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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 110 163
Rank change year-on-year +52 +53 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 784 326 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 2.51% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 2.72% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 230 208
10th Percentile £401 £408 £413
25th Percentile £456 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £525 £527 £575
% change year-on-year -0.33% -8.39% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -58.82%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.38 £38.81
90th Percentile - £62.75 £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
% change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -37.82%

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 17,155 11,979 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,402 8,003 11,123
10th Percentile £358 £335 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 225 302
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £68.68
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +42 123 £555 +2.07% 83
West London +2 26 £625 -19.35% 6
South London - 4 £545 -
East London - 4 £450 - 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
1 107 (13.65%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (11.61%) Apache Spark
3 56 (7.14%) Apache
4 15 (1.91%) SAS
5 14 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (1.66%) Confluence
7 11 (1.40%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.77%) Appian
9 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) Camunda
12 1 (0.13%) CICS
12 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Notion
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.64%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.26%) Endur
3 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.26%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 337 (42.98%) Azure
2 318 (40.56%) AWS
3 168 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 127 (16.20%) Snowflake
5 120 (15.31%) GCP
6 106 (13.52%) Amazon S3
7 104 (13.27%) dbt
8 93 (11.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 82 (10.46%) GitHub
10 80 (10.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 78 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
12 72 (9.18%) Serverless
13 65 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (3.83%) Amazon EMR
16 29 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (3.32%) Amazon SageMaker
18 25 (3.19%) Azure AI
18 25 (3.19%) Dagster
19 24 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.64%) RTP
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (19.90%) Data Warehouse
2 154 (19.64%) Power BI
3 143 (18.24%) Data Lake
4 80 (10.20%) Metadata
5 71 (9.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 60 (7.65%) BigQuery
7 58 (7.40%) Delta Lake
8 53 (6.76%) Big Data
9 50 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
10 49 (6.25%) SQL Server
10 49 (6.25%) Tableau
11 44 (5.61%) NoSQL
12 38 (4.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 31 (3.95%) Relational Database
14 29 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
15 26 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (2.81%) Star Schema
17 20 (2.55%) Spark SQL
18 19 (2.42%) MongoDB
19 17 (2.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (12.63%) Git
2 33 (4.21%) GitLab
3 27 (3.44%) MLflow
4 26 (3.32%) JIRA
5 10 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.51%) Postman
7 4 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Snyk
9 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) ERwin
9 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 259 (33.04%) Finance
2 181 (23.09%) Social Skills
3 124 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.95%) Banking
5 57 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.70%) Marketing
7 19 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.42%) Retail
8 17 (2.17%) Front Office
9 16 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.89%) Legal
15 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.38%) Back Office
16 3 (0.38%) Billing
16 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 336 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 115 (14.67%) Senior
3 107 (13.65%) Architect
4 97 (12.37%) Lead
5 67 (8.55%) Senior Data Engineer
6 46 (5.87%) Developer
7 43 (5.48%) Data Architect
7 43 (5.48%) Lead Data Engineer
8 39 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (4.72%) Analyst
10 36 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (4.34%) Data Scientist
11 34 (4.34%) Snowflake Engineer
12 32 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 31 (3.95%) AWS Data Engineer
13 31 (3.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 23 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (2.93%) Cloud Architect
14 23 (2.93%) Data Analyst
15 21 (2.68%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (16.20%) PySpark
2 72 (9.18%) Kafka
3 34 (4.34%) Pandas
4 30 (3.83%) REST
5 29 (3.70%) scikit-learn
6 24 (3.06%) NumPy
7 21 (2.68%) PyTorch
8 16 (2.04%) TensorFlow
9 14 (1.79%) JSON
9 14 (1.79%) Spring
10 12 (1.53%) pytest
11 11 (1.40%) .NET
11 11 (1.40%) FastAPI
11 11 (1.40%) Great Expectations
11 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
11 11 (1.40%) React
12 10 (1.28%) LangChain
12 10 (1.28%) XML
12 10 (1.28%) YAML
13 9 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 132 (16.84%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.42%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
9 14 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.79%) Fixed Income
9 14 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.40%) NHS
11 10 (1.28%) Clustering
11 10 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.15%) Equities
12 9 (1.15%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.89%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.19%) Linux
2 15 (1.91%) Unix
3 4 (0.51%) VMS
4 3 (0.38%) Windows
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (51.66%) Analytics
2 372 (47.45%) Data Pipeline
3 308 (39.29%) CI/CD
4 281 (35.84%) Data Modelling
5 278 (35.46%) ETL
6 275 (35.08%) AI
7 211 (26.91%) DevOps
8 189 (24.11%) Business Intelligence
9 185 (23.60%) Agile
10 178 (22.70%) Machine Learning
11 161 (20.54%) Data Governance
12 139 (17.73%) Data Science
13 128 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (15.56%) Data Architecture
15 115 (14.67%) Decision-Making
16 110 (14.03%) Migration
17 108 (13.78%) Validation
18 105 (13.39%) Infrastructure as Code
19 103 (13.14%) Use Case
20 100 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 447 (57.02%) SQL
2 437 (55.74%) Python
3 77 (9.82%) Java
4 33 (4.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 31 (3.95%) Scala
6 24 (3.06%) C#
7 20 (2.55%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.53%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.53%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.40%) Bicep
10 11 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.40%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.28%) R
12 9 (1.15%) Bash
13 6 (0.77%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.64%) Korn
15 4 (0.51%) Cypher
16 3 (0.38%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.27%) Degree
4 29 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.91%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.51%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.51%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.38%) PhD
13 3 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.26%) CSPO
15 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.13%) CCSP
15 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (30.61%) Data Quality
2 58 (7.40%) GDPR
3 44 (5.61%) QA
4 11 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.51%) MiFID
5 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.38%) GxP
6 3 (0.38%) NIST
6 3 (0.38%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.26%) EMIR
7 2 (0.26%) GRC
7 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.13%) Basel II
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (9.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (14.41%) Terraform
2 63 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.64%) Grafana
4 4 (0.51%) Ansible
5 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 190 (24.23%) Databricks
2 139 (17.73%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.97%) Informatica
4 37 (4.72%) Google
5 24 (3.06%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.81%) Oracle
7 20 (2.55%) Foundry
7 20 (2.55%) Palantir
8 15 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.89%) SAP
10 6 (0.77%) Automation Anywhere
10 6 (0.77%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.77%) UiPath
11 5 (0.64%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.64%) Workday
12 4 (0.51%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.51%) Denodo
12 4 (0.51%) Hortonworks
13 3 (0.38%) Charles River
13 3 (0.38%) MicroStrategy