 3 (0.38%) Adobe
13 3 (0.38%) Apple