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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 118 171
Rank change year-on-year +63 +53 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 788 307 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 2.45% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 2.65% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 216 205
10th Percentile £400 £410 £413
25th Percentile £455 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £559 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -6.88% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +50.00% -58.82%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.38 £38.81
90th Percentile - £62.75 £45.68
England median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
% change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -36.81%

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 16,970 11,588 15,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,314 7,764 11,086
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 214 312
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +14.34% -26.88%
75th Percentile £59.85 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +45 125 £550 - 25
West London -2 28 £625 -19.35% 3
South London - 5 £500 -
East London - 4 £450 - 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
1 103 (13.07%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (11.80%) Apache Spark
3 54 (6.85%) Apache
4 14 (1.78%) SAS
5 13 (1.65%) Confluence
5 13 (1.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.89%) Appian
8 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 14 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Notion
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.25%) Endur
3 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.25%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 341 (43.27%) Azure
2 311 (39.47%) AWS
3 178 (22.59%) Power Platform
4 123 (15.61%) Snowflake
5 118 (14.97%) GCP
6 106 (13.45%) Amazon S3
7 102 (12.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 100 (12.69%) dbt
9 88 (11.17%) GitHub
10 86 (10.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 79 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
12 72 (9.14%) Serverless
13 66 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.68%) Amazon EMR
17 25 (3.17%) Amazon SageMaker
17 25 (3.17%) Azure AI
17 25 (3.17%) Dagster
18 23 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.63%) RTP
2 2 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (20.81%) Power BI
2 155 (19.67%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (19.42%) Data Lake
4 82 (10.41%) Metadata
5 73 (9.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 59 (7.49%) Delta Lake
7 58 (7.36%) BigQuery
8 56 (7.11%) SQL Server
9 53 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
10 52 (6.60%) Big Data
11 44 (5.58%) NoSQL
11 44 (5.58%) Tableau
12 42 (5.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 33 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (4.19%) Relational Database
14 27 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
15 22 (2.79%) Spark SQL
15 22 (2.79%) Star Schema
16 18 (2.28%) Hadoop
16 18 (2.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 98 (12.44%) Git
2 35 (4.44%) GitLab
3 28 (3.55%) MLflow
4 26 (3.30%) JIRA
5 10 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.51%) Postman
7 4 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Snyk
9 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) ERwin
9 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 258 (32.74%) Finance
2 186 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 120 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.26%) Banking
5 56 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.68%) Marketing
7 19 (2.41%) Retail
8 18 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.03%) Front Office
10 14 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.78%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.76%) Legal
16 4 (0.51%) Back Office
16 4 (0.51%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.51%) Military
17 3 (0.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 343 (43.53%) Data Engineer
2 120 (15.23%) Senior
3 101 (12.82%) Architect
4 99 (12.56%) Lead
5 73 (9.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 43 (5.46%) Lead Data Engineer
7 41 (5.20%) Developer
8 37 (4.70%) Analyst
9 36 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (4.57%) Data Architect
10 35 (4.44%) Snowflake Engineer
10 35 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (4.31%) Data Scientist
12 32 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 32 (4.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 28 (3.55%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
15 22 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (2.79%) Cloud Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.79%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (16.24%) PySpark
2 69 (8.76%) Kafka
3 36 (4.57%) Pandas
4 31 (3.93%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.68%) REST
6 25 (3.17%) NumPy
7 23 (2.92%) PyTorch
8 18 (2.28%) TensorFlow
9 13 (1.65%) JSON
9 13 (1.65%) pytest
9 13 (1.65%) Spring
10 12 (1.52%) FastAPI
10 12 (1.52%) LangChain
11 11 (1.40%) Great Expectations
11 11 (1.40%) React
12 10 (1.27%) .NET
12 10 (1.27%) Flask
12 10 (1.27%) XML
12 10 (1.27%) YAML
13 9 (1.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.12%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 26 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
8 18 (2.28%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.78%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.78%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.27%) Clustering
13 9 (1.14%) Equities
13 9 (1.14%) NHS
14 8 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.02%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.17%) Linux
2 15 (1.90%) Unix
3 4 (0.51%) VMS
4 3 (0.38%) Windows
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (51.52%) Analytics
2 370 (46.95%) Data Pipeline
3 309 (39.21%) CI/CD
4 290 (36.80%) ETL
5 286 (36.29%) Data Modelling
6 279 (35.41%) AI
7 215 (27.28%) DevOps
8 200 (25.38%) Business Intelligence
9 184 (23.35%) Agile
10 175 (22.21%) Machine Learning
11 159 (20.18%) Data Governance
12 143 (18.15%) Data Science
13 127 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
14 119 (15.10%) Data Architecture
15 112 (14.21%) Decision-Making
16 109 (13.83%) Migration
17 106 (13.45%) Validation
18 104 (13.20%) Use Case
19 102 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
20 96 (12.18%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 455 (57.74%) SQL
2 439 (55.71%) Python
3 74 (9.39%) Java
4 33 (4.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 32 (4.06%) Scala
6 23 (2.92%) C#
7 19 (2.41%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.52%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.40%) Bicep
10 11 (1.40%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.40%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.27%) R
11 10 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.02%) Bash
13 5 (0.63%) Korn
13 5 (0.63%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.38%) Cypher
14 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.25%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 119 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 106 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.98%) Degree
4 28 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.27%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.51%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.38%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.38%) PhD
15 2 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
16 1 (0.13%) CCSP
16 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.13%) CISSP
16 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (31.09%) Data Quality
2 60 (7.61%) GDPR
3 43 (5.46%) QA
4 7 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.51%) MiFID
7 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.38%) NIST
7 3 (0.38%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.25%) EMIR
8 2 (0.25%) GRC
8 2 (0.25%) GxP
8 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) PMO
9 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.13%) Basel II
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (9.39%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 114 (14.47%) Terraform
2 63 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.63%) Grafana
4 4 (0.51%) Ansible
5 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.25%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 185 (23.48%) Databricks
2 144 (18.27%) Microsoft
3 37 (4.70%) Google
3 37 (4.70%) Informatica
4 25 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 21 (2.66%) Oracle
6 19 (2.41%) Foundry
6 19 (2.41%) Palantir
7 14 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.89%) Automation Anywhere
8 7 (0.89%) UiPath
9 5 (0.63%) Workday
10 4 (0.51%) Amplitude
10 4 (0.51%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.51%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.51%) Denodo
10 4 (0.51%) Hortonworks
10 4 (0.51%) SAP
10 4 (0.51%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.38%) Adobe