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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 119 170
Rank change year-on-year +62 +51 -22
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 783 312 270
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.10% 2.46% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 2.66% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 219 206
10th Percentile £401 £412 £413
25th Percentile £457 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £734
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £525 £539 £575
% change year-on-year -2.55% -6.30% -8.00%
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 £38.96 £48.50
% change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 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 26 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 +40 124 £550 +1.15% 21
West London 0 27 £625 -19.35% 6
South London - 5 £500 -
East London - 4 £450 - 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
1 105 (13.41%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (11.75%) Apache Spark
3 55 (7.02%) Apache
4 14 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
4 14 (1.79%) SAS
5 13 (1.66%) Confluence
6 11 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.77%) Appian
8 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
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 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Notion
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.64%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.26%) Endur
3 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.26%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 340 (43.42%) Azure
2 315 (40.23%) AWS
3 171 (21.84%) Power Platform
4 125 (15.96%) Snowflake
5 121 (15.45%) GCP
6 107 (13.67%) Amazon S3
7 102 (13.03%) dbt
8 98 (12.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 85 (10.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 84 (10.73%) GitHub
11 78 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
12 73 (9.32%) Serverless
13 66 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (6.13%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (3.83%) Amazon EMR
15 30 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.19%) Amazon SageMaker
16 25 (3.19%) Azure AI
16 25 (3.19%) Dagster
17 24 (3.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.64%) RTP
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (20.05%) Power BI
2 156 (19.92%) Data Warehouse
3 146 (18.65%) Data Lake
4 81 (10.34%) Metadata
5 72 (9.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 60 (7.66%) BigQuery
7 58 (7.41%) Delta Lake
8 54 (6.90%) Big Data
9 51 (6.51%) Amazon Athena
10 50 (6.39%) SQL Server
11 44 (5.62%) NoSQL
11 44 (5.62%) Tableau
12 40 (5.11%) Snowflake Schema
13 32 (4.09%) Relational Database
14 30 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
15 28 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (2.81%) Star Schema
17 20 (2.55%) Spark SQL
18 18 (2.30%) Hadoop
18 18 (2.30%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 98 (12.52%) Git
2 34 (4.34%) GitLab
3 27 (3.45%) MLflow
4 26 (3.32%) JIRA
5 10 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.51%) Postman
7 4 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Snyk
9 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) ERwin
9 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 257 (32.82%) Finance
2 185 (23.63%) Social Skills
3 121 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (9.58%) Banking
5 59 (7.54%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.70%) Marketing
7 20 (2.55%) Retail
8 19 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.04%) Front Office
10 14 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.89%) Legal
15 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.38%) Billing
16 3 (0.38%) Military
16 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 343 (43.81%) Data Engineer
2 118 (15.07%) Senior
3 103 (13.15%) Architect
4 99 (12.64%) Lead
5 70 (8.94%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (5.62%) Lead Data Engineer
7 42 (5.36%) Developer
8 39 (4.98%) Data Architect
9 38 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (4.60%) Analyst
11 35 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (4.34%) Data Scientist
12 34 (4.34%) Snowflake Engineer
13 31 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 31 (3.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 30 (3.83%) AWS Data Engineer
15 24 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
16 23 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
17 22 (2.81%) Data Analyst
18 21 (2.68%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (16.48%) PySpark
2 69 (8.81%) Kafka
3 34 (4.34%) Pandas
4 30 (3.83%) REST
5 29 (3.70%) scikit-learn
6 24 (3.07%) NumPy
7 21 (2.68%) PyTorch
8 16 (2.04%) TensorFlow
9 14 (1.79%) JSON
10 13 (1.66%) Spring
11 12 (1.53%) pytest
12 11 (1.40%) FastAPI
12 11 (1.40%) Great Expectations
12 11 (1.40%) React
13 10 (1.28%) .NET
13 10 (1.28%) LangChain
13 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (1.28%) XML
13 10 (1.28%) YAML
14 9 (1.15%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 129 (16.48%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.43%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
9 15 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.79%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.79%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.40%) NHS
12 10 (1.28%) Clustering
13 9 (1.15%) Equities
13 9 (1.15%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.15%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.19%) Linux
2 15 (1.92%) Unix
3 4 (0.51%) VMS
4 3 (0.38%) Windows
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (51.85%) Analytics
2 371 (47.38%) Data Pipeline
3 306 (39.08%) CI/CD
4 286 (36.53%) Data Modelling
5 284 (36.27%) ETL
6 273 (34.87%) AI
7 212 (27.08%) DevOps
8 192 (24.52%) Business Intelligence
9 186 (23.75%) Agile
10 176 (22.48%) Machine Learning
11 161 (20.56%) Data Governance
12 141 (18.01%) Data Science
13 128 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
14 124 (15.84%) Data Architecture
15 115 (14.69%) Decision-Making
16 109 (13.92%) Migration
17 105 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 105 (13.41%) Validation
18 102 (13.03%) Use Case
19 97 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 451 (57.60%) SQL
2 440 (56.19%) Python
3 74 (9.45%) Java
4 33 (4.21%) Scala
5 32 (4.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (2.94%) C#
7 19 (2.43%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.53%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.40%) Bicep
10 11 (1.40%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.40%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.28%) R
12 9 (1.15%) Bash
13 6 (0.77%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.51%) Cypher
14 4 (0.51%) Korn
15 3 (0.38%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.02%) Degree
4 28 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.51%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.51%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.38%) PhD
14 2 (0.26%) CSPO
14 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CCSP
15 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (30.91%) Data Quality
2 59 (7.54%) GDPR
3 44 (5.62%) QA
4 8 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.51%) MiFID
5 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.38%) GxP
6 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.38%) NIST
6 3 (0.38%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.26%) EMIR
7 2 (0.26%) GRC
7 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.13%) Basel II
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (9.45%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (14.81%) Terraform
2 63 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.64%) Grafana
4 4 (0.51%) Ansible
5 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 188 (24.01%) Databricks
2 143 (18.26%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.85%) Informatica
4 37 (4.73%) Google
5 24 (3.07%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.81%) Oracle
7 20 (2.55%) Foundry
7 20 (2.55%) Palantir
8 15 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.77%) Automation Anywhere
9 6 (0.77%) UiPath
10 5 (0.64%) Amplitude
10 5 (0.64%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.64%) Workday
11 4 (0.51%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.51%) Denodo
11 4 (0.51%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.51%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.51%) SAP
12 3 (0.38%) ServiceNow