Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 92 103
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 499 716 1,046
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.82% 2.72% 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 2.86% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 548 778
10th Percentile £350 £446 £425
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -0.86% +5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £688
90th Percentile £704 £750 £750
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile £48.75 - £34.35
25th Percentile £49.25 £62.00 £44.25
Median hourly rate £51.75 £72.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +39.81% -15.23%
75th Percentile £61.75 £84.38 £61.75
90th Percentile £66.13 £87.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £45.10
% change year-on-year +5.47% +41.91% +18.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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 +9 57 £500 -12.28% 16
South London +17 10 £475 -29.63% 3
West London +7 6 £450 -21.74% 4
East London - 3 £285 - 1
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 269 (53.91%) SQL
1 269 (53.91%) Python
2 214 (42.89%) Azure
3 177 (35.47%) ETL
4 170 (34.07%) Data Pipeline
5 166 (33.27%) AWS
6 157 (31.46%) Data Modelling
7 150 (30.06%) Data Engineering
8 124 (24.85%) Databricks
9 121 (24.25%) Analytics
10 116 (23.25%) Data Warehouse
11 99 (19.84%) Security Cleared
12 98 (19.64%) Social Skills
13 95 (19.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 88 (17.64%) Finance
15 86 (17.23%) SC Cleared
16 84 (16.83%) Serverless
16 84 (16.83%) PySpark
17 83 (16.63%) Data Quality
18 81 (16.23%) Agile
19 78 (15.63%) Data Lake
20 75 (15.03%) DevOps
21 70 (14.03%) Business Intelligence
22 65 (13.03%) Kafka
23 60 (12.02%) AWS Lambda
24 59 (11.82%) Big Data
25 57 (11.42%) CI/CD
26 54 (10.82%) Power BI
26 54 (10.82%) Power Platform
27 53 (10.62%) SQL Server

Data Engineer Skill Set
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 50 (10.02%) Apache Spark
2 45 (9.02%) Apache
3 39 (7.82%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.80%) Luigi
5 3 (0.60%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.60%) Confluence
5 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 214 (42.89%) Azure
2 166 (33.27%) AWS
3 95 (19.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 84 (16.83%) Serverless
5 60 (12.02%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (10.82%) Power Platform
7 45 (9.02%) Amazon S3
7 45 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (8.02%) GCP
9 31 (6.21%) Amazon Kinesis
9 31 (6.21%) Snowflake
10 26 (5.21%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (4.41%) dbt
13 18 (3.61%) Amazon MSK
14 15 (3.01%) Azure Functions
14 15 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) BGP
2 1 (0.20%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.20%) DHCP
2 1 (0.20%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.20%) LAN
2 1 (0.20%) OSPF
2 1 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.20%) WAN
2 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (23.25%) Data Warehouse
2 78 (15.63%) Data Lake
3 59 (11.82%) Big Data
4 54 (10.82%) Power BI
5 53 (10.62%) SQL Server
6 45 (9.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (7.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (6.21%) Amazon Athena
9 27 (5.41%) Parquet
10 25 (5.01%) Flink
11 23 (4.61%) NoSQL
11 23 (4.61%) Relational Database
12 22 (4.41%) DynamoDB
12 22 (4.41%) Tableau
13 21 (4.21%) BigQuery
14 20 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (3.01%) Spark SQL
16 13 (2.61%) Delta Lake
16 13 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (5.21%) Git
2 12 (2.40%) JIRA
3 9 (1.80%) GitLab
4 6 (1.20%) MLflow
5 4 (0.80%) Deequ
6 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.40%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.20%) Ant
8 1 (0.20%) Gradle
8 1 (0.20%) JUnit
8 1 (0.20%) kappa
8 1 (0.20%) Maven
8 1 (0.20%) RStudio
General
1 98 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.64%) Finance
3 52 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.01%) Banking
6 11 (2.20%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.00%) Front Office
8 9 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.60%) Retail
10 6 (1.20%) Marketing
11 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.60%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.40%) Advertising
13 2 (0.40%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.40%) Law
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Electronics
14 1 (0.20%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (16.83%) PySpark
2 65 (13.03%) Kafka
3 25 (5.01%) Apache Avro
3 25 (5.01%) JSON
4 16 (3.21%) Pandas
5 11 (2.20%) NumPy
5 11 (2.20%) REST
6 8 (1.60%) ARM Templates
6 8 (1.60%) YAML
7 6 (1.20%) .NET
7 6 (1.20%) SOAP
8 5 (1.00%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.00%) JSON Schema
8 5 (1.00%) Spark Streaming
9 4 (0.80%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.80%) Great Expectations
9 4 (0.80%) Middleware
9 4 (0.80%) Web Services
10 3 (0.60%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (0.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (2.61%) Algorithms
2 10 (2.00%) Data Structures
2 10 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (1.80%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.20%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.00%) Derivative
6 4 (0.80%) Hedge funds
6 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.60%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.60%) Social Media
7 3 (0.60%) Wiki
8 2 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.40%) Life Science
8 2 (0.40%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.81%) Linux
2 9 (1.80%) Unix
3 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (35.47%) ETL
2 170 (34.07%) Data Pipeline
3 157 (31.46%) Data Modelling
4 150 (30.06%) Data Engineering
5 121 (24.25%) Analytics
6 81 (16.23%) Agile
7 75 (15.03%) DevOps
8 70 (14.03%) Business Intelligence
9 57 (11.42%) CI/CD
10 48 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (9.22%) Data Integration
12 44 (8.82%) Data Governance
13 38 (7.62%) Migration
14 37 (7.41%) Data Ingestion
15 34 (6.81%) Data Transformation
16 29 (5.81%) Data Management
16 29 (5.81%) Data Science
17 28 (5.61%) Computer Science
18 27 (5.41%) Visualisation
19 25 (5.01%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 269 (53.91%) Python
1 269 (53.91%) SQL
2 51 (10.22%) Java
3 44 (8.82%) Scala
4 23 (4.61%) C#
5 20 (4.01%) T-SQL
6 11 (2.20%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.80%) Bicep
8 6 (1.20%) Bash
9 5 (1.00%) C++
9 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.80%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.80%) R
11 3 (0.60%) Perl
12 2 (0.40%) Lua
12 2 (0.40%) PHP
12 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.40%) XPath
12 2 (0.40%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 99 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 86 (17.23%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.61%) Degree
4 16 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (16.63%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.20%) QA
3 8 (1.60%) SLA
4 4 (0.80%) GDPR
5 3 (0.60%) IFRS
5 3 (0.60%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 16 (3.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (9.22%) Terraform
2 25 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.80%) Ansible
3 4 (0.80%) Argo
4 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.20%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.20%) Matomo
5 1 (0.20%) NetMRI
Vendors
1 124 (24.85%) Databricks
2 42 (8.42%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.41%) Oracle
4 16 (3.21%) Google
5 12 (2.40%) Informatica
6 6 (1.20%) SAP
6 6 (1.20%) Splunk
7 5 (1.00%) Adobe
7 5 (1.00%) Talend
8 3 (0.60%) Nexthink
8 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.60%) Palantir
9 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.40%) Cadence
9 2 (0.40%) ESRI
9 2 (0.40%) Foundry
9 2 (0.40%) NEC
9 2 (0.40%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.40%) SnapLogic