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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 136 179
Rank change year-on-year +51 +43 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 486 295 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.38% 1.88% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 2.09% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 211 187
10th Percentile £370 £402 £408
25th Percentile £450 £481 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -1.64%
75th Percentile £663 £694 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £821
England median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £41.73 - £35.00
25th Percentile £51.44 £22.00 £35.16
Median hourly rate £70.25 £43.50 £38.97
Median % change year-on-year +61.49% +11.63% -48.04%
75th Percentile £91.44 £65.00 £59.63
90th Percentile £102.58 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £74.26 £25.43 £53.65
% change year-on-year +192.02% -52.60% +7.31%

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 13,187 14,116 17,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.78% 89.82% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,698 9,124 12,474
10th Percentile £339 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £503 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 164 235
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.65
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.25% -10.93%
75th Percentile £47.63 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.00%

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 6 December 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 December 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 December 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 +16 49 £563 -2.17% 30
West London -11 9 £603 +26.84% 6
South London -7 1 £500 -9.18% 13
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 70 (14.40%) Apache Spark
2 68 (13.99%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (5.76%) Apache
4 8 (1.65%) Confluence
5 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.41%) Luigi
6 2 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.85%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.41%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.21%) Actimize
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 214 (44.03%) Azure
2 174 (35.80%) AWS
3 93 (19.14%) Power Platform
4 83 (17.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 74 (15.23%) Snowflake
6 67 (13.79%) GCP
7 57 (11.73%) GitHub
8 54 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 52 (10.70%) Amazon S3
10 50 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (10.29%) dbt
11 44 (9.05%) Serverless
12 42 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (5.14%) Azure Machine Learning
15 16 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (2.88%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.26%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (2.26%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.82%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.41%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.41%) VPN
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (19.14%) Data Warehouse
2 91 (18.72%) Power BI
3 54 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 49 (10.08%) Metadata
5 34 (7.00%) Big Data
6 31 (6.38%) Delta Lake
7 27 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 26 (5.35%) BigQuery
8 26 (5.35%) NoSQL
8 26 (5.35%) Relational Database
8 26 (5.35%) Tableau
9 25 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (3.29%) Snowflake Schema
13 13 (2.67%) Hadoop
14 10 (2.06%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 81 (16.67%) Git
2 19 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.70%) MLflow
4 14 (2.88%) JIRA
5 13 (2.67%) GitLab
6 4 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.41%) TestRail
8 1 (0.21%) ERwin
8 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.21%) GoCD
8 1 (0.21%) Poetry
8 1 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 131 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 129 (26.54%) Finance
3 63 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.67%) Banking
5 28 (5.76%) Investment Banking
6 26 (5.35%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.88%) Front Office
9 13 (2.67%) Retail
10 11 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.06%) Marketing
12 9 (1.85%) Legal
13 8 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.65%) Publishing
14 5 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.82%) Military
16 3 (0.62%) Electronics
16 3 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 190 (39.09%) Data Engineer
2 56 (11.52%) Senior
3 55 (11.32%) Developer
4 50 (10.29%) Azure Engineer
5 47 (9.67%) Lead
6 41 (8.44%) Architect
7 40 (8.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 38 (7.82%) Azure Data Engineer
9 24 (4.94%) Python Developer
9 24 (4.94%) Snowflake Engineer
10 23 (4.73%) Analyst
11 20 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 20 (4.12%) Python Engineer
12 18 (3.70%) Data Architect
12 18 (3.70%) Data Scientist
13 17 (3.50%) AWS Developer
13 17 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (3.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 15 (3.09%) JavaScript Developer
14 15 (3.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (17.28%) PySpark
2 50 (10.29%) Kafka
3 34 (7.00%) Pandas
4 30 (6.17%) NumPy
5 29 (5.97%) FastAPI
6 25 (5.14%) PyTorch
7 22 (4.53%) TensorFlow
8 21 (4.32%) Flask
8 21 (4.32%) React
9 18 (3.70%) RESTful
10 16 (3.29%) Vue
11 15 (3.09%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.09%) LangChain
11 15 (3.09%) Polars
11 15 (3.09%) scikit-learn
11 15 (3.09%) SciPy
12 13 (2.67%) JSON
13 10 (2.06%) YAML
14 9 (1.85%) pytest
15 8 (1.65%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.05%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.14%) Algorithms
3 20 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (3.50%) Hedge funds
5 15 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
6 14 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.47%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.85%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.85%) Derivative
10 9 (1.85%) Genomics
11 8 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.65%) Equities
11 8 (1.65%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.44%) Life Science
12 7 (1.44%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.44%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.91%) Linux
2 3 (0.62%) Android
3 2 (0.41%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
2 192 (39.51%) Data Modelling
3 174 (35.80%) Analytics
4 171 (35.19%) CI/CD
4 171 (35.19%) ETL
5 123 (25.31%) Data Governance
6 121 (24.90%) AI
7 115 (23.66%) DevOps
8 114 (23.46%) Agile
9 113 (23.25%) Machine Learning
10 108 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
11 101 (20.78%) Data Science
12 89 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (15.02%) Data Architecture
14 67 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
15 57 (11.73%) Data Integration
16 54 (11.11%) Software Engineering
17 52 (10.70%) Decision-Making
18 50 (10.29%) Visualisation
19 47 (9.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 323 (66.46%) Python
2 247 (50.82%) SQL
3 40 (8.23%) Scala
4 38 (7.82%) Java
5 34 (7.00%) C#
6 29 (5.97%) JavaScript
7 26 (5.35%) C++
8 16 (3.29%) Rust
9 14 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.47%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.26%) Bash
11 11 (2.26%) Bicep
12 10 (2.06%) R
12 10 (2.06%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.03%) Korn
14 5 (1.03%) VBA
15 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.41%) PHP
16 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 69 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.26%) Degree
4 25 (5.14%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.32%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.65%) PhD
8 6 (1.23%) MCP
9 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.62%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (25.51%) Data Quality
2 46 (9.47%) GDPR
3 16 (3.29%) QA
4 12 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.65%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.23%) NIST
7 5 (1.03%) PERC
8 4 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.41%) PMO
11 1 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.21%) EMIR
11 1 (0.21%) HL7
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.21%) MiFID
11 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (14.40%) Docker
2 4 (0.82%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 85 (17.49%) Terraform
2 55 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.82%) Control-M
3 4 (0.82%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.62%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) Ansible
5 2 (0.41%) Argo
5 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.21%) Kibana
6 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 150 (30.86%) Databricks
2 58 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.58%) Google
4 15 (3.09%) Oracle
5 12 (2.47%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.47%) Palantir
6 11 (2.26%) Foundry
6 11 (2.26%) SAP
7 8 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.44%) Informatica
9 6 (1.23%) Murex
9 6 (1.23%) Virgin Media
10 5 (1.03%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.82%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.82%) Denodo
11 4 (0.82%) EMC
11 4 (0.82%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.82%) VMware
12 3 (0.62%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.62%) Workday