Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Data Engineer
East London > Tower Hamlets

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Tower Hamlets is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 4.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median daily rate £450 - £285

All Contract IT Job Roles
Tower Hamlets

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets with a recognized job title 68 45 90
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 91.84% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 41 88
10th Percentile £386 £350 £457
25th Percentile £432 £495 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £640 £588 £650
90th Percentile £775 £638 £770
East London median daily rate £453 £518 £540
% change year-on-year -12.56% -4.17% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
East London median hourly rate £24.03 £28.60 £22.91
% change year-on-year -15.98% +24.84% -16.58%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Tower Hamlets.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Tower Hamlets

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
Canary Wharf - 2 £450 - 1
Data Engineer
East London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets

For the 6 months to 9 May 2026, 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 Tower Hamlets region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Pricing Data
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle