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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 117 172
Rank change year-on-year +61 +55 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 743 305 253
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.31% 2.40% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 2.63% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 218 180
10th Percentile £400 £401 £417
25th Percentile £463 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -1.19% -7.84%
75th Percentile £650 £800 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £764
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -53.33%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £43.51
90th Percentile - - £47.55
England median hourly rate £70.00 £25.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +169.59% -25.81% -53.33%

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 15,405 11,613 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.35% 91.51% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,348 7,877 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 170 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.96 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £23.90 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -12.00%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +48 117 £565 +2.73% 78
West London +9 37 £625 +6.66% 5
South London -11 6 £500 -16.67% 1
East London +1 2 £450 -21.83% 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
1 115 (15.48%) Apache Spark
2 89 (11.98%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (7.13%) Apache
4 18 (2.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.08%) Appian
6 7 (0.94%) Confluence
6 7 (0.94%) SAS
7 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.54%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 359 (48.32%) Azure
2 273 (36.74%) AWS
3 190 (25.57%) Power Platform
4 125 (16.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 110 (14.80%) GCP
6 104 (14.00%) Snowflake
7 101 (13.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 93 (12.52%) Amazon S3
9 86 (11.57%) GitHub
10 72 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
11 67 (9.02%) dbt
12 65 (8.75%) Serverless
13 56 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (7.13%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.50%) Dagster
17 25 (3.36%) Collibra
18 24 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
19 23 (3.10%) Amazon Kinesis
20 21 (2.83%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.67%) RTP
2 4 (0.54%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (23.69%) Power BI
2 147 (19.78%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (19.25%) Data Lake
4 79 (10.63%) Metadata
5 59 (7.94%) SQL Server
6 54 (7.27%) Delta Lake
7 52 (7.00%) NoSQL
8 51 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 48 (6.46%) Amazon Athena
10 47 (6.33%) Big Data
11 46 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 46 (6.19%) BigQuery
12 44 (5.92%) Tableau
13 42 (5.65%) Snowflake Schema
14 32 (4.31%) Relational Database
15 26 (3.50%) Spark SQL
16 24 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (2.96%) Mixpanel
18 21 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
19 20 (2.69%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 109 (14.67%) Git
2 36 (4.85%) MLflow
3 27 (3.63%) GitLab
4 22 (2.96%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.42%) JIRA
6 6 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.67%) Selenium
8 3 (0.40%) Postman
8 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Snyk
9 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) ERwin
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 232 (31.22%) Finance
2 178 (23.96%) Social Skills
3 111 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.40%) Banking
5 44 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.29%) Front Office
7 17 (2.29%) Retail
8 15 (2.02%) Marketing
9 14 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.62%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.48%) Legal
12 11 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.81%) Back Office
15 6 (0.81%) Publishing
16 4 (0.54%) Electronics
16 4 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 334 (44.95%) Data Engineer
2 91 (12.25%) Senior
3 89 (11.98%) Lead
4 74 (9.96%) Architect
5 66 (8.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 52 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (7.00%) Developer
7 42 (5.65%) Azure Data Engineer
8 39 (5.25%) Snowflake Engineer
9 36 (4.85%) Lead Data Engineer
10 33 (4.44%) Analyst
10 33 (4.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 31 (4.17%) Data Architect
12 30 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 29 (3.90%) Data Scientist
14 27 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (3.50%) Principal Engineer
16 24 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (3.10%) Python Engineer
18 22 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (18.30%) PySpark
2 84 (11.31%) Kafka
3 48 (6.46%) Pandas
4 40 (5.38%) scikit-learn
5 36 (4.85%) PyTorch
6 35 (4.71%) NumPy
7 29 (3.90%) TensorFlow
8 19 (2.56%) FastAPI
8 19 (2.56%) pytest
8 19 (2.56%) REST
9 18 (2.42%) Great Expectations
9 18 (2.42%) LangChain
10 16 (2.15%) Flask
10 16 (2.15%) YAML
11 13 (1.75%) Hugging Face
12 12 (1.62%) JSON
13 11 (1.48%) Django
13 11 (1.48%) RESTful
14 10 (1.35%) OAuth
14 10 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 113 (15.21%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (3.50%) Algorithms
4 25 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.10%) Distributed Computing
7 18 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.62%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.21%) Derivative
11 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.08%) Clustering
12 8 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.08%) Equities
12 8 (1.08%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.36%) Linux
2 12 (1.62%) Unix
3 5 (0.67%) VMS
4 3 (0.40%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (49.66%) Analytics
2 341 (45.90%) Data Pipeline
3 299 (40.24%) ETL
4 295 (39.70%) Data Modelling
5 269 (36.20%) CI/CD
6 234 (31.49%) AI
7 201 (27.05%) Business Intelligence
8 199 (26.78%) DevOps
9 186 (25.03%) Data Governance
10 175 (23.55%) Machine Learning
11 174 (23.42%) Agile
12 141 (18.98%) Data Science
13 125 (16.82%) Data Architecture
14 124 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
15 102 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
16 91 (12.25%) Decision-Making
17 90 (12.11%) Validation
18 88 (11.84%) LLM
19 84 (11.31%) Use Case
20 81 (10.90%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 440 (59.22%) Python
2 420 (56.53%) SQL
3 65 (8.75%) Java
4 61 (8.21%) Scala
5 34 (4.58%) C#
6 30 (4.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (2.29%) PowerShell
7 17 (2.29%) T-SQL
8 16 (2.15%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.62%) R
10 11 (1.48%) Bash
10 11 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.21%) Bicep
12 8 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.81%) Korn
14 5 (0.67%) C++
14 5 (0.67%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.40%) Rust
16 2 (0.27%) Go
17 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (18.17%) Security Cleared
2 116 (15.61%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.94%) Degree
4 29 (3.90%) Azure Certification
4 29 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.96%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.21%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.21%) PhD
8 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.54%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.13%) CCSP
13 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (30.96%) Data Quality
2 71 (9.56%) GDPR
3 33 (4.44%) QA
4 10 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.67%) PERC
7 4 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.40%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.27%) GRC
9 2 (0.27%) MiFID
9 2 (0.27%) NIST
9 2 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.13%) EMIR
10 1 (0.13%) GxP
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (10.90%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (16.42%) Terraform
2 69 (9.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.40%) Ansible
3 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Argo
4 2 (0.27%) Grafana
4 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 231 (31.09%) Databricks
2 113 (15.21%) Microsoft
3 48 (6.46%) Google
4 24 (3.23%) Foundry
5 23 (3.10%) Informatica
6 20 (2.69%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.42%) Palantir
8 11 (1.48%) Oracle
9 8 (1.08%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.08%) UiPath
10 7 (0.94%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.94%) SAP
11 6 (0.81%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.81%) Denodo
11 6 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (0.67%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.54%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.54%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.54%) Workday
14 3 (0.40%) Charles River