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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 116 164
Rank change year-on-year +58 +48 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 739 306 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.11% 2.47% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 2.68% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 214 194
10th Percentile £401 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -6.77%
75th Percentile £650 £775 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £761
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £36.63 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -54.84%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £38.81
90th Percentile - - £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £28.75 £41.75
% change year-on-year +143.48% -31.14% -42.81%

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 15,896 11,429 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.31% 92.26% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,636 7,715 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £812 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 185 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.10 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.90 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +40 118 £550 - 44
West London +7 35 £603 -23.49% 9
South London - 5 £500 - 7
East London - 4 £450 - 11
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
1 109 (14.75%) Apache Spark
2 89 (12.04%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (6.77%) Apache
4 14 (1.89%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.35%) SAS
6 8 (1.08%) Appian
7 6 (0.81%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.41%) Trello
6 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.68%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Endur
3 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 345 (46.68%) Azure
2 277 (37.48%) AWS
3 175 (23.68%) Power Platform
4 118 (15.97%) GCP
5 115 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 99 (13.40%) Snowflake
7 97 (13.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 91 (12.31%) Amazon S3
9 90 (12.18%) GitHub
10 78 (10.55%) dbt
11 76 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (7.98%) Serverless
13 54 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
14 52 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.38%) Dagster
17 22 (2.98%) Amazon Kinesis
17 22 (2.98%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (2.98%) Azure AI
17 22 (2.98%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.68%) RTP
2 1 (0.14%) 4G
2 1 (0.14%) 5G
2 1 (0.14%) Firewall
2 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.14%) MIMO
2 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (21.79%) Power BI
2 151 (20.43%) Data Lake
3 150 (20.30%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (10.55%) Metadata
5 61 (8.25%) Delta Lake
5 61 (8.25%) SQL Server
6 56 (7.58%) BigQuery
7 53 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (6.90%) NoSQL
9 49 (6.63%) Big Data
10 48 (6.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (6.36%) Amazon Athena
12 45 (6.09%) Snowflake Schema
13 42 (5.68%) Tableau
14 34 (4.60%) Relational Database
15 28 (3.79%) Spark SQL
16 23 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 21 (2.84%) Star Schema
18 20 (2.71%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 102 (13.80%) Git
2 34 (4.60%) MLflow
3 29 (3.92%) GitLab
4 17 (2.30%) JIRA
5 14 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.68%) Selenium
8 4 (0.54%) Postman
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.41%) Snyk
10 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.27%) ERwin
10 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.14%) Ant
11 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
11 1 (0.14%) Maven
11 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 248 (33.56%) Finance
2 163 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 105 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.58%) Banking
5 41 (5.55%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.44%) Marketing
6 18 (2.44%) Retail
7 17 (2.30%) Front Office
8 15 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.62%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.95%) Legal
13 6 (0.81%) Back Office
14 4 (0.54%) Military
14 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.41%) Billing
15 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 342 (46.28%) Data Engineer
2 102 (13.80%) Senior
3 85 (11.50%) Architect
3 85 (11.50%) Lead
4 71 (9.61%) Senior Data Engineer
5 48 (6.50%) Developer
6 40 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 36 (4.87%) Snowflake Engineer
8 35 (4.74%) Data Architect
8 35 (4.74%) Lead Data Engineer
9 34 (4.60%) Azure Data Engineer
10 31 (4.19%) Analyst
10 31 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (4.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 31 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
11 26 (3.52%) Data Scientist
12 25 (3.38%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 24 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
14 22 (2.98%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (18.27%) PySpark
2 77 (10.42%) Kafka
3 42 (5.68%) Pandas
4 34 (4.60%) scikit-learn
5 30 (4.06%) NumPy
6 28 (3.79%) PyTorch
7 22 (2.98%) REST
8 20 (2.71%) TensorFlow
9 17 (2.30%) Great Expectations
9 17 (2.30%) LangChain
10 15 (2.03%) pytest
11 14 (1.89%) FastAPI
12 13 (1.76%) Flask
12 13 (1.76%) Hugging Face
12 13 (1.76%) YAML
13 12 (1.62%) Spring
14 11 (1.49%) Django
14 11 (1.49%) JSON
15 10 (1.35%) React
16 9 (1.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 115 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (3.25%) Data Structures
5 23 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
5 23 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.89%) Fixed Income
9 14 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.35%) Equities
11 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.08%) Clustering
12 8 (1.08%) Derivative
12 8 (1.08%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.81%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.38%) Linux
2 14 (1.89%) Unix
3 5 (0.68%) VMS
4 3 (0.41%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (50.07%) Analytics
2 335 (45.33%) Data Pipeline
3 293 (39.65%) ETL
4 289 (39.11%) Data Modelling
5 276 (37.35%) CI/CD
6 236 (31.94%) AI
7 204 (27.60%) DevOps
8 189 (25.58%) Business Intelligence
9 171 (23.14%) Data Governance
10 166 (22.46%) Agile
11 155 (20.97%) Machine Learning
12 128 (17.32%) Data Science
13 118 (15.97%) Data Architecture
14 112 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (12.99%) Validation
16 92 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 91 (12.31%) Decision-Making
17 91 (12.31%) LLM
17 91 (12.31%) Migration
18 88 (11.91%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 434 (58.73%) SQL
2 413 (55.89%) Python
3 69 (9.34%) Java
4 54 (7.31%) Scala
5 33 (4.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (3.79%) C#
7 20 (2.71%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.89%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.49%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.49%) R
10 9 (1.22%) Bicep
10 9 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.22%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.95%) Bash
11 7 (0.95%) SAS Macro
12 4 (0.54%) Korn
13 2 (0.27%) C++
13 2 (0.27%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 121 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 106 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.90%) Degree
4 28 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.81%) PhD
10 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.54%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.14%) CISM
13 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (30.85%) Data Quality
2 62 (8.39%) GDPR
3 39 (5.28%) QA
4 9 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.54%) MiFID
7 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.41%) PMO
7 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.27%) EMIR
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) Basel II
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) IFRS
9 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (10.42%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 108 (14.61%) Terraform
2 69 (9.34%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Ansible
4 3 (0.41%) Grafana
4 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.27%) Argo
5 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 203 (27.47%) Databricks
2 127 (17.19%) Microsoft
3 48 (6.50%) Google
4 26 (3.52%) Informatica
5 21 (2.84%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.71%) Foundry
7 15 (2.03%) Oracle
8 14 (1.89%) Palantir
9 8 (1.08%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.08%) UiPath
10 5 (0.68%) Cloudera
10 5 (0.68%) Workday
11 4 (0.54%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.54%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.54%) SAP
12 3 (0.41%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.41%) Charles River
12 3 (0.41%) IBM
12 3 (0.41%) Murex