Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Data Engineering
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 6.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £449 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £545 - -
East London median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 64 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 98.33% 98.46% 97.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 53 76
10th Percentile £396 £360 £427
25th Percentile £450 £495 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -1.82%
75th Percentile £775 £594 £606
90th Percentile £779 £630 £758
East London median daily rate £549 £530 £505
% change year-on-year +3.54% +4.95% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
East London median hourly rate £24.43 £37.00 £21.80
% change year-on-year -33.99% +69.76% -20.64%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Tower Hamlets

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 29 July 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 - 4 £450 - 1
Data Engineering
East London

Data Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Base SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SAS Macro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft