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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 115 163
Rank change year-on-year +57 +48 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 830 345 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.15% 2.53% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 2.75% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 230 194
10th Percentile £401 £400 £431
25th Percentile £450 £471 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year - -10.57% -1.60%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £742
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
England median daily rate £525 £525 £585
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +67.86% -56.25%
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -39.10%

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 17,809 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +49 120 £575 +4.55% 79
West London -2 22 £603 -22.26% 21
South London - 4 £590 - 2
East London - 4 £450 - 7
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
1 122 (14.70%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (10.96%) Apache Spark
3 67 (8.07%) Apache
4 15 (1.81%) Palantir Foundry
4 15 (1.81%) SAS
5 13 (1.57%) Confluence
6 10 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) Appian
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) CICS
9 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (1.33%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Endur
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 347 (41.81%) Azure
2 331 (39.88%) AWS
3 163 (19.64%) Power Platform
4 149 (17.95%) Snowflake
5 129 (15.54%) dbt
6 127 (15.30%) GCP
7 100 (12.05%) Amazon S3
8 98 (11.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 91 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (10.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 82 (9.88%) GitHub
12 73 (8.80%) Serverless
13 62 (7.47%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (3.49%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.89%) Dagster
17 23 (2.77%) Amazon SageMaker
17 23 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (2.65%) Amazon Bedrock
19 21 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) Firewall
1 2 (0.24%) Network Security
1 2 (0.24%) RTP
2 1 (0.12%) 4G
2 1 (0.12%) 5G
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (21.33%) Data Warehouse
2 151 (18.19%) Power BI
3 135 (16.27%) Data Lake
4 86 (10.36%) Metadata
5 68 (8.19%) BigQuery
6 66 (7.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 66 (7.95%) Delta Lake
7 53 (6.39%) Big Data
8 47 (5.66%) Tableau
9 44 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
10 40 (4.82%) NoSQL
11 38 (4.58%) SQL Server
12 36 (4.34%) Snowflake Schema
13 28 (3.37%) Relational Database
14 26 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
15 24 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (2.77%) Star Schema
17 17 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (2.05%) MongoDB
17 17 (2.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 99 (11.93%) Git
2 37 (4.46%) GitLab
3 28 (3.37%) JIRA
4 19 (2.29%) MLflow
5 16 (1.93%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.60%) ERwin
8 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
8 3 (0.36%) Selenium
8 3 (0.36%) Snyk
8 3 (0.36%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 258 (31.08%) Finance
2 186 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 138 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (10.72%) Banking
5 61 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 31 (3.73%) Marketing
7 23 (2.77%) Front Office
8 19 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.29%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.29%) Retail
9 14 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.84%) Back Office
13 7 (0.84%) Legal
14 6 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.48%) Billing
15 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 371 (44.70%) Data Engineer
2 118 (14.22%) Senior
3 110 (13.25%) Architect
4 104 (12.53%) Lead
5 73 (8.80%) Senior Data Engineer
6 50 (6.02%) Developer
7 46 (5.54%) Analyst
7 46 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (5.42%) Data Architect
9 43 (5.18%) Lead Data Engineer
10 38 (4.58%) Snowflake Engineer
11 37 (4.46%) AWS Data Engineer
12 35 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
13 33 (3.98%) Data Scientist
14 32 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (3.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 30 (3.61%) Data Analyst
16 28 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 26 (3.13%) Azure Data Engineer
18 24 (2.89%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (15.90%) PySpark
2 65 (7.83%) Kafka
3 27 (3.25%) Pandas
3 27 (3.25%) REST
4 22 (2.65%) scikit-learn
5 18 (2.17%) NumPy
6 17 (2.05%) JSON
7 14 (1.69%) PyTorch
7 14 (1.69%) React
8 13 (1.57%) .NET
9 11 (1.33%) Spring
10 10 (1.20%) TensorFlow
11 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (0.96%) Great Expectations
12 8 (0.96%) LangChain
13 7 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.84%) XML
14 6 (0.72%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.72%) Apache Avro
14 6 (0.72%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 136 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.42%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.46%) Data Structures
6 33 (3.98%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.05%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.57%) NHS
10 12 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.33%) Clustering
11 11 (1.33%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.08%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.01%) Linux
2 14 (1.69%) Unix
3 6 (0.72%) Windows
4 3 (0.36%) VMS
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (51.08%) Analytics
2 403 (48.55%) Data Pipeline
3 312 (37.59%) CI/CD
4 302 (36.39%) Data Modelling
5 294 (35.42%) ETL
6 260 (31.33%) AI
7 211 (25.42%) DevOps
8 205 (24.70%) Agile
9 193 (23.25%) Business Intelligence
10 178 (21.45%) Data Governance
11 170 (20.48%) Machine Learning
12 143 (17.23%) Data Science
13 139 (16.75%) Data Architecture
13 139 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
14 131 (15.78%) Decision-Making
15 123 (14.82%) Validation
16 122 (14.70%) Migration
17 120 (14.46%) Data Transformation
18 118 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
19 106 (12.77%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 470 (56.63%) SQL
2 447 (53.86%) Python
3 73 (8.80%) Java
4 30 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (3.13%) Scala
6 24 (2.89%) C#
7 19 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.17%) T-SQL
9 14 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.45%) Bicep
10 12 (1.45%) SAS Macro
11 11 (1.33%) Bash
11 11 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.96%) R
13 7 (0.84%) SPARQL
13 7 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.60%) Cypher
14 5 (0.60%) Korn
15 4 (0.48%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.01%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.63%) Degree
4 29 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.24%) CSPO
14 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (30.96%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.78%) QA
3 45 (5.42%) GDPR
4 18 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) GxP
5 3 (0.36%) MiFID
5 3 (0.36%) NIST
5 3 (0.36%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.24%) EMIR
6 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) Basel II
7 1 (0.12%) COPPA
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (8.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (13.25%) Terraform
2 61 (7.35%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.84%) Ansible
4 5 (0.60%) Grafana
5 3 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.24%) Control-M
6 2 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 200 (24.10%) Databricks
2 142 (17.11%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.94%) Google
4 38 (4.58%) Informatica
5 27 (3.25%) Oracle
6 22 (2.65%) Palantir
7 20 (2.41%) Foundry
8 15 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.08%) SAP
11 7 (0.84%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.84%) Workday
12 6 (0.72%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.60%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.60%) Teradata
14 4 (0.48%) Charles River
14 4 (0.48%) Denodo
14 4 (0.48%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.48%) Murex