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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 110 168
Rank change year-on-year +54 +58 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 820 348 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 2.56% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 2.78% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 232 194
10th Percentile £401 £406 £427
25th Percentile £450 £474 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year - -9.28% -3.00%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £738
90th Percentile £763 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £585
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -6.40%
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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +48 119 £575 +4.55% 58
West London +2 22 £603 -22.26% 17
South London - 4 £545 - 3
East London - 4 £450 - 7
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
1 113 (13.78%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (10.98%) Apache Spark
3 66 (8.05%) Apache
4 17 (2.07%) Palantir Foundry
5 15 (1.83%) SAS
6 13 (1.59%) Confluence
7 10 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.37%) 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 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (1.34%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.61%) 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
1 340 (41.46%) Azure
2 325 (39.63%) AWS
3 162 (19.76%) Power Platform
4 139 (16.95%) Snowflake
5 127 (15.49%) GCP
6 123 (15.00%) dbt
7 103 (12.56%) Amazon S3
8 95 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 89 (10.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 83 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (9.27%) GitHub
11 76 (9.27%) Serverless
12 65 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (3.78%) Amazon EMR
15 25 (3.05%) Amazon SageMaker
15 25 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 24 (2.93%) Dagster
17 22 (2.68%) Amazon Bedrock
18 21 (2.56%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.37%) 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
1 168 (20.49%) Data Warehouse
2 150 (18.29%) Power BI
3 137 (16.71%) Data Lake
4 87 (10.61%) Metadata
5 67 (8.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 66 (8.05%) BigQuery
7 62 (7.56%) Delta Lake
8 51 (6.22%) Big Data
9 50 (6.10%) Tableau
10 43 (5.24%) Amazon Athena
11 40 (4.88%) NoSQL
11 40 (4.88%) SQL Server
12 36 (4.39%) Snowflake Schema
13 28 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (3.41%) Relational Database
14 27 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 24 (2.93%) Star Schema
16 18 (2.20%) MongoDB
17 17 (2.07%) Spark SQL
18 16 (1.95%) Looker
Development Applications
1 98 (11.95%) Git
2 30 (3.66%) GitLab
3 27 (3.29%) JIRA
4 21 (2.56%) MLflow
5 11 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.61%) ERwin
8 4 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.37%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) Snyk
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%) Maven
11 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 253 (30.85%) Finance
2 183 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 138 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.61%) Banking
5 64 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.29%) Marketing
7 22 (2.68%) Front Office
8 18 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.20%) Retail
9 17 (2.07%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.85%) Legal
13 6 (0.73%) Back Office
14 5 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.49%) Billing
16 3 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 362 (44.15%) Data Engineer
2 115 (14.02%) Senior
3 109 (13.29%) Architect
4 105 (12.80%) Lead
5 69 (8.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 50 (6.10%) Developer
7 46 (5.61%) Data Architect
8 44 (5.37%) Lead Data Engineer
9 43 (5.24%) Analyst
9 43 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (4.51%) Snowflake Engineer
11 34 (4.15%) AWS Data Engineer
11 34 (4.15%) Data Scientist
11 34 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (3.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 30 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 30 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
14 28 (3.41%) Data Analyst
15 26 (3.17%) Azure Data Engineer
16 23 (2.80%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (15.85%) PySpark
2 68 (8.29%) Kafka
3 28 (3.41%) Pandas
3 28 (3.41%) REST
4 23 (2.80%) scikit-learn
5 19 (2.32%) NumPy
6 18 (2.20%) JSON
6 18 (2.20%) PyTorch
7 15 (1.83%) React
8 14 (1.71%) .NET
9 12 (1.46%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.34%) LangChain
10 11 (1.34%) Spring
11 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (1.10%) Great Expectations
12 9 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (0.98%) FastAPI
14 7 (0.85%) Apache Avro
14 7 (0.85%) XML
15 6 (0.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 133 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
4 37 (4.51%) Data Structures
5 35 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 32 (3.90%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.44%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
9 16 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.59%) NHS
11 12 (1.46%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.22%) Clustering
13 10 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.10%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.10%) Reference Data
15 8 (0.98%) Life Science
15 8 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.29%) Linux
2 13 (1.59%) Unix
3 6 (0.73%) Windows
4 4 (0.49%) VMS
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (51.71%) Analytics
2 395 (48.17%) Data Pipeline
3 306 (37.32%) Data Modelling
4 305 (37.20%) CI/CD
5 286 (34.88%) ETL
6 261 (31.83%) AI
7 200 (24.39%) DevOps
8 198 (24.15%) Agile
9 193 (23.54%) Business Intelligence
10 174 (21.22%) Data Governance
11 173 (21.10%) Machine Learning
12 144 (17.56%) Data Science
13 137 (16.71%) Data Architecture
14 131 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
15 124 (15.12%) Migration
16 123 (15.00%) Validation
17 122 (14.88%) Decision-Making
18 112 (13.66%) Data Transformation
19 109 (13.29%) Use Case
20 108 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 468 (57.07%) SQL
2 452 (55.12%) Python
3 75 (9.15%) Java
4 31 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (3.17%) Scala
6 22 (2.68%) C#
7 18 (2.20%) T-SQL
8 15 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.46%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.46%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.34%) Bicep
10 11 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.22%) Bash
12 9 (1.10%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.98%) R
14 7 (0.85%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.61%) Cypher
16 4 (0.49%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.37%) Korn
Qualifications
1 126 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.59%) Degree
4 29 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.80%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.22%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.49%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.37%) PhD
13 3 (0.37%) 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
1 256 (31.22%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.85%) QA
3 47 (5.73%) GDPR
4 18 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.37%) GxP
5 3 (0.37%) MiFID
5 3 (0.37%) NIST
5 3 (0.37%) PMO
5 3 (0.37%) 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 64 (7.80%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.24%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (12.93%) Terraform
2 57 (6.95%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.85%) Ansible
4 5 (0.61%) Grafana
5 4 (0.49%) Prometheus
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
1 192 (23.41%) Databricks
2 144 (17.56%) Microsoft
3 41 (5.00%) Google
4 36 (4.39%) Informatica
5 26 (3.17%) Oracle
6 24 (2.93%) Palantir
7 22 (2.68%) Foundry
8 18 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.10%) SAP
11 7 (0.85%) Workday
12 6 (0.73%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.61%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.61%) Hitachi
14 4 (0.49%) Charles River
14 4 (0.49%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.49%) Denodo
14 4 (0.49%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.49%) Murex
15 3 (0.37%) Adobe