Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in South London

Data Engineering
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 38 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.49% 0.87% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.98% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £510 -
25th Percentile £499 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% - -
75th Percentile £500 £575 -
90th Percentile - £590 -
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -1.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 205 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 85.78% 89.13% 84.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 136 158
10th Percentile £279 £231 £188
25th Percentile £450 £405 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £528 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +0.96% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £592
90th Percentile £643 £778 £675
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 18
10th Percentile £17.98 - £18.46
25th Percentile £54.41 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £19.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year +213.94% -52.43% -7.06%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.62 £81.28 £69.00
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in South London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Croydon -2 1 £500 -0.10% 7
Data Engineering
London

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow