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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 154 180
Rank change year-on-year +63 +26 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 445 259 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.23% 1.66% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 1.86% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 191 187
10th Percentile £381 £413 £392
25th Percentile £468 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £719 £725
90th Percentile £794 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £41.20 - £35.00
25th Percentile £50.13 - £35.16
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £50.32
75th Percentile £87.50 - £80.00
90th Percentile £101.00 - £87.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £26.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +145.28% -66.03% +56.00%

All Process and 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 12,740 13,914 18,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.46% 89.10% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,386 8,952 13,004
10th Percentile £331 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 165 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +0.18% +1.33%
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.90 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 6 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in London

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 6 November 2025. 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 +22 46 £565 -1.74% 346
West London -11 6 £614 +29.21% 5
South London -4 1 £500 -0.10% 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 66 (14.83%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (12.13%) Apache Spark
3 27 (6.07%) Apache
4 6 (1.35%) Confluence
5 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.45%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.25%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.45%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 196 (44.04%) Azure
2 171 (38.43%) AWS
3 84 (18.88%) Power Platform
4 77 (17.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 73 (16.40%) GCP
6 67 (15.06%) Snowflake
7 51 (11.46%) dbt
7 51 (11.46%) GitHub
8 49 (11.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 48 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (9.21%) Amazon S3
11 35 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (7.87%) Serverless
12 27 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (4.49%) Azure Machine Learning
14 14 (3.15%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.25%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (0.45%) Firewall
1 2 (0.45%) VPN
2 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.22%) Network Security
2 1 (0.22%) SSL
2 1 (0.22%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (18.65%) Power BI
2 80 (17.98%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (11.46%) Data Lake
4 43 (9.66%) Metadata
5 32 (7.19%) Big Data
6 31 (6.97%) BigQuery
7 26 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 25 (5.62%) Delta Lake
9 22 (4.94%) Relational Database
9 22 (4.94%) Tableau
10 16 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (3.37%) Hadoop
11 15 (3.37%) NoSQL
12 13 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (2.25%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.25%) Star Schema
16 9 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 70 (15.73%) Git
2 12 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.70%) MLflow
3 11 (2.47%) JIRA
4 8 (1.80%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.45%) PROIV
6 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.45%) TestRail
7 1 (0.22%) ERwin
7 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.22%) GoCD
7 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 120 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 115 (25.84%) Finance
3 58 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (11.91%) Banking
5 35 (7.87%) Investment Banking
6 27 (6.07%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.37%) Retail
9 14 (3.15%) Front Office
10 11 (2.47%) Marketing
11 10 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.80%) Publishing
13 7 (1.57%) Legal
14 6 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.12%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.67%) Military
17 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 184 (41.35%) Data Engineer
2 57 (12.81%) Senior
3 51 (11.46%) Developer
4 49 (11.01%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (9.89%) Architect
5 44 (9.89%) Lead
6 39 (8.76%) Senior Data Engineer
7 37 (8.31%) Azure Data Engineer
8 27 (6.07%) Python Developer
9 20 (4.49%) Analyst
9 20 (4.49%) Snowflake Engineer
10 18 (4.04%) AWS Developer
10 18 (4.04%) Data Architect
10 18 (4.04%) JavaScript Developer
10 18 (4.04%) Python Engineer
11 16 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 16 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.37%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 14 (3.15%) Azure Architect
13 14 (3.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (12.81%) PySpark
2 45 (10.11%) Kafka
3 31 (6.97%) Pandas
4 30 (6.74%) FastAPI
5 28 (6.29%) NumPy
6 23 (5.17%) React
7 22 (4.94%) Flask
8 19 (4.27%) Vue
9 18 (4.04%) AngularJS
9 18 (4.04%) Polars
9 18 (4.04%) SciPy
10 16 (3.60%) PyTorch
11 15 (3.37%) RESTful
12 14 (3.15%) TensorFlow
13 11 (2.47%) JSON
14 10 (2.25%) LangChain
15 9 (2.02%) .NET
16 8 (1.80%) scikit-learn
17 7 (1.57%) Jinja
17 7 (1.57%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.76%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (4.49%) Hedge funds
4 19 (4.27%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.92%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (2.02%) Equities
7 9 (2.02%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.80%) Derivative
8 8 (1.80%) Genomics
8 8 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.80%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.57%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.35%) Life Science
10 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.72%) Linux
2 3 (0.67%) Android
2 3 (0.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (42.25%) Data Pipeline
2 177 (39.78%) Data Modelling
3 159 (35.73%) CI/CD
4 157 (35.28%) ETL
5 152 (34.16%) Analytics
6 106 (23.82%) AI
7 104 (23.37%) Business Intelligence
8 103 (23.15%) Data Governance
8 103 (23.15%) DevOps
9 102 (22.92%) Agile
10 97 (21.80%) Machine Learning
11 87 (19.55%) Data Science
12 80 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
14 63 (14.16%) Data Architecture
15 55 (12.36%) Decision-Making
15 55 (12.36%) Software Engineering
16 52 (11.69%) Data Integration
17 47 (10.56%) Visualisation
18 42 (9.44%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 289 (64.94%) Python
2 222 (49.89%) SQL
3 39 (8.76%) Java
4 34 (7.64%) C#
5 30 (6.74%) C++
5 30 (6.74%) Scala
6 27 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.27%) Rust
8 12 (2.70%) Bicep
8 12 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.47%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (2.02%) Bash
11 9 (2.02%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.12%) VBA
13 4 (0.90%) Korn
13 4 (0.90%) R
13 4 (0.90%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.45%) PHP
14 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.21%) Degree
4 25 (5.62%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.82%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.92%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.12%) PhD
11 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.67%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.45%) MCP
12 2 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (23.82%) Data Quality
2 36 (8.09%) GDPR
3 21 (4.72%) QA
4 11 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.80%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.35%) NIST
7 3 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.67%) PERC
8 2 (0.45%) PMO
9 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.22%) EMIR
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 65 (14.61%) Docker
2 3 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 85 (19.10%) Terraform
2 54 (12.13%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.90%) Control-M
3 4 (0.90%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.45%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Argo
6 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.22%) Kibana
6 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) logstash
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 118 (26.52%) Databricks
2 57 (12.81%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.19%) Google
4 17 (3.82%) Oracle
5 12 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.47%) Palantir
7 10 (2.25%) Informatica
7 10 (2.25%) SAP
8 9 (2.02%) Foundry
9 7 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.35%) Murex
11 5 (1.12%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.12%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.90%) Denodo
12 4 (0.90%) EMC
12 4 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.90%) VMware
13 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.67%) Splunk
13 3 (0.67%) Talend