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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 120 175
Rank change year-on-year +61 +55 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 737 311 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 2.47% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 2.68% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 220 195
10th Percentile £400 £407 £413
25th Percentile £460 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £800 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £561
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.00% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £36.63 -
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 £27.50 £38.65
% change year-on-year +154.55% -28.85% -48.46%

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 15,818 11,593 15,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.21% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,577 7,857 11,245
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £758 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 176 315
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.66 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.57 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.30
England median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +45 120 £550 - 76
West London +6 35 £603 -23.49% 3
South London - 5 £500 - 2
East London -4 4 £450 -21.74% 6
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
1 111 (15.06%) Apache Spark
2 84 (11.40%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (6.65%) Apache
4 14 (1.90%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.36%) SAS
6 8 (1.09%) Appian
7 7 (0.95%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.41%) Trello
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.68%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 343 (46.54%) Azure
2 275 (37.31%) AWS
3 177 (24.02%) Power Platform
4 115 (15.60%) GCP
5 114 (15.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 101 (13.70%) Snowflake
7 100 (13.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 93 (12.62%) Amazon S3
8 93 (12.62%) GitHub
9 76 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (10.04%) dbt
11 62 (8.41%) Serverless
12 56 (7.60%) GitHub Actions
13 55 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.39%) Dagster
16 23 (3.12%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (3.12%) Collibra
17 22 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
18 21 (2.85%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.68%) RTP
2 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.14%) 4G
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) MIMO
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (22.12%) Power BI
2 153 (20.76%) Data Lake
3 146 (19.81%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (10.45%) Metadata
5 60 (8.14%) SQL Server
6 59 (8.01%) Delta Lake
7 54 (7.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 52 (7.06%) Big Data
9 51 (6.92%) BigQuery
10 50 (6.78%) NoSQL
11 49 (6.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 47 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
13 45 (6.11%) Snowflake Schema
14 44 (5.97%) Tableau
15 35 (4.75%) Relational Database
16 27 (3.66%) Spark SQL
17 24 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
18 22 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 20 (2.71%) Mixpanel
20 19 (2.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 98 (13.30%) Git
2 34 (4.61%) MLflow
3 31 (4.21%) GitLab
4 18 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.44%) JIRA
5 6 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.68%) Selenium
7 3 (0.41%) Postman
7 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.41%) Snyk
8 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) JUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Maven
9 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 255 (34.60%) Finance
2 166 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 111 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.73%) Banking
5 40 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.44%) Marketing
6 18 (2.44%) Retail
7 17 (2.31%) Front Office
8 16 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.76%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.09%) Legal
12 7 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.81%) Back Office
14 4 (0.54%) Military
15 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 333 (45.18%) Data Engineer
2 97 (13.16%) Senior
3 84 (11.40%) Architect
4 83 (11.26%) Lead
5 68 (9.23%) Senior Data Engineer
6 48 (6.51%) Developer
7 38 (5.16%) Snowflake Engineer
8 37 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
9 34 (4.61%) Data Architect
9 34 (4.61%) Lead Data Engineer
10 33 (4.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 32 (4.34%) Azure Data Engineer
12 31 (4.21%) Analyst
13 30 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
15 28 (3.80%) Data Scientist
16 27 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 24 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
18 23 (3.12%) AWS Data Engineer
19 22 (2.99%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (18.05%) PySpark
2 77 (10.45%) Kafka
3 42 (5.70%) Pandas
4 38 (5.16%) scikit-learn
5 32 (4.34%) PyTorch
6 30 (4.07%) NumPy
7 25 (3.39%) TensorFlow
8 20 (2.71%) REST
9 18 (2.44%) LangChain
10 17 (2.31%) Great Expectations
11 16 (2.17%) pytest
12 15 (2.04%) FastAPI
12 15 (2.04%) YAML
13 13 (1.76%) Flask
13 13 (1.76%) Hugging Face
14 12 (1.63%) Spring
15 11 (1.49%) Django
15 11 (1.49%) JSON
15 11 (1.49%) RESTful
16 10 (1.36%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 113 (15.33%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.39%) Distributed Computing
5 24 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.58%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.17%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.90%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.76%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.36%) Equities
12 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.22%) Clustering
14 8 (1.09%) Derivative
14 8 (1.09%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.68%) Data Fabric
15 5 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.26%) Linux
2 13 (1.76%) Unix
3 5 (0.68%) VMS
4 3 (0.41%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (50.47%) Analytics
2 333 (45.18%) Data Pipeline
3 296 (40.16%) ETL
4 285 (38.67%) Data Modelling
5 271 (36.77%) CI/CD
6 240 (32.56%) AI
7 204 (27.68%) DevOps
8 190 (25.78%) Business Intelligence
9 171 (23.20%) Data Governance
10 168 (22.80%) Agile
11 161 (21.85%) Machine Learning
12 130 (17.64%) Data Science
13 117 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
14 116 (15.74%) Data Architecture
15 101 (13.70%) Validation
16 95 (12.89%) Infrastructure as Code
17 93 (12.62%) Decision-Making
17 93 (12.62%) LLM
18 92 (12.48%) Use Case
19 89 (12.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 429 (58.21%) SQL
2 418 (56.72%) Python
3 69 (9.36%) Java
4 54 (7.33%) Scala
5 32 (4.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (3.80%) C#
7 18 (2.44%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.90%) R
10 12 (1.63%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.36%) Bicep
12 9 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.22%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.95%) Bash
13 7 (0.95%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.54%) Korn
15 2 (0.27%) C++
15 2 (0.27%) Go
16 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 122 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 107 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.92%) Degree
4 27 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.68%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.68%) PhD
11 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.54%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.14%) CCSP
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (31.07%) Data Quality
2 65 (8.82%) GDPR
3 40 (5.43%) QA
4 10 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.68%) MiFID
6 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.41%) PMO
6 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.27%) EMIR
7 2 (0.27%) GRC
7 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (10.58%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (14.93%) Terraform
2 70 (9.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.41%) Ansible
3 3 (0.41%) Grafana
3 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Argo
4 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 201 (27.27%) Databricks
2 124 (16.82%) Microsoft
3 47 (6.38%) Google
4 27 (3.66%) Informatica
5 20 (2.71%) Foundry
5 20 (2.71%) OpenAI
6 14 (1.90%) Palantir
7 11 (1.49%) Oracle
8 9 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.09%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.09%) UiPath
10 6 (0.81%) Cloudera
11 5 (0.68%) SAP
11 5 (0.68%) Workday
12 4 (0.54%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.54%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.54%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.41%) Apple
13 3 (0.41%) Charles River
13 3 (0.41%) Murex