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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 118 172
Rank change year-on-year +61 +54 -32
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 762 290 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 2.37% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 2.57% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 201 199
10th Percentile £404 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -6.37%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £718
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
England median daily rate £525 £539 £560
% change year-on-year -2.55% -3.79% -10.40%
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 £34.48 £48.50
% change year-on-year +103.02% -28.91% -36.81%

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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 June 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 June 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 +44 124 £550 - 78
West London +5 32 £614 -20.81% 4
South London - 5 £500 -
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 98 (12.86%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (12.47%) Apache Spark
3 52 (6.82%) Apache
4 13 (1.71%) Palantir Foundry
5 11 (1.44%) SAS
6 8 (1.05%) Appian
7 7 (0.92%) Confluence
8 6 (0.79%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 15 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.26%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.26%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 332 (43.57%) Azure
2 297 (38.98%) AWS
3 179 (23.49%) Power Platform
4 116 (15.22%) Snowflake
5 114 (14.96%) GCP
6 107 (14.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 101 (13.25%) Amazon S3
8 91 (11.94%) dbt
9 90 (11.81%) GitHub
10 89 (11.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 79 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
12 66 (8.66%) Serverless
13 61 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.28%) Dagster
17 23 (3.02%) Amazon SageMaker
18 22 (2.89%) Amazon EMR
18 22 (2.89%) Azure AI
19 21 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.66%) RTP
2 1 (0.13%) 4G
2 1 (0.13%) 5G
2 1 (0.13%) Firewall
2 1 (0.13%) MIMO
2 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (21.78%) Power BI
2 157 (20.60%) Data Lake
3 148 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (9.71%) Metadata
5 63 (8.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 58 (7.61%) Delta Lake
6 58 (7.61%) SQL Server
7 57 (7.48%) BigQuery
8 52 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
9 51 (6.69%) Big Data
10 45 (5.91%) Tableau
11 43 (5.64%) NoSQL
12 42 (5.51%) Snowflake Schema
13 37 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (4.20%) Relational Database
15 25 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (3.15%) Spark SQL
17 21 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 21 (2.76%) Star Schema
18 17 (2.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 95 (12.47%) Git
2 30 (3.94%) GitLab
3 28 (3.67%) MLflow
4 19 (2.49%) JIRA
5 12 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.79%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.66%) Postman
7 5 (0.66%) Selenium
8 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.39%) Snyk
9 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.26%) ERwin
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
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
1 252 (33.07%) Finance
2 170 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 107 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (8.66%) Banking
5 48 (6.30%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.28%) Marketing
7 19 (2.49%) Retail
8 18 (2.36%) Front Office
9 15 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.71%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.92%) Back Office
15 7 (0.92%) Legal
15 7 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.52%) Military
17 3 (0.39%) Billing
17 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 339 (44.49%) Data Engineer
2 110 (14.44%) Senior
3 93 (12.20%) Architect
4 92 (12.07%) Lead
5 69 (9.06%) Senior Data Engineer
6 43 (5.64%) Developer
7 41 (5.38%) Lead Data Engineer
8 37 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
8 37 (4.86%) Data Architect
9 36 (4.72%) Snowflake Engineer
10 34 (4.46%) Analyst
11 33 (4.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 32 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (3.94%) Data Scientist
14 29 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 28 (3.67%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
17 24 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
18 22 (2.89%) Cloud Solutions Architect
19 21 (2.76%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (15.49%) PySpark
2 70 (9.19%) Kafka
3 39 (5.12%) Pandas
4 32 (4.20%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.81%) REST
6 27 (3.54%) NumPy
7 24 (3.15%) PyTorch
8 19 (2.49%) TensorFlow
9 15 (1.97%) pytest
10 14 (1.84%) Great Expectations
11 13 (1.71%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.57%) LangChain
12 12 (1.57%) Spring
13 11 (1.44%) Flask
13 11 (1.44%) JSON
14 10 (1.31%) Django
14 10 (1.31%) Hugging Face
14 10 (1.31%) React
14 10 (1.31%) YAML
15 9 (1.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 129 (16.93%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.02%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
8 16 (2.10%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.84%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.84%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.31%) Equities
13 9 (1.18%) Clustering
13 9 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.05%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.92%) Derivative
15 7 (0.92%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.92%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.02%) Linux
2 15 (1.97%) Unix
3 4 (0.52%) VMS
4 3 (0.39%) Windows
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (51.97%) Analytics
2 359 (47.11%) Data Pipeline
3 296 (38.85%) CI/CD
4 288 (37.80%) ETL
5 284 (37.27%) Data Modelling
6 265 (34.78%) AI
7 207 (27.17%) DevOps
8 198 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
9 169 (22.18%) Agile
10 165 (21.65%) Machine Learning
11 157 (20.60%) Data Governance
12 128 (16.80%) Data Science
13 120 (15.75%) Data Architecture
14 117 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
15 101 (13.25%) Decision-Making
15 101 (13.25%) Migration
15 101 (13.25%) Validation
16 96 (12.60%) LLM
17 95 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
17 95 (12.47%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 444 (58.27%) SQL
2 426 (55.91%) Python
3 72 (9.45%) Java
4 37 (4.86%) Scala
5 33 (4.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (3.28%) C#
7 21 (2.76%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.44%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.18%) Bicep
9 9 (1.18%) R
9 9 (1.18%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.05%) SAS Macro
11 6 (0.79%) Bash
12 5 (0.66%) Korn
13 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.26%) C++
14 2 (0.26%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 117 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 104 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.30%) Degree
4 27 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.18%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.52%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.39%) PhD
13 2 (0.26%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.13%) CSPO
14 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (30.05%) Data Quality
2 63 (8.27%) GDPR
3 44 (5.77%) QA
4 7 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.52%) MiFID
7 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.39%) NIST
7 3 (0.39%) PMO
7 3 (0.39%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.26%) EMIR
8 2 (0.26%) GRC
8 2 (0.26%) GxP
8 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.13%) Basel II
9 1 (0.13%) COPPA
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 70 (9.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.26%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (14.44%) Terraform
2 59 (7.74%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.39%) Ansible
3 3 (0.39%) Grafana
4 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.13%) Argo
5 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 183 (24.02%) Databricks
2 140 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 41 (5.38%) Google
4 30 (3.94%) Informatica
5 24 (3.15%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.49%) Foundry
6 19 (2.49%) Oracle
7 13 (1.71%) Palantir
8 11 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.05%) UiPath
10 5 (0.66%) Workday
11 4 (0.52%) Adobe
11 4 (0.52%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.52%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.52%) Denodo
11 4 (0.52%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.52%) SAP
12 3 (0.39%) Charles River
12 3 (0.39%) MicroStrategy