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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 110 168
Rank change year-on-year +50 +58 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 795 337 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.02% 2.48% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 2.70% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 232 209
10th Percentile £402 £408 £417
25th Percentile £456 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £763 £838 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -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% -57.58%
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% -37.82%

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 17,610 12,492 15,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.11% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,678 8,360 10,852
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 240 266
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.12
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.25 £31.75 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -1.99% -21.94%
75th Percentile £57.81 £50.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £70.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +52 124 £575 +4.55% 36
West London +6 23 £625 -19.35% 5
East London - 4 £450 - 5
South London - 3 £590 - 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
1 111 (13.96%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (10.44%) Apache Spark
3 62 (7.80%) Apache
4 15 (1.89%) SAS
5 14 (1.76%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (1.64%) Confluence
7 10 (1.26%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.50%) Appian
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
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 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (1.13%) 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
1 335 (42.14%) Azure
2 319 (40.13%) AWS
3 157 (19.75%) Power Platform
4 133 (16.73%) Snowflake
5 124 (15.60%) GCP
6 115 (14.47%) dbt
7 107 (13.46%) Amazon S3
8 93 (11.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 86 (10.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 81 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (9.94%) GitHub
12 74 (9.31%) Serverless
13 66 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
16 27 (3.40%) Amazon SageMaker
17 25 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (3.14%) Dagster
18 23 (2.89%) Amazon Bedrock
18 23 (2.89%) Azure AI
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
1 160 (20.13%) Data Warehouse
2 144 (18.11%) Power BI
3 138 (17.36%) Data Lake
4 84 (10.57%) Metadata
5 68 (8.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 65 (8.18%) BigQuery
7 55 (6.92%) Delta Lake
8 49 (6.16%) Big Data
9 48 (6.04%) Amazon Athena
9 48 (6.04%) Tableau
10 41 (5.16%) NoSQL
11 39 (4.91%) SQL Server
12 37 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
13 28 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
14 27 (3.40%) Relational Database
15 24 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (2.89%) Star Schema
17 17 (2.14%) MongoDB
17 17 (2.14%) Spark SQL
18 15 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 100 (12.58%) Git
2 31 (3.90%) GitLab
3 27 (3.40%) JIRA
4 25 (3.14%) MLflow
5 11 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.38%) ERwin
8 3 (0.38%) Postman
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Snyk
9 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 247 (31.07%) Finance
2 171 (21.51%) Social Skills
3 139 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.81%) Banking
5 64 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.40%) Marketing
7 19 (2.39%) Front Office
8 18 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.26%) Retail
9 16 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.88%) Legal
14 5 (0.63%) Back Office
14 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.50%) Billing
16 3 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 347 (43.65%) Data Engineer
2 115 (14.47%) Senior
3 104 (13.08%) Architect
4 99 (12.45%) Lead
5 67 (8.43%) Senior Data Engineer
6 48 (6.04%) Developer
7 46 (5.79%) Lead Data Engineer
8 42 (5.28%) Analyst
8 42 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
9 41 (5.16%) Data Architect
10 38 (4.78%) Data Scientist
11 36 (4.53%) Snowflake Engineer
12 35 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
13 33 (4.15%) AWS Data Engineer
14 31 (3.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 30 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
16 27 (3.40%) Data Analyst
17 23 (2.89%) Azure Data Engineer
18 22 (2.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (15.35%) PySpark
2 68 (8.55%) Kafka
3 29 (3.65%) Pandas
4 27 (3.40%) REST
5 26 (3.27%) scikit-learn
6 20 (2.52%) NumPy
7 18 (2.26%) PyTorch
8 15 (1.89%) JSON
9 14 (1.76%) React
10 13 (1.64%) TensorFlow
11 12 (1.51%) .NET
11 12 (1.51%) Great Expectations
12 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (1.38%) Spring
13 9 (1.13%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.13%) LangChain
13 9 (1.13%) XML
14 8 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (1.01%) Seaborn
14 8 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (5.28%) Legacy Systems
3 34 (4.28%) Data Structures
4 30 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.39%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
8 15 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.51%) NHS
12 11 (1.38%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.26%) Clustering
13 10 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.01%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.88%) Reinsurance
16 7 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.40%) Linux
2 15 (1.89%) Unix
3 4 (0.50%) VMS
3 4 (0.50%) Windows
4 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (51.45%) Analytics
2 383 (48.18%) Data Pipeline
3 303 (38.11%) CI/CD
4 291 (36.60%) Data Modelling
5 276 (34.72%) ETL
6 258 (32.45%) AI
7 202 (25.41%) DevOps
8 190 (23.90%) Agile
9 182 (22.89%) Business Intelligence
10 178 (22.39%) Machine Learning
11 161 (20.25%) Data Governance
12 139 (17.48%) Data Science
13 131 (16.48%) Data Architecture
14 127 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (14.84%) Migration
16 117 (14.72%) Decision-Making
16 117 (14.72%) Validation
17 109 (13.71%) Use Case
18 102 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
19 101 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 455 (57.23%) SQL
2 444 (55.85%) Python
3 78 (9.81%) Java
4 30 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (3.40%) Scala
6 25 (3.14%) C#
7 18 (2.26%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.51%) SAS Macro
10 11 (1.38%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.26%) Bicep
11 10 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.13%) Bash
12 9 (1.13%) R
13 6 (0.75%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.50%) Cypher
14 4 (0.50%) Korn
14 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.38%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 123 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.67%) Degree
4 26 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.26%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.26%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.50%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.25%) CSPO
15 2 (0.25%) PhD
16 1 (0.13%) CCSP
16 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (30.44%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.79%) GDPR
3 46 (5.79%) QA
4 17 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.38%) GxP
5 3 (0.38%) MiFID
5 3 (0.38%) NIST
5 3 (0.38%) PMO
5 3 (0.38%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.25%) EMIR
6 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.13%) COPPA
7 1 (0.13%) GRC
7 1 (0.13%) IFRS
7 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.13%) PERC
System Software
1 67 (8.43%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (13.21%) Terraform
2 57 (7.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.63%) Ansible
3 5 (0.63%) Grafana
4 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.25%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Kibana
6 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 181 (22.77%) Databricks
2 139 (17.48%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.28%) Google
4 38 (4.78%) Informatica
5 22 (2.77%) Oracle
6 21 (2.64%) Foundry
6 21 (2.64%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.64%) Palantir
7 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.88%) SAP
9 5 (0.63%) Amplitude
9 5 (0.63%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.63%) Workday
10 4 (0.50%) Automation Anywhere
10 4 (0.50%) Charles River
10 4 (0.50%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.50%) Denodo
10 4 (0.50%) Hortonworks
10 4 (0.50%) Murex
10 4 (0.50%) UiPath