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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 111 172
Rank change year-on-year +51 +61 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 803 347 264
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.05% 2.55% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 2.77% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 236 200
10th Percentile £401 £408 £424
25th Percentile £453 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £738
90th Percentile £763 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £585
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £58.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% +67.86% -57.58%
75th Percentile £60.25 £76.25 -
90th Percentile - £96.50 -
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 17,636 12,537 14,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.16% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 8,379 10,607
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £686
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 278 237 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.39
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.81 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.92% -9.40% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 23 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 23 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 +44 122 £575 +4.55% 48
West London +5 22 £614 -20.81% 9
East London - 4 £450 - 5
South London - 4 £545 - 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
1 110 (13.70%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (10.71%) Apache Spark
3 64 (7.97%) Apache
4 15 (1.87%) SAS
5 14 (1.74%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (1.62%) Confluence
7 10 (1.25%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.37%) Appian
8 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (1.25%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.62%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.25%) Endur
3 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.25%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 334 (41.59%) Azure
2 317 (39.48%) AWS
3 159 (19.80%) Power Platform
4 136 (16.94%) Snowflake
5 125 (15.57%) GCP
6 119 (14.82%) dbt
7 104 (12.95%) Amazon S3
8 94 (11.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 90 (11.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 83 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (9.46%) GitHub
12 75 (9.34%) Serverless
13 65 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (3.86%) Amazon EMR
16 26 (3.24%) Amazon SageMaker
17 25 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (2.99%) Dagster
19 23 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
20 22 (2.74%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.62%) RTP
2 2 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
3 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (20.67%) Data Warehouse
2 147 (18.31%) Power BI
3 138 (17.19%) Data Lake
4 88 (10.96%) Metadata
5 67 (8.34%) BigQuery
6 66 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 58 (7.22%) Delta Lake
8 50 (6.23%) Big Data
9 49 (6.10%) Tableau
10 44 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (5.11%) NoSQL
12 39 (4.86%) SQL Server
13 35 (4.36%) Snowflake Schema
14 28 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
15 27 (3.36%) Relational Database
16 26 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (2.99%) Star Schema
18 17 (2.12%) MongoDB
18 17 (2.12%) Spark SQL
19 15 (1.87%) Looker
Development Applications
1 100 (12.45%) Git
2 30 (3.74%) GitLab
3 27 (3.36%) JIRA
4 23 (2.86%) MLflow
5 11 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.62%) ERwin
8 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.37%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) Snyk
10 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.12%) Ant
11 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) JUnit
11 1 (0.12%) Maven
11 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 251 (31.26%) Finance
2 175 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 140 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (10.46%) Banking
5 65 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.36%) Marketing
7 19 (2.37%) Front Office
8 18 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.24%) Retail
9 17 (2.12%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.62%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.62%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.87%) Legal
14 5 (0.62%) Back Office
14 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.50%) Billing
16 3 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 349 (43.46%) Data Engineer
2 117 (14.57%) Senior
3 106 (13.20%) Architect
4 99 (12.33%) Lead
5 68 (8.47%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (6.35%) Developer
7 44 (5.48%) Lead Data Engineer
8 43 (5.35%) Analyst
8 43 (5.35%) Data Architect
9 40 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (4.61%) Data Scientist
10 37 (4.61%) Snowflake Engineer
11 35 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (3.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 31 (3.86%) AWS Data Engineer
14 30 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 30 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
15 28 (3.49%) Data Analyst
16 26 (3.24%) Azure Data Engineer
17 22 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (15.57%) PySpark
2 69 (8.59%) Kafka
3 28 (3.49%) REST
4 27 (3.36%) Pandas
5 24 (2.99%) scikit-learn
6 18 (2.24%) JSON
6 18 (2.24%) NumPy
7 17 (2.12%) PyTorch
8 14 (1.74%) React
9 13 (1.62%) .NET
10 12 (1.49%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.37%) Great Expectations
11 11 (1.37%) Spring
12 10 (1.25%) LangChain
12 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (1.00%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (1.00%) XML
14 7 (0.87%) Apache Avro
14 7 (0.87%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 131 (16.31%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (4.48%) Data Structures
5 32 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 32 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
8 15 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.62%) NHS
11 12 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.37%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.37%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.25%) Clustering
14 9 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.12%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.12%) Reference Data
15 8 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.49%) Linux
2 15 (1.87%) Unix
3 5 (0.62%) Windows
4 4 (0.50%) VMS
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (51.81%) Analytics
2 389 (48.44%) Data Pipeline
3 300 (37.36%) CI/CD
4 299 (37.24%) Data Modelling
5 280 (34.87%) ETL
6 256 (31.88%) AI
7 198 (24.66%) DevOps
8 193 (24.03%) Agile
9 187 (23.29%) Business Intelligence
10 173 (21.54%) Machine Learning
11 167 (20.80%) Data Governance
12 142 (17.68%) Data Science
13 133 (16.56%) Data Architecture
14 128 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
15 121 (15.07%) Migration
15 121 (15.07%) Validation
16 116 (14.45%) Decision-Making
17 111 (13.82%) Use Case
18 103 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
19 100 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 461 (57.41%) SQL
2 446 (55.54%) Python
3 77 (9.59%) Java
4 30 (3.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (3.24%) Scala
6 23 (2.86%) C#
7 18 (2.24%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.49%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.37%) Bicep
10 11 (1.37%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.37%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.25%) Bash
12 9 (1.12%) R
12 9 (1.12%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.87%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.62%) Cypher
15 4 (0.50%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.50%) Korn
15 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 107 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.72%) Degree
4 28 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.24%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.25%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.50%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.37%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.25%) CSPO
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.12%) CCSP
16 1 (0.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (30.88%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.23%) GDPR
3 48 (5.98%) QA
4 18 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.37%) GxP
5 3 (0.37%) MiFID
5 3 (0.37%) NIST
5 3 (0.37%) PMO
5 3 (0.37%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.25%) EMIR
6 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.12%) Basel II
7 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.12%) COPPA
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 64 (7.97%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (13.08%) Terraform
2 56 (6.97%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.75%) Ansible
4 5 (0.62%) Grafana
5 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.25%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.12%) Oozie
Vendors
1 183 (22.79%) Databricks
2 142 (17.68%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.35%) Google
4 37 (4.61%) Informatica
5 24 (2.99%) Oracle
6 21 (2.62%) Palantir
7 19 (2.37%) Foundry
7 19 (2.37%) OpenAI
8 13 (1.62%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.00%) SAP
10 6 (0.75%) Workday
11 5 (0.62%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.62%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.50%) Charles River
12 4 (0.50%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.50%) Denodo
12 4 (0.50%) Hitachi
12 4 (0.50%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.50%) Murex
13 3 (0.37%) Adobe