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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 108 174
Rank change year-on-year +50 +66 -31
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 880 358 250
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.33% 2.65% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 2.87% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 229 191
10th Percentile £402 £363 £413
25th Percentile £450 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £723
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £69.50 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +32.38% -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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +41 121 £588 +6.82% 83
West London +3 22 £520 +5.58% 20
South London - 4 £500 - 2
East London - 4 £460 - 10
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
1 139 (15.80%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (11.14%) Apache Spark
3 76 (8.64%) Apache
4 15 (1.70%) SAS
5 13 (1.48%) Confluence
6 12 (1.36%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.57%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 372 (42.27%) Azure
2 337 (38.30%) AWS
3 165 (18.75%) Snowflake
4 157 (17.84%) Power Platform
5 151 (17.16%) dbt
6 130 (14.77%) GCP
7 111 (12.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 110 (12.50%) Amazon S3
9 93 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (9.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 87 (9.89%) GitHub
10 87 (9.89%) Serverless
11 69 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (5.57%) Azure Databricks
13 45 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (2.95%) Amazon EMR
15 25 (2.84%) Amazon Bedrock
15 25 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
17 20 (2.27%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.34%) Network Security
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
2 2 (0.23%) RTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) SMS
3 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (22.95%) Data Warehouse
2 150 (17.05%) Power BI
3 134 (15.23%) Data Lake
4 100 (11.36%) Metadata
5 75 (8.52%) Delta Lake
6 72 (8.18%) BigQuery
7 63 (7.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (5.80%) Big Data
9 43 (4.89%) Tableau
10 41 (4.66%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (4.09%) Snowflake Schema
12 35 (3.98%) NoSQL
13 34 (3.86%) SQL Server
14 30 (3.41%) Relational Database
15 27 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (2.95%) Star Schema
17 24 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
18 21 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
18 21 (2.39%) Looker
18 21 (2.39%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 101 (11.48%) Git
2 44 (5.00%) GitLab
3 29 (3.30%) JIRA
4 17 (1.93%) MLflow
5 16 (1.82%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.91%) Terragrunt
7 7 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.80%) RStudio
8 6 (0.68%) ERwin
8 6 (0.68%) Selenium
9 5 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.45%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.45%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.34%) Snyk
12 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 265 (30.11%) Finance
2 201 (22.84%) Social Skills
3 146 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (10.91%) Banking
5 59 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.43%) Marketing
7 23 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.27%) Front Office
9 19 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.16%) Retail
10 12 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.02%) Back Office
11 9 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.91%) Legal
13 7 (0.80%) Billing
13 7 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 402 (45.68%) Data Engineer
2 135 (15.34%) Senior
3 112 (12.73%) Lead
4 106 (12.05%) Architect
5 87 (9.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (5.80%) Data Architect
7 48 (5.45%) Developer
8 46 (5.23%) Databricks Engineer
9 45 (5.11%) Analyst
9 45 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
10 41 (4.66%) Lead Data Engineer
11 39 (4.43%) Snowflake Engineer
12 37 (4.20%) AWS Data Engineer
13 36 (4.09%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 35 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
15 31 (3.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 30 (3.41%) Data Scientist
17 29 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 29 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
18 28 (3.18%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (17.39%) PySpark
2 125 (14.20%) Terraform
3 68 (7.73%) Kafka
4 37 (4.20%) REST
5 24 (2.73%) React
6 20 (2.27%) Pandas
7 19 (2.16%) .NET
8 17 (1.93%) JSON
9 14 (1.59%) NumPy
10 13 (1.48%) scikit-learn
11 11 (1.25%) PyTorch
12 9 (1.02%) Great Expectations
12 9 (1.02%) LangChain
12 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (1.02%) TensorFlow
13 8 (0.91%) Apache Avro
13 8 (0.91%) pytest
14 7 (0.80%) FastAPI
14 7 (0.80%) XML
15 6 (0.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 134 (15.23%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.68%) Onboarding
3 44 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.77%) Data Structures
4 42 (4.77%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (2.95%) AI Agents
7 15 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.48%) NHS
9 12 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
10 11 (1.25%) Taxonomies
11 10 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.02%) Clustering
12 9 (1.02%) Life Science
12 9 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.91%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.73%) Linux
2 13 (1.48%) Unix
3 7 (0.80%) Windows
4 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 429 (48.75%) Analytics
3 343 (38.98%) CI/CD
4 329 (37.39%) Data Modelling
5 317 (36.02%) ETL
6 282 (32.05%) AI
7 223 (25.34%) DevOps
8 216 (24.55%) Agile
9 205 (23.30%) Business Intelligence
10 200 (22.73%) Data Governance
11 166 (18.86%) Machine Learning
12 158 (17.95%) Data Architecture
13 156 (17.73%) Data Transformation
14 150 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 137 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
16 136 (15.45%) Validation
17 135 (15.34%) Data Science
18 132 (15.00%) Migration
19 130 (14.77%) Decision-Making
20 123 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 496 (56.36%) SQL
2 470 (53.41%) Python
3 62 (7.05%) Java
4 35 (3.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 31 (3.52%) Scala
6 26 (2.95%) PowerShell
7 23 (2.61%) JavaScript
8 22 (2.50%) C#
9 14 (1.59%) R
9 14 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.36%) Bash
11 11 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.25%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.02%) Bicep
12 9 (1.02%) SAS Macro
13 7 (0.80%) LookML
13 7 (0.80%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.57%) Cypher
14 5 (0.57%) Korn
14 5 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 109 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.89%) Degree
4 21 (2.39%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.02%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.68%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.45%) PMP
15 3 (0.34%) PhD
15 3 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
16 2 (0.23%) CAPM
16 2 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (33.98%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.23%) QA
3 38 (4.32%) GDPR
4 18 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.57%) PMO
6 4 (0.45%) SLA
7 3 (0.34%) MiFID
8 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.23%) EMIR
8 2 (0.23%) GRC
8 2 (0.23%) GxP
8 2 (0.23%) IFRS
8 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.11%) Basel II
9 1 (0.11%) COPPA
9 1 (0.11%) NCSC
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (8.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.48%) Ansible
3 7 (0.80%) Control-M
4 5 (0.57%) Grafana
5 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
7 1 (0.11%) Cilium
7 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 235 (26.70%) Databricks
2 155 (17.61%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.77%) Informatica
4 39 (4.43%) Oracle
5 35 (3.98%) Google
6 19 (2.16%) Palantir
7 17 (1.93%) Foundry
7 17 (1.93%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.36%) Cloudera
10 10 (1.14%) Teradata
11 8 (0.91%) SAP
12 7 (0.80%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.80%) Hitachi
13 6 (0.68%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.57%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.57%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.45%) Adobe
15 4 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 4 (0.45%) Workday