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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 142 185
Rank change year-on-year +52 +43 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 468 287 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.29% 1.80% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 2.01% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 208 187
10th Percentile £368 £404 £392
25th Percentile £450 £498 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.91%
75th Percentile £673 £691 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £821
England median daily rate £525 £573 £589
% change year-on-year -8.30% -2.76% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £41.73 £30.60 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.44 £43.50 £35.16
Median hourly rate £70.25 £65.00 £38.97
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% +66.81% -48.04%
75th Percentile £91.44 - £59.63
90th Percentile £102.58 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £74.26 £26.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +180.23% -59.23% +30.00%

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 13,093 14,255 17,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 89.59% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,612 9,195 12,635
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £799
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 174 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.24 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +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 28 November 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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +17 45 £565 -1.74% 36
West London -9 8 £614 +29.21% 5
South London -8 1 £500 -9.18% 4
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 69 (14.74%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (14.53%) Apache Spark
3 29 (6.20%) Apache
4 7 (1.50%) Confluence
5 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.43%) Luigi
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.14%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.43%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.21%) Actimize
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 201 (42.95%) Azure
2 176 (37.61%) AWS
3 87 (18.59%) Power Platform
4 79 (16.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 71 (15.17%) Snowflake
6 70 (14.96%) GCP
7 56 (11.97%) GitHub
8 50 (10.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 49 (10.47%) Amazon S3
9 49 (10.47%) dbt
10 47 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (8.76%) Serverless
12 40 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (4.91%) Azure Machine Learning
15 15 (3.21%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
17 11 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.85%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.43%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) SSL
3 1 (0.21%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (18.16%) Data Warehouse
1 85 (18.16%) Power BI
2 52 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 46 (9.83%) Metadata
4 36 (7.69%) Big Data
5 27 (5.77%) BigQuery
5 27 (5.77%) Delta Lake
6 26 (5.56%) Tableau
7 25 (5.34%) Relational Database
7 25 (5.34%) SQL Server
8 22 (4.70%) NoSQL
9 21 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (3.63%) Hadoop
12 16 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (2.14%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.14%) Star Schema
16 9 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 77 (16.45%) Git
2 17 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.42%) MLflow
4 12 (2.56%) GitLab
4 12 (2.56%) JIRA
5 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.43%) 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%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 125 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 124 (26.50%) Finance
3 63 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (10.90%) Banking
5 32 (6.84%) Investment Banking
6 28 (5.98%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.21%) Retail
9 14 (2.99%) Front Office
10 11 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.14%) Marketing
12 9 (1.92%) Legal
13 8 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.71%) Publishing
14 6 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
15 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.07%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.85%) Military
17 3 (0.64%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 180 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 58 (12.39%) Senior
3 57 (12.18%) Developer
4 50 (10.68%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (9.62%) Lead
6 41 (8.76%) Architect
7 40 (8.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 37 (7.91%) Azure Data Engineer
9 27 (5.77%) Python Developer
10 23 (4.91%) Snowflake Engineer
11 22 (4.70%) Analyst
12 19 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 19 (4.06%) AWS Developer
12 19 (4.06%) Python Engineer
13 18 (3.85%) Data Architect
13 18 (3.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 17 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (3.63%) JavaScript Developer
15 16 (3.42%) Data Scientist
16 15 (3.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (15.38%) PySpark
2 48 (10.26%) Kafka
3 34 (7.26%) Pandas
4 31 (6.62%) FastAPI
4 31 (6.62%) NumPy
5 23 (4.91%) Flask
6 22 (4.70%) PyTorch
6 22 (4.70%) React
7 20 (4.27%) TensorFlow
8 18 (3.85%) RESTful
8 18 (3.85%) Vue
9 17 (3.63%) AngularJS
9 17 (3.63%) Polars
9 17 (3.63%) SciPy
10 14 (2.99%) JSON
11 13 (2.78%) scikit-learn
12 12 (2.56%) LangChain
13 9 (1.92%) .NET
13 9 (1.92%) YAML
14 8 (1.71%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.34%) Algorithms
3 23 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (4.06%) Hedge funds
5 14 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.99%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.35%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.35%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.92%) Derivative
8 9 (1.92%) Equities
8 9 (1.92%) Genomics
8 9 (1.92%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.71%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.50%) Life Science
10 7 (1.50%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.49%) Linux
2 3 (0.64%) Android
2 3 (0.64%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (44.23%) Data Pipeline
2 183 (39.10%) Data Modelling
3 173 (36.97%) CI/CD
4 166 (35.47%) Analytics
5 164 (35.04%) ETL
6 115 (24.57%) AI
7 112 (23.93%) Agile
7 112 (23.93%) Data Governance
7 112 (23.93%) Machine Learning
8 107 (22.86%) DevOps
9 101 (21.58%) Business Intelligence
10 99 (21.15%) Data Science
11 87 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (14.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 65 (13.89%) Data Architecture
14 57 (12.18%) Decision-Making
14 57 (12.18%) Software Engineering
15 51 (10.90%) Data Integration
16 49 (10.47%) Visualisation
17 45 (9.62%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 315 (67.31%) Python
2 238 (50.85%) SQL
3 42 (8.97%) Java
4 36 (7.69%) Scala
5 34 (7.26%) C#
6 31 (6.62%) JavaScript
7 29 (6.20%) C++
8 18 (3.85%) Rust
9 13 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.56%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.35%) Bicep
12 10 (2.14%) Bash
12 10 (2.14%) R
13 8 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (1.71%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.07%) Korn
14 5 (1.07%) VBA
15 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.43%) PHP
16 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 63 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.40%) Degree
4 24 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.06%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.28%) PhD
10 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.85%) MCP
12 3 (0.64%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.43%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (24.15%) Data Quality
2 43 (9.19%) GDPR
3 19 (4.06%) QA
4 12 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.71%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.28%) NIST
7 5 (1.07%) PERC
8 3 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.43%) 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 67 (14.32%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 82 (17.52%) Terraform
2 52 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.85%) Control-M
3 4 (0.85%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Argo
6 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.21%) Kibana
6 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 132 (28.21%) Databricks
2 59 (12.61%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.41%) Google
4 16 (3.42%) Oracle
5 13 (2.78%) Palantir
6 12 (2.56%) Foundry
6 12 (2.56%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.14%) SAP
8 8 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.50%) Informatica
10 6 (1.28%) Murex
10 6 (1.28%) Virgin Media
11 5 (1.07%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.85%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.85%) Denodo
12 4 (0.85%) EMC
12 4 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.85%) VMware
13 3 (0.64%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.64%) Workday