Palantir Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Palantir Engineer
England > London

The median Palantir Engineer daily rate in London is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 354 383
Rank change year-on-year -74 +29 -
Contract jobs requiring a Palantir Engineer 6 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% 0.060% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.064% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £466 £488 -
25th Percentile £528 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £703 £694 £663
90th Percentile £731 £719 -
England median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +56.25%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,761 12,437 15,287
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.92% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,131 8,375 10,577
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 207 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.69
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.87% -11.24%
75th Percentile £60.63 £50.25 £54.06
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.56
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.63%

Palantir Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Palantir Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Palantir Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Palantir Engineer job vacancies in London

Palantir Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palantir Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palantir Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 2026, Palantir 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 Palantir Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Foundry
1 6 (100.00%) Palantir
1 6 (100.00%) Palantir Foundry
2 5 (83.33%) PySpark
2 5 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Ontologies
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) Big Data
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (50.00%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) AI
5 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (33.33%) Data Science
5 2 (33.33%) GCP
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (33.33%) GitLab
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) NumPy
5 2 (33.33%) Pandas
5 2 (33.33%) Parallel Computing
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (33.33%) Terraform

Palantir 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 6 (100.00%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Parquet
2 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) NumPy
2 2 (33.33%) Pandas
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) Ontologies
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Parallel Computing
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Foundry
1 6 (100.00%) Palantir
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
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