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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 113 163
Rank change year-on-year +57 +50 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 844 344 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 2.52% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 2.74% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 229 196
10th Percentile £401 £405 £431
25th Percentile £450 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year - -10.57% -1.60%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £739
90th Percentile £769 £825 £791
England median daily rate £525 £525 £586
% change year-on-year - -10.45% -6.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £58.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% +67.86% -57.58%
75th Percentile £60.25 £76.25 -
90th Percentile - £96.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -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 17,949 12,571 14,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.19% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,845 8,422 10,287
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 246 207
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -17.62%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.31 £54.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

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 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 1 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 +52 122 £575 +4.55% 86
West London +3 23 £603 -22.26% 22
South London - 4 £590 - 2
East London - 4 £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
1 122 (14.45%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (11.14%) Apache Spark
3 69 (8.18%) Apache
4 17 (2.01%) Palantir Foundry
5 15 (1.78%) SAS
6 13 (1.54%) Confluence
7 10 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.36%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) Appian
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (1.30%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.59%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Endur
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 355 (42.06%) Azure
2 338 (40.05%) AWS
3 164 (19.43%) Power Platform
4 149 (17.65%) Snowflake
5 132 (15.64%) dbt
6 130 (15.40%) GCP
7 103 (12.20%) Amazon S3
8 100 (11.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 91 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (10.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 83 (9.83%) GitHub
12 75 (8.89%) Serverless
13 64 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (5.57%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (3.55%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (2.96%) Amazon SageMaker
17 24 (2.84%) Dagster
18 23 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 22 (2.61%) Amazon Bedrock
19 22 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.36%) RTP
2 2 (0.24%) Firewall
2 2 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (20.97%) Data Warehouse
2 152 (18.01%) Power BI
3 138 (16.35%) Data Lake
4 87 (10.31%) Metadata
5 70 (8.29%) BigQuery
6 69 (8.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 65 (7.70%) Delta Lake
8 53 (6.28%) Big Data
9 49 (5.81%) Tableau
10 44 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
11 40 (4.74%) NoSQL
11 40 (4.74%) SQL Server
12 37 (4.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 28 (3.32%) Relational Database
14 27 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
15 24 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (2.73%) Star Schema
17 17 (2.01%) Looker
17 17 (2.01%) MongoDB
17 17 (2.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 99 (11.73%) Git
2 35 (4.15%) GitLab
3 28 (3.32%) JIRA
4 20 (2.37%) MLflow
5 16 (1.90%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.59%) ERwin
8 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.36%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Snyk
9 3 (0.36%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.12%) Ant
11 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) JUnit
11 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 260 (30.81%) Finance
2 190 (22.51%) Social Skills
3 141 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (10.55%) Banking
5 63 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 31 (3.67%) Marketing
7 23 (2.73%) Front Office
8 19 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.25%) Retail
9 15 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.83%) Legal
14 6 (0.71%) Back Office
14 6 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.47%) Billing
17 3 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 372 (44.08%) Data Engineer
2 119 (14.10%) Senior
3 111 (13.15%) Architect
4 109 (12.91%) Lead
5 73 (8.65%) Senior Data Engineer
6 50 (5.92%) Developer
7 45 (5.33%) Analyst
7 45 (5.33%) Data Architect
8 44 (5.21%) Lead Data Engineer
9 43 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
10 38 (4.50%) Snowflake Engineer
11 35 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (4.03%) AWS Data Engineer
12 34 (4.03%) Data Scientist
13 33 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (3.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 29 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 29 (3.44%) Data Analyst
16 27 (3.20%) Azure Data Engineer
17 24 (2.84%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (15.88%) PySpark
2 69 (8.18%) Kafka
3 29 (3.44%) REST
4 28 (3.32%) Pandas
5 23 (2.73%) scikit-learn
6 19 (2.25%) NumPy
7 18 (2.13%) JSON
8 17 (2.01%) PyTorch
9 15 (1.78%) React
10 14 (1.66%) .NET
11 12 (1.42%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.30%) Spring
13 10 (1.18%) LangChain
14 9 (1.07%) Great Expectations
14 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
15 8 (0.95%) FastAPI
16 7 (0.83%) Apache Avro
16 7 (0.83%) pytest
16 7 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (16.59%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 45 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.38%) Data Structures
6 33 (3.91%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.54%) NHS
11 12 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.30%) Clustering
12 11 (1.30%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.07%) Reference Data
15 8 (0.95%) Life Science
15 8 (0.95%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.08%) Linux
2 15 (1.78%) Unix
3 6 (0.71%) Windows
4 3 (0.36%) VMS
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (51.66%) Analytics
2 410 (48.58%) Data Pipeline
3 321 (38.03%) CI/CD
4 312 (36.97%) Data Modelling
5 298 (35.31%) ETL
6 270 (31.99%) AI
7 214 (25.36%) DevOps
8 208 (24.64%) Agile
9 194 (22.99%) Business Intelligence
10 180 (21.33%) Data Governance
11 175 (20.73%) Machine Learning
12 146 (17.30%) Data Science
13 140 (16.59%) Data Architecture
14 139 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
15 131 (15.52%) Decision-Making
16 125 (14.81%) Migration
16 125 (14.81%) Validation
17 119 (14.10%) Data Transformation
17 119 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
18 110 (13.03%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 480 (56.87%) SQL
2 461 (54.62%) Python
3 77 (9.12%) Java
4 30 (3.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (3.32%) Scala
6 25 (2.96%) C#
7 18 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 18 (2.13%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.66%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.42%) Bicep
9 12 (1.42%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.30%) Bash
10 11 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.07%) R
11 9 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.83%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.59%) Cypher
13 5 (0.59%) Korn
14 4 (0.47%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.52%) Degree
4 29 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.18%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.83%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.24%) CSPO
14 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.12%) CCSP
15 1 (0.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (31.16%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.69%) QA
3 47 (5.57%) GDPR
4 18 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) GxP
5 3 (0.36%) MiFID
5 3 (0.36%) NIST
5 3 (0.36%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.24%) EMIR
6 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.12%) Basel II
7 1 (0.12%) COPPA
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (8.06%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.24%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (13.27%) Terraform
2 63 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.83%) Ansible
4 5 (0.59%) Grafana
5 4 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.24%) Control-M
6 2 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.12%) Oozie
Vendors
1 203 (24.05%) Databricks
2 144 (17.06%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.98%) Google
4 38 (4.50%) Informatica
5 27 (3.20%) Oracle
6 24 (2.84%) Palantir
7 22 (2.61%) Foundry
8 18 (2.13%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.07%) SAP
11 7 (0.83%) Workday
12 6 (0.71%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.71%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.59%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.59%) Teradata
14 4 (0.47%) Charles River
14 4 (0.47%) Denodo
14 4 (0.47%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.47%) Murex