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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 149 187
Rank change year-on-year +54 +38 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 446 265 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.17% 1.69% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 1.90% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 195 184
10th Percentile £363 £413 £390
25th Percentile £463 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £688 £719 £725
90th Percentile £794 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £41.73 - £35.00
25th Percentile £51.44 - £35.32
Median hourly rate £70.25 - £42.31
75th Percentile £91.44 - £75.00
90th Percentile £102.58 - £87.00
England median hourly rate £56.61 £26.50 £71.50
% change year-on-year +113.62% -62.94% +43.00%

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 12,998 13,947 17,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.41% 89.16% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,554 8,992 12,876
10th Percentile £331 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 245
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% - -
75th Percentile £46.88 £55.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.50 £80.38 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -18.92% +27.14%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 45 £575 - 200
West London -11 6 £614 +29.21% 5
South London -6 1 £500 -9.18% 2
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 66 (14.80%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (13.00%) Apache Spark
3 27 (6.05%) Apache
4 6 (1.35%) Confluence
5 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.45%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.24%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.45%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 190 (42.60%) Azure
2 170 (38.12%) AWS
3 84 (18.83%) Power Platform
4 76 (17.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 73 (16.37%) GCP
6 69 (15.47%) Snowflake
7 52 (11.66%) GitHub
8 51 (11.43%) dbt
9 49 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (10.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 41 (9.19%) Amazon S3
12 35 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (7.85%) Serverless
13 27 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (4.26%) Azure Machine Learning
15 14 (3.14%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
18 9 (2.02%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.90%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 2 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (18.61%) Power BI
2 80 (17.94%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (10.76%) Data Lake
4 43 (9.64%) Metadata
5 34 (7.62%) Big Data
6 31 (6.95%) BigQuery
7 25 (5.61%) Delta Lake
8 23 (5.16%) Relational Database
8 23 (5.16%) Tableau
9 22 (4.93%) SQL Server
10 16 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (3.59%) Hadoop
10 16 (3.59%) NoSQL
11 13 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (2.24%) RDBMS
14 10 (2.24%) Star Schema
15 9 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 72 (16.14%) Git
2 13 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.69%) MLflow
4 11 (2.47%) JIRA
5 8 (1.79%) GitLab
6 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.45%) PROIV
7 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.45%) TestRail
8 1 (0.22%) ERwin
8 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.22%) GoCD
8 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 121 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 116 (26.01%) Finance
3 55 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.66%) Banking
5 35 (7.85%) Investment Banking
6 27 (6.05%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.36%) Retail
9 14 (3.14%) Front Office
10 12 (2.69%) Marketing
11 11 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (2.02%) Legal
13 8 (1.79%) Publishing
14 6 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.12%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.67%) Electronics
17 3 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 179 (40.13%) Data Engineer
2 56 (12.56%) Senior
3 54 (12.11%) Developer
4 48 (10.76%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (9.87%) Architect
5 44 (9.87%) Lead
6 38 (8.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 36 (8.07%) Azure Data Engineer
8 27 (6.05%) Python Developer
9 20 (4.48%) Analyst
9 20 (4.48%) Snowflake Engineer
10 18 (4.04%) AWS Developer
10 18 (4.04%) Data Architect
10 18 (4.04%) JavaScript Developer
10 18 (4.04%) Python Engineer
11 16 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 16 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 14 (3.14%) Azure Architect
13 14 (3.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.45%) PySpark
2 45 (10.09%) Kafka
3 31 (6.95%) Pandas
4 30 (6.73%) FastAPI
5 28 (6.28%) NumPy
6 23 (5.16%) React
7 22 (4.93%) Flask
8 19 (4.26%) Vue
9 18 (4.04%) AngularJS
9 18 (4.04%) Polars
9 18 (4.04%) SciPy
10 17 (3.81%) PyTorch
11 15 (3.36%) RESTful
11 15 (3.36%) TensorFlow
12 12 (2.69%) JSON
13 10 (2.24%) LangChain
14 9 (2.02%) .NET
14 9 (2.02%) scikit-learn
15 8 (1.79%) pytest
16 7 (1.57%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (4.48%) Algorithms
3 20 (4.48%) Hedge funds
4 13 (2.91%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.02%) Derivative
7 9 (2.02%) Equities
7 9 (2.02%) Genomics
8 8 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.79%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.57%) Life Science
9 7 (1.57%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.71%) Linux
2 3 (0.67%) Android
2 3 (0.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (41.93%) Data Pipeline
2 173 (38.79%) Data Modelling
3 163 (36.55%) CI/CD
4 155 (34.75%) ETL
5 153 (34.30%) Analytics
6 106 (23.77%) AI
6 106 (23.77%) DevOps
7 104 (23.32%) Data Governance
8 103 (23.09%) Agile
9 102 (22.87%) Business Intelligence
10 101 (22.65%) Machine Learning
11 86 (19.28%) Data Science
12 80 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 62 (13.90%) Data Architecture
15 56 (12.56%) Decision-Making
15 56 (12.56%) Software Engineering
16 50 (11.21%) Visualisation
17 48 (10.76%) Data Integration
18 42 (9.42%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 290 (65.02%) Python
2 223 (50.00%) SQL
3 40 (8.97%) Java
4 34 (7.62%) C#
5 31 (6.95%) C++
5 31 (6.95%) Scala
6 28 (6.28%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.26%) Rust
8 12 (2.69%) Bicep
8 12 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.47%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.02%) Bash
10 9 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.57%) R
12 5 (1.12%) VBA
13 4 (0.90%) Korn
13 4 (0.90%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.45%) PHP
14 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.42%) Degree
4 27 (6.05%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.81%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.12%) PhD
11 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.67%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.45%) MCP
12 2 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (23.09%) Data Quality
2 39 (8.74%) GDPR
3 22 (4.93%) QA
4 11 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.79%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.35%) NIST
7 5 (1.12%) PERC
8 3 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.45%) PMO
9 2 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.22%) EMIR
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 67 (15.02%) Docker
2 3 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 85 (19.06%) Terraform
2 54 (12.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.90%) Control-M
3 4 (0.90%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.45%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Argo
6 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.22%) Kibana
6 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) logstash
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 115 (25.78%) Databricks
2 58 (13.00%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.17%) Google
4 15 (3.36%) Oracle
5 12 (2.69%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.24%) Palantir
7 9 (2.02%) Foundry
7 9 (2.02%) Informatica
7 9 (2.02%) SAP
8 8 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.35%) Murex
10 5 (1.12%) Guidewire
10 5 (1.12%) Virgin Media
11 4 (0.90%) Denodo
11 4 (0.90%) EMC
11 4 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.90%) VMware
12 3 (0.67%) Splunk
12 3 (0.67%) Wallstreet Suite
12 3 (0.67%) Workday