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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 110 164
Rank change year-on-year +51 +54 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 819 353 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.10% 2.58% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 2.80% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 236 197
10th Percentile £401 £408 £420
25th Percentile £450 £474 £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 £771 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £585
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £58.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% +67.86% -57.58%
75th Percentile £60.25 £76.25 -
90th Percentile - £96.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% -23.08%

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 17,802 12,600 14,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.23% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,756 8,430 10,474
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
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 283 240 222
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £20.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.63
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -13.36% -20.27%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 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 26 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 +41 121 £575 +4.55% 55
West London +2 22 £614 -20.81% 14
South London - 4 £545 - 3
East London - 4 £450 - 5
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
1 113 (13.80%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (11.23%) Apache Spark
3 68 (8.30%) Apache
4 17 (2.08%) Palantir Foundry
5 15 (1.83%) SAS
6 13 (1.59%) Confluence
7 10 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.37%) Appian
8 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (1.34%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.61%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Endur
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 339 (41.39%) Azure
2 326 (39.80%) AWS
3 160 (19.54%) Power Platform
4 137 (16.73%) Snowflake
5 130 (15.87%) GCP
6 123 (15.02%) dbt
7 104 (12.70%) Amazon S3
8 96 (11.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 90 (10.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 83 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
11 77 (9.40%) GitHub
12 74 (9.04%) Serverless
13 64 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (3.79%) Amazon EMR
16 26 (3.17%) Amazon SageMaker
17 25 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 25 (3.05%) Dagster
18 23 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
19 22 (2.69%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.61%) RTP
2 2 (0.24%) Firewall
2 2 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (20.39%) Data Warehouse
2 148 (18.07%) Power BI
3 139 (16.97%) Data Lake
4 88 (10.74%) Metadata
5 69 (8.42%) BigQuery
6 67 (8.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 61 (7.45%) Delta Lake
8 52 (6.35%) Big Data
9 49 (5.98%) Tableau
10 45 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (5.01%) NoSQL
12 40 (4.88%) SQL Server
13 35 (4.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 28 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
14 28 (3.42%) Relational Database
15 26 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (2.93%) Star Schema
17 18 (2.20%) MongoDB
18 17 (2.08%) Spark SQL
19 16 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 99 (12.09%) Git
2 30 (3.66%) GitLab
3 27 (3.30%) JIRA
4 23 (2.81%) MLflow
5 11 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.61%) ERwin
8 4 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.37%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) Snyk
10 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.12%) Ant
11 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) JUnit
11 1 (0.12%) Maven
11 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 255 (31.14%) Finance
2 180 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 141 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.62%) Banking
5 65 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.30%) Marketing
7 22 (2.69%) Front Office
8 18 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.20%) Retail
9 17 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.83%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.85%) Legal
14 6 (0.73%) Back Office
15 5 (0.61%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.49%) Billing
17 3 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 360 (43.96%) Data Engineer
2 117 (14.29%) Senior
3 107 (13.06%) Architect
4 101 (12.33%) Lead
5 68 (8.30%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (6.23%) Developer
7 45 (5.49%) Data Architect
7 45 (5.49%) Lead Data Engineer
8 44 (5.37%) Analyst
9 43 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (4.52%) Data Scientist
10 37 (4.52%) Snowflake Engineer
11 34 (4.15%) AWS Data Engineer
11 34 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (3.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 31 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 30 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
15 29 (3.54%) Data Analyst
16 26 (3.17%) Azure Data Engineer
17 23 (2.81%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (16.00%) PySpark
2 69 (8.42%) Kafka
3 30 (3.66%) Pandas
4 29 (3.54%) REST
5 25 (3.05%) scikit-learn
6 21 (2.56%) NumPy
7 19 (2.32%) PyTorch
8 18 (2.20%) JSON
9 14 (1.71%) React
10 13 (1.59%) .NET
10 13 (1.59%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.34%) Great Expectations
11 11 (1.34%) LangChain
11 11 (1.34%) Spring
12 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (1.10%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (0.98%) XML
15 7 (0.85%) Apache Avro
15 7 (0.85%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 133 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 33 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 32 (3.91%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.44%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
9 16 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.59%) NHS
12 12 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.34%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.22%) Clustering
14 10 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.22%) Reference Data
15 9 (1.10%) Management Information System
16 8 (0.98%) Life Science
16 8 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.42%) Linux
2 15 (1.83%) Unix
3 5 (0.61%) Windows
4 4 (0.49%) VMS
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (51.89%) Analytics
2 394 (48.11%) Data Pipeline
3 306 (37.36%) CI/CD
4 304 (37.12%) Data Modelling
5 284 (34.68%) ETL
6 263 (32.11%) AI
7 200 (24.42%) DevOps
8 196 (23.93%) Agile
9 189 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
10 178 (21.73%) Machine Learning
11 168 (20.51%) Data Governance
12 145 (17.70%) Data Science
13 136 (16.61%) Data Architecture
14 132 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
15 121 (14.77%) Decision-Making
15 121 (14.77%) Migration
16 120 (14.65%) Validation
17 111 (13.55%) Use Case
18 109 (13.31%) Data Transformation
19 105 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 471 (57.51%) SQL
2 456 (55.68%) Python
3 76 (9.28%) Java
4 30 (3.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (3.17%) Scala
6 23 (2.81%) C#
7 18 (2.20%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.71%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.47%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.34%) Bicep
10 11 (1.34%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.22%) Bash
12 9 (1.10%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.98%) R
14 7 (0.85%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.61%) Cypher
16 4 (0.49%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.49%) Korn
16 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 109 (13.31%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.72%) Degree
4 29 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.20%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.22%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.98%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.49%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.37%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.24%) CSPO
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.12%) CCSP
16 1 (0.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (30.89%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.11%) GDPR
3 48 (5.86%) QA
4 18 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.37%) GxP
5 3 (0.37%) MiFID
5 3 (0.37%) NIST
5 3 (0.37%) PMO
5 3 (0.37%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.24%) EMIR
6 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.12%) Basel II
7 1 (0.12%) COPPA
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (8.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.24%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (13.06%) Terraform
2 59 (7.20%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.73%) Ansible
4 5 (0.61%) Grafana
5 4 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.12%) Oozie
Vendors
1 190 (23.20%) Databricks
2 143 (17.46%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.37%) Google
4 36 (4.40%) Informatica
5 24 (2.93%) Oracle
5 24 (2.93%) Palantir
6 22 (2.69%) Foundry
7 19 (2.32%) OpenAI
8 13 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.98%) SAP
10 6 (0.73%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.73%) Workday
11 5 (0.61%) Amplitude
12 4 (0.49%) Charles River
12 4 (0.49%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.49%) Denodo
12 4 (0.49%) Hitachi
12 4 (0.49%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.49%) Murex
13 3 (0.37%) Adobe