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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 144 175
Rank change year-on-year +57 +31 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 466 286 276
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.32% 1.82% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 2.03% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 206 189
10th Percentile £364 £407 £399
25th Percentile £450 £493 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.91%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £820
England median daily rate £525 £570 £589
% change year-on-year -7.89% -3.18% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £41.73 - £35.00
25th Percentile £51.44 £22.00 £35.16
Median hourly rate £70.25 £43.50 £38.97
Median % change year-on-year +61.49% +11.63% -48.04%
75th Percentile £91.44 £65.00 £59.63
90th Percentile £102.58 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £74.26 £24.25 £53.65
% change year-on-year +206.23% -54.80% +7.31%

All Process and 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 12,904 14,060 17,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.94% 89.70% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,504 9,083 12,650
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.96% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.38 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 1 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in London

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 1 December 2025. 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 +19 45 £575 - 38
West London -9 8 £614 +29.21% 5
South London -4 1 £500 -9.18% 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 68 (14.59%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (14.16%) Apache Spark
3 28 (6.01%) Apache
4 7 (1.50%) Confluence
5 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) Luigi
6 2 (0.43%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.15%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.43%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.21%) Actimize
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 200 (42.92%) Azure
2 171 (36.70%) AWS
3 86 (18.45%) Power Platform
4 79 (16.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 72 (15.45%) Snowflake
6 64 (13.73%) GCP
7 56 (12.02%) GitHub
8 52 (11.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 49 (10.52%) Amazon S3
9 49 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (10.09%) dbt
11 42 (9.01%) Serverless
12 41 (8.80%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (4.94%) Azure Machine Learning
15 15 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.36%) Amazon SageMaker
18 10 (2.15%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.86%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.43%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (18.67%) Data Warehouse
2 84 (18.03%) Power BI
3 50 (10.73%) Data Lake
4 47 (10.09%) Metadata
5 35 (7.51%) Big Data
6 29 (6.22%) Delta Lake
7 26 (5.58%) SQL Server
8 25 (5.36%) Relational Database
8 25 (5.36%) Tableau
9 24 (5.15%) BigQuery
10 23 (4.94%) NoSQL
11 22 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (4.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (3.22%) Hadoop
13 15 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (2.79%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (2.15%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.15%) Star Schema
16 9 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 76 (16.31%) Git
2 18 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.65%) MLflow
4 13 (2.79%) JIRA
5 11 (2.36%) GitLab
6 4 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.43%) TestRail
8 1 (0.21%) ERwin
8 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.21%) GoCD
8 1 (0.21%) Poetry
8 1 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 128 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 125 (26.82%) Finance
3 61 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.30%) Banking
5 29 (6.22%) Investment Banking
6 27 (5.79%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.79%) Front Office
8 13 (2.79%) Retail
9 11 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.15%) Marketing
11 9 (1.93%) Legal
12 8 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.72%) Publishing
13 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.86%) Military
15 3 (0.64%) Electronics
15 3 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (38.63%) Data Engineer
2 56 (12.02%) Developer
3 55 (11.80%) Senior
4 49 (10.52%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (9.44%) Lead
6 41 (8.80%) Architect
7 38 (8.15%) Senior Data Engineer
8 37 (7.94%) Azure Data Engineer
9 25 (5.36%) Python Developer
10 23 (4.94%) Snowflake Engineer
11 20 (4.29%) Analyst
11 20 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 19 (4.08%) Python Engineer
13 18 (3.86%) AWS Developer
13 18 (3.86%) Data Architect
14 17 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (3.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 16 (3.43%) Data Scientist
15 16 (3.43%) JavaScript Developer
16 14 (3.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (16.52%) PySpark
2 46 (9.87%) Kafka
3 33 (7.08%) Pandas
4 30 (6.44%) FastAPI
5 29 (6.22%) NumPy
6 23 (4.94%) PyTorch
7 22 (4.72%) Flask
8 21 (4.51%) React
9 20 (4.29%) TensorFlow
10 18 (3.86%) RESTful
11 17 (3.65%) Vue
12 16 (3.43%) AngularJS
12 16 (3.43%) Polars
12 16 (3.43%) SciPy
13 13 (2.79%) JSON
13 13 (2.79%) LangChain
13 13 (2.79%) scikit-learn
14 9 (1.93%) .NET
14 9 (1.93%) pytest
14 9 (1.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.80%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.36%) Algorithms
3 22 (4.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (3.86%) Hedge funds
5 14 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
6 13 (2.79%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.79%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.36%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.93%) Derivative
9 9 (1.93%) Genomics
10 8 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.72%) Equities
10 8 (1.72%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.50%) Life Science
11 7 (1.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.29%) Linux
2 3 (0.64%) Android
3 2 (0.43%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (44.21%) Data Pipeline
2 183 (39.27%) Data Modelling
3 169 (36.27%) CI/CD
4 164 (35.19%) Analytics
5 162 (34.76%) ETL
6 113 (24.25%) AI
6 113 (24.25%) Data Governance
7 108 (23.18%) Agile
7 108 (23.18%) DevOps
8 107 (22.96%) Machine Learning
9 100 (21.46%) Business Intelligence
10 96 (20.60%) Data Science
11 89 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (14.38%) Data Architecture
13 65 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
14 54 (11.59%) Data Integration
14 54 (11.59%) Software Engineering
15 52 (11.16%) Decision-Making
16 48 (10.30%) Visualisation
17 46 (9.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 312 (66.95%) Python
2 237 (50.86%) SQL
3 36 (7.73%) Java
3 36 (7.73%) Scala
4 33 (7.08%) C#
5 30 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 27 (5.79%) C++
7 17 (3.65%) Rust
8 13 (2.79%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.58%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.36%) Bicep
11 10 (2.15%) Bash
11 10 (2.15%) R
12 9 (1.93%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.07%) Korn
14 5 (1.07%) VBA
15 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.43%) PHP
16 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 63 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.23%) Degree
4 24 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.08%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.00%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.29%) PhD
10 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.86%) MCP
12 3 (0.64%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.43%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (24.46%) Data Quality
2 43 (9.23%) GDPR
3 16 (3.43%) QA
4 11 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.72%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.29%) NIST
7 5 (1.07%) PERC
8 3 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.43%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.21%) EMIR
10 1 (0.21%) HL7
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (14.38%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 81 (17.38%) Terraform
2 52 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.86%) Control-M
3 4 (0.86%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Argo
6 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.21%) Kibana
6 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 138 (29.61%) Databricks
2 57 (12.23%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.01%) Google
4 16 (3.43%) Oracle
5 12 (2.58%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.58%) Palantir
6 11 (2.36%) Foundry
6 11 (2.36%) SAP
7 8 (1.72%) Informatica
7 8 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.29%) Murex
8 6 (1.29%) Virgin Media
9 5 (1.07%) Guidewire
10 4 (0.86%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.86%) Denodo
10 4 (0.86%) EMC
10 4 (0.86%) MicroStrategy
10 4 (0.86%) VMware
11 3 (0.64%) Teradata
11 3 (0.64%) Workday