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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 103 162
Rank change year-on-year +45 +59 0
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 859 388 264
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.26% 2.89% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 3.13% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 243 202
10th Percentile £400 £365 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £811
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £57.00 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% - -
England median hourly rate £62.45 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.95% -12.50% -20.53%

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 17,901 12,416 14,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.61% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,188 9,440
10th Percentile £358 £332 £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 £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 243 183
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +38 112 £600 +8.11% 118
West London +1 23 £520 -4.81% 21
South London - 4 £475 - 2
East London - 4 £460 - 8
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
1 133 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (11.64%) Apache Spark
3 79 (9.20%) Apache
4 14 (1.63%) SAS
5 13 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.40%) Confluence
7 10 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.58%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Notion
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.23%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 369 (42.96%) Azure
2 329 (38.30%) AWS
3 165 (19.21%) Snowflake
4 154 (17.93%) dbt
5 142 (16.53%) Power Platform
6 129 (15.02%) GCP
7 113 (13.15%) Amazon S3
8 108 (12.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 89 (10.36%) Serverless
10 79 (9.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 79 (9.20%) GitHub
11 78 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
12 71 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (5.70%) Azure Databricks
14 39 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (3.26%) Amazon Bedrock
16 27 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
18 24 (2.79%) Azure AI
19 23 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) Network Security
2 2 (0.23%) DNS
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
3 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.12%) SMS
3 1 (0.12%) SSL
3 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (22.58%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (15.95%) Power BI
3 110 (12.81%) Data Lake
4 92 (10.71%) Metadata
5 75 (8.73%) Delta Lake
6 73 (8.50%) BigQuery
7 66 (7.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 47 (5.47%) Big Data
9 40 (4.66%) Amazon Athena
10 36 (4.19%) Tableau
11 35 (4.07%) NoSQL
12 31 (3.61%) SQL Server
13 30 (3.49%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
15 25 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (2.68%) Relational Database
17 19 (2.21%) Looker
17 19 (2.21%) Spark SQL
18 17 (1.98%) Data Vault
19 16 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 114 (13.27%) Git
2 48 (5.59%) GitLab
3 23 (2.68%) JIRA
4 18 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.86%) MLflow
6 8 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.93%) Terragrunt
7 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.81%) RStudio
7 7 (0.81%) Selenium
8 6 (0.70%) ERwin
9 4 (0.47%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
11 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 249 (28.99%) Finance
2 212 (24.68%) Social Skills
3 138 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (12.22%) Banking
5 59 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.19%) Marketing
7 23 (2.68%) Front Office
8 22 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 21 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.63%) Retail
11 13 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.40%) Back Office
13 11 (1.28%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.05%) Legal
15 8 (0.93%) Billing
16 7 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.70%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.58%) Law
18 5 (0.58%) Local Government
18 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 386 (44.94%) Data Engineer
2 135 (15.72%) Senior
3 110 (12.81%) Lead
4 93 (10.83%) Architect
5 89 (10.36%) Senior Data Engineer
6 52 (6.05%) Developer
7 46 (5.36%) Databricks Engineer
8 45 (5.24%) Analyst
9 44 (5.12%) Data Architect
10 41 (4.77%) AWS Engineer
11 40 (4.66%) Snowflake Engineer
12 39 (4.54%) Lead Data Engineer
13 38 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (4.31%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 33 (3.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 32 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 32 (3.73%) AWS Data Engineer
17 29 (3.38%) Data Scientist
18 27 (3.14%) Data Analyst
18 27 (3.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (17.58%) PySpark
2 131 (15.25%) Terraform
3 70 (8.15%) Kafka
4 37 (4.31%) REST
5 24 (2.79%) React
6 20 (2.33%) .NET
7 19 (2.21%) Pandas
8 16 (1.86%) JSON
9 13 (1.51%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.40%) NumPy
11 10 (1.16%) scikit-learn
11 10 (1.16%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.05%) LangChain
12 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (1.05%) pytest
12 9 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (0.93%) FastAPI
13 8 (0.93%) Great Expectations
13 8 (0.93%) LangGraph
14 7 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 139 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.64%) Onboarding
3 46 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 45 (5.24%) Data Structures
5 38 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.49%) AI Agents
7 29 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.51%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (1.40%) NHS
11 11 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.28%) Taxonomies
12 10 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.05%) Life Science
14 8 (0.93%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.10%) Linux
2 7 (0.81%) Unix
2 7 (0.81%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (49.83%) Data Pipeline
2 399 (46.45%) Analytics
3 347 (40.40%) CI/CD
4 309 (35.97%) Data Modelling
5 297 (34.58%) ETL
6 291 (33.88%) AI
7 226 (26.31%) Agile
8 215 (25.03%) DevOps
9 188 (21.89%) Business Intelligence
10 186 (21.65%) Data Governance
11 173 (20.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 165 (19.21%) Machine Learning
13 149 (17.35%) Data Transformation
14 145 (16.88%) Data Architecture
15 136 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
16 128 (14.90%) Decision-Making
16 128 (14.90%) Validation
17 125 (14.55%) Data Science
18 121 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
19 117 (13.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 483 (56.23%) SQL
2 477 (55.53%) Python
3 56 (6.52%) Java
4 31 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 31 (3.61%) Scala
5 27 (3.14%) PowerShell
6 24 (2.79%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.56%) C#
8 15 (1.75%) R
9 14 (1.63%) Bash
10 10 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.16%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.05%) Bicep
12 8 (0.93%) Korn
12 8 (0.93%) SAS Macro
13 7 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.81%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.70%) LookML
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 111 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 95 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.12%) Degree
4 23 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.47%) PhD
12 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.47%) PMP
12 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.23%) CAPM
13 2 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (34.81%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.54%) QA
3 34 (3.96%) GDPR
4 17 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.58%) GRC
6 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.47%) PMO
6 4 (0.47%) SLA
7 3 (0.35%) IFRS
7 3 (0.35%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.35%) MiFID
8 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.23%) Basel III
8 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.23%) EMIR
8 2 (0.23%) GxP
8 2 (0.23%) NIST
8 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) Basel II
System Software
1 69 (8.03%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.63%) Ansible
3 8 (0.93%) Grafana
4 7 (0.81%) Control-M
5 6 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 249 (28.99%) Databricks
2 152 (17.69%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.89%) Oracle
4 40 (4.66%) Google
5 31 (3.61%) Informatica
6 18 (2.10%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.98%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.98%) Palantir
8 16 (1.86%) Foundry
9 10 (1.16%) Teradata
10 9 (1.05%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.05%) SAP
11 7 (0.81%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.70%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.70%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.70%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.58%) Adobe
13 5 (0.58%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.58%) Denodo
14 4 (0.47%) Talend