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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 105 162
Rank change year-on-year +49 +57 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 868 383 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.26% 2.84% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 3.07% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 244 198
10th Percentile £400 £366 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year - -5.58% -6.80%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £816
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £58.75 -
England median hourly rate £62.45 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.95% -12.50% -20.53%

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 18,082 12,478 14,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.59% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,221 9,471
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 246 179
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 October 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 October 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 +35 115 £600 +8.60% 121
West London -2 23 £520 -4.81% 27
East London - 4 £460 - 8
South London - 4 £475 - 2
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
1 134 (15.44%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (11.52%) Apache Spark
3 78 (8.99%) Apache
4 13 (1.50%) SAS
4 13 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.38%) Confluence
6 10 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Notion
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 369 (42.51%) Azure
2 338 (38.94%) AWS
3 165 (19.01%) Snowflake
4 156 (17.97%) dbt
5 143 (16.47%) Power Platform
6 127 (14.63%) GCP
7 118 (13.59%) Amazon S3
8 109 (12.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 93 (10.71%) Serverless
10 81 (9.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 79 (9.10%) Azure DevOps
12 78 (8.99%) GitHub
13 77 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (5.65%) Azure Databricks
15 40 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
16 31 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (3.46%) Amazon Bedrock
18 28 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
19 24 (2.76%) Azure AI
20 23 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.58%) Network Security
2 1 (0.12%) DNS
2 1 (0.12%) Firewall
2 1 (0.12%) HTTP
2 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
2 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.12%) SMS
2 1 (0.12%) SSL
2 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (22.58%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (15.78%) Power BI
3 112 (12.90%) Data Lake
4 93 (10.71%) Metadata
5 76 (8.76%) Delta Lake
6 71 (8.18%) BigQuery
7 66 (7.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (5.53%) Big Data
9 43 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (4.38%) Tableau
11 36 (4.15%) NoSQL
12 32 (3.69%) SQL Server
13 31 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (2.65%) Relational Database
17 20 (2.30%) Spark SQL
18 19 (2.19%) Looker
19 18 (2.07%) Data Vault
20 16 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 113 (13.02%) Git
2 48 (5.53%) GitLab
3 24 (2.76%) JIRA
4 18 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.84%) MLflow
6 8 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.81%) RStudio
7 7 (0.81%) Selenium
8 6 (0.69%) ERwin
9 4 (0.46%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
11 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.12%) JUnit
General
1 250 (28.80%) Finance
2 214 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 137 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (12.21%) Banking
5 62 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.26%) Marketing
7 23 (2.65%) Front Office
8 22 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 21 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.84%) Retail
11 13 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.38%) Back Office
13 11 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.04%) Legal
15 8 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.81%) Billing
17 6 (0.69%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.58%) Local Government
18 5 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 393 (45.28%) Data Engineer
2 137 (15.78%) Senior
3 111 (12.79%) Lead
4 98 (11.29%) Architect
5 90 (10.37%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (5.88%) Developer
7 48 (5.53%) Databricks Engineer
8 47 (5.41%) Data Architect
9 45 (5.18%) Analyst
10 44 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
11 41 (4.72%) Snowflake Engineer
12 40 (4.61%) Lead Data Engineer
13 39 (4.49%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 38 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
15 35 (4.03%) AWS Data Engineer
16 34 (3.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 32 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 28 (3.23%) Data Scientist
19 27 (3.11%) Data Analyst
19 27 (3.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (17.40%) PySpark
2 134 (15.44%) Terraform
3 70 (8.06%) Kafka
4 37 (4.26%) REST
5 24 (2.76%) React
6 20 (2.30%) .NET
7 18 (2.07%) Pandas
8 16 (1.84%) JSON
9 13 (1.50%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.38%) NumPy
11 10 (1.15%) scikit-learn
11 10 (1.15%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.04%) LangChain
12 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (1.04%) pytest
12 9 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (0.92%) FastAPI
13 8 (0.92%) Great Expectations
13 8 (0.92%) LangGraph
14 7 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 141 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.68%) Onboarding
3 46 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 45 (5.18%) Data Structures
5 38 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.46%) AI Agents
7 29 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
9 12 (1.38%) NHS
10 11 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.27%) Taxonomies
11 10 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.04%) Life Science
13 8 (0.92%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.81%) Clustering
14 7 (0.81%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.84%) Linux
2 7 (0.81%) Unix
3 6 (0.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (49.65%) Data Pipeline
2 402 (46.31%) Analytics
3 347 (39.98%) CI/CD
4 312 (35.94%) Data Modelling
5 299 (34.45%) ETL
6 295 (33.99%) AI
7 228 (26.27%) Agile
8 217 (25.00%) DevOps
9 188 (21.66%) Business Intelligence
10 187 (21.54%) Data Governance
11 174 (20.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 168 (19.35%) Machine Learning
13 151 (17.40%) Data Transformation
14 149 (17.17%) Data Architecture
15 140 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
16 127 (14.63%) Decision-Making
16 127 (14.63%) Validation
17 126 (14.52%) Data Science
18 123 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
19 118 (13.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 486 (55.99%) SQL
2 478 (55.07%) Python
3 57 (6.57%) Java
4 32 (3.69%) Scala
5 30 (3.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 27 (3.11%) PowerShell
7 24 (2.76%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.42%) C#
9 15 (1.73%) R
10 14 (1.61%) Bash
11 11 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.15%) Bicep
12 10 (1.15%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.92%) Korn
14 7 (0.81%) SAS Macro
14 7 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.81%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.69%) LookML
16 5 (0.58%) Cypher
16 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 116 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 100 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.95%) Degree
4 22 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.42%) AWS Certification
5 21 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.27%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.46%) PhD
11 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.46%) PMP
11 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.23%) CAPM
12 2 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (34.56%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.49%) QA
3 34 (3.92%) GDPR
4 17 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.58%) GRC
6 4 (0.46%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.46%) PMO
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
7 3 (0.35%) IFRS
7 3 (0.35%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.35%) MiFID
8 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.23%) Basel III
8 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.23%) EMIR
8 2 (0.23%) GxP
8 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 72 (8.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.38%) Ansible
3 7 (0.81%) Control-M
4 6 (0.69%) Grafana
5 4 (0.46%) 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%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 250 (28.80%) Databricks
2 152 (17.51%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.84%) Oracle
4 38 (4.38%) Google
5 31 (3.57%) Informatica
6 19 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.96%) Palantir
9 16 (1.84%) Foundry
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%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (0.69%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.58%) Adobe
14 5 (0.58%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.58%) Denodo
15 4 (0.46%) Talend