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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 114 170
Rank change year-on-year +53 +56 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 699 302 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.27% 2.33% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 2.56% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 216 186
10th Percentile £400 £402 £415
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £800 £703
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £22.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £43.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% +23.18% -52.91%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £41.54
90th Percentile - - £46.88
England median hourly rate £70.00 £25.43 £35.00
% change year-on-year +175.27% -27.34% -

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 14,689 11,780 16,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.80% 91.03% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 7,852 11,511
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 159 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57.13 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £70.75 £77.68 £69.05
England median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +47 101 £575 +4.55% 85
West London +12 35 £614 +15.69% 6
South London -10 5 £500 -9.09% 5
East London +1 1 £449 -21.91% 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
1 114 (16.31%) Apache Spark
2 79 (11.30%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (6.87%) Apache
4 16 (2.29%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.14%) Appian
6 7 (1.00%) Confluence
7 5 (0.72%) SAS
8 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 15 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.43%) Trello
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.43%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.43%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 335 (47.93%) Azure
2 259 (37.05%) AWS
3 172 (24.61%) Power Platform
4 128 (18.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 103 (14.74%) GCP
6 97 (13.88%) Snowflake
7 83 (11.87%) Amazon S3
7 83 (11.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 83 (11.87%) GitHub
8 68 (9.73%) Serverless
9 67 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (8.58%) dbt
11 57 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (8.01%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.58%) AWS Step Functions
15 23 (3.29%) Azure Machine Learning
15 23 (3.29%) Collibra
16 20 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (2.86%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
1 4 (0.57%) RTP
2 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.29%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (23.03%) Power BI
2 138 (19.74%) Data Warehouse
3 122 (17.45%) Data Lake
4 76 (10.87%) Metadata
5 61 (8.73%) SQL Server
6 52 (7.44%) Delta Lake
7 51 (7.30%) NoSQL
8 50 (7.15%) Big Data
9 43 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
9 43 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 43 (6.15%) BigQuery
10 41 (5.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 39 (5.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 38 (5.44%) Tableau
13 35 (5.01%) Relational Database
14 23 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
14 23 (3.29%) Spark SQL
14 23 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 22 (3.15%) Mixpanel
16 17 (2.43%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 109 (15.59%) Git
2 36 (5.15%) MLflow
3 27 (3.86%) GitLab
4 24 (3.43%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.86%) JIRA
6 4 (0.57%) Selenium
6 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.43%) Postman
7 3 (0.43%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.43%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) JUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Maven
9 1 (0.14%) Poetry
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 216 (30.90%) Finance
2 180 (25.75%) Social Skills
3 101 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.30%) Banking
5 41 (5.87%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.72%) Front Office
7 19 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.29%) Retail
9 15 (2.15%) Marketing
10 12 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.57%) Legal
12 10 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.29%) Publishing
14 7 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.86%) Back Office
16 5 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.57%) Military
17 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 298 (42.63%) Data Engineer
2 97 (13.88%) Lead
3 79 (11.30%) Senior
4 64 (9.16%) Architect
5 56 (8.01%) Senior Data Engineer
6 55 (7.87%) Developer
7 54 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
8 43 (6.15%) Azure Data Engineer
9 38 (5.44%) Snowflake Engineer
10 32 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 32 (4.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 31 (4.43%) Lead Data Engineer
12 28 (4.01%) Analyst
12 28 (4.01%) Data Scientist
13 27 (3.86%) Data Architect
14 25 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
15 23 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
16 20 (2.86%) Python Engineer
16 20 (2.86%) Software Engineer
17 18 (2.58%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (19.89%) PySpark
2 80 (11.44%) Kafka
3 52 (7.44%) Pandas
4 41 (5.87%) PyTorch
4 41 (5.87%) scikit-learn
5 39 (5.58%) NumPy
6 32 (4.58%) TensorFlow
7 27 (3.86%) FastAPI
8 22 (3.15%) pytest
9 21 (3.00%) Flask
10 20 (2.86%) LangChain
11 18 (2.58%) YAML
12 17 (2.43%) Great Expectations
12 17 (2.43%) REST
12 17 (2.43%) RESTful
13 15 (2.15%) Hugging Face
13 15 (2.15%) React
14 13 (1.86%) JSON
15 11 (1.57%) Django
16 10 (1.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 113 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.01%) Algorithms
2 28 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
4 22 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 14 (2.00%) Fixed Income
7 13 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.57%) Derivative
9 10 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.43%) Equities
9 10 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.14%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.14%) Life Science
11 8 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.58%) Linux
2 10 (1.43%) Unix
3 4 (0.57%) VMS
4 3 (0.43%) Windows
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (46.49%) Analytics
2 312 (44.64%) Data Pipeline
3 283 (40.49%) Data Modelling
4 282 (40.34%) ETL
5 262 (37.48%) CI/CD
6 221 (31.62%) AI
7 190 (27.18%) DevOps
8 184 (26.32%) Data Governance
9 183 (26.18%) Business Intelligence
10 179 (25.61%) Agile
11 172 (24.61%) Machine Learning
12 136 (19.46%) Data Science
13 118 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (16.31%) Data Architecture
15 101 (14.45%) Infrastructure as Code
16 88 (12.59%) LLM
17 79 (11.30%) Use Case
18 78 (11.16%) Validation
19 77 (11.02%) Decision-Making
19 77 (11.02%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 437 (62.52%) Python
2 402 (57.51%) SQL
3 61 (8.73%) Scala
4 56 (8.01%) Java
5 37 (5.29%) C#
6 24 (3.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (3.29%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.43%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.29%) TypeScript
10 14 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.86%) Bash
12 11 (1.57%) Bicep
12 11 (1.57%) C++
13 10 (1.43%) R
14 8 (1.14%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.86%) Korn
15 6 (0.86%) Rust
16 3 (0.43%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.29%) Go
18 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 123 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.44%) Degree
4 33 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 28 (4.01%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.43%) PhD
9 9 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.14%) CCSP
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.14%) CISSP
13 1 (0.14%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (30.90%) Data Quality
2 73 (10.44%) GDPR
3 31 (4.43%) QA
4 10 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.86%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.72%) PERC
8 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) MiFID
9 2 (0.29%) NIST
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.14%) EMIR
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) PMO
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (12.59%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (17.74%) Terraform
2 79 (11.30%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.57%) Grafana
4 3 (0.43%) Ansible
4 3 (0.43%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.29%) Argo
5 2 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 222 (31.76%) Databricks
2 95 (13.59%) Microsoft
3 50 (7.15%) Google
4 22 (3.15%) Foundry
5 20 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.58%) Palantir
7 15 (2.15%) Informatica
8 10 (1.43%) Oracle
9 9 (1.29%) SAP
10 8 (1.14%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.14%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.14%) UiPath
11 6 (0.86%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.86%) Denodo
11 6 (0.86%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (0.72%) Charles River
12 5 (0.72%) Murex
12 5 (0.72%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.57%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.57%) Workday