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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 149 173
Rank change year-on-year +61 +24 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 462 283 274
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.25% 1.79% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 2.00% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 206 188
10th Percentile £363 £411 £392
25th Percentile £450 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.60%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £725
90th Percentile £780 £825 £821
England median daily rate £525 £570 £588
% change year-on-year -7.89% -2.98% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £41.73 £30.60 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.44 £43.50 £35.16
Median hourly rate £70.25 £65.00 £38.97
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% +66.81% -48.04%
75th Percentile £91.44 - £59.63
90th Percentile £102.58 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £74.26 £26.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +180.23% -59.23% +30.00%

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 13,095 14,155 17,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 89.55% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,599 9,136 12,670
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 171 240
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.25 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.50 £24.15 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +4.30% -7.81%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 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 26 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 26 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 +25 45 £565 -1.74% 30
West London -11 6 £614 +29.21% 7
South London -6 1 £500 -9.18% 4
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 68 (14.72%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (13.42%) Apache Spark
3 27 (5.84%) Apache
4 7 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.43%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.16%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.43%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.22%) Actimize
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 195 (42.21%) Azure
2 172 (37.23%) AWS
3 88 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 80 (17.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 72 (15.58%) Snowflake
6 69 (14.94%) GCP
7 55 (11.90%) GitHub
8 51 (11.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 49 (10.61%) dbt
10 48 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (10.17%) Amazon S3
12 40 (8.66%) Serverless
13 39 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
16 15 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
17 13 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
18 11 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 11 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
18 11 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.43%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (18.83%) Power BI
2 84 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (10.39%) Data Lake
4 43 (9.31%) Metadata
5 35 (7.58%) Big Data
6 27 (5.84%) BigQuery
7 25 (5.41%) SQL Server
7 25 (5.41%) Tableau
8 23 (4.98%) Delta Lake
9 22 (4.76%) Relational Database
10 21 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (4.55%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (3.68%) Hadoop
13 14 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (2.81%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (2.16%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.16%) Star Schema
16 9 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 76 (16.45%) Git
2 17 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.03%) MLflow
4 12 (2.60%) JIRA
5 10 (2.16%) GitLab
6 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.43%) TestRail
8 1 (0.22%) ERwin
8 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.22%) GoCD
8 1 (0.22%) Poetry
8 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 124 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 123 (26.62%) Finance
3 66 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.26%) Banking
5 33 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 29 (6.28%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.25%) Retail
9 14 (3.03%) Front Office
10 11 (2.38%) Marketing
10 11 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.95%) Legal
12 8 (1.73%) Publishing
13 6 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.08%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.87%) Military
16 3 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 178 (38.53%) Data Engineer
2 56 (12.12%) Developer
2 56 (12.12%) Senior
3 48 (10.39%) Azure Engineer
4 43 (9.31%) Architect
4 43 (9.31%) Lead
5 38 (8.23%) Senior Data Engineer
6 36 (7.79%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (5.63%) Python Developer
8 23 (4.98%) Analyst
8 23 (4.98%) Snowflake Engineer
9 19 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 19 (4.11%) AWS Developer
9 19 (4.11%) Data Architect
9 19 (4.11%) Python Engineer
10 18 (3.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 17 (3.68%) JavaScript Developer
12 16 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (3.25%) Data Scientist
14 13 (2.81%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (14.29%) PySpark
2 45 (9.74%) Kafka
3 33 (7.14%) Pandas
4 30 (6.49%) FastAPI
4 30 (6.49%) NumPy
5 22 (4.76%) Flask
5 22 (4.76%) React
6 21 (4.55%) PyTorch
7 19 (4.11%) TensorFlow
8 18 (3.90%) Vue
9 17 (3.68%) AngularJS
9 17 (3.68%) Polars
9 17 (3.68%) RESTful
9 17 (3.68%) SciPy
10 13 (2.81%) JSON
11 12 (2.60%) scikit-learn
12 11 (2.38%) LangChain
13 9 (1.95%) .NET
14 8 (1.73%) pytest
15 7 (1.52%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.87%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 23 (4.98%) Algorithms
4 19 (4.11%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.81%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
6 12 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.16%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.95%) Derivative
9 9 (1.95%) Equities
9 9 (1.95%) Genomics
9 9 (1.95%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.73%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.52%) Life Science
11 7 (1.52%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.55%) Linux
2 3 (0.65%) Android
2 3 (0.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (43.29%) Data Pipeline
2 182 (39.39%) Data Modelling
3 167 (36.15%) CI/CD
4 163 (35.28%) Analytics
5 162 (35.06%) ETL
6 111 (24.03%) AI
7 109 (23.59%) Machine Learning
8 107 (23.16%) Agile
8 107 (23.16%) Data Governance
9 104 (22.51%) Business Intelligence
9 104 (22.51%) DevOps
10 95 (20.56%) Data Science
11 87 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
13 63 (13.64%) Data Architecture
14 58 (12.55%) Decision-Making
15 55 (11.90%) Software Engineering
16 52 (11.26%) Visualisation
17 51 (11.04%) Data Integration
18 44 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 306 (66.23%) Python
2 234 (50.65%) SQL
3 41 (8.87%) Java
4 33 (7.14%) C#
5 32 (6.93%) Scala
6 29 (6.28%) C++
6 29 (6.28%) JavaScript
7 18 (3.90%) Rust
8 13 (2.81%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.38%) Bicep
11 10 (2.16%) Bash
12 9 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.95%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.73%) R
14 5 (1.08%) Korn
14 5 (1.08%) VBA
15 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.43%) PHP
16 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 63 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.52%) Degree
4 25 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.90%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.95%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.08%) PhD
11 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.65%) MCP
11 3 (0.65%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.43%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (23.16%) Data Quality
2 41 (8.87%) GDPR
3 19 (4.11%) QA
4 12 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.73%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.30%) NIST
7 5 (1.08%) PERC
8 3 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.43%) PMO
9 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.22%) EMIR
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (14.50%) Docker
2 4 (0.87%) HDFS
3 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 80 (17.32%) Terraform
2 52 (11.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.87%) Control-M
3 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.65%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) Argo
6 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.22%) Kibana
6 1 (0.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 123 (26.62%) Databricks
2 59 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.06%) Google
4 16 (3.46%) Oracle
5 13 (2.81%) Palantir
6 12 (2.60%) Foundry
6 12 (2.60%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.16%) SAP
8 8 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.52%) Informatica
10 6 (1.30%) Murex
10 6 (1.30%) Virgin Media
11 5 (1.08%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.87%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.87%) Denodo
12 4 (0.87%) EMC
12 4 (0.87%) VMware
13 3 (0.65%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.65%) Workday