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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 111 157
Rank change year-on-year +55 +46 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 739 306 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.27% 2.42% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 2.64% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 218 182
10th Percentile £400 £401 £418
25th Percentile £463 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.92% -8.11%
75th Percentile £645 £797 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -53.33%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £43.51
90th Percentile - - £47.55
England median hourly rate £70.00 £25.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +169.59% -25.81% -53.33%

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 15,419 11,590 15,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 91.69% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,329 7,865 11,333
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.90
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 +52 113 £555 +0.91% 78
West London +10 37 £625 - 5
South London -9 6 £500 -16.67% 1
East London -2 2 £450 -21.83% 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
1 112 (15.16%) Apache Spark
2 87 (11.77%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (6.90%) Apache
4 16 (2.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.08%) Appian
6 7 (0.95%) SAS
7 6 (0.81%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 18 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.41%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 356 (48.17%) Azure
2 271 (36.67%) AWS
3 188 (25.44%) Power Platform
4 124 (16.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 107 (14.48%) GCP
6 102 (13.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 101 (13.67%) Snowflake
8 92 (12.45%) Amazon S3
9 88 (11.91%) GitHub
10 72 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
11 66 (8.93%) dbt
12 64 (8.66%) Serverless
13 56 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (3.65%) Dagster
17 25 (3.38%) Collibra
18 23 (3.11%) AWS Step Functions
19 21 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
19 21 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.68%) RTP
2 4 (0.54%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) 4G
5 1 (0.14%) 5G
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) MIMO
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (23.55%) Power BI
2 148 (20.03%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (19.35%) Data Lake
4 80 (10.83%) Metadata
5 59 (7.98%) SQL Server
6 54 (7.31%) Delta Lake
7 52 (7.04%) NoSQL
8 51 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 48 (6.50%) Amazon Athena
9 48 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (6.36%) BigQuery
11 46 (6.22%) Big Data
12 43 (5.82%) Snowflake Schema
13 42 (5.68%) Tableau
14 33 (4.47%) Relational Database
15 26 (3.52%) Spark SQL
16 24 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (2.98%) Mixpanel
18 21 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
19 20 (2.71%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 106 (14.34%) Git
2 36 (4.87%) MLflow
3 27 (3.65%) GitLab
4 19 (2.57%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.30%) JIRA
6 7 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.68%) Selenium
8 3 (0.41%) Postman
8 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.41%) Snyk
8 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.14%) Ant
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) ERwin
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Maven
10 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 239 (32.34%) Finance
2 174 (23.55%) Social Skills
3 111 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.58%) Banking
5 45 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.30%) Retail
8 16 (2.17%) Front Office
9 15 (2.03%) Marketing
10 14 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.62%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.49%) Legal
12 11 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.81%) Back Office
14 6 (0.81%) Publishing
15 4 (0.54%) Electronics
16 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 331 (44.79%) Data Engineer
2 92 (12.45%) Senior
3 86 (11.64%) Lead
4 78 (10.55%) Architect
5 65 (8.80%) Senior Data Engineer
6 53 (7.17%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (7.17%) Developer
7 43 (5.82%) Azure Data Engineer
8 39 (5.28%) Snowflake Engineer
9 35 (4.74%) Lead Data Engineer
10 32 (4.33%) Analyst
10 32 (4.33%) Data Architect
10 32 (4.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 29 (3.92%) Data Scientist
12 28 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 26 (3.52%) Principal Engineer
14 26 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
15 23 (3.11%) Software Engineer
16 22 (2.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (18.40%) PySpark
2 81 (10.96%) Kafka
3 48 (6.50%) Pandas
4 39 (5.28%) scikit-learn
5 35 (4.74%) NumPy
6 33 (4.47%) PyTorch
7 26 (3.52%) TensorFlow
8 19 (2.57%) pytest
8 19 (2.57%) REST
9 18 (2.44%) FastAPI
9 18 (2.44%) Great Expectations
9 18 (2.44%) LangChain
10 16 (2.17%) Flask
10 16 (2.17%) YAML
11 13 (1.76%) Hugging Face
12 12 (1.62%) JSON
13 11 (1.49%) Django
13 11 (1.49%) RESTful
14 10 (1.35%) OAuth
14 10 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.16%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.11%) Algorithms
4 23 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
4 23 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.71%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.76%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.62%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.08%) Clustering
12 8 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.08%) Derivative
12 8 (1.08%) Equities
12 8 (1.08%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.38%) Linux
2 12 (1.62%) Unix
3 5 (0.68%) VMS
4 3 (0.41%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (50.07%) Analytics
2 340 (46.01%) Data Pipeline
3 299 (40.46%) ETL
4 296 (40.05%) Data Modelling
5 266 (35.99%) CI/CD
6 231 (31.26%) AI
7 201 (27.20%) DevOps
8 199 (26.93%) Business Intelligence
9 182 (24.63%) Data Governance
10 176 (23.82%) Agile
11 171 (23.14%) Machine Learning
12 141 (19.08%) Data Science
13 127 (17.19%) Data Architecture
14 125 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
15 102 (13.80%) Infrastructure as Code
16 93 (12.58%) Decision-Making
17 91 (12.31%) Validation
18 86 (11.64%) LLM
19 85 (11.50%) Use Case
20 80 (10.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 434 (58.73%) Python
2 419 (56.70%) SQL
3 68 (9.20%) Java
4 63 (8.53%) Scala
5 33 (4.47%) C#
6 31 (4.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (2.30%) T-SQL
8 16 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.76%) R
11 10 (1.35%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.22%) Bash
12 9 (1.22%) Bicep
13 8 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.81%) Korn
15 5 (0.68%) C++
15 5 (0.68%) SAS Macro
16 3 (0.41%) Rust
17 2 (0.27%) Go
18 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 116 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.71%) Degree
4 29 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 29 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.71%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.95%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.95%) PhD
8 6 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (30.99%) Data Quality
2 69 (9.34%) GDPR
3 33 (4.47%) QA
4 10 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.68%) PERC
7 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) MiFID
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (10.69%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (15.97%) Terraform
2 67 (9.07%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.41%) Ansible
3 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Argo
4 2 (0.27%) Grafana
4 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 228 (30.85%) Databricks
2 115 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 49 (6.63%) Google
4 22 (2.98%) Foundry
4 22 (2.98%) Informatica
5 19 (2.57%) OpenAI
6 16 (2.17%) Palantir
7 12 (1.62%) Oracle
8 8 (1.08%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.08%) UiPath
9 7 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.81%) Cloudera
10 6 (0.81%) Denodo
10 6 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (0.81%) SAP
11 5 (0.68%) Virgin Media
11 5 (0.68%) Workday
12 4 (0.54%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.54%) IBM
12 4 (0.54%) ServiceNow