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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 113 168
Rank change year-on-year +55 +55 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 719 303 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.33% 2.39% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 2.62% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 218 185
10th Percentile £400 £401 £418
25th Percentile £463 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £797 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 14,898 11,581 15,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.39% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 7,826 11,435
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 164 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.06 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.54 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +15.57% -21.79%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.20 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +6.06% - -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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +50 107 £575 +4.55% 77
West London +13 38 £614 +15.69% 7
South London -11 6 £500 -9.09% 2
East London -4 1 £449 -21.91% 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
1 112 (15.58%) Apache Spark
2 83 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (6.82%) Apache
4 16 (2.23%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.11%) Appian
5 8 (1.11%) Confluence
6 5 (0.70%) SAS
7 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) Camunda
9 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 17 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.42%) Trello
5 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.42%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.42%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 346 (48.12%) Azure
2 271 (37.69%) AWS
3 182 (25.31%) Power Platform
4 124 (17.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 106 (14.74%) GCP
6 101 (14.05%) Snowflake
7 96 (13.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 90 (12.52%) Amazon S3
9 88 (12.24%) GitHub
10 70 (9.74%) Serverless
11 68 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (8.34%) dbt
13 58 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.48%) AWS Step Functions
16 25 (3.48%) Collibra
17 23 (3.20%) Azure Machine Learning
18 21 (2.92%) Amazon Kinesis
18 21 (2.92%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.70%) RTP
2 4 (0.56%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.42%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.28%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) 4G
5 1 (0.14%) 5G
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (23.64%) Power BI
2 145 (20.17%) Data Warehouse
3 134 (18.64%) Data Lake
4 79 (10.99%) Metadata
5 65 (9.04%) SQL Server
6 51 (7.09%) Big Data
6 51 (7.09%) Delta Lake
7 50 (6.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (6.95%) NoSQL
8 44 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
9 43 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (5.70%) BigQuery
10 41 (5.70%) Snowflake Schema
10 41 (5.70%) Tableau
11 39 (5.42%) Relational Database
12 24 (3.34%) Spark SQL
12 24 (3.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
14 22 (3.06%) Mixpanel
15 19 (2.64%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 113 (15.72%) Git
2 37 (5.15%) MLflow
3 27 (3.76%) GitLab
4 23 (3.20%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.23%) JIRA
6 5 (0.70%) Selenium
7 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.42%) Postman
8 3 (0.42%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.42%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.14%) JUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Maven
9 1 (0.14%) Poetry
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 229 (31.85%) Finance
2 182 (25.31%) Social Skills
3 102 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.93%) Banking
5 40 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.64%) Front Office
8 18 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 15 (2.09%) Marketing
10 14 (1.95%) Retail
11 12 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.39%) Legal
13 9 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.97%) Publishing
16 6 (0.83%) Back Office
17 5 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.56%) Military
18 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 314 (43.67%) Data Engineer
2 94 (13.07%) Lead
3 83 (11.54%) Senior
4 64 (8.90%) Architect
5 58 (8.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 56 (7.79%) Developer
7 51 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
8 42 (5.84%) Azure Data Engineer
9 38 (5.29%) Snowflake Engineer
10 33 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 33 (4.59%) Lead Data Engineer
10 33 (4.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 31 (4.31%) Analyst
12 30 (4.17%) Data Scientist
13 27 (3.76%) Data Architect
14 26 (3.62%) Principal Engineer
15 24 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (3.06%) Software Engineer
17 21 (2.92%) Python Engineer
18 19 (2.64%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (19.19%) PySpark
2 83 (11.54%) Kafka
3 53 (7.37%) Pandas
4 43 (5.98%) scikit-learn
5 39 (5.42%) PyTorch
6 38 (5.29%) NumPy
7 30 (4.17%) TensorFlow
8 25 (3.48%) FastAPI
9 21 (2.92%) pytest
10 20 (2.78%) Flask
11 19 (2.64%) LangChain
12 18 (2.50%) Great Expectations
12 18 (2.50%) REST
13 17 (2.36%) YAML
14 14 (1.95%) Hugging Face
14 14 (1.95%) React
15 12 (1.67%) JSON
15 12 (1.67%) RESTful
16 11 (1.53%) Django
17 10 (1.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.03%) Algorithms
4 25 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (3.06%) Distributed Computing
7 15 (2.09%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.95%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.53%) Derivative
11 10 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.39%) Equities
12 9 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.11%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.97%) Clustering
14 7 (0.97%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.62%) Linux
2 12 (1.67%) Unix
3 5 (0.70%) VMS
4 3 (0.42%) Windows
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (47.98%) Analytics
2 323 (44.92%) Data Pipeline
3 290 (40.33%) Data Modelling
3 290 (40.33%) ETL
4 267 (37.13%) CI/CD
5 230 (31.99%) AI
6 195 (27.12%) DevOps
7 193 (26.84%) Business Intelligence
8 187 (26.01%) Data Governance
9 177 (24.62%) Agile
10 175 (24.34%) Machine Learning
11 139 (19.33%) Data Science
12 121 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
13 119 (16.55%) Data Architecture
14 98 (13.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 89 (12.38%) LLM
16 87 (12.10%) Validation
17 84 (11.68%) Decision-Making
18 82 (11.40%) Performance Tuning
19 81 (11.27%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 444 (61.75%) Python
2 417 (58.00%) SQL
3 60 (8.34%) Java
3 60 (8.34%) Scala
4 37 (5.15%) C#
5 28 (3.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (2.64%) JavaScript
7 17 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.09%) T-SQL
9 13 (1.81%) Bash
10 12 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.39%) R
12 9 (1.25%) C++
13 8 (1.11%) Bicep
13 8 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.83%) Korn
15 5 (0.70%) Rust
16 3 (0.42%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.28%) Go
18 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 127 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 109 (15.16%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.76%) Degree
4 32 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.39%) PhD
9 9 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.56%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.14%) CCSP
15 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.14%) CISSP
15 1 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (31.29%) Data Quality
2 72 (10.01%) GDPR
3 35 (4.87%) QA
4 10 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.70%) PERC
7 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) PMO
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) EMIR
10 1 (0.14%) GxP
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (12.24%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (16.55%) Terraform
2 76 (10.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.56%) Grafana
4 3 (0.42%) Ansible
4 3 (0.42%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.28%) Argo
5 2 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.28%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 218 (30.32%) Databricks
2 109 (15.16%) Microsoft
3 52 (7.23%) Google
4 24 (3.34%) Informatica
5 22 (3.06%) Foundry
6 20 (2.78%) OpenAI
7 17 (2.36%) Palantir
8 10 (1.39%) Oracle
9 8 (1.11%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.11%) UiPath
10 7 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.97%) SAP
11 6 (0.83%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.83%) Denodo
11 6 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (0.70%) Charles River
12 5 (0.70%) Murex
12 5 (0.70%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.56%) ServiceNow