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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 106 174
Rank change year-on-year +50 +68 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 873 343 244
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.35% 2.60% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 2.81% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 222 187
10th Percentile £400 £400 £408
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £692 £731
90th Percentile £766 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
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 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +39 118 £575 +4.55% 84
West London +1 22 £520 +5.58% 27
South London - 4 £500 - 2
East London - 3 £450 - 6
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
1 139 (15.92%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 76 (8.71%) Apache
4 15 (1.72%) SAS
5 13 (1.49%) Confluence
5 13 (1.49%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.57%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Endur
2 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 367 (42.04%) Azure
2 338 (38.72%) AWS
3 163 (18.67%) Snowflake
4 156 (17.87%) Power Platform
5 149 (17.07%) dbt
6 131 (15.01%) GCP
7 110 (12.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 109 (12.49%) Amazon S3
9 95 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (10.08%) GitHub
11 87 (9.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 87 (9.97%) Serverless
12 69 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (5.38%) Azure Databricks
14 43 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (2.98%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (2.86%) Amazon Bedrock
17 24 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 21 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
19 19 (2.18%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.34%) Network Security
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
2 2 (0.23%) RTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) SMS
3 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (22.79%) Data Warehouse
2 150 (17.18%) Power BI
3 136 (15.58%) Data Lake
4 100 (11.45%) Metadata
5 76 (8.71%) Delta Lake
6 73 (8.36%) BigQuery
7 63 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (5.73%) Big Data
9 42 (4.81%) Amazon Athena
9 42 (4.81%) Tableau
10 37 (4.24%) NoSQL
11 35 (4.01%) Snowflake Schema
11 35 (4.01%) SQL Server
12 30 (3.44%) Relational Database
13 27 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 26 (2.98%) Star Schema
15 23 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (2.41%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.29%) Looker
18 19 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 103 (11.80%) Git
2 43 (4.93%) GitLab
3 30 (3.44%) JIRA
4 18 (2.06%) MLflow
5 17 (1.95%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 7 (0.80%) RStudio
8 6 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.69%) ERwin
8 6 (0.69%) Selenium
9 5 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.46%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.46%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.34%) Snyk
12 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 259 (29.67%) Finance
2 204 (23.37%) Social Skills
3 145 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.65%) Banking
5 58 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.47%) Marketing
7 23 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.18%) Front Office
8 19 (2.18%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.18%) Retail
9 12 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.92%) Back Office
11 8 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (0.92%) Legal
12 7 (0.80%) Billing
12 7 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.57%) Law
14 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 397 (45.48%) Data Engineer
2 132 (15.12%) Senior
3 110 (12.60%) Architect
3 110 (12.60%) Lead
4 85 (9.74%) Senior Data Engineer
5 50 (5.73%) Data Architect
6 48 (5.50%) Developer
7 45 (5.15%) Databricks Engineer
8 44 (5.04%) Analyst
8 44 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
9 42 (4.81%) Lead Data Engineer
10 38 (4.35%) Snowflake Engineer
11 36 (4.12%) AWS Data Engineer
11 36 (4.12%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 32 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
13 31 (3.55%) Data Scientist
14 30 (3.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 30 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
15 28 (3.21%) Data Analyst
16 27 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (17.30%) PySpark
2 123 (14.09%) Terraform
3 68 (7.79%) Kafka
4 37 (4.24%) REST
5 24 (2.75%) React
6 20 (2.29%) Pandas
7 19 (2.18%) .NET
8 17 (1.95%) JSON
9 14 (1.60%) NumPy
9 14 (1.60%) scikit-learn
10 12 (1.37%) PyTorch
11 10 (1.15%) Great Expectations
11 10 (1.15%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.03%) LangChain
12 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (1.03%) Spring
13 8 (0.92%) Apache Avro
13 8 (0.92%) pytest
14 7 (0.80%) XML
15 6 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 137 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 45 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 43 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (4.70%) Data Structures
6 35 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (2.86%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.49%) NHS
10 12 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
11 11 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.15%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.15%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.03%) Clustering
13 9 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (0.92%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.75%) Linux
2 14 (1.60%) Unix
3 7 (0.80%) Windows
4 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (49.94%) Data Pipeline
2 435 (49.83%) Analytics
3 340 (38.95%) CI/CD
4 323 (37.00%) Data Modelling
5 315 (36.08%) ETL
6 285 (32.65%) AI
7 220 (25.20%) DevOps
8 215 (24.63%) Agile
9 206 (23.60%) Business Intelligence
10 201 (23.02%) Data Governance
11 168 (19.24%) Machine Learning
12 157 (17.98%) Data Architecture
13 151 (17.30%) Data Transformation
14 147 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 141 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
16 137 (15.69%) Data Science
17 132 (15.12%) Migration
18 131 (15.01%) Validation
19 127 (14.55%) Decision-Making
20 120 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 492 (56.36%) SQL
2 465 (53.26%) Python
3 65 (7.45%) Java
4 35 (4.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.44%) Scala
6 25 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 23 (2.63%) C#
8 22 (2.52%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.37%) Bash
10 12 (1.37%) R
11 11 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.15%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.03%) Bicep
13 9 (1.03%) SAS Macro
14 7 (0.80%) LookML
14 7 (0.80%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.57%) Cypher
15 5 (0.57%) Korn
15 5 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 109 (12.49%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.04%) Degree
4 23 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.26%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.69%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.34%) PhD
14 3 (0.34%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.23%) CSPO
15 2 (0.23%) PMP
16 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (33.45%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.27%) QA
3 39 (4.47%) GDPR
4 18 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.46%) SLA
6 3 (0.34%) MiFID
6 3 (0.34%) PMO
7 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.23%) EMIR
7 2 (0.23%) GRC
7 2 (0.23%) GxP
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.11%) Basel II
8 1 (0.11%) COPPA
8 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.11%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 72 (8.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.49%) Ansible
3 7 (0.80%) Control-M
4 4 (0.46%) Grafana
5 2 (0.23%) Kibana
5 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) Argo
6 1 (0.11%) Cilium
6 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 231 (26.46%) Databricks
2 153 (17.53%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.81%) Informatica
4 37 (4.24%) Google
5 34 (3.89%) Oracle
6 20 (2.29%) Palantir
7 18 (2.06%) Foundry
8 17 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.49%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.26%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.15%) Teradata
12 7 (0.80%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.80%) Hitachi
13 6 (0.69%) SAP
13 6 (0.69%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.57%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.57%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.46%) Adobe
15 4 (0.46%) Hortonworks
15 4 (0.46%) Talend