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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 108 169
Rank change year-on-year +47 +61 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 841 351 244
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 2.61% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 2.82% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 229 190
10th Percentile £400 £400 £411
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £814
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -57.58%
England median hourly rate £69.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +31.43% -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 17,998 12,460 14,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.49% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,805 8,287 10,011
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £778 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 257 191
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -15.49% -11.25%
75th Percentile £57.13 £47.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +42 117 £575 +4.55% 48
West London -2 22 £520 -19.54% 17
South London - 4 £500 - 2
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
1 131 (15.58%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (11.65%) Apache Spark
3 68 (8.09%) Apache
4 15 (1.78%) SAS
5 13 (1.55%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (1.43%) Confluence
7 11 (1.31%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.59%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.59%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Endur
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 350 (41.62%) Azure
2 330 (39.24%) AWS
3 153 (18.19%) Snowflake
4 152 (18.07%) Power Platform
5 138 (16.41%) dbt
6 127 (15.10%) GCP
7 105 (12.49%) Amazon S3
8 100 (11.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 90 (10.70%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (10.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 82 (9.75%) Serverless
12 81 (9.63%) GitHub
13 68 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.21%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (2.97%) Amazon Bedrock
17 21 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (2.50%) Dagster
18 20 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) Firewall
1 2 (0.24%) Network Security
1 2 (0.24%) RTP
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
2 145 (17.24%) Power BI
3 133 (15.81%) Data Lake
4 94 (11.18%) Metadata
5 73 (8.68%) BigQuery
6 69 (8.20%) Delta Lake
7 68 (8.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 54 (6.42%) Big Data
9 47 (5.59%) Tableau
10 44 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (4.88%) NoSQL
12 35 (4.16%) SQL Server
13 33 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
14 28 (3.33%) Relational Database
15 26 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
16 25 (2.97%) Star Schema
17 22 (2.62%) Spark SQL
18 19 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (2.26%) Looker
Development Applications
1 94 (11.18%) Git
2 40 (4.76%) GitLab
3 28 (3.33%) JIRA
4 16 (1.90%) MLflow
5 15 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.71%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.59%) ERwin
7 5 (0.59%) RStudio
7 5 (0.59%) Selenium
7 5 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.36%) Snyk
10 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 252 (29.96%) Finance
2 186 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 131 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.70%) Banking
5 57 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.16%) Marketing
7 23 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.38%) Front Office
8 20 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.26%) Retail
10 12 (1.43%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.83%) Back Office
13 7 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.83%) Legal
14 6 (0.71%) Billing
15 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 378 (44.95%) Data Engineer
2 119 (14.15%) Senior
3 112 (13.32%) Architect
4 105 (12.49%) Lead
5 76 (9.04%) Senior Data Engineer
6 50 (5.95%) Data Architect
7 47 (5.59%) Developer
8 44 (5.23%) Analyst
8 44 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
9 42 (4.99%) Lead Data Engineer
10 37 (4.40%) Snowflake Engineer
11 36 (4.28%) AWS Data Engineer
12 32 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
12 32 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (3.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 30 (3.57%) Data Scientist
15 28 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.21%) Data Analyst
17 26 (3.09%) Python Engineer
18 23 (2.73%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (17.84%) PySpark
2 116 (13.79%) Terraform
3 68 (8.09%) Kafka
4 30 (3.57%) REST
5 21 (2.50%) Pandas
5 21 (2.50%) React
6 16 (1.90%) .NET
6 16 (1.90%) JSON
7 15 (1.78%) scikit-learn
8 14 (1.66%) NumPy
9 12 (1.43%) PyTorch
10 10 (1.19%) Spring
10 10 (1.19%) TensorFlow
11 9 (1.07%) Great Expectations
11 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
12 7 (0.83%) LangChain
12 7 (0.83%) pytest
13 6 (0.71%) FastAPI
13 6 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 135 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
2 43 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 42 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 38 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (4.16%) Data Structures
6 22 (2.62%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.55%) NHS
8 13 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
10 11 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.19%) Clustering
12 9 (1.07%) Life Science
13 8 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.95%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.21%) Linux
2 15 (1.78%) Unix
3 7 (0.83%) Windows
4 2 (0.24%) VMS
4 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (50.18%) Analytics
2 411 (48.87%) Data Pipeline
3 323 (38.41%) CI/CD
4 303 (36.03%) Data Modelling
5 295 (35.08%) ETL
6 278 (33.06%) AI
7 212 (25.21%) DevOps
8 209 (24.85%) Agile
9 192 (22.83%) Business Intelligence
10 185 (22.00%) Data Governance
11 167 (19.86%) Machine Learning
12 144 (17.12%) Data Architecture
13 139 (16.53%) Data Transformation
14 134 (15.93%) Data Science
15 132 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
15 132 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
16 130 (15.46%) Decision-Making
17 122 (14.51%) Migration
17 122 (14.51%) Validation
18 107 (12.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 475 (56.48%) SQL
2 451 (53.63%) Python
3 68 (8.09%) Java
4 30 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (3.21%) Scala
6 23 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 21 (2.50%) C#
8 18 (2.14%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.43%) R
10 12 (1.43%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.31%) Bash
12 10 (1.19%) Bicep
12 10 (1.19%) SAS Macro
13 9 (1.07%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.83%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.59%) Cypher
15 5 (0.59%) Korn
15 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.48%) LookML
Qualifications
1 117 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 103 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.71%) Degree
4 26 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.59%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.24%) CSPO
14 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (32.22%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.47%) QA
3 43 (5.11%) GDPR
4 18 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) GxP
5 3 (0.36%) MiFID
5 3 (0.36%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) SLA
5 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.24%) EMIR
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) COPPA
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (8.09%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (6.66%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.31%) Ansible
3 6 (0.71%) Control-M
4 4 (0.48%) Grafana
5 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.24%) Puppet
5 2 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.12%) Argo
6 1 (0.12%) Cilium
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
6 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 217 (25.80%) Databricks
2 144 (17.12%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.99%) Informatica
4 38 (4.52%) Google
5 33 (3.92%) Oracle
6 20 (2.38%) Palantir
7 19 (2.26%) Foundry
8 16 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.43%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.19%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.07%) Teradata
12 7 (0.83%) Hitachi
12 7 (0.83%) Workday
13 6 (0.71%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.71%) SAP
14 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.59%) SnapLogic
15 4 (0.48%) Adobe
15 4 (0.48%) Denodo
15 4 (0.48%) MicroStrategy