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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 112 176
Rank change year-on-year +50 +64 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 836 345 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.16% 2.58% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 2.79% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 226 189
10th Percentile £400 £400 £410
25th Percentile £450 £464 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £692 £738
90th Percentile £775 £794 £815
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -57.58%
England median hourly rate £69.50 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +32.38% -12.50% -23.08%

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 17,880 12,372 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.50% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,699 8,236 9,976
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 191
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.16% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 August 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 August 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 +43 117 £575 +4.55% 45
West London +5 22 £520 +5.58% 27
South London - 4 £500 - 4
East London - 3 £450 - 5
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
1 131 (15.67%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (11.48%) Apache Spark
3 68 (8.13%) Apache
4 14 (1.67%) SAS
5 12 (1.44%) Confluence
5 12 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.60%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Endur
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 352 (42.11%) Azure
2 328 (39.23%) AWS
3 155 (18.54%) Snowflake
4 153 (18.30%) Power Platform
5 140 (16.75%) dbt
6 125 (14.95%) GCP
7 104 (12.44%) Amazon S3
8 102 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 88 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (10.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 82 (9.81%) GitHub
11 82 (9.81%) Serverless
12 68 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (3.11%) Amazon EMR
15 24 (2.87%) Amazon Bedrock
16 21 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
17 19 (2.27%) Dagster
18 18 (2.15%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) Firewall
1 2 (0.24%) Network Security
1 2 (0.24%) RTP
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
2 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (22.37%) Data Warehouse
2 146 (17.46%) Power BI
3 133 (15.91%) Data Lake
4 94 (11.24%) Metadata
5 72 (8.61%) BigQuery
6 71 (8.49%) Delta Lake
7 69 (8.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (5.98%) Big Data
9 47 (5.62%) Tableau
10 43 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
11 38 (4.55%) NoSQL
12 33 (3.95%) Snowflake Schema
12 33 (3.95%) SQL Server
13 28 (3.35%) Relational Database
14 26 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (2.99%) Star Schema
16 24 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (2.39%) Spark SQL
18 19 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (2.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 88 (10.53%) Git
2 40 (4.78%) GitLab
3 28 (3.35%) JIRA
4 17 (2.03%) MLflow
5 15 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.72%) ERwin
6 6 (0.72%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.60%) RStudio
7 5 (0.60%) Selenium
7 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.48%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.36%) Snyk
10 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
11 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 247 (29.55%) Finance
2 189 (22.61%) Social Skills
3 135 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.41%) Banking
5 55 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.43%) Marketing
7 23 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.39%) Front Office
9 19 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 18 (2.15%) Retail
11 12 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.84%) Back Office
13 7 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.84%) Legal
14 6 (0.72%) Billing
15 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 376 (44.98%) Data Engineer
2 121 (14.47%) Senior
3 111 (13.28%) Architect
4 104 (12.44%) Lead
5 78 (9.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 49 (5.86%) Data Architect
7 45 (5.38%) Developer
8 44 (5.26%) Analyst
8 44 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 41 (4.90%) Lead Data Engineer
10 37 (4.43%) Snowflake Engineer
11 36 (4.31%) AWS Data Engineer
12 31 (3.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 31 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
13 29 (3.47%) Data Scientist
14 27 (3.23%) Data Analyst
15 26 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 26 (3.11%) Python Engineer
16 21 (2.51%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (17.46%) PySpark
2 116 (13.88%) Terraform
3 68 (8.13%) Kafka
4 32 (3.83%) REST
5 20 (2.39%) Pandas
5 20 (2.39%) React
6 15 (1.79%) .NET
6 15 (1.79%) JSON
7 14 (1.67%) NumPy
7 14 (1.67%) scikit-learn
8 12 (1.44%) PyTorch
9 10 (1.20%) Spring
9 10 (1.20%) TensorFlow
10 9 (1.08%) Great Expectations
10 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (0.84%) LangChain
11 7 (0.84%) pytest
12 6 (0.72%) Apache Avro
12 6 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (0.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 133 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 43 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 36 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (4.19%) Data Structures
6 22 (2.63%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.56%) NHS
9 12 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 11 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.20%) Clustering
12 9 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
12 9 (1.08%) Reference Data
13 8 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.96%) Life Science
13 8 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.11%) Linux
2 14 (1.67%) Unix
3 7 (0.84%) Windows
4 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (50.48%) Analytics
2 408 (48.80%) Data Pipeline
3 320 (38.28%) CI/CD
4 305 (36.48%) Data Modelling
5 298 (35.65%) ETL
6 272 (32.54%) AI
7 210 (25.12%) DevOps
8 207 (24.76%) Agile
9 192 (22.97%) Business Intelligence
10 187 (22.37%) Data Governance
11 161 (19.26%) Machine Learning
12 147 (17.58%) Data Architecture
13 144 (17.22%) Data Transformation
14 138 (16.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 134 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
16 130 (15.55%) Data Science
17 127 (15.19%) Decision-Making
18 124 (14.83%) Validation
19 123 (14.71%) Migration
20 107 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 476 (56.94%) SQL
2 443 (52.99%) Python
3 65 (7.78%) Java
4 31 (3.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (3.11%) Scala
6 23 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 20 (2.39%) C#
8 19 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.44%) Bash
10 12 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.32%) R
12 10 (1.20%) Bicep
13 9 (1.08%) SAS Macro
14 8 (0.96%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.84%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.60%) Cypher
16 5 (0.60%) Korn
16 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.48%) LookML
Qualifications
1 116 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 103 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.74%) Degree
4 26 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.32%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.72%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.60%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.24%) CSPO
14 2 (0.24%) PMP
15 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (32.06%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.26%) QA
3 43 (5.14%) GDPR
4 18 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) GxP
5 3 (0.36%) MiFID
5 3 (0.36%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) SLA
5 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.24%) EMIR
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) COPPA
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (8.13%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.32%) Ansible
3 6 (0.72%) Control-M
4 4 (0.48%) Grafana
5 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.24%) Puppet
5 2 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.12%) Argo
6 1 (0.12%) Cilium
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
6 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 219 (26.20%) Databricks
2 144 (17.22%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.02%) Informatica
4 35 (4.19%) Google
5 31 (3.71%) Oracle
6 19 (2.27%) Palantir
7 17 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.91%) Foundry
9 11 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.20%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.08%) Teradata
12 7 (0.84%) Hitachi
12 7 (0.84%) Workday
13 6 (0.72%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.72%) SAP
14 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.60%) SnapLogic
15 4 (0.48%) Adobe
15 4 (0.48%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud