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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 113 166
Rank change year-on-year +57 +53 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 733 311 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.18% 2.44% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 2.65% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 226 187
10th Percentile £400 £402 £413
25th Percentile £463 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.70% -7.99%
75th Percentile £638 £797 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £759
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £29.31 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -53.33%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.19 £43.51
90th Percentile - £65.00 £47.55
England median hourly rate £70.00 £26.47 £38.65
% change year-on-year +164.50% -31.53% -47.05%

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 15,562 11,733 15,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.06% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,427 7,976 11,319
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 172 330
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.53 £15.99
25th Percentile £25.11 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.38 £63.70 £65.78
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +40 112 £555 +0.91% 51
West London +7 36 £603 -3.60% 4
South London -6 5 £500 -16.67% 1
East London -3 2 £450 -21.83% 5
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
1 111 (15.14%) Apache Spark
2 87 (11.87%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (6.68%) Apache
4 15 (2.05%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (1.23%) SAS
6 8 (1.09%) Appian
7 6 (0.82%) Confluence
8 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.41%) Trello
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 346 (47.20%) Azure
2 273 (37.24%) AWS
3 177 (24.15%) Power Platform
4 118 (16.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 115 (15.69%) GCP
6 100 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 97 (13.23%) Snowflake
8 89 (12.14%) Amazon S3
8 89 (12.14%) GitHub
9 72 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
10 68 (9.28%) dbt
11 62 (8.46%) Serverless
12 55 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (3.68%) Dagster
15 24 (3.27%) AWS Step Functions
15 24 (3.27%) Collibra
16 22 (3.00%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.68%) RTP
2 4 (0.55%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) 4G
5 1 (0.14%) 5G
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) MIMO
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (22.24%) Power BI
2 147 (20.05%) Data Warehouse
3 145 (19.78%) Data Lake
4 77 (10.50%) Metadata
5 61 (8.32%) SQL Server
6 56 (7.64%) Delta Lake
7 52 (7.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (6.96%) NoSQL
9 50 (6.82%) BigQuery
10 49 (6.68%) Big Data
11 48 (6.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 47 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
13 44 (6.00%) Tableau
14 43 (5.87%) Snowflake Schema
15 33 (4.50%) Relational Database
16 27 (3.68%) Spark SQL
17 24 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 22 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
19 21 (2.86%) Mixpanel
20 19 (2.59%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 102 (13.92%) Git
2 35 (4.77%) MLflow
3 28 (3.82%) GitLab
4 18 (2.46%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.32%) JIRA
6 7 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.68%) Selenium
8 3 (0.41%) Postman
8 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.41%) Snyk
8 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Ant
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 246 (33.56%) Finance
2 170 (23.19%) Social Skills
3 114 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.78%) Banking
5 41 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.32%) Marketing
7 17 (2.32%) Retail
8 16 (2.18%) Front Office
9 12 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.50%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.50%) Legal
10 11 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.82%) Back Office
14 4 (0.55%) Electronics
15 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 321 (43.79%) Data Engineer
2 94 (12.82%) Senior
3 84 (11.46%) Architect
4 83 (11.32%) Lead
5 65 (8.87%) Senior Data Engineer
6 50 (6.82%) Developer
7 42 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
8 35 (4.77%) Azure Data Engineer
9 34 (4.64%) Data Architect
9 34 (4.64%) Lead Data Engineer
10 32 (4.37%) Snowflake Engineer
11 30 (4.09%) Analyst
11 30 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
12 28 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 28 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (3.82%) Data Scientist
13 27 (3.68%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 24 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
14 24 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
15 22 (3.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (18.28%) PySpark
2 78 (10.64%) Kafka
3 43 (5.87%) Pandas
4 39 (5.32%) scikit-learn
5 33 (4.50%) PyTorch
6 32 (4.37%) NumPy
7 26 (3.55%) TensorFlow
8 20 (2.73%) REST
9 19 (2.59%) pytest
10 18 (2.46%) Great Expectations
10 18 (2.46%) LangChain
11 16 (2.18%) FastAPI
11 16 (2.18%) YAML
12 14 (1.91%) Flask
13 13 (1.77%) Hugging Face
14 12 (1.64%) JSON
14 12 (1.64%) Spring
15 11 (1.50%) Django
15 11 (1.50%) RESTful
16 10 (1.36%) React
Miscellaneous
1 114 (15.55%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
6 21 (2.86%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.73%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.91%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.77%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.77%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.23%) Equities
13 8 (1.09%) Clustering
13 8 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.09%) Derivative
13 8 (1.09%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.82%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.27%) Linux
2 13 (1.77%) Unix
3 5 (0.68%) VMS
4 3 (0.41%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (50.20%) Analytics
2 335 (45.70%) Data Pipeline
3 292 (39.84%) ETL
4 286 (39.02%) Data Modelling
5 270 (36.83%) CI/CD
6 237 (32.33%) AI
7 203 (27.69%) DevOps
8 191 (26.06%) Business Intelligence
9 177 (24.15%) Agile
10 175 (23.87%) Data Governance
11 165 (22.51%) Machine Learning
12 134 (18.28%) Data Science
13 123 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
14 121 (16.51%) Data Architecture
15 100 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 96 (13.10%) Decision-Making
17 94 (12.82%) Validation
18 88 (12.01%) LLM
19 84 (11.46%) Migration
19 84 (11.46%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 422 (57.57%) SQL
2 418 (57.03%) Python
3 68 (9.28%) Java
4 57 (7.78%) Scala
5 31 (4.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 30 (4.09%) C#
7 18 (2.46%) T-SQL
8 16 (2.18%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.77%) R
10 10 (1.36%) Bicep
10 10 (1.36%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.95%) Bash
12 7 (0.95%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.68%) Korn
14 3 (0.41%) C++
15 2 (0.27%) Go
16 1 (0.14%) LookML
16 1 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.64%) Degree
4 28 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.82%) PhD
10 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.14%) CCSP
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (30.83%) Data Quality
2 70 (9.55%) GDPR
3 35 (4.77%) QA
4 10 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.55%) MiFID
6 4 (0.55%) PERC
7 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.27%) EMIR
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) Basel II
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (11.05%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (15.69%) Terraform
2 71 (9.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.41%) Ansible
3 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Argo
4 2 (0.27%) Grafana
4 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 211 (28.79%) Databricks
2 117 (15.96%) Microsoft
3 49 (6.68%) Google
4 22 (3.00%) Informatica
5 21 (2.86%) Foundry
6 20 (2.73%) OpenAI
7 15 (2.05%) Palantir
8 10 (1.36%) Oracle
9 8 (1.09%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.09%) UiPath
10 7 (0.95%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.82%) SAP
12 5 (0.68%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (0.68%) Workday
13 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.55%) Denodo
13 4 (0.55%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.55%) IBM
14 3 (0.41%) Murex