Data Engineer Contracts in Central London

Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Central London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 88 112
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 58 91 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.42% 2.47% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 2.59% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 62 55
10th Percentile £413 £450 £421
25th Percentile £463 £477 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £672 £619
90th Percentile £730 £738 £755
London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.75
25th Percentile £46.75 - £48.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £53.00
75th Percentile £50.25 - £58.00
90th Percentile - - £60.25
London median hourly rate £50.50 £72.00 £36.88
% change year-on-year -29.86% +95.25% -10.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,284 3,510 4,244
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 95.12% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,605 2,388 3,219
10th Percentile £340 £325 £356
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £804 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 49
10th Percentile £20.07 £15.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -11.39% +122.69%
75th Percentile £28.98 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £41.88 £87.64 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
City of London +3 50 £525 -8.70% 27
West End of London - 4 - - 1
City of Westminster - 3 £750 - 1
Camden - 1 £625 -
Data Engineer
London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (70.69%) SQL
2 33 (56.90%) Python
3 32 (55.17%) ETL
4 30 (51.72%) Data Modelling
5 25 (43.10%) Data Pipeline
6 22 (37.93%) Azure
7 20 (34.48%) AWS
8 19 (32.76%) Data Engineering
9 18 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
11 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
12 14 (24.14%) Data Quality
12 14 (24.14%) Kafka
12 14 (24.14%) Analytics
13 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
13 13 (22.41%) Serverless
13 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
14 12 (20.69%) Agile
14 12 (20.69%) DevOps
14 12 (20.69%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (18.97%) Parquet
15 11 (18.97%) Databricks
15 11 (18.97%) PySpark
15 11 (18.97%) Business Intelligence
15 11 (18.97%) SQL Server
15 11 (18.97%) JSON
16 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
16 10 (17.24%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (17.24%) Apache Avro
17 9 (15.52%) Terraform

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (12.07%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (10.34%) Apache Spark
3 5 (8.62%) Apache
4 2 (3.45%) Luigi
5 1 (1.72%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (3.45%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) Azure
2 20 (34.48%) AWS
3 13 (22.41%) Serverless
4 12 (20.69%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (13.79%) AWS Step Functions
6 8 (13.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (12.07%) Amazon MSK
7 7 (12.07%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.62%) dbt
8 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
9 4 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.17%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.17%) GCP
10 3 (5.17%) Snowflake
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Firewall
1 1 (1.72%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (18.97%) Parquet
2 11 (18.97%) SQL Server
3 10 (17.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (15.52%) Big Data
5 8 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (13.79%) Data Lake
6 7 (12.07%) DynamoDB
6 7 (12.07%) Relational Database
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (8.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (8.62%) Power BI
8 4 (6.90%) Data Mining
8 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
9 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (5.17%) Tableau
10 2 (3.45%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 2 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Deequ
1 2 (3.45%) GitLab
1 2 (3.45%) JIRA
1 2 (3.45%) Zephyr
2 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Banking
6 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.72%) Police
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Kafka
2 11 (18.97%) JSON
2 11 (18.97%) PySpark
3 10 (17.24%) Apache Avro
4 3 (5.17%) ARM Templates
4 3 (5.17%) JSON Schema
5 2 (3.45%) Great Expectations
5 2 (3.45%) Middleware
5 2 (3.45%) Pandas
5 2 (3.45%) pytest
5 2 (3.45%) REST
5 2 (3.45%) XML
6 1 (1.72%) .NET
6 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.72%) Node.js
6 1 (1.72%) RESTful
6 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
1 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
1 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (3.45%) Life Science
2 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) ETL
2 30 (51.72%) Data Modelling
3 25 (43.10%) Data Pipeline
4 19 (32.76%) Data Engineering
5 14 (24.14%) Analytics
6 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
7 12 (20.69%) Agile
7 12 (20.69%) DevOps
8 11 (18.97%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (13.79%) Data Ingestion
9 8 (13.79%) Migration
10 7 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (12.07%) Data Migration
11 6 (10.34%) Data Integration
11 6 (10.34%) Data Science
11 6 (10.34%) SFIA
12 5 (8.62%) Decision-Making
12 5 (8.62%) Microservices
12 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (8.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (70.69%) SQL
2 33 (56.90%) Python
3 6 (10.34%) T-SQL
4 5 (8.62%) Scala
5 3 (5.17%) C#
5 3 (5.17%) Java
5 3 (5.17%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.45%) Bicep
6 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.45%) XPath
6 2 (3.45%) XQuery
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Terraform
2 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Databricks
2 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 5 (8.62%) SAP
4 3 (5.17%) Informatica
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.45%) Foundry
5 2 (3.45%) NEC
5 2 (3.45%) Palantir
5 2 (3.45%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.72%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce