Data Engineering Contracts in Central London

Data Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 103 151
Rank change year-on-year +2 +48 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 36 75 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.49% 2.04% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.24% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 31
10th Percentile £421 £450 £450
25th Percentile £463 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £738 £730 £775
90th Percentile £758 £756 £800
London median daily rate £595 £627 £600
% change year-on-year -5.06% +4.46% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £85.00 £76.20
% change year-on-year -58.82% +11.55% +118.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,195 3,349 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.74% 91.28% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 2,258 3,100
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 0 30 £650 +8.33% 16
West End of London +5 4 - - 3
City of Westminster +1 3 £650 -3.70% 2
Southwark - 1 £700 -
Camden - 1 £625 - 1
Data Engineering
London

Data Engineering
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 6 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) dbt
3 5 (13.89%) GCP
3 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
3 5 (13.89%) WhatsApp
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.78%) NuGet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (47.22%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (27.78%) Data Lake
3 7 (19.44%) Big Data
4 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
4 5 (13.89%) Power BI
5 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.56%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 2 (5.56%) Data Mart
7 2 (5.56%) Delta Lake
7 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (5.56%) Parquet
7 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.56%) Presto
7 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
1 2 (5.56%) Zephyr
2 1 (2.78%) Deequ
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) ETL Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark Developer
6 1 (2.78%) GCP Consultant
6 1 (2.78%) Lead Big Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) PySpark
2 8 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (5.56%) .NET
3 2 (5.56%) Apache Avro
3 2 (5.56%) JSON
3 2 (5.56%) JSON Schema
3 2 (5.56%) Middleware
3 2 (5.56%) RESTful
3 2 (5.56%) XML
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.78%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.78%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Life Science
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.78%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 19 (52.78%) ETL
3 16 (44.44%) Data Modelling
4 15 (41.67%) Analytics
5 8 (22.22%) Data Science
6 7 (19.44%) Agile
6 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
6 7 (19.44%) Data Integration
7 5 (13.89%) Data Security
7 5 (13.89%) DevOps
7 5 (13.89%) Migration
7 5 (13.89%) Scrum
7 5 (13.89%) SDLC
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (11.11%) Data Governance
8 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) SQL
2 13 (36.11%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) Java
3 4 (11.11%) Scala
3 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.56%) XPath
4 2 (5.56%) XQuery
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Databricks
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle
4 4 (11.11%) SAP
5 2 (5.56%) Foundry
5 2 (5.56%) Palantir
5 2 (5.56%) SnapLogic
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) IBM
6 1 (2.78%) Workday