25 of 25 Contract Data Engineering Jobs in the South East

Lead Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Lead Data Engineer Hands-on technical leadership building data systems that actually work We're looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join an enterprise data engineering capability and play a critical role in designing, building, and improving real-world data systems . This … line-management role . Instead, it's a senior, hands-on technical leadership position for someone with deep data engineering experience who leads through delivery, judgement, and technical credibility rather than hierarchy. You'll work in a complex environment spanning legacy platforms, modern cloud services, and evolving data ...

Head of Data

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £700 per day
Interim Head of Software & Data Engineering - Contract (1 Day per Month) Location: Midlands-based (Stratford-upon-Avon preferred) Working Pattern: 1 day per month - 3 month contract Contract: Inside IR35 Day Rate: Flexible to a max of £700 We are supporting a Midlands-based organisation in securing … Interim Head of Software & Data Engineering to provide strategic oversight and leadership across both software engineering and data capabilities. This is a light-touch advisory engagement (1 day per month), focused on leadership, direction-setting, and challenge at a senior level rather than ...

Data Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Syntax Consultancy Limited
Location
South East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
550-600/day (Inside IR35)
Data Platform Engineer London (Hybrid) 6 Month Contract £550-600/day (Inside IR35) Data Platform Engineer needed with strong AWS cloud platform migration and Terraform expertise. 6 Month Rolling Contract based in London (Hybrid), with occasional travel to the Leeds office. Hybrid Working - 3-4 days/… office in London . A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects: In-depth Data Engineering experience + AWS cloud data platform migration experience. The role will focus on Data Engineering, cloud platform migration, infrastructure automation ...

Data Architect - Ab Initio

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £550 per day
Data Architect - Ab Initio & Data Governance (Contract | Inside IR35) Farnborough, Hampshire | Hybrid (2 days on site: Tuesday & Wednesday) Rolling contract | Inside IR35 £500-£550 per day - Financial Services organisation I'm currently looking for an experienced Data Architect with strong Ab Initio expertise to join a highly … successful and innovative Data Department within a Financial Services organisation based in Farnborough.This is a rolling contract opportunity where you'll play a key role in governing enterprise data, with Ab Initio as a core technology, shaping architecture standards and enabling well-controlled, high-quality data products ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
London (Hybrid - 2-3 days a week onsite) Daily Rate: Inside IR35 We are seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to spearhead the design, engineering, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native data solutions across our enterprise data platform. This role is perfect for a technically adept engineering lead with expertise in data engineering, full-stack development, cloud platforms, and modern AI-enabled software delivery practices. Day-to-day of the role: Lead the end-to-end delivery of cloud-native data products and applications, including data ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user ...

Principle Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Robert Walters
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Contract Principal Data Scientist (Senior Data Scientist) The Opportunity We're looking for a Principal Data Scientist (Senior Data Scientist level) to lead the development of advanced analytics, AI models, and data-driven solutions that deliver real organisational impact. This role sits at the intersection … data science, AI, and business strategy , combining technical expertise with leadership to shape high-value initiatives and unlock insights from complex data. What You'll Be Doing Build strong relationships with stakeholders to identify opportunities where data science and AI can deliver value Design, develop and deploy advanced ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Robert Half Technology are assisting UK's market leading legal organisation to recruit a Data Engineer on a 12 month contract basis - Hybrid working - London based. A Data Engineer is required to join a growing data team and play a key role in expanding our enterprise data … platform. You will work closely with senior members of the team to help increase capacity and support the continued evolution of the organisation's data capabilities. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with solid data engineering fundamentals who wants to contribute to the design, development ...

BI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Circle Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £530 per day
service of the role it will now be based on an Umbrella solution. Role Profile: You will support the development of a modern data platform and contribute to emerging AI-driven initiatives. * This role will suit someone with a strong foundation in AWS data engineering and BI, alongside practical exposure to AI/ML concepts or tools. * Design, build and optimise data pipelines and data platform components within AWS * Support and enhance Business Intelligence reporting and analytics capabilities * Contribute to the development of a data lake and modern data architecture ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £550 per day
Marketing Data Engineer - Contract London - 2 days a week This freelance assignment stands out due to the immediate impact you will have on live marketing data platforms during a critical delivery period. You will focus primarily on data engineering, owning pipelines and transformations that directly power … dashboards used by media and analytics teams across the business. The Company They are a global digital marketing and analytics organisation with a strong data function supporting paid media, marketplaces and digital measurement. The business operates at scale, using modern cloud infrastructure to deliver trusted, actionable data ...

Data Engineer (Music Ecosystem) - Contractor

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£275 - £300 per day
Data Engineer (Music Ecosystem) Remote This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of data engineering and the music industry, shaping how complex, multi-source data is transformed into meaningful, real-time insight. You will play a central role in building scalable data infrastructure that supports decisions across commercial, creative, and operational teams. The Company They are a data-driven organisation operating across multiple areas of the music ecosystem, including artist management, record label operations, and production. Their approach combines commercial insight with technical innovation to better understand and optimise artist ...

Associate Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Data Scientist Location: London We're looking for a Data Scientist with circa 2-3 years' experience to join a growing data science team. This is a hands-on role where you'll apply your skills to real-world problems, working alongside experienced practitioners and contributing … meaningful, production-focused work. What you'll be doing Designing and delivering data science solutions to solve business problems Applying statistical and analytical techniques to explore data and test hypotheses Writing and maintaining Python code for data processing, analysis and modelling Working with real-world datasets (cleaning ...

Data Analyst / Data Business Analyst London £550/d inside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 per day
Data Analyst or Data Business Analyst | Azure Data Factory | Snowflake and Star | Medallion Architecture | Insurance | Geospatial Data | £550/day Inside IR35 | 6 month Contract | London/City (Hybrid working 2 days in the London office per week). Our client (a global Insurance firm … requirement for an experienced Data Analyst to work with their Data Engineering team for their Azure datawarehouse projects using ADF/Azure Data Factory, ETL process - and Star/Snowflake schemas. You'll also have some experience of Geographical Data/Geospatial Data/ ...

Senior Data Engineer - Scala/Spark

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £550 per day
Senior Data Engineer (Scala/Spark) London | Hybrid Working | Initial 12 month contract | £450-550pd PAYE + holiday pay We are partnering with a world-leading technology organisation seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and operating … large-scale data platforms that support advanced machine learning and recommendation systems used by millions of users globally. This is an opportunity to work on highly complex distributed systems, developing production-grade data pipelines that power critical machine learning workflows at scale. As a Senior Data Engineer ...

Data & Knowledge Architect (AI data foundations)

Hiring Organisation
Computershare flexible Talent
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed. On behalf of Computershare, we are looking for a Data & Knowledge Architect (AI data foundations) for a 12 Months contract based in London or Edinburgh (Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office … . Join us as a Data & Knowledge Architect (AI data foundations) . As a Data & Knowledge Architect, you will define how enterprise data is structured, governed, and transformed into AI-ready assets that power intelligent systems at scale. You will design the knowledge foundations that enable ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
EMBL-EBI
Location
Saffron Walden, Essex, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£60,000
maintains macromolecular structure databases that form essential resources for biologists and other life scientists worldwide. PDBe is a founding partner of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank organisation, which maintains the global archive of 3D structural data on macromolecules the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The PDBe team … PDBe Knowledge Base (PDBe-KB) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB). The PDBe team is international and inter-disciplinary and consists of expert data curators, bioinformaticians, scientific software developers and IT specialists. Your role We seek a skilled and motivated Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Addition
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 per day
Data Engineer Join a high-impact data transformation programme where your expertise will help shape the success of complex migration and reconciliation initiatives. This role offers the chance to work within a cloud-first environment, improving data quality, performance, and scalability while supporting critical business outcomes. Role … Overview: Location: Remote (Must be UK-based) - no third parties Active SC Clearance is essential Package: £550 per day (Outside IR35) Industry: Data & Cloud Transformation Duration: 3-month contract with possibility to extend What You’ll Be Doing: Design, build, and enhance data migration and transformation solutions within ...

Data Integration Director

Hiring Organisation
Sphere Digital Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£300 - £360 per day
Director, Feed Operations to join a leading business in London is looking for a strategic leader to evolve and scale their feed and data capabilities. Based in London 2 days a week in the office 3 months initially Start date: End of June £300 -£360per day (Outside IR35 … Director, Feed Operations, your responsibilities will include: Leading feed operations across the business with a strong strategic focus Consolidating data from multiple sources into effective marketing feeds Driving improvements in platform integration, particularly across social and Meta Partnering with data engineering and data science teams ...

Data & AI Architect

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 - £600 per day
Lead Data & AI Architect (Contract) - London/Hybrid Robert Half International (an S&P 500 global staffing provider) is supporting a client in the search for an experienced Lead Data & AI Architect. This is a highly client-facing role suited to individuals with a strong consulting background … combine deep technical expertise with stakeholder management, solution architecture and strategic advisory capabilities. As a trusted advisor, you will help organisations shape enterprise data strategies, modernise data platforms and build scalable foundations for AI, analytics and business intelligence initiatives. Assignment Details: Initial 3-month contract with strong likelihood ...

Data Engineer - London, UK

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £757 per day
Role: Data Engineer Type: Contract (6 Months) Location: London, UK Working Model: Fully Remote Data Engineer - Financial Engineering The Role: We are seeking a passionate Data Engineer to design scalable, robust systems that turn large-scale consumption and royalty data into accurate payouts. You will … build self-serve tools for our Finance team and develop modular, easily maintainable platform capabilities. Key Requirements: Deep expertise in data engineering with the ability to extend into backend services. Proven experience building pipelines for large-scale transactional or financial data. Fluency in Scala (Scio/Dataflow ...

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half
Location
Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Robert Half Technology are assisting a telecommunications business to recruit a Senior Data Platform Engineer on a 9-month contract basis. Hybrid working - Hampshire/London based. ASAP start. Role * The Senior Data Platform Engineer will take full ownership of the production data platform, including ingestion, orchestration … infrastructure, and observability. * Design, build, and deliver scalable data pipelines across CRM, ERP, and billing systems. * Lead platform readiness activities ahead of a critical NetSuite cutover, including hypercare support. * Build and maintain integrations across Salesforce/Ability (CRM), NetSuite/Sage X3 (ERP), and Billing/BSS platforms. * Implement ...

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half Limited
Location
Fareham, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Robert Half Technology are assisting a leading telecommunications business to recruit a Senior Data Platform Engineer on a contract basis. Hybrid working - 2 days on-site in Hampshire every other week. Role * The Senior Data Platform Engineer will take ownership of the end-to-end production data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, infrastructure, and observability. * Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines across CRM, ERP, and billing systems. * Lead platform readiness activities ahead of a critical NetSuite cutover and provide support during hypercare phases. * Build and maintain integrations across Salesforce/Ability (CRM), NetSuite/Sage ...

Solution Architect - Insurance or Investment management

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£700 - £750 per day
site Insurance of Investment management experience is essential Overview of the role: The Technical Solution Architect is responsible for proactively delivering solution, technical, and data architecture designs for specific areas or segments of the organisation's overall architecture. This will result in deliverables that guide a portfolio of solutions … developers/engineers while heavily managing stakeholders to define requirements and HLDs. Background: Must have Insurance and Investment Management experience. Scope: Broad knowledge across Data, Applications, and Infrastructure (all things Microsoft). Candidates with experience in the following will be of paritcular interest Dynamics 365 (Potential upcoming implementation ...

Fullstack Engineer (Heavy Frontend) - SPFYJP00003550

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 - £600 per day, Negotiable, OTE
will work within a lean, agile team to bridge frontend development with backend systems, transforming how internal engineers interact with, validate, and secure core data pipelines. Your Impact Platform Innovation: Build and scale developer-facing tools and dashboards from scratch to manage data contracts at the code level. … Infrastructure Safeguards: Protect downstream systems (like recommendation engines) by implementing code-level guardrails against data incidents. Capacity Expansion: Act as a critical accelerator for a tight-knit core team, driving rapid prototyping during an essential discovery MVP phase. Cross-Functional Tooling: Balance frontend utility with data engine awareness ...

DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£350 - £400 per day
join a high-profile programmed within a secure government environment. This role focuses on building, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure while supporting data-driven platforms and integrations. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure using AWS Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Support … optimise data processing pipelines using Apache Spark and Airflow Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitLab Containerise applications and services using Docker Conduct and implement security scanning and vulnerability management Work with Jupyter Notebooks for data exploration ...

Technical Delivery Manager

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
digital product initiatives. This is a high-impact position sitting at the heart of a fast-paced, innovative environment, where you will enable engineering and product teams to deliver with clarity, structure, and precision. The Role As a Technical Delivery Lead, you will be accountable for the overall delivery … team cadences Act as the bridge between technical teams and senior stakeholders , translating complex delivery updates into clear business insights Align delivery priorities with engineering capacity and commercial objectives Lead the resolution of delivery challenges, ensuring momentum is maintained without unnecessary process overhead Support programme-level planning , including resource ...