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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 101 164
Rank change year-on-year +45 +63 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 860 362 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.25% 2.73% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 2.95% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 229 201
10th Percentile £400 £395 £413
25th Percentile £450 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £813
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £58.75 -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +26.19% -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 17,965 12,280 14,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,777 8,103 9,542
10th Percentile £359 £330 £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 £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 310 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +38 118 £600 +8.11% 148
West London -7 17 £520 +5.58% 30
East London - 4 £460 - 13
South London - 3 £500 - 3
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
1 129 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (11.51%) Apache Spark
3 77 (8.95%) Apache
4 15 (1.74%) SAS
5 13 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.40%) Confluence
7 11 (1.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.58%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 362 (42.09%) Azure
2 335 (38.95%) AWS
3 165 (19.19%) Snowflake
4 150 (17.44%) dbt
5 143 (16.63%) Power Platform
6 124 (14.42%) GCP
7 113 (13.14%) Amazon S3
8 110 (12.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 90 (10.47%) Serverless
10 85 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
11 81 (9.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 80 (9.30%) GitHub
13 74 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (5.58%) Azure Databricks
15 39 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (3.49%) Amazon Bedrock
16 30 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (3.37%) Amazon EMR
18 23 (2.67%) Azure AI
19 21 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.35%) Network Security
2 1 (0.12%) Firewall
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
2 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.12%) SMS
2 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (22.33%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (15.93%) Power BI
3 122 (14.19%) Data Lake
4 92 (10.70%) Metadata
5 75 (8.72%) Delta Lake
6 71 (8.26%) BigQuery
7 59 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (5.58%) Big Data
9 42 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
10 36 (4.19%) Tableau
11 34 (3.95%) NoSQL
12 31 (3.60%) Snowflake Schema
13 30 (3.49%) SQL Server
14 25 (2.91%) Relational Database
15 24 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (2.44%) Looker
16 21 (2.44%) Spark SQL
17 18 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (2.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 108 (12.56%) Git
2 49 (5.70%) GitLab
3 25 (2.91%) JIRA
4 18 (2.09%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.74%) MLflow
6 8 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.93%) Selenium
6 8 (0.93%) Terragrunt
7 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.81%) RStudio
8 6 (0.70%) ERwin
9 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.47%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.35%) Snyk
12 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.12%) JUnit
13 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 250 (29.07%) Finance
2 199 (23.14%) Social Skills
3 140 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (11.74%) Banking
5 60 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.19%) Marketing
7 23 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.44%) Investment Banking
9 20 (2.33%) Front Office
10 19 (2.21%) Retail
11 13 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.28%) Back Office
13 8 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.81%) Billing
14 7 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.81%) Legal
15 6 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 389 (45.23%) Data Engineer
2 135 (15.70%) Senior
3 113 (13.14%) Lead
4 106 (12.33%) Architect
5 91 (10.58%) Senior Data Engineer
6 50 (5.81%) Data Architect
7 48 (5.58%) Databricks Engineer
8 46 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
8 46 (5.35%) Developer
9 42 (4.88%) Analyst
10 40 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
11 39 (4.53%) Snowflake Engineer
12 38 (4.42%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 37 (4.30%) AWS Data Engineer
14 36 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
15 33 (3.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 31 (3.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 27 (3.14%) Data Scientist
18 26 (3.02%) Python Engineer
18 26 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (17.21%) PySpark
2 130 (15.12%) Terraform
3 62 (7.21%) Kafka
4 35 (4.07%) REST
5 24 (2.79%) React
6 19 (2.21%) .NET
7 17 (1.98%) Pandas
8 16 (1.86%) JSON
9 12 (1.40%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.28%) NumPy
11 10 (1.16%) LangChain
12 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (1.05%) TensorFlow
13 8 (0.93%) Apache Avro
13 8 (0.93%) Great Expectations
13 8 (0.93%) pytest
13 8 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (0.93%) scikit-learn
14 7 (0.81%) FastAPI
14 7 (0.81%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 136 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 44 (5.12%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (3.37%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.51%) NHS
7 13 (1.51%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
8 12 (1.40%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.16%) Taxonomies
10 9 (1.05%) Life Science
11 8 (0.93%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.81%) Clustering
12 7 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.86%) Linux
2 8 (0.93%) Unix
3 6 (0.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.12%) VMS
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (50.12%) Data Pipeline
2 409 (47.56%) Analytics
3 339 (39.42%) CI/CD
4 311 (36.16%) Data Modelling
5 300 (34.88%) ETL
6 289 (33.60%) AI
7 216 (25.12%) Agile
7 216 (25.12%) DevOps
8 189 (21.98%) Business Intelligence
9 188 (21.86%) Data Governance
10 165 (19.19%) Machine Learning
11 162 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
12 150 (17.44%) Data Architecture
13 149 (17.33%) Data Transformation
14 133 (15.47%) Infrastructure as Code
15 130 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
16 127 (14.77%) Data Science
16 127 (14.77%) Decision-Making
17 126 (14.65%) Migration
17 126 (14.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 474 (55.12%) SQL
2 466 (54.19%) Python
3 61 (7.09%) Java
4 33 (3.84%) Scala
5 29 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (2.91%) PowerShell
7 24 (2.79%) JavaScript
8 22 (2.56%) C#
9 14 (1.63%) R
10 12 (1.40%) Bash
10 12 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.28%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.05%) Bicep
12 9 (1.05%) SAS Macro
13 7 (0.81%) LookML
13 7 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.81%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.70%) Korn
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
16 4 (0.47%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 119 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 102 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.77%) Degree
4 22 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.21%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.51%) 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%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.47%) PMP
12 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.35%) PhD
14 2 (0.23%) CAPM
14 2 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (33.60%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.65%) QA
3 32 (3.72%) GDPR
4 17 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.47%) PMO
5 4 (0.47%) SLA
6 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
6 3 (0.35%) GRC
6 3 (0.35%) MiFID
7 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.23%) EMIR
7 2 (0.23%) GxP
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.12%) Basel II
8 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 73 (8.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.40%) Ansible
3 7 (0.81%) Control-M
4 5 (0.58%) Grafana
5 3 (0.35%) 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%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 243 (28.26%) Databricks
2 152 (17.67%) Microsoft
3 37 (4.30%) Oracle
4 34 (3.95%) Informatica
5 33 (3.84%) Google
6 18 (2.09%) Foundry
6 18 (2.09%) Palantir
6 18 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.16%) Teradata
9 9 (1.05%) Cloudera
9 9 (1.05%) SAP
10 7 (0.81%) Hitachi
11 6 (0.70%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.70%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (0.70%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.58%) Amplitude
13 4 (0.47%) Mistral
13 4 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.47%) Workday