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 in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 89 109
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 59 93 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.44% 2.53% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.56% 2.67% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 64 52
10th Percentile £413 £450 £419
25th Percentile £463 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £663 £638
90th Percentile £711 £738 £770
London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47.25
25th Percentile £46.75 - £51.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £60.50
75th Percentile £50.25 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - £64.95
London median hourly rate £50.50 £72.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year -29.86% +58.24% +10.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,308 3,483 4,215
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 94.93% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,608 2,364 3,175
10th Percentile £350 £325 £353
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +3.26%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £677
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 23 51
10th Percentile £20.10 £15.50 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £28.59 £61.25 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.50 £87.64 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +6 52 £525 -7.89% 22
West End of London - 4 - - 1
City of Westminster +1 2 - - 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 12 June 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 42 (71.19%) SQL
2 34 (57.63%) Python
3 31 (52.54%) Data Modelling
3 31 (52.54%) ETL
4 25 (42.37%) Data Pipeline
5 24 (40.68%) Azure
6 21 (35.59%) AWS
7 20 (33.90%) Data Engineering
8 19 (32.20%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
10 16 (27.12%) Analytics
10 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
11 14 (23.73%) Data Quality
11 14 (23.73%) Kafka
12 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
12 13 (22.03%) Databricks
12 13 (22.03%) Serverless
12 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
12 13 (22.03%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (22.03%) SQL Server
12 13 (22.03%) Agile
13 12 (20.34%) PySpark
13 12 (20.34%) DevOps
13 12 (20.34%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (18.64%) Parquet
14 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
14 11 (18.64%) JSON
15 10 (16.95%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (16.95%) Big Data
15 10 (16.95%) Apache Avro

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 8 (13.56%) Apache Spark
2 6 (10.17%) Apache
2 6 (10.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.39%) Luigi
4 1 (1.69%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (3.39%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) Azure
2 21 (35.59%) AWS
3 13 (22.03%) Serverless
4 12 (20.34%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (15.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (13.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 8 (13.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (11.86%) Amazon MSK
7 7 (11.86%) Amazon S3
7 7 (11.86%) Power Platform
8 5 (8.47%) dbt
9 4 (6.78%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.08%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.08%) GCP
10 3 (5.08%) WhatsApp
11 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.20%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (22.03%) SQL Server
3 11 (18.64%) Parquet
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (16.95%) Big Data
5 9 (15.25%) Data Lake
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (11.86%) DynamoDB
7 7 (11.86%) Power BI
7 7 (11.86%) Relational Database
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (8.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (8.47%) Hadoop
9 4 (6.78%) Data Mining
9 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
9 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (5.08%) MySQL
10 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (5.08%) Tableau
11 2 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Deequ
1 2 (3.39%) Git
1 2 (3.39%) GitLab
1 2 (3.39%) JIRA
1 2 (3.39%) Zephyr
2 1 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.69%) Police
8 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.73%) Kafka
2 12 (20.34%) PySpark
3 11 (18.64%) JSON
4 10 (16.95%) Apache Avro
5 3 (5.08%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.08%) JSON Schema
6 2 (3.39%) Great Expectations
6 2 (3.39%) Middleware
6 2 (3.39%) Pandas
6 2 (3.39%) pytest
6 2 (3.39%) RESTful
6 2 (3.39%) XML
7 1 (1.69%) .NET
7 1 (1.69%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.69%) Node.js
7 1 (1.69%) REST
7 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
1 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
1 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (3.39%) Life Science
2 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) Data Modelling
1 31 (52.54%) ETL
2 25 (42.37%) Data Pipeline
3 20 (33.90%) Data Engineering
4 16 (27.12%) Analytics
5 13 (22.03%) Agile
5 13 (22.03%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
6 12 (20.34%) DevOps
7 9 (15.25%) Migration
8 8 (13.56%) Data Ingestion
8 8 (13.56%) Data Migration
9 7 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (11.86%) Data Analysis
9 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
10 6 (10.17%) Data Science
10 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (10.17%) Scrum
10 6 (10.17%) SFIA
11 5 (8.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 42 (71.19%) SQL
2 34 (57.63%) Python
3 6 (10.17%) T-SQL
4 5 (8.47%) Scala
5 3 (5.08%) C#
5 3 (5.08%) Java
5 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.39%) Bicep
6 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.39%) R
6 2 (3.39%) XPath
6 2 (3.39%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (23.73%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Terraform
2 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Databricks
2 7 (11.86%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) SAP
4 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.39%) Foundry
5 2 (3.39%) Informatica
5 2 (3.39%) NEC
5 2 (3.39%) Palantir
5 2 (3.39%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.69%) Remedy
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce