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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 110 177
Rank change year-on-year +47 +67 -35
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 822 340 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.08% 2.51% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 2.72% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 224 188
10th Percentile £400 £400 £429
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £796
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +67.86% -56.25%
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -39.10%

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 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 August 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 13 August 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 +35 113 £575 +4.55% 63
West London +2 21 £613 -5.22% 22
South London - 5 £545 - 3
East London - 4 £450 - 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
1 127 (15.45%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (11.56%) Apache Spark
3 70 (8.52%) Apache
4 15 (1.82%) SAS
5 14 (1.70%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (1.34%) Confluence
7 10 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.61%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 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%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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
Cloud Services
1 342 (41.61%) Azure
2 324 (39.42%) AWS
3 153 (18.61%) Power Platform
4 151 (18.37%) Snowflake
5 130 (15.82%) dbt
6 123 (14.96%) GCP
7 101 (12.29%) Amazon S3
8 97 (11.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 91 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 83 (10.10%) GitHub
12 74 (9.00%) Serverless
13 64 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (3.41%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.92%) Amazon Bedrock
17 22 (2.68%) Dagster
18 21 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 21 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (2.43%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) Firewall
1 2 (0.24%) Network Security
1 2 (0.24%) RTP
2 1 (0.12%) 4G
2 1 (0.12%) 5G
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (21.65%) Data Warehouse
2 144 (17.52%) Power BI
3 135 (16.42%) Data Lake
4 89 (10.83%) Metadata
5 69 (8.39%) BigQuery
6 67 (8.15%) Delta Lake
7 66 (8.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 54 (6.57%) Big Data
9 45 (5.47%) Tableau
10 43 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
11 39 (4.74%) NoSQL
12 36 (4.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 35 (4.26%) SQL Server
14 28 (3.41%) Relational Database
15 27 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
16 26 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (2.92%) Star Schema
18 18 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
19 17 (2.07%) Looker
19 17 (2.07%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 93 (11.31%) Git
2 39 (4.74%) GitLab
3 26 (3.16%) JIRA
4 16 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.95%) MLflow
5 7 (0.85%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.61%) ERwin
7 4 (0.49%) Selenium
7 4 (0.49%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
8 3 (0.36%) Snyk
9 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 250 (30.41%) Finance
2 182 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 131 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.58%) Banking
5 59 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.89%) Marketing
7 20 (2.43%) Front Office
7 20 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.31%) Retail
9 13 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.85%) Back Office
13 7 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.85%) Legal
14 4 (0.49%) Billing
14 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 366 (44.53%) Data Engineer
2 112 (13.63%) Senior
3 107 (13.02%) Architect
4 104 (12.65%) Lead
5 70 (8.52%) Senior Data Engineer
6 48 (5.84%) Developer
7 47 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
7 47 (5.72%) Data Architect
8 44 (5.35%) Analyst
9 40 (4.87%) Lead Data Engineer
10 38 (4.62%) AWS Data Engineer
11 36 (4.38%) Snowflake Engineer
12 33 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
12 33 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (3.65%) Data Scientist
13 30 (3.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 28 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 28 (3.41%) Data Analyst
15 26 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
16 25 (3.04%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (16.55%) PySpark
2 64 (7.79%) Kafka
3 26 (3.16%) REST
4 21 (2.55%) Pandas
5 17 (2.07%) React
6 16 (1.95%) .NET
6 16 (1.95%) scikit-learn
7 15 (1.82%) JSON
8 14 (1.70%) NumPy
9 12 (1.46%) PyTorch
10 10 (1.22%) Spring
11 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (0.97%) Great Expectations
12 8 (0.97%) pytest
12 8 (0.97%) TensorFlow
13 7 (0.85%) LangChain
14 6 (0.73%) Apache Avro
14 6 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (0.73%) Spring Boot
15 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 137 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
3 42 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (4.38%) Data Structures
6 35 (4.26%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.58%) NHS
10 12 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.34%) Clustering
11 11 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.22%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.09%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.09%) Life Science
13 9 (1.09%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.53%) Linux
2 14 (1.70%) Unix
3 7 (0.85%) Windows
4 2 (0.24%) VMS
4 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (50.61%) Analytics
2 398 (48.42%) Data Pipeline
3 313 (38.08%) CI/CD
4 302 (36.74%) Data Modelling
5 291 (35.40%) ETL
6 263 (32.00%) AI
7 213 (25.91%) DevOps
8 205 (24.94%) Agile
9 183 (22.26%) Business Intelligence
10 178 (21.65%) Data Governance
11 165 (20.07%) Machine Learning
12 139 (16.91%) Data Architecture
13 136 (16.55%) Data Science
14 134 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
15 127 (15.45%) Data Transformation
15 127 (15.45%) Decision-Making
16 124 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
17 122 (14.84%) Validation
18 115 (13.99%) Migration
19 100 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 461 (56.08%) SQL
2 440 (53.53%) Python
3 70 (8.52%) Java
4 30 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (3.28%) Scala
6 22 (2.68%) C#
6 22 (2.68%) PowerShell
7 17 (2.07%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.70%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.46%) Bash
9 12 (1.46%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.22%) Bicep
12 8 (0.97%) R
12 8 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.85%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.61%) Cypher
14 5 (0.61%) Korn
15 4 (0.49%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 104 (12.65%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.08%) Degree
4 26 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.73%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.49%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.36%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.24%) CSPO
15 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (31.39%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.72%) QA
3 44 (5.35%) GDPR
4 17 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) GxP
5 3 (0.36%) MiFID
5 3 (0.36%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.24%) EMIR
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
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 17
7 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (8.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 112 (13.63%) Terraform
2 57 (6.93%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.22%) Ansible
4 5 (0.61%) Control-M
4 5 (0.61%) Grafana
5 3 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.24%) Puppet
6 2 (0.24%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 203 (24.70%) Databricks
2 140 (17.03%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.87%) Google
3 40 (4.87%) Informatica
4 29 (3.53%) Oracle
5 21 (2.55%) Palantir
6 20 (2.43%) Foundry
7 15 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.46%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.09%) Cloudera
10 8 (0.97%) SAP
11 7 (0.85%) Hitachi
11 7 (0.85%) Teradata
11 7 (0.85%) Workday
12 6 (0.73%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.61%) Amplitude
14 4 (0.49%) Charles River
14 4 (0.49%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.49%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.49%) Murex