Data Engineering Contracts in London

Data Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 169 141
Rank change year-on-year +58 -28 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 312 261 474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.49% 1.49% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.68% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 194 311
10th Percentile £408 £413 £475
25th Percentile £464 £477 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £648
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -9.65% +7.92%
75th Percentile £784 £700 £759
90th Percentile £838 £761 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £22.00 - £34.78
25th Percentile £36.63 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -53.33% -1.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.81 £84.38
90th Percentile - £45.68 £90.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -53.33% +27.12%

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 11,537 15,496 23,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.66% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,810 11,111 16,940
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 307 270
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.28
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 18 May 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 18 May 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 47 £550 -15.38% 51
West London +13 3 £788 +48.58% 10
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (19.87%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (19.23%) Apache Spark
3 51 (16.35%) Apache
4 7 (2.24%) Confluence
5 3 (0.96%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Luigi
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.32%) Endur
1 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 163 (52.24%) Azure
2 155 (49.68%) AWS
3 65 (20.83%) GCP
3 65 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 59 (18.91%) dbt
5 54 (17.31%) Serverless
6 46 (14.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 40 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (9.62%) Snowflake
10 29 (9.29%) GitHub
11 28 (8.97%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (8.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (8.33%) OpenShift
13 19 (6.09%) Amazon S3
14 17 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
17 10 (3.21%) Azure Machine Learning
18 9 (2.88%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.28%) Firewall
1 4 (1.28%) VPN
2 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (21.47%) Data Lake
2 64 (20.51%) Power BI
3 54 (17.31%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
5 40 (12.82%) Big Data
6 36 (11.54%) Apache Iceberg
7 35 (11.22%) Dremio
8 26 (8.33%) Apache Arrow
8 26 (8.33%) Apache Ignite
8 26 (8.33%) NoSQL
9 22 (7.05%) Metadata
10 19 (6.09%) Tableau
11 18 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (5.77%) BigQuery
12 17 (5.45%) Relational Database
12 17 (5.45%) SQL Server
13 14 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
14 12 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (3.85%) Hadoop
15 10 (3.21%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (8.65%) Artifactory
2 17 (5.45%) Git
3 14 (4.49%) JIRA
4 5 (1.60%) MLflow
5 4 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.28%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.64%) GitLab
6 2 (0.64%) PROIV
7 1 (0.32%) ERwin
7 1 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 123 (39.42%) Finance
2 76 (24.36%) Social Skills
3 51 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (14.10%) Banking
4 44 (14.10%) Front Office
5 22 (7.05%) Investment Banking
6 21 (6.73%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.81%) Retail
8 11 (3.53%) Marketing
9 9 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.24%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (1.28%) Police
14 3 (0.96%) Local Government
15 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (57.37%) Data Engineer
2 44 (14.10%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (12.82%) Python Engineer
4 35 (11.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (10.26%) Lead
6 31 (9.94%) AWS DevOps
6 31 (9.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 29 (9.29%) Senior
8 24 (7.69%) Developer
9 23 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (6.73%) Senior Data Engineer
11 20 (6.41%) Azure Data Engineer
12 18 (5.77%) Python Developer
13 16 (5.13%) Architect
13 16 (5.13%) AWS Data Engineer
14 14 (4.49%) Lead Data Engineer
15 12 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
15 12 (3.85%) Project Manager
15 12 (3.85%) Python Data Engineer
16 10 (3.21%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (20.83%) PySpark
2 57 (18.27%) Kafka
3 26 (8.33%) J2EE
4 22 (7.05%) NumPy
4 22 (7.05%) Pandas
5 20 (6.41%) React
5 20 (6.41%) SciPy
6 17 (5.45%) FastAPI
7 12 (3.85%) Flask
8 11 (3.53%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.53%) Polars
8 11 (3.53%) Vue
9 8 (2.56%) Plotly
10 7 (2.24%) .NET
10 7 (2.24%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.24%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.24%) TensorFlow
11 6 (1.92%) Play Framework
11 6 (1.92%) REST
12 5 (1.60%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (3.53%) Hedge funds
3 9 (2.88%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.96%) FMCG
7 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.64%) Derivative
8 2 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.64%) NHS
8 2 (0.64%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.64%) Solar Panel
9 1 (0.32%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.13%) Linux
2 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (39.42%) Analytics
2 120 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
3 112 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 104 (33.33%) ETL
5 100 (32.05%) Agile
6 96 (30.77%) DevOps
7 92 (29.49%) Data Modelling
8 77 (24.68%) Business Intelligence
9 72 (23.08%) Software Engineering
10 58 (18.59%) Data Science
11 55 (17.63%) Machine Learning
12 51 (16.35%) Data Integration
13 50 (16.03%) Data Governance
14 49 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (15.71%) Visualisation
15 46 (14.74%) Artificial Intelligence
16 43 (13.78%) Decision-Making
17 36 (11.54%) Asset Management
18 35 (11.22%) Data Architecture
18 35 (11.22%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 205 (65.71%) Python
2 152 (48.72%) SQL
3 66 (21.15%) Java
4 36 (11.54%) Scala
5 26 (8.33%) Go
6 22 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.81%) C++
8 11 (3.53%) C#
8 11 (3.53%) Rust
9 9 (2.88%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (2.24%) Bicep
11 7 (2.24%) R
12 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.64%) ANSI SQL
13 2 (0.64%) Bash
14 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.32%) SAS Macro
14 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 33 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.37%) Degree
4 11 (3.53%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.21%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.24%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.92%) PMP
10 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.64%) MBA
12 1 (0.32%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.32%) PhD
12 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (24.68%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.17%) QA
4 8 (2.56%) GDPR
5 2 (0.64%) PMO
6 1 (0.32%) GRC
6 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 66 (21.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) HDFS
3 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 74 (23.72%) Terraform
2 70 (22.44%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.28%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.32%) Ansible
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.32%) Grafana
5 1 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 88 (28.21%) Databricks
2 34 (10.90%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.65%) Google
4 10 (3.21%) Oracle
5 9 (2.88%) Informatica
6 7 (2.24%) SAP
7 6 (1.92%) Palantir
8 4 (1.28%) IBM
8 4 (1.28%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (0.96%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.64%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.64%) Cribl.io
10 2 (0.64%) DataRobot
10 2 (0.64%) Splunk
10 2 (0.64%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.64%) Wallstreet Suite
11 1 (0.32%) Foundry
11 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.32%) Talend
11 1 (0.32%) Tealium