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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 118 174
Rank change year-on-year +56 +56 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 678 300 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 2.32% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 2.55% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 215 183
10th Percentile £400 £403 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £794 £700
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 4 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £22.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £43.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% +23.18% -52.91%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £41.54
90th Percentile - - £46.88
England median hourly rate £70.00 £25.43 £35.00
% change year-on-year +175.27% -27.34% -

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 14,510 11,786 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.86% 91.05% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 7,831 11,538
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
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 218 158 353
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 11 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 11 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 +44 100 £575 +4.55% 33
West London +9 32 £603 +13.57% 12
South London -11 5 £500 -9.09% 1
East London +2 1 £449 -21.91% 10
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
1 110 (16.22%) Apache Spark
2 70 (10.32%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (6.64%) Apache
4 16 (2.36%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.18%) Appian
6 7 (1.03%) Confluence
7 5 (0.74%) SAS
8 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) Camunda
10 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.44%) Trello
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.44%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.44%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.15%) Actimize
3 1 (0.15%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.15%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 323 (47.64%) Azure
2 252 (37.17%) AWS
3 170 (25.07%) Power Platform
4 122 (17.99%) Azure Data Factory
5 100 (14.75%) GCP
6 95 (14.01%) Snowflake
7 83 (12.24%) Amazon S3
8 81 (11.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 75 (11.06%) GitHub
10 66 (9.73%) Serverless
11 61 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (8.41%) dbt
13 56 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.69%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (3.39%) Azure Machine Learning
17 23 (3.39%) Collibra
18 20 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
18 20 (2.95%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.59%) Cisco IPT
1 4 (0.59%) RTP
2 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.29%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) 4G
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (23.45%) Power BI
2 132 (19.47%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (17.11%) Data Lake
4 69 (10.18%) Metadata
5 60 (8.85%) SQL Server
6 51 (7.52%) NoSQL
7 49 (7.23%) Big Data
8 48 (7.08%) Delta Lake
9 43 (6.34%) Amazon Athena
10 42 (6.19%) BigQuery
11 41 (6.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 40 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (5.75%) Snowflake Schema
14 35 (5.16%) Tableau
15 33 (4.87%) Relational Database
16 23 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (3.39%) Spark SQL
16 23 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (3.24%) Mixpanel
18 17 (2.51%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 107 (15.78%) Git
2 34 (5.01%) MLflow
3 27 (3.98%) GitLab
4 24 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.77%) JIRA
6 4 (0.59%) Selenium
6 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.44%) Postman
7 3 (0.44%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) ERwin
9 1 (0.15%) Ant
9 1 (0.15%) JUnit
9 1 (0.15%) Maven
9 1 (0.15%) Poetry
9 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (30.24%) Finance
2 174 (25.66%) Social Skills
3 93 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.70%) Banking
5 40 (5.90%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.80%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.51%) Front Office
9 16 (2.36%) Retail
10 14 (2.06%) Marketing
11 12 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.47%) Legal
12 10 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.18%) Publishing
15 6 (0.88%) Back Office
15 6 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.59%) Military
17 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 285 (42.04%) Data Engineer
2 96 (14.16%) Lead
3 75 (11.06%) Senior
4 62 (9.14%) Architect
5 55 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 54 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
6 54 (7.96%) Developer
7 43 (6.34%) Azure Data Engineer
8 38 (5.60%) Snowflake Engineer
9 33 (4.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 32 (4.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 30 (4.42%) Lead Data Engineer
12 26 (3.83%) Analyst
12 26 (3.83%) Data Architect
12 26 (3.83%) Data Scientist
13 25 (3.69%) Principal Engineer
14 23 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (2.95%) Python Engineer
15 20 (2.95%) Software Engineer
16 18 (2.65%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (19.47%) PySpark
2 78 (11.50%) Kafka
3 48 (7.08%) Pandas
4 41 (6.05%) PyTorch
5 38 (5.60%) scikit-learn
6 36 (5.31%) NumPy
7 32 (4.72%) TensorFlow
8 27 (3.98%) FastAPI
9 22 (3.24%) pytest
10 21 (3.10%) Flask
11 20 (2.95%) LangChain
12 18 (2.65%) RESTful
12 18 (2.65%) YAML
13 17 (2.51%) Great Expectations
14 16 (2.36%) REST
15 15 (2.21%) Hugging Face
16 14 (2.06%) React
17 13 (1.92%) JSON
18 11 (1.62%) Django
19 10 (1.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 105 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 27 (3.98%) Algorithms
2 27 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.24%) Distributed Computing
5 16 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.21%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.92%) Fixed Income
9 11 (1.62%) Derivative
10 10 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.47%) Equities
11 9 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.18%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.18%) Life Science
12 8 (1.18%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.03%) Genomics
13 7 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.95%) Linux
2 6 (0.88%) Unix
3 4 (0.59%) VMS
4 2 (0.29%) Windows
5 1 (0.15%) CentOS
5 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (45.87%) Analytics
2 300 (44.25%) Data Pipeline
3 273 (40.27%) ETL
4 271 (39.97%) Data Modelling
5 250 (36.87%) CI/CD
6 220 (32.45%) AI
7 181 (26.70%) Data Governance
7 181 (26.70%) DevOps
8 179 (26.40%) Business Intelligence
9 170 (25.07%) Agile
9 170 (25.07%) Machine Learning
10 132 (19.47%) Data Science
11 113 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (15.78%) Data Architecture
13 99 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 89 (13.13%) LLM
15 76 (11.21%) Use Case
15 76 (11.21%) Validation
16 74 (10.91%) Performance Tuning
17 73 (10.77%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 426 (62.83%) Python
2 381 (56.19%) SQL
3 60 (8.85%) Scala
4 57 (8.41%) Java
5 37 (5.46%) C#
6 24 (3.54%) JavaScript
7 22 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.51%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.21%) TypeScript
10 14 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.92%) Bash
12 11 (1.62%) Bicep
12 11 (1.62%) C++
13 10 (1.47%) R
14 6 (0.88%) Korn
14 6 (0.88%) Rust
15 3 (0.44%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.29%) Go
17 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 97 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 64 (9.44%) Degree
4 34 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.13%) Azure Certification
6 26 (3.83%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.47%) PhD
9 9 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.15%) CCSP
13 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.15%) CISM
13 1 (0.15%) CISSP
13 1 (0.15%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (30.24%) Data Quality
2 70 (10.32%) GDPR
3 30 (4.42%) QA
4 10 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.88%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.74%) PERC
8 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) MiFID
9 2 (0.29%) NIST
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.15%) EMIR
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) PMO
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (12.68%) Docker
2 4 (0.59%) HDFS
3 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (17.85%) Terraform
2 79 (11.65%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.59%) Grafana
4 3 (0.44%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.29%) Ansible
5 2 (0.29%) Argo
5 2 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.15%) Oozie
6 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 213 (31.42%) Databricks
2 92 (13.57%) Microsoft
3 49 (7.23%) Google
4 22 (3.24%) Foundry
5 20 (2.95%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.65%) Palantir
7 14 (2.06%) Informatica
8 9 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.33%) SAP
9 8 (1.18%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.18%) Oracle
9 8 (1.18%) UiPath
10 6 (0.88%) Denodo
10 6 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (0.88%) Virgin Media
11 5 (0.74%) Charles River
11 5 (0.74%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.74%) Murex
12 4 (0.59%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.59%) Workday