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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 140 171
Rank change year-on-year +63 +31 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 512 287 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.56% 1.89% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 2.10% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 202 185
10th Percentile £375 £403 £413
25th Percentile £450 £478 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -0.83%
75th Percentile £656 £697 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
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 £25.43 £53.65
% change year-on-year +192.02% -52.60% -16.82%

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 13,166 13,695 16,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.05% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,682 8,808 12,056
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 165 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +5.80% -11.25%
75th Percentile £48.44 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +25 53 £575 - 26
West London -10 12 £614 +29.21% 11
South London -4 1 £500 -9.18% 8
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 76 (14.84%) Apache Spark
2 68 (13.28%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (5.66%) Apache
4 8 (1.56%) Confluence
5 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.39%) Luigi
6 2 (0.39%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.39%) Trello
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.39%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.39%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.20%) Actimize
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 223 (43.55%) Azure
2 186 (36.33%) AWS
3 97 (18.95%) Power Platform
4 87 (16.99%) Azure Data Factory
5 74 (14.45%) Snowflake
6 72 (14.06%) GCP
7 59 (11.52%) GitHub
8 57 (11.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 56 (10.94%) Amazon S3
10 51 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (9.77%) dbt
12 48 (9.38%) Serverless
13 44 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (4.88%) Azure Machine Learning
16 16 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (2.93%) Amazon Kinesis
18 14 (2.73%) Amazon EMR
19 13 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
20 12 (2.34%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.59%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (18.55%) Data Warehouse
1 95 (18.55%) Power BI
2 58 (11.33%) Data Lake
3 51 (9.96%) Metadata
4 37 (7.23%) Big Data
5 32 (6.25%) Delta Lake
6 30 (5.86%) NoSQL
7 28 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (5.47%) Relational Database
8 27 (5.27%) BigQuery
9 26 (5.08%) SQL Server
9 26 (5.08%) Tableau
10 22 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (3.32%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (2.73%) Hadoop
15 11 (2.15%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (1.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 84 (16.41%) Git
2 20 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.32%) GitLab
3 17 (3.32%) MLflow
4 15 (2.93%) JIRA
5 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.39%) TestRail
7 1 (0.20%) ERwin
7 1 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.20%) GoCD
7 1 (0.20%) Poetry
7 1 (0.20%) Postman
7 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 143 (27.93%) Finance
2 140 (27.34%) Social Skills
3 65 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.18%) Banking
5 28 (5.47%) Public Sector
6 25 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.93%) Front Office
9 14 (2.73%) Retail
10 12 (2.34%) Marketing
11 11 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.95%) Legal
13 9 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.56%) Publishing
15 6 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.78%) Military
17 3 (0.59%) Back Office
17 3 (0.59%) Electronics
17 3 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 196 (38.28%) Data Engineer
2 56 (10.94%) Developer
3 53 (10.35%) Senior
4 52 (10.16%) Azure Engineer
5 51 (9.96%) Lead
6 41 (8.01%) Architect
7 39 (7.62%) Azure Data Engineer
7 39 (7.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 24 (4.69%) Analyst
8 24 (4.69%) Snowflake Engineer
9 22 (4.30%) Python Developer
10 21 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 20 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (3.71%) Python Engineer
13 18 (3.52%) Data Architect
13 18 (3.52%) Data Scientist
14 17 (3.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 17 (3.32%) Software Engineer
15 16 (3.13%) AWS Developer
16 14 (2.73%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (18.16%) PySpark
2 55 (10.74%) Kafka
3 35 (6.84%) Pandas
4 30 (5.86%) NumPy
5 28 (5.47%) FastAPI
5 28 (5.47%) PyTorch
6 24 (4.69%) TensorFlow
7 21 (4.10%) React
8 20 (3.91%) Flask
9 18 (3.52%) RESTful
10 17 (3.32%) LangChain
10 17 (3.32%) scikit-learn
11 15 (2.93%) Vue
12 14 (2.73%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.73%) JSON
12 14 (2.73%) Polars
12 14 (2.73%) SciPy
13 10 (1.95%) pytest
13 10 (1.95%) YAML
14 9 (1.76%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.96%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 20 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (3.13%) Hedge funds
5 15 (2.93%) Distributed Computing
6 14 (2.73%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.76%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.76%) Derivative
9 9 (1.76%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.76%) Genomics
10 8 (1.56%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.37%) Equities
11 7 (1.37%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.71%) Linux
2 3 (0.59%) Android
3 2 (0.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
2 194 (37.89%) Data Modelling
3 186 (36.33%) Analytics
4 180 (35.16%) CI/CD
4 180 (35.16%) ETL
5 132 (25.78%) Data Governance
6 129 (25.20%) AI
7 123 (24.02%) Agile
8 121 (23.63%) DevOps
9 118 (23.05%) Machine Learning
10 114 (22.27%) Business Intelligence
11 104 (20.31%) Data Science
12 92 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
13 80 (15.63%) Data Architecture
14 70 (13.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 61 (11.91%) Data Integration
16 55 (10.74%) Software Engineering
17 54 (10.55%) Decision-Making
18 52 (10.16%) Validation
18 52 (10.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 338 (66.02%) Python
2 264 (51.56%) SQL
3 45 (8.79%) Scala
4 39 (7.62%) Java
5 35 (6.84%) C#
6 30 (5.86%) JavaScript
7 26 (5.08%) C++
8 15 (2.93%) Rust
9 13 (2.54%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.34%) Bash
10 12 (2.34%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.15%) Bicep
12 10 (1.95%) R
13 9 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.76%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.98%) Korn
14 5 (0.98%) VBA
15 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.59%) Go
17 2 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 95 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 78 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.79%) Degree
4 26 (5.08%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.76%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.76%) PhD
8 7 (1.37%) MCP
9 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.59%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (25.59%) Data Quality
2 50 (9.77%) GDPR
3 17 (3.32%) QA
4 12 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.56%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.98%) NIST
8 5 (0.98%) PERC
9 3 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.59%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) EMIR
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (13.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 92 (17.97%) Terraform
2 56 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.78%) Control-M
3 4 (0.78%) Grafana
3 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.59%) Ansible
4 3 (0.59%) Argo
5 2 (0.39%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.20%) Kibana
6 1 (0.20%) logstash
6 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 161 (31.45%) Databricks
2 57 (11.13%) Microsoft
3 34 (6.64%) Google
4 14 (2.73%) Oracle
5 13 (2.54%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.54%) Palantir
6 12 (2.34%) Foundry
7 11 (2.15%) SAP
8 8 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.37%) Informatica
10 6 (1.17%) Virgin Media
11 5 (0.98%) Cloudera
11 5 (0.98%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.98%) Murex
12 4 (0.78%) Denodo
12 4 (0.78%) EMC
12 4 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.78%) VMware
13 3 (0.59%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.59%) Workday