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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 136 176
Rank change year-on-year +52 +40 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 473 290 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.32% 1.85% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 2.07% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 209 187
10th Percentile £366 £412 £408
25th Percentile £450 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.60%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £821
England median daily rate £525 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £41.73 - £35.00
25th Percentile £51.44 £22.00 £35.16
Median hourly rate £70.25 £43.50 £38.97
Median % change year-on-year +61.49% +11.63% -48.04%
75th Percentile £91.44 £65.00 £59.63
90th Percentile £102.58 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £74.26 £24.25 £53.65
% change year-on-year +206.23% -54.80% +7.31%

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 13,094 14,043 17,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.85% 89.80% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,631 9,077 12,422
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 166 232
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.59
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.69
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +3.60% -9.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +20 45 £575 - 40
West London -10 9 £603 +26.84% 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 68 (14.38%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (13.95%) Apache Spark
3 28 (5.92%) Apache
4 7 (1.48%) Confluence
5 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) Luigi
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.11%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.42%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.42%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.21%) Actimize
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 206 (43.55%) Azure
2 174 (36.79%) AWS
3 88 (18.60%) Power Platform
4 79 (16.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 74 (15.64%) Snowflake
6 67 (14.16%) GCP
7 57 (12.05%) GitHub
8 53 (11.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 50 (10.57%) Amazon S3
9 50 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (10.15%) dbt
11 42 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (8.88%) Serverless
12 35 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (5.07%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
17 10 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.85%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.42%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.42%) VPN
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (18.60%) Data Warehouse
2 86 (18.18%) Power BI
3 51 (10.78%) Data Lake
4 47 (9.94%) Metadata
5 35 (7.40%) Big Data
6 29 (6.13%) Delta Lake
7 26 (5.50%) BigQuery
8 25 (5.29%) Relational Database
8 25 (5.29%) SQL Server
8 25 (5.29%) Tableau
9 23 (4.86%) NoSQL
10 22 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (2.96%) Hadoop
15 13 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (2.11%) RDBMS
16 10 (2.11%) Star Schema
17 9 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 76 (16.07%) Git
2 18 (3.81%) Jenkins
2 18 (3.81%) MLflow
3 13 (2.75%) JIRA
4 12 (2.54%) GitLab
5 4 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.42%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.42%) TestRail
7 1 (0.21%) ERwin
7 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.21%) GoCD
7 1 (0.21%) Poetry
7 1 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 129 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 127 (26.85%) Finance
3 61 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.15%) Banking
5 29 (6.13%) Investment Banking
6 28 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.75%) Front Office
8 13 (2.75%) Retail
9 11 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.11%) Marketing
11 9 (1.90%) Legal
12 8 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.69%) Publishing
13 5 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.85%) Military
15 3 (0.63%) Electronics
15 3 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 182 (38.48%) Data Engineer
2 56 (11.84%) Developer
3 55 (11.63%) Senior
4 49 (10.36%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (9.51%) Lead
6 41 (8.67%) Architect
7 38 (8.03%) Senior Data Engineer
8 37 (7.82%) Azure Data Engineer
9 25 (5.29%) Python Developer
10 24 (5.07%) Snowflake Engineer
11 21 (4.44%) Analyst
12 20 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 18 (3.81%) AWS Developer
13 18 (3.81%) Data Architect
13 18 (3.81%) Python Engineer
14 17 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (3.59%) Data Scientist
14 17 (3.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 16 (3.38%) JavaScript Developer
16 15 (3.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (16.28%) PySpark
2 47 (9.94%) Kafka
3 34 (7.19%) Pandas
4 30 (6.34%) FastAPI
4 30 (6.34%) NumPy
5 24 (5.07%) PyTorch
6 22 (4.65%) Flask
7 21 (4.44%) React
7 21 (4.44%) TensorFlow
8 18 (3.81%) RESTful
9 17 (3.59%) Vue
10 16 (3.38%) AngularJS
10 16 (3.38%) Polars
10 16 (3.38%) SciPy
11 14 (2.96%) LangChain
11 14 (2.96%) scikit-learn
12 13 (2.75%) JSON
13 9 (1.90%) .NET
13 9 (1.90%) pytest
13 9 (1.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.29%) Algorithms
3 22 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (3.81%) Hedge funds
5 14 (2.96%) Distributed Computing
6 13 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.75%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.90%) Derivative
9 9 (1.90%) Genomics
10 8 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.69%) Equities
10 8 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.48%) Life Science
11 7 (1.48%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.48%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.23%) Linux
2 3 (0.63%) Android
3 2 (0.42%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (43.76%) Data Pipeline
2 185 (39.11%) Data Modelling
3 170 (35.94%) CI/CD
4 167 (35.31%) Analytics
5 165 (34.88%) ETL
6 117 (24.74%) AI
7 113 (23.89%) Data Governance
8 111 (23.47%) DevOps
8 111 (23.47%) Machine Learning
9 108 (22.83%) Agile
10 102 (21.56%) Business Intelligence
11 98 (20.72%) Data Science
12 88 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (14.38%) Data Architecture
14 66 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 55 (11.63%) Software Engineering
16 54 (11.42%) Decision-Making
17 53 (11.21%) Data Integration
18 49 (10.36%) Visualisation
19 46 (9.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 316 (66.81%) Python
2 237 (50.11%) SQL
3 37 (7.82%) Java
3 37 (7.82%) Scala
4 34 (7.19%) C#
5 30 (6.34%) JavaScript
6 27 (5.71%) C++
7 17 (3.59%) Rust
8 14 (2.96%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.54%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.33%) Bash
10 11 (2.33%) Bicep
11 10 (2.11%) R
12 9 (1.90%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.06%) Korn
14 5 (1.06%) VBA
15 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.42%) PHP
16 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.30%) Degree
4 24 (5.07%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (4.23%) Master's Degree
7 15 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.48%) PhD
10 5 (1.06%) MCP
10 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.63%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (24.52%) Data Quality
2 44 (9.30%) GDPR
3 16 (3.38%) QA
4 11 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.69%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.27%) NIST
7 5 (1.06%) PERC
8 3 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.42%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.21%) EMIR
10 1 (0.21%) HL7
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (14.38%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 85 (17.97%) Terraform
2 54 (11.42%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.85%) Control-M
3 4 (0.85%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.63%) Grafana
5 2 (0.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Argo
6 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.21%) Kibana
6 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 140 (29.60%) Databricks
2 57 (12.05%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.55%) Google
4 16 (3.38%) Oracle
5 12 (2.54%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.54%) Palantir
6 11 (2.33%) Foundry
6 11 (2.33%) SAP
7 8 (1.69%) Informatica
7 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.27%) Murex
8 6 (1.27%) Virgin Media
9 5 (1.06%) Guidewire
10 4 (0.85%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.85%) Denodo
10 4 (0.85%) EMC
10 4 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
10 4 (0.85%) VMware
11 3 (0.63%) Teradata
11 3 (0.63%) Workday