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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 111 180
Rank change year-on-year +52 +69 -38
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 838 344 242
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.18% 2.56% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 2.77% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 226 188
10th Percentile £400 £400 £421
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 £692 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £804
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% -57.58%
England median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% -12.50% -23.08%

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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £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 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 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 20 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 +47 119 £575 +4.55% 46
West London -2 22 £520 -19.54% 18
South London - 4 £500 - 2
East London - 4 £450 - 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 (15.87%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (11.81%) Apache Spark
3 69 (8.23%) Apache
4 15 (1.79%) SAS
5 13 (1.55%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (1.31%) Confluence
6 11 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.60%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Endur
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 351 (41.89%) Azure
2 330 (39.38%) AWS
3 154 (18.38%) Snowflake
4 152 (18.14%) Power Platform
5 134 (15.99%) dbt
6 128 (15.27%) GCP
7 104 (12.41%) Amazon S3
8 100 (11.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 91 (10.86%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (10.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 82 (9.79%) GitHub
12 80 (9.55%) Serverless
13 66 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (5.01%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.22%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.86%) Amazon Bedrock
17 21 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (2.51%) Dagster
18 20 (2.39%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) Firewall
1 2 (0.24%) Network Security
1 2 (0.24%) RTP
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (21.72%) Data Warehouse
2 143 (17.06%) Power BI
3 132 (15.75%) Data Lake
4 93 (11.10%) Metadata
5 71 (8.47%) BigQuery
6 69 (8.23%) Delta Lake
7 68 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 52 (6.21%) Big Data
9 46 (5.49%) Tableau
10 43 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (4.89%) NoSQL
12 35 (4.18%) SQL Server
13 34 (4.06%) Snowflake Schema
14 28 (3.34%) Relational Database
15 27 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
17 25 (2.98%) Star Schema
18 20 (2.39%) Spark SQL
19 19 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
20 18 (2.15%) Looker
Development Applications
1 94 (11.22%) Git
2 39 (4.65%) GitLab
3 27 (3.22%) JIRA
4 16 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.79%) MLflow
6 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.72%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.60%) ERwin
7 5 (0.60%) RStudio
8 4 (0.48%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.36%) Snyk
10 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 253 (30.19%) Finance
2 188 (22.43%) Social Skills
3 132 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.74%) Banking
5 56 (6.68%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.06%) Marketing
7 22 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.39%) Front Office
9 19 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 18 (2.15%) Retail
11 12 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Back Office
14 7 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Legal
15 6 (0.72%) Billing
16 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 374 (44.63%) Data Engineer
2 116 (13.84%) Senior
3 111 (13.25%) Architect
4 106 (12.65%) Lead
5 74 (8.83%) Senior Data Engineer
6 49 (5.85%) Data Architect
7 48 (5.73%) Developer
8 45 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
9 44 (5.25%) Analyst
10 41 (4.89%) Lead Data Engineer
11 38 (4.53%) Snowflake Engineer
12 37 (4.42%) AWS Data Engineer
13 34 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (3.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 32 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (3.58%) Data Scientist
16 27 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.22%) Data Analyst
17 26 (3.10%) Python Engineer
18 25 (2.98%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (17.54%) PySpark
2 114 (13.60%) Terraform
3 68 (8.11%) Kafka
4 30 (3.58%) REST
5 21 (2.51%) Pandas
6 20 (2.39%) React
7 16 (1.91%) .NET
7 16 (1.91%) JSON
8 15 (1.79%) scikit-learn
9 14 (1.67%) NumPy
10 12 (1.43%) PyTorch
11 10 (1.19%) Spring
11 10 (1.19%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.95%) Great Expectations
14 7 (0.84%) LangChain
14 7 (0.84%) pytest
15 6 (0.72%) FastAPI
15 6 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
15 6 (0.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 136 (16.23%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.25%) Product Ownership
3 43 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 40 (4.77%) Onboarding
5 38 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (4.18%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
9 13 (1.55%) NHS
9 13 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.31%) Clustering
10 11 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.19%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.07%) Life Science
13 8 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.95%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.34%) Linux
2 14 (1.67%) Unix
3 7 (0.84%) Windows
4 2 (0.24%) VMS
4 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (50.60%) Analytics
2 410 (48.93%) Data Pipeline
3 321 (38.31%) CI/CD
4 304 (36.28%) Data Modelling
5 294 (35.08%) ETL
6 276 (32.94%) AI
7 212 (25.30%) DevOps
8 206 (24.58%) Agile
9 190 (22.67%) Business Intelligence
10 183 (21.84%) Data Governance
11 168 (20.05%) Machine Learning
12 142 (16.95%) Data Architecture
13 137 (16.35%) Data Transformation
14 136 (16.23%) Data Science
15 132 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
16 131 (15.63%) Decision-Making
16 131 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 124 (14.80%) Validation
18 122 (14.56%) Migration
19 106 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 471 (56.21%) SQL
2 446 (53.22%) Python
3 69 (8.23%) Java
4 30 (3.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (3.22%) Scala
6 23 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 22 (2.63%) C#
8 17 (2.03%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.31%) Bash
10 11 (1.31%) R
10 11 (1.31%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.31%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.19%) Bicep
12 9 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.84%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.60%) Cypher
14 5 (0.60%) Korn
14 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.48%) LookML
Qualifications
1 116 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 102 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.85%) Degree
4 26 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.72%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.60%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.36%) PhD
12 3 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.24%) CSPO
13 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (31.98%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.37%) QA
3 43 (5.13%) GDPR
4 18 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) GxP
5 3 (0.36%) MiFID
5 3 (0.36%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) SLA
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
6 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
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 (8.00%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.31%) Ansible
3 6 (0.72%) Control-M
4 5 (0.60%) 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
1 216 (25.78%) Databricks
2 145 (17.30%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.89%) Informatica
4 37 (4.42%) Google
5 32 (3.82%) Oracle
6 20 (2.39%) Palantir
7 19 (2.27%) Foundry
8 16 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.43%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.19%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.95%) Teradata
12 7 (0.84%) Hitachi
12 7 (0.84%) SAP
12 7 (0.84%) Workday
13 6 (0.72%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
15 4 (0.48%) Adobe
15 4 (0.48%) Hortonworks
15 4 (0.48%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.48%) SnapLogic