Junior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Junior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Junior Data Engineer daily rate in London is £308, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 372 406
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 +156
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Data Engineer 5 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.032% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.034% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £265 £295 £193
25th Percentile £278 £363 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £331 - £394
90th Percentile £342 £495 £398
England median daily rate £308 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -31.67% +20.00% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Junior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Junior Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Junior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Junior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Junior Data Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Junior Data Engineer job vacancies in London

Junior 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 Junior Data Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 - 2 £294 -
Junior Data Engineer
England

Junior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Junior Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Junior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Ambari
4 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Junior Data Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ambari
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle