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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 103 171
Rank change year-on-year +45 +68 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 866 354 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.28% 2.63% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 2.84% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 226 195
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £719
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
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 £67.50 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +28.57% -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 17,987 12,459 14,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.61% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,238 9,752
10th Percentile £359 £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 £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 256 181
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £48.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -

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 13 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 13 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 +37 119 £588 +6.82% 105
West London -1 21 £520 +5.58% 25
South London - 4 £500 - 3
East London - 4 £460 - 15
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
1 133 (15.36%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (10.74%) Apache Spark
3 74 (8.55%) Apache
4 15 (1.73%) SAS
5 13 (1.50%) Confluence
5 13 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.39%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.35%) 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
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 365 (42.15%) Azure
2 335 (38.68%) AWS
3 165 (19.05%) Snowflake
4 154 (17.78%) Power Platform
5 148 (17.09%) dbt
6 126 (14.55%) GCP
7 109 (12.59%) Amazon S3
8 106 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 89 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (9.93%) Serverless
11 85 (9.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 85 (9.82%) GitHub
12 69 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (5.31%) Azure Databricks
14 41 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.12%) Amazon Bedrock
16 26 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (2.54%) Azure AI
19 21 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.35%) Network Security
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
3 1 (0.12%) RTP
3 1 (0.12%) SMS
3 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (22.63%) Data Warehouse
2 147 (16.97%) Power BI
3 129 (14.90%) Data Lake
4 93 (10.74%) Metadata
5 73 (8.43%) Delta Lake
6 71 (8.20%) BigQuery
7 61 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (5.66%) Big Data
9 41 (4.73%) Amazon Athena
10 39 (4.50%) Tableau
11 34 (3.93%) NoSQL
11 34 (3.93%) Snowflake Schema
11 34 (3.93%) SQL Server
12 29 (3.35%) Relational Database
13 25 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
14 23 (2.66%) Star Schema
15 22 (2.54%) Spark SQL
16 21 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (2.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 105 (12.12%) Git
2 45 (5.20%) GitLab
3 29 (3.35%) JIRA
4 18 (2.08%) MLflow
5 17 (1.96%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 7 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.81%) RStudio
8 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.69%) ERwin
8 6 (0.69%) Selenium
9 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.46%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.35%) Snyk
12 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
General
1 255 (29.45%) Finance
2 196 (22.63%) Social Skills
3 142 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (11.09%) Banking
5 58 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.39%) Marketing
7 23 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.19%) Retail
9 18 (2.08%) Front Office
10 12 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.04%) Back Office
13 7 (0.81%) Billing
13 7 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.81%) Legal
13 7 (0.81%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 392 (45.27%) Data Engineer
2 131 (15.13%) Senior
3 112 (12.93%) Lead
4 107 (12.36%) Architect
5 87 (10.05%) Senior Data Engineer
6 50 (5.77%) Data Architect
7 48 (5.54%) Databricks Engineer
8 47 (5.43%) Developer
9 44 (5.08%) Analyst
9 44 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
10 41 (4.73%) Lead Data Engineer
11 38 (4.39%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 38 (4.39%) Snowflake Engineer
12 36 (4.16%) AWS Data Engineer
13 35 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
14 30 (3.46%) Data Scientist
14 30 (3.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 29 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 29 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (3.12%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (17.09%) PySpark
2 125 (14.43%) Terraform
3 64 (7.39%) Kafka
4 36 (4.16%) REST
5 23 (2.66%) React
6 19 (2.19%) .NET
6 19 (2.19%) Pandas
7 17 (1.96%) JSON
8 13 (1.50%) NumPy
9 12 (1.39%) scikit-learn
10 11 (1.27%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.04%) Great Expectations
11 9 (1.04%) LangChain
11 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (1.04%) TensorFlow
12 8 (0.92%) Apache Avro
12 8 (0.92%) pytest
13 7 (0.81%) XML
14 6 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (0.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 128 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.89%) Onboarding
3 45 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 44 (5.08%) Data Structures
5 36 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (3.12%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.50%) NHS
9 12 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
10 11 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.27%) Taxonomies
11 10 (1.15%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.04%) Life Science
13 8 (0.92%) Clustering
13 8 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.08%) Linux
2 8 (0.92%) Unix
3 6 (0.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.12%) VMS
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (50.12%) Data Pipeline
2 417 (48.15%) Analytics
3 336 (38.80%) CI/CD
4 317 (36.61%) Data Modelling
5 311 (35.91%) ETL
6 287 (33.14%) AI
7 216 (24.94%) DevOps
8 212 (24.48%) Agile
9 200 (23.09%) Business Intelligence
10 196 (22.63%) Data Governance
11 167 (19.28%) Machine Learning
12 154 (17.78%) Data Architecture
12 154 (17.78%) Data Transformation
12 154 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 136 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
14 133 (15.36%) Validation
15 131 (15.13%) Data Science
16 127 (14.67%) Decision-Making
17 126 (14.55%) Migration
18 124 (14.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 480 (55.43%) SQL
2 460 (53.12%) Python
3 62 (7.16%) Java
4 33 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (3.35%) Scala
6 26 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 24 (2.77%) JavaScript
8 22 (2.54%) C#
9 14 (1.62%) R
9 14 (1.62%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.39%) Bash
11 10 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.04%) Bicep
12 9 (1.04%) SAS Macro
13 7 (0.81%) LookML
13 7 (0.81%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.69%) Korn
14 6 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 106 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.97%) Degree
4 21 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.69%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.46%) PMP
15 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.35%) PhD
16 2 (0.23%) CAPM
16 2 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (33.37%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.20%) QA
3 35 (4.04%) GDPR
4 18 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.58%) PMO
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
7 3 (0.35%) MiFID
8 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.23%) EMIR
8 2 (0.23%) EU AI Act
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 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.12%) PERC
System Software
1 76 (8.78%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.50%) Ansible
3 7 (0.81%) Control-M
4 5 (0.58%) Grafana
5 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 232 (26.79%) Databricks
2 157 (18.13%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.62%) Informatica
4 37 (4.27%) Oracle
5 35 (4.04%) Google
6 19 (2.19%) Palantir
7 18 (2.08%) Foundry
8 17 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.15%) Teradata
11 9 (1.04%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.04%) SAP
12 7 (0.81%) Hitachi
13 6 (0.69%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.69%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.58%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.58%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.46%) Adobe
15 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.46%) Talend