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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 96 107
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 500 682 999
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.85% 2.67% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 2.80% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 519 742
10th Percentile £350 £438 £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 £646 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £48.25 - £16.50
25th Percentile £49.25 £62.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £50.50 £72.00 £36.88
Median % change year-on-year -29.86% +95.25% -10.71%
75th Percentile £53.94 £84.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £61.48 £87.75 £63.45
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -10.60% +67.78% +20.00%

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 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
Central London +7 58 £525 -8.70% 22
South London +13 9 £475 -29.63% 1
West London +14 6 £450 -21.74% 3
East London - 3 £285 -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 267 (53.40%) Python
2 262 (52.40%) SQL
3 215 (43.00%) Azure
4 174 (34.80%) ETL
5 170 (34.00%) Data Pipeline
6 164 (32.80%) AWS
7 156 (31.20%) Data Modelling
8 147 (29.40%) Data Engineering
9 127 (25.40%) Analytics
10 123 (24.60%) Databricks
11 119 (23.80%) Data Warehouse
12 97 (19.40%) Social Skills
13 93 (18.60%) PySpark
14 92 (18.40%) Security Cleared
15 91 (18.20%) Azure Data Factory
16 90 (18.00%) Finance
17 85 (17.00%) Data Quality
18 82 (16.40%) DevOps
18 82 (16.40%) Agile
19 80 (16.00%) Data Lake
20 78 (15.60%) Serverless
21 77 (15.40%) SC Cleared
22 70 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
23 68 (13.60%) CI/CD
24 65 (13.00%) Big Data
24 65 (13.00%) Kafka
25 61 (12.20%) Apache Spark
26 54 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
26 54 (10.80%) SQL Server
27 52 (10.40%) Public Sector

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 61 (12.20%) Apache Spark
2 47 (9.40%) Apache
3 46 (9.20%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.00%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) Luigi
6 3 (0.60%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) MIS ActiveH
1 4 (0.80%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) OPENHousing
3 2 (0.40%) Shopify
4 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 215 (43.00%) Azure
2 164 (32.80%) AWS
3 91 (18.20%) Azure Data Factory
4 78 (15.60%) Serverless
5 54 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
6 50 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 49 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 44 (8.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 36 (7.20%) GCP
10 31 (6.20%) Snowflake
11 29 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (5.60%) AWS Step Functions
13 26 (5.20%) Amazon Kinesis
14 25 (5.00%) dbt
15 19 (3.80%) Amazon MSK
16 18 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (3.00%) Azure Functions
18 13 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
19 12 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
20 10 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.00%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) BGP
2 1 (0.20%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.20%) DHCP
2 1 (0.20%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.20%) LAN
2 1 (0.20%) OSPF
2 1 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.20%) WAN
2 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (23.80%) Data Warehouse
2 80 (16.00%) Data Lake
3 65 (13.00%) Big Data
4 54 (10.80%) SQL Server
5 50 (10.00%) Power BI
6 41 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (7.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (6.40%) Amazon Athena
9 27 (5.40%) Parquet
10 26 (5.20%) NoSQL
11 22 (4.40%) BigQuery
11 22 (4.40%) Flink
11 22 (4.40%) Tableau
12 20 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (4.00%) DynamoDB
13 19 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (3.80%) Relational Database
14 17 (3.40%) Spark SQL
15 15 (3.00%) Delta Lake
16 14 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (6.40%) Git
2 13 (2.60%) JIRA
3 11 (2.20%) GitLab
4 9 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.20%) MLflow
6 4 (0.80%) Deequ
7 2 (0.40%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.40%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.20%) Ant
8 1 (0.20%) Gradle
8 1 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.20%) JUnit
8 1 (0.20%) kappa
8 1 (0.20%) Maven
8 1 (0.20%) RStudio
8 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 97 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 90 (18.00%) Finance
3 52 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 51 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.00%) Banking
6 13 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.00%) Retail
8 9 (1.80%) Front Office
8 9 (1.80%) Marketing
9 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.60%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.40%) Advertising
12 2 (0.40%) Czech Language
12 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Law
13 1 (0.20%) Police
13 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (18.60%) PySpark
2 65 (13.00%) Kafka
3 25 (5.00%) Apache Avro
3 25 (5.00%) JSON
4 15 (3.00%) Pandas
5 11 (2.20%) REST
6 10 (2.00%) NumPy
7 8 (1.60%) ARM Templates
7 8 (1.60%) YAML
8 7 (1.40%) pytest
9 6 (1.20%) .NET
9 6 (1.20%) SOAP
9 6 (1.20%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (1.00%) GraphQL
10 5 (1.00%) JSON Schema
11 4 (0.80%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.80%) Great Expectations
11 4 (0.80%) Middleware
11 4 (0.80%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (2.40%) Algorithms
2 10 (2.00%) Data Structures
2 10 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (1.60%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.00%) Derivative
6 5 (1.00%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.80%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.60%) Life Science
8 3 (0.60%) Wiki
9 2 (0.40%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.40%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.40%) Social Media
10 1 (0.20%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.20%) Linux
2 10 (2.00%) Unix
3 2 (0.40%) VMS
4 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (34.80%) ETL
2 170 (34.00%) Data Pipeline
3 156 (31.20%) Data Modelling
4 147 (29.40%) Data Engineering
5 127 (25.40%) Analytics
6 82 (16.40%) Agile
6 82 (16.40%) DevOps
7 70 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
8 68 (13.60%) CI/CD
9 48 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (8.80%) Data Governance
10 44 (8.80%) Data Integration
11 41 (8.20%) Data Ingestion
12 40 (8.00%) Migration
13 36 (7.20%) Data Transformation
14 33 (6.60%) Data Science
15 29 (5.80%) Computer Science
16 28 (5.60%) Data Management
17 27 (5.40%) Continuous Integration
18 26 (5.20%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 267 (53.40%) Python
2 262 (52.40%) SQL
3 50 (10.00%) Java
4 43 (8.60%) Scala
5 22 (4.40%) C#
6 20 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 12 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.80%) Bicep
9 7 (1.40%) Bash
10 6 (1.20%) C++
10 6 (1.20%) Go
10 6 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.00%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.60%) Perl
14 2 (0.40%) Lua
14 2 (0.40%) PHP
14 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.40%) XPath
14 2 (0.40%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 92 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 77 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.20%) Degree
4 17 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (17.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.00%) QA
3 6 (1.20%) SLA
4 4 (0.80%) GDPR
5 2 (0.40%) IFRS
5 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 24 (4.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (9.80%) Terraform
2 34 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.80%) Ansible
3 4 (0.80%) Argo
4 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.40%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Ganglia
6 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.20%) Matomo
6 1 (0.20%) NetMRI
6 1 (0.20%) Packer
6 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 123 (24.60%) Databricks
2 38 (7.60%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.80%) Oracle
4 18 (3.60%) Google
5 10 (2.00%) Informatica
6 8 (1.60%) SAP
7 6 (1.20%) Splunk
8 5 (1.00%) Adobe
8 5 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.80%) NEC
10 3 (0.60%) Nexthink
10 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.60%) Palantir
10 3 (0.60%) SnapLogic
10 3 (0.60%) Talend
11 2 (0.40%) Cadence
11 2 (0.40%) ESRI
11 2 (0.40%) Foundry
11 2 (0.40%) Genesys
11 2 (0.40%) Northgate