Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 94 104
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 485 720 1,031
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.78% 2.78% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.97% 2.92% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 553 773
10th Percentile £351 £450 £425
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £48.50 - £34.35
25th Percentile £49.25 £62.00 £44.25
Median hourly rate £51.13 £72.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.99% +39.81% +6.96%
75th Percentile £56.73 £84.38 £61.75
90th Percentile £66.92 £87.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.60% +67.04% +18.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,306 24,641 36,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.23% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,788 17,910 26,919
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.63 £22.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.68 £49.92
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London -1 55 £500 -9.09% 22
South London +14 10 £475 -29.63% 2
West London +11 6 £450 -21.74% 3
East London - 3 £285 - 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 262 (54.02%) Python
2 261 (53.81%) SQL
3 208 (42.89%) Azure
4 175 (36.08%) ETL
5 167 (34.43%) Data Pipeline
6 161 (33.20%) AWS
7 153 (31.55%) Data Modelling
8 146 (30.10%) Data Engineering
9 119 (24.54%) Analytics
9 119 (24.54%) Databricks
10 113 (23.30%) Data Warehouse
11 96 (19.79%) Security Cleared
12 91 (18.76%) Social Skills
13 89 (18.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 89 (18.35%) Finance
14 83 (17.11%) SC Cleared
14 83 (17.11%) PySpark
15 82 (16.91%) Data Quality
16 81 (16.70%) Agile
17 79 (16.29%) Serverless
18 75 (15.46%) Data Lake
18 75 (15.46%) DevOps
19 66 (13.61%) Business Intelligence
20 64 (13.20%) Kafka
21 60 (12.37%) CI/CD
22 58 (11.96%) Big Data
23 56 (11.55%) AWS Lambda
24 53 (10.93%) Public Sector
25 51 (10.52%) Java
26 50 (10.31%) Power Platform

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 50 (10.31%) Apache Spark
2 43 (8.87%) Apache
3 38 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.82%) Luigi
5 3 (0.62%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.62%) Confluence
5 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.41%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 208 (42.89%) Azure
2 161 (33.20%) AWS
3 89 (18.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 79 (16.29%) Serverless
5 56 (11.55%) AWS Lambda
6 50 (10.31%) Power Platform
7 44 (9.07%) Amazon S3
8 40 (8.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 37 (7.63%) GCP
10 30 (6.19%) Amazon Kinesis
11 27 (5.57%) Snowflake
12 25 (5.15%) AWS Step Functions
13 23 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (4.33%) dbt
15 18 (3.71%) Amazon MSK
16 16 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
17 14 (2.89%) Azure Functions
18 13 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
19 11 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 11 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.24%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) BGP
2 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.21%) DHCP
2 1 (0.21%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) LAN
2 1 (0.21%) OSPF
2 1 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.21%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.21%) WAN
2 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (23.30%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (15.46%) Data Lake
3 58 (11.96%) Big Data
4 50 (10.31%) Power BI
5 48 (9.90%) SQL Server
6 40 (8.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (7.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (6.39%) Amazon Athena
9 27 (5.57%) Parquet
10 25 (5.15%) Flink
11 24 (4.95%) NoSQL
12 21 (4.33%) BigQuery
12 21 (4.33%) DynamoDB
12 21 (4.33%) Tableau
13 20 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (3.92%) Relational Database
15 17 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (2.89%) Spark SQL
17 13 (2.68%) Delta Lake
18 11 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (5.77%) Git
2 12 (2.47%) JIRA
3 11 (2.27%) GitLab
4 6 (1.24%) MLflow
5 4 (0.82%) Deequ
6 3 (0.62%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.41%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.21%) Ant
8 1 (0.21%) Gradle
8 1 (0.21%) JUnit
8 1 (0.21%) kappa
8 1 (0.21%) Maven
8 1 (0.21%) RStudio
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (18.76%) Social Skills
2 89 (18.35%) Finance
3 53 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 45 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.95%) Banking
6 11 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 9 (1.86%) Front Office
7 9 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.44%) Retail
9 6 (1.24%) Marketing
10 4 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.62%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.41%) Advertising
12 2 (0.41%) Czech Language
12 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Law
13 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (17.11%) PySpark
2 64 (13.20%) Kafka
3 25 (5.15%) Apache Avro
3 25 (5.15%) JSON
4 14 (2.89%) Pandas
5 11 (2.27%) REST
6 9 (1.86%) NumPy
7 8 (1.65%) ARM Templates
7 8 (1.65%) YAML
8 6 (1.24%) .NET
8 6 (1.24%) SOAP
9 5 (1.03%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.03%) JSON Schema
9 5 (1.03%) Spark Streaming
10 4 (0.82%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.82%) Great Expectations
10 4 (0.82%) Middleware
10 4 (0.82%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.82%) Web Services
11 3 (0.62%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (2.47%) Algorithms
2 10 (2.06%) Data Structures
2 10 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (1.86%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.24%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.03%) Derivative
7 4 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.82%) Hedge funds
7 4 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.62%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.62%) Social Media
8 3 (0.62%) Wiki
9 2 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.41%) Life Science
9 2 (0.41%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.89%) Linux
2 9 (1.86%) Unix
3 2 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (36.08%) ETL
2 167 (34.43%) Data Pipeline
3 153 (31.55%) Data Modelling
4 146 (30.10%) Data Engineering
5 119 (24.54%) Analytics
6 81 (16.70%) Agile
7 75 (15.46%) DevOps
8 66 (13.61%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (12.37%) CI/CD
10 46 (9.48%) Data Integration
10 46 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (8.66%) Data Governance
12 37 (7.63%) Data Ingestion
12 37 (7.63%) Migration
13 33 (6.80%) Data Transformation
14 29 (5.98%) Data Management
15 28 (5.77%) Data Science
16 27 (5.57%) Computer Science
17 26 (5.36%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (5.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 262 (54.02%) Python
2 261 (53.81%) SQL
3 51 (10.52%) Java
4 43 (8.87%) Scala
5 23 (4.74%) C#
6 19 (3.92%) T-SQL
7 11 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.86%) Bicep
9 7 (1.44%) Bash
10 6 (1.24%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.03%) C++
12 4 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.82%) Go
12 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.82%) R
13 3 (0.62%) Perl
14 2 (0.41%) PHP
14 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.41%) XPath
14 2 (0.41%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 96 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 83 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.95%) Degree
4 16 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (16.91%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.06%) QA
3 7 (1.44%) SLA
4 4 (0.82%) GDPR
5 2 (0.41%) IFRS
5 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (3.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 45 (9.28%) Terraform
2 27 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.82%) Ansible
3 4 (0.82%) Argo
4 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.41%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Ganglia
6 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Matomo
6 1 (0.21%) NetMRI
6 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 119 (24.54%) Databricks
2 38 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.98%) Oracle
4 16 (3.30%) Google
5 11 (2.27%) Informatica
6 8 (1.65%) Splunk
7 6 (1.24%) SAP
8 5 (1.03%) Adobe
9 3 (0.62%) Nexthink
9 3 (0.62%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.62%) Palantir
9 3 (0.62%) Talend
10 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.41%) Cadence
10 2 (0.41%) ESRI
10 2 (0.41%) Foundry
10 2 (0.41%) NEC
10 2 (0.41%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.41%) SnapLogic