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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 118 167
Rank change year-on-year +60 +49 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 749 296 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 2.45% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 2.66% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 207 191
10th Percentile £407 £411 £400
25th Percentile £463 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -6.40%
75th Percentile £675 £772 £709
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -58.82%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.38 £38.81
90th Percentile - £62.75 £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £34.48 £48.50
% change year-on-year +103.02% -28.91% -36.81%

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 16,309 11,148 15,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.30% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,878 7,454 11,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £430 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 194 318
10th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.98 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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 June 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 June 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 +46 123 £553 +0.45% 80
West London +5 32 £614 -22.06% 4
South London - 5 £500 -
East London - 4 £450 - 9
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
1 100 (13.35%) Apache Spark
2 95 (12.68%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (6.94%) Apache
4 12 (1.60%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.34%) SAS
6 8 (1.07%) Appian
6 8 (1.07%) Confluence
7 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 16 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.27%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.27%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 339 (45.26%) Azure
2 286 (38.18%) AWS
3 173 (23.10%) Power Platform
4 117 (15.62%) GCP
5 112 (14.95%) Snowflake
6 111 (14.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 92 (12.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 91 (12.15%) dbt
9 90 (12.02%) Amazon S3
10 89 (11.88%) GitHub
11 81 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (7.74%) Serverless
13 53 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.34%) Dagster
17 22 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
17 22 (2.94%) Azure AI
18 21 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
18 21 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.67%) RTP
2 1 (0.13%) 4G
2 1 (0.13%) 5G
2 1 (0.13%) Firewall
2 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.13%) MIMO
2 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (21.36%) Power BI
2 149 (19.89%) Data Lake
3 148 (19.76%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (9.88%) Metadata
5 58 (7.74%) SQL Server
6 57 (7.61%) BigQuery
6 57 (7.61%) Delta Lake
7 55 (7.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (6.54%) Big Data
9 47 (6.28%) NoSQL
10 45 (6.01%) Amazon Athena
10 45 (6.01%) Tableau
11 44 (5.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 40 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 30 (4.01%) Relational Database
14 25 (3.34%) Spark SQL
15 22 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (2.80%) Star Schema
17 18 (2.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 98 (13.08%) Git
2 32 (4.27%) GitLab
3 28 (3.74%) MLflow
4 21 (2.80%) JIRA
5 12 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.67%) Postman
7 5 (0.67%) Selenium
8 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.40%) Snyk
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) ERwin
9 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 255 (34.05%) Finance
2 168 (22.43%) Social Skills
3 110 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.54%) Banking
5 44 (5.87%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.47%) Marketing
7 19 (2.54%) Front Office
7 19 (2.54%) Retail
8 17 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.87%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.74%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.93%) Legal
15 6 (0.80%) Back Office
15 6 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.40%) Billing
16 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 338 (45.13%) Data Engineer
2 106 (14.15%) Senior
3 90 (12.02%) Architect
3 90 (12.02%) Lead
4 69 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
5 44 (5.87%) Developer
6 39 (5.21%) Lead Data Engineer
7 36 (4.81%) Data Architect
7 36 (4.81%) Snowflake Engineer
8 33 (4.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 32 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
9 32 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
10 31 (4.14%) Analyst
11 29 (3.87%) Data Scientist
12 28 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
13 27 (3.60%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (3.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 24 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
16 23 (3.07%) Azure Data Engineer
17 22 (2.94%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (16.02%) PySpark
2 70 (9.35%) Kafka
3 40 (5.34%) Pandas
4 33 (4.41%) scikit-learn
5 27 (3.60%) NumPy
6 26 (3.47%) PyTorch
6 26 (3.47%) REST
7 20 (2.67%) TensorFlow
8 15 (2.00%) pytest
9 14 (1.87%) Great Expectations
10 13 (1.74%) FastAPI
10 13 (1.74%) LangChain
11 12 (1.60%) Spring
12 11 (1.47%) Flask
12 11 (1.47%) JSON
13 10 (1.34%) Django
13 10 (1.34%) Hugging Face
13 10 (1.34%) React
13 10 (1.34%) YAML
14 9 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 38 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
7 17 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.00%) AI Agents
8 15 (2.00%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.87%) Fixed Income
9 14 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.34%) Equities
12 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.07%) Clustering
13 8 (1.07%) Derivative
13 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.93%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.20%) Linux
2 15 (2.00%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) VMS
4 3 (0.40%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (51.00%) Analytics
2 349 (46.60%) Data Pipeline
3 290 (38.72%) CI/CD
4 285 (38.05%) Data Modelling
4 285 (38.05%) ETL
5 248 (33.11%) AI
6 209 (27.90%) DevOps
7 187 (24.97%) Business Intelligence
8 172 (22.96%) Agile
9 163 (21.76%) Data Governance
10 161 (21.50%) Machine Learning
11 123 (16.42%) Data Science
12 118 (15.75%) Data Architecture
13 114 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
14 99 (13.22%) Migration
14 99 (13.22%) Validation
15 95 (12.68%) Decision-Making
16 92 (12.28%) Use Case
17 90 (12.02%) Infrastructure as Code
17 90 (12.02%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 438 (58.48%) SQL
2 415 (55.41%) Python
3 72 (9.61%) Java
4 40 (5.34%) Scala
5 31 (4.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (3.47%) C#
7 19 (2.54%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.34%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.34%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.20%) Bicep
10 9 (1.20%) R
11 8 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.93%) Bash
12 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.67%) Korn
14 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.27%) C++
15 2 (0.27%) Go
15 2 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 118 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 105 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.28%) Degree
4 26 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.60%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.60%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.40%) PhD
12 2 (0.27%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.13%) CCSP
13 1 (0.13%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (29.51%) Data Quality
2 61 (8.14%) GDPR
3 44 (5.87%) QA
4 8 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.53%) MiFID
6 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.40%) PMO
6 3 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.27%) EMIR
7 2 (0.27%) GRC
7 2 (0.27%) GxP
7 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 71 (9.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (13.62%) Terraform
2 61 (8.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.53%) Ansible
4 3 (0.40%) Grafana
4 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.27%) Argo
5 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 186 (24.83%) Databricks
2 135 (18.02%) Microsoft
3 41 (5.47%) Google
4 30 (4.01%) Informatica
5 24 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.40%) Foundry
6 18 (2.40%) Oracle
7 12 (1.60%) Palantir
8 8 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.07%) UiPath
9 5 (0.67%) Cloudera
9 5 (0.67%) Workday
10 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.53%) Denodo
10 4 (0.53%) Hortonworks
10 4 (0.53%) SAP
11 3 (0.40%) Apple
11 3 (0.40%) Charles River
11 3 (0.40%) MicroStrategy