Data Engineering Contracts in London

Data Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 147 209
Rank change year-on-year -17 +62 -33
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 255 473 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.46% 1.82% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.00% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 314 406
10th Percentile £410 £463 £475
25th Percentile £475 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £628 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% +4.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £761 £700
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile - £34.63 £61.52
25th Percentile - £45.00 £66.41
Median hourly rate £35.00 £77.50 £76.20
Median % change year-on-year -54.84% +1.71% +118.46%
75th Percentile £38.81 £88.13 £84.36
90th Percentile £45.68 £90.00 £88.29
England median hourly rate £41.75 £73.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -42.81% +18.70% +64.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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 -3 33 £625 +4.17% 15
South London +9 5 £513 -25.45% 3
West London +16 1 £530 +0.95% 1
East London - 1 £750 - 53
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 34 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 20 (7.84%) Apache
3 15 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.18%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.18%) Tornado
5 2 (0.78%) Confluence
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 130 (50.98%) Azure
2 91 (35.69%) AWS
3 41 (16.08%) GCP
4 40 (15.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 34 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 33 (12.94%) Serverless
7 32 (12.55%) Power Platform
8 22 (8.63%) Snowflake
9 21 (8.24%) Amazon S3
10 15 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (5.49%) Azure Functions
12 13 (5.10%) dbt
13 11 (4.31%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (4.31%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.53%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) BGP
1 2 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (0.78%) DHCP
1 2 (0.78%) DNS
1 2 (0.78%) HTTP
1 2 (0.78%) Network Security
1 2 (0.78%) OSPF
1 2 (0.78%) SNMP
1 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (19.22%) Data Lake
3 38 (14.90%) Big Data
4 32 (12.55%) Power BI
5 24 (9.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (7.84%) SQL Server
7 17 (6.67%) Delta Lake
8 16 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (5.10%) Flink
10 13 (5.10%) NoSQL
10 13 (5.10%) Spark SQL
10 13 (5.10%) Tableau
11 9 (3.53%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (2.75%) BigQuery
14 6 (2.35%) OLAP
14 6 (2.35%) OLTP
15 5 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (1.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (5.10%) Git
2 12 (4.71%) JIRA
3 3 (1.18%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.39%) Deequ
5 1 (0.39%) MLflow
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.96%) Finance
3 34 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.45%) Banking
6 11 (4.31%) Retail
7 8 (3.14%) Marketing
8 4 (1.57%) Front Office
8 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.78%) Advertising
10 2 (0.78%) Back Office
10 2 (0.78%) Czech Language
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
10 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Law
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 146 (57.25%) Data Engineer
2 42 (16.47%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (14.12%) Azure Data Engineer
4 33 (12.94%) Lead
5 28 (10.98%) Senior
6 26 (10.20%) Developer
7 21 (8.24%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (7.45%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
10 16 (6.27%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (5.49%) Analyst
12 13 (5.10%) Architect
13 11 (4.31%) Python Developer
14 10 (3.92%) Consultant
14 10 (3.92%) Data Architect
15 9 (3.53%) Python Engineer
16 7 (2.75%) Business Analyst
16 7 (2.75%) Data Analyst
17 6 (2.35%) Python Data Engineer
17 6 (2.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.18%) PySpark
2 34 (13.33%) Kafka
3 8 (3.14%) .NET
4 6 (2.35%) Pandas
5 5 (1.96%) Node.js
5 5 (1.96%) pytest
5 5 (1.96%) React
5 5 (1.96%) RESTful
6 4 (1.57%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.57%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.18%) Bokeh
7 3 (1.18%) Django
7 3 (1.18%) Flask
7 3 (1.18%) gRPC
7 3 (1.18%) JSON
7 3 (1.18%) OAuth
7 3 (1.18%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.18%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (1.18%) SciPy
7 3 (1.18%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.14%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.35%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
4 3 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.78%) Clustering
5 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.78%) Market Risk
5 2 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (0.78%) Solar Panel
6 1 (0.39%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.39%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (37.25%) Analytics
2 92 (36.08%) ETL
3 86 (33.73%) Data Pipeline
4 78 (30.59%) Agile
5 68 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 59 (23.14%) DevOps
7 55 (21.57%) CI/CD
8 44 (17.25%) Business Intelligence
9 37 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (13.33%) Data Integration
10 34 (13.33%) Visualisation
11 32 (12.55%) Data Science
12 31 (12.16%) Data Governance
13 24 (9.41%) Computer Science
13 24 (9.41%) Data Visualisation
14 23 (9.02%) Data Architecture
14 23 (9.02%) Data Transformation
15 22 (8.63%) Data Analysis
16 21 (8.24%) Machine Learning
17 20 (7.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 146 (57.25%) SQL
2 135 (52.94%) Python
3 21 (8.24%) Java
3 21 (8.24%) Scala
4 13 (5.10%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.53%) C#
6 9 (3.53%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.18%) C++
8 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.78%) Go
9 2 (0.78%) Perl
9 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.78%) R
9 2 (0.78%) XPath
9 2 (0.78%) XQuery
10 1 (0.39%) Bash
10 1 (0.39%) Bicep
10 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.04%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.41%) Degree
4 16 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.78%) CCDP
7 2 (0.78%) CCNP
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.18%) QA
3 2 (0.78%) GDPR
3 2 (0.78%) IFRS
3 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
3 2 (0.78%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (3.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 16 (6.27%) Terraform
2 9 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.39%) Matomo
3 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 82 (32.16%) Databricks
2 29 (11.37%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.67%) Oracle
4 14 (5.49%) Google
5 10 (3.92%) Foundry
5 10 (3.92%) Palantir
6 8 (3.14%) SAP
7 7 (2.75%) Informatica
8 4 (1.57%) Talend
9 2 (0.78%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.78%) Arista
9 2 (0.78%) Aruba
9 2 (0.78%) Cadence
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
9 2 (0.78%) Confluent
9 2 (0.78%) ESRI
9 2 (0.78%) IBM
9 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.78%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.78%) Zscaler