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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 99 165
Rank change year-on-year +41 +66 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 856 373 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.23% 2.81% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 3.03% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 238 198
10th Percentile £400 £371 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £816
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £58.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -20.53%

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 17,952 12,291 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.58% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 8,116 9,426
10th Percentile £358 £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 £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 240 179
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.01 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 29 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 29 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 +36 116 £600 +8.60% 138
West London -2 19 £520 -4.81% 23
East London - 4 £460 - 9
South London - 4 £475 - 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
1 132 (15.42%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (11.57%) Apache Spark
3 77 (9.00%) Apache
4 14 (1.64%) SAS
5 13 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.40%) Confluence
7 11 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.58%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Notion
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 362 (42.29%) Azure
2 333 (38.90%) AWS
3 165 (19.28%) Snowflake
4 155 (18.11%) dbt
5 143 (16.71%) Power Platform
6 124 (14.49%) GCP
7 116 (13.55%) Amazon S3
8 108 (12.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 92 (10.75%) Serverless
10 80 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (9.23%) GitHub
12 78 (9.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 76 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (5.61%) Azure Databricks
15 41 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (3.39%) Amazon Bedrock
18 28 (3.27%) Amazon EMR
19 23 (2.69%) Azure AI
20 21 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.35%) Network Security
2 1 (0.12%) DNS
2 1 (0.12%) Firewall
2 1 (0.12%) HTTP
2 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
2 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.12%) SMS
2 1 (0.12%) SSL
2 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (23.01%) Data Warehouse
2 136 (15.89%) Power BI
3 115 (13.43%) Data Lake
4 92 (10.75%) Metadata
5 74 (8.64%) Delta Lake
6 71 (8.29%) BigQuery
7 65 (7.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (5.61%) Big Data
9 43 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
10 41 (4.79%) Tableau
11 36 (4.21%) NoSQL
12 31 (3.62%) Snowflake Schema
12 31 (3.62%) SQL Server
13 25 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
14 24 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
15 23 (2.69%) Relational Database
16 21 (2.45%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.34%) Looker
18 17 (1.99%) Data Vault
19 15 (1.75%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 111 (12.97%) Git
2 48 (5.61%) GitLab
3 23 (2.69%) JIRA
4 18 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.87%) MLflow
6 8 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.93%) Terragrunt
7 7 (0.82%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.82%) RStudio
7 7 (0.82%) Selenium
8 6 (0.70%) ERwin
9 4 (0.47%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
11 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 246 (28.74%) Finance
2 209 (24.42%) Social Skills
3 138 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (12.15%) Banking
5 61 (7.13%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.32%) Marketing
7 21 (2.45%) Front Office
7 21 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.45%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.75%) Retail
9 13 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.40%) Back Office
11 9 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.82%) Billing
13 7 (0.82%) Legal
14 6 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.58%) Local Government
15 5 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 389 (45.44%) Data Engineer
2 136 (15.89%) Senior
3 109 (12.73%) Lead
4 100 (11.68%) Architect
5 91 (10.63%) Senior Data Engineer
6 49 (5.72%) Developer
7 48 (5.61%) Databricks Engineer
8 47 (5.49%) Data Architect
9 44 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
10 42 (4.91%) Analyst
11 40 (4.67%) Lead Data Engineer
11 40 (4.67%) Snowflake Engineer
12 38 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (4.44%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 35 (4.09%) AWS Data Engineer
14 33 (3.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 32 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.15%) Data Scientist
17 25 (2.92%) Data Analyst
17 25 (2.92%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (17.41%) PySpark
2 131 (15.30%) Terraform
3 67 (7.83%) Kafka
4 35 (4.09%) REST
5 24 (2.80%) React
6 19 (2.22%) .NET
7 17 (1.99%) Pandas
8 16 (1.87%) JSON
9 13 (1.52%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.29%) NumPy
11 10 (1.17%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.05%) LangChain
12 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (1.05%) pytest
12 9 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (1.05%) scikit-learn
13 8 (0.93%) Great Expectations
14 7 (0.82%) FastAPI
14 7 (0.82%) LangGraph
14 7 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 138 (16.12%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 45 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 44 (5.14%) Data Structures
5 38 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.50%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.52%) NHS
7 13 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.17%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.05%) Life Science
12 8 (0.93%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.82%) Clustering
13 7 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.99%) Linux
2 7 (0.82%) Unix
3 6 (0.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (49.88%) Data Pipeline
2 399 (46.61%) Analytics
3 343 (40.07%) CI/CD
4 311 (36.33%) Data Modelling
5 296 (34.58%) ETL
6 289 (33.76%) AI
7 218 (25.47%) Agile
8 212 (24.77%) DevOps
9 186 (21.73%) Business Intelligence
10 185 (21.61%) Data Governance
11 168 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 161 (18.81%) Machine Learning
13 150 (17.52%) Data Transformation
14 147 (17.17%) Data Architecture
15 135 (15.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 127 (14.84%) Validation
17 126 (14.72%) Data Science
18 125 (14.60%) Decision-Making
19 124 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
20 118 (13.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 475 (55.49%) SQL
2 467 (54.56%) Python
3 57 (6.66%) Java
4 32 (3.74%) Scala
5 29 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (2.92%) PowerShell
7 24 (2.80%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.45%) C#
9 14 (1.64%) R
10 13 (1.52%) Bash
11 11 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.17%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.05%) Bicep
14 8 (0.93%) SAS Macro
15 7 (0.82%) Korn
15 7 (0.82%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.82%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.70%) LookML
17 5 (0.58%) Cypher
17 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 95 (11.10%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.02%) Degree
4 21 (2.45%) Azure Certification
4 21 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.47%) PhD
11 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.47%) PMP
11 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.23%) CAPM
12 2 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (34.00%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.56%) QA
3 32 (3.74%) GDPR
4 17 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.47%) GRC
5 4 (0.47%) PMO
5 4 (0.47%) SLA
6 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
6 3 (0.35%) MiFID
7 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.23%) EMIR
7 2 (0.23%) GxP
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 70 (8.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (6.66%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.40%) Ansible
3 7 (0.82%) Control-M
4 6 (0.70%) Grafana
5 4 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 243 (28.39%) Databricks
2 150 (17.52%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.79%) Oracle
4 36 (4.21%) Google
5 31 (3.62%) Informatica
6 19 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.10%) Palantir
8 17 (1.99%) Foundry
8 17 (1.99%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.17%) Teradata
10 9 (1.05%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.05%) SAP
11 7 (0.82%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.70%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.70%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.70%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.58%) Adobe
13 5 (0.58%) Amplitude
14 4 (0.47%) Talend
14 4 (0.47%) Workday