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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 99 154
Rank change year-on-year +42 +55 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 874 391 263
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.32% 2.92% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 3.15% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 242 203
10th Percentile £400 £376 £413
25th Percentile £450 £471 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £823
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £57.00 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% -12.50% -23.08%

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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £664 £663 £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 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +39 113 £600 +8.60% 116
West London +6 25 £520 -4.81% 12
South London - 5 £450 - 1
East London - 3 £470 - 10
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
1 135 (15.45%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (11.78%) Apache Spark
3 81 (9.27%) Apache
4 14 (1.60%) SAS
5 13 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.37%) Confluence
7 11 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.57%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.11%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 372 (42.56%) Azure
2 337 (38.56%) AWS
3 166 (18.99%) Snowflake
4 155 (17.73%) dbt
5 141 (16.13%) Power Platform
6 130 (14.87%) GCP
7 117 (13.39%) Amazon S3
8 109 (12.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 91 (10.41%) Serverless
10 80 (9.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 80 (9.15%) GitHub
11 79 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
12 73 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (5.72%) Azure Databricks
14 40 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (3.32%) Amazon Bedrock
16 28 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (2.97%) Amazon EMR
18 25 (2.86%) Azure AI
19 23 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.69%) Network Security
2 2 (0.23%) DNS
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.11%) SMS
3 1 (0.11%) SSL
3 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.11%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (22.43%) Data Warehouse
2 136 (15.56%) Power BI
3 112 (12.81%) Data Lake
4 95 (10.87%) Metadata
5 77 (8.81%) Delta Lake
6 70 (8.01%) BigQuery
7 67 (7.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 47 (5.38%) Big Data
9 41 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (4.35%) NoSQL
11 35 (4.00%) Tableau
12 31 (3.55%) SQL Server
13 30 (3.43%) Snowflake Schema
14 27 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (2.52%) Relational Database
17 19 (2.17%) Spark SQL
18 18 (2.06%) Data Vault
18 18 (2.06%) Looker
19 17 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 116 (13.27%) Git
2 48 (5.49%) GitLab
3 23 (2.63%) JIRA
4 18 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.83%) MLflow
6 8 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 7 (0.80%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.80%) RStudio
7 7 (0.80%) Selenium
8 6 (0.69%) ERwin
9 4 (0.46%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
11 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.11%) Snyk
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 253 (28.95%) Finance
2 214 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 141 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (12.36%) Banking
5 59 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.12%) Marketing
7 24 (2.75%) Front Office
7 24 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.60%) Retail
10 13 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.37%) Back Office
12 11 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.92%) Billing
13 8 (0.92%) Legal
14 7 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.57%) Law
16 5 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 394 (45.08%) Data Engineer
2 138 (15.79%) Senior
3 112 (12.81%) Lead
4 92 (10.53%) Architect
5 91 (10.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 52 (5.95%) Developer
7 48 (5.49%) Analyst
8 47 (5.38%) Databricks Engineer
9 43 (4.92%) Data Architect
10 42 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 41 (4.69%) Snowflake Engineer
12 40 (4.58%) Lead Data Engineer
13 39 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (4.23%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 34 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 34 (3.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 33 (3.78%) AWS Data Engineer
17 29 (3.32%) Data Analyst
17 29 (3.32%) Data Scientist
18 28 (3.20%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (17.62%) PySpark
2 132 (15.10%) Terraform
3 72 (8.24%) Kafka
4 37 (4.23%) REST
5 24 (2.75%) React
6 21 (2.40%) .NET
7 19 (2.17%) Pandas
8 16 (1.83%) JSON
9 13 (1.49%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.37%) NumPy
11 10 (1.14%) LangChain
11 10 (1.14%) scikit-learn
11 10 (1.14%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.03%) FastAPI
12 9 (1.03%) LangGraph
12 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (1.03%) pytest
12 9 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (0.92%) Great Expectations
14 7 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 142 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.75%) Onboarding
3 47 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 38 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (3.55%) AI Agents
7 29 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.60%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
12 11 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.26%) NHS
12 11 (1.26%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.03%) Life Science
13 9 (1.03%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.80%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.17%) Linux
2 8 (0.92%) Windows
3 7 (0.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (50.11%) Data Pipeline
2 403 (46.11%) Analytics
3 354 (40.50%) CI/CD
4 313 (35.81%) Data Modelling
5 300 (34.32%) ETL
6 297 (33.98%) AI
7 233 (26.66%) Agile
8 217 (24.83%) DevOps
9 188 (21.51%) Business Intelligence
9 188 (21.51%) Data Governance
10 176 (20.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 170 (19.45%) Machine Learning
12 149 (17.05%) Data Transformation
13 143 (16.36%) Data Architecture
14 138 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
15 130 (14.87%) Validation
16 127 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
17 126 (14.42%) Data Science
17 126 (14.42%) Decision-Making
18 121 (13.84%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 492 (56.29%) SQL
2 488 (55.84%) Python
3 56 (6.41%) Java
4 31 (3.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (3.43%) Scala
6 27 (3.09%) PowerShell
7 24 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 22 (2.52%) C#
9 14 (1.60%) Bash
9 14 (1.60%) R
10 11 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.03%) Bicep
12 9 (1.03%) Korn
13 8 (0.92%) SAS Macro
13 8 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.80%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.69%) LookML
15 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 98 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.15%) Degree
4 24 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.26%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.46%) PhD
13 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.46%) PMP
13 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.23%) CAPM
14 2 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (34.90%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.23%) QA
3 33 (3.78%) GDPR
4 17 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.57%) GRC
6 4 (0.46%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.46%) PMO
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
7 3 (0.34%) IFRS
7 3 (0.34%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.34%) MiFID
8 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.23%) Basel III
8 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.23%) EMIR
8 2 (0.23%) GxP
8 2 (0.23%) NIST
8 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.11%) Basel II
System Software
1 70 (8.01%) Docker
2 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.60%) Ansible
3 8 (0.92%) Grafana
4 7 (0.80%) Control-M
5 6 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
7 1 (0.11%) Cilium
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 252 (28.83%) Databricks
2 154 (17.62%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.69%) Oracle
4 40 (4.58%) Google
5 31 (3.55%) Informatica
6 19 (2.17%) Palantir
7 18 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.95%) Foundry
8 17 (1.95%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.14%) Teradata
10 9 (1.03%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.03%) SAP
11 7 (0.80%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.69%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.69%) Denodo
12 6 (0.69%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.69%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.57%) Adobe
13 5 (0.57%) Amplitude
14 4 (0.46%) Splunk