19 contract data engineer jobs found in London

Contract Databricks Data Engineer (x2) Location: Primarily Remote (Occasional travel to Worthing, including first day) Contract Length: 6 months Rate: £400 per day IR35 Status: Outside IR35 The Opportunity We're supporting a major organisation that has invested heavily in a modern Databricks-powered data platform, transforming the way data is delivered across the business and enhancing the digital services available to its customers. The business has developed a sophisticated customer-facing portal that leverages high-quality, accessible data to improve user experiences and provide customers with greater visibility and control over their financial journeys. As demand for data services continues to grow, they are looking to bring in two Databricks Data Engineers to support the ongoing evolution and day-to-day operation of the platform. This is an excellent opportunity for engineers who enjoy working within established cloud data environments, contributing across data...

Contract Databricks Data Engineer Role - Remote - £400/pd Please note - this is an Outside IR35 contract role which will require occasional visits to offices in the South of England. To be eligible for this role you must be based in the UK with the unrestricted right to work in the UK. We 're partnering with a well-established financial services organisation that is seeking an experienced Databricks Data Engineer to join their growing data team on an initial 6-month contract. This is a predominantly remote role, with occasional visits to the client 's offices in the South of England. Candidates should be available to attend the office on their first day and subsequently as required for key meetings and collaboration sessions. The Role Working within a highly collaborative data environment, you 'll play a key role in supporting the organisation 's Decision Science Team, ensuring they have access to high-quality, reliable data to drive...

Forward Deployed AI Engineer London, 2 Days On Site Part time - 3 days Per Week 12 Months Long Outside IR35 £450 - £550 Per Day The Company They are a specialist investment-focused organisation with a portfolio of businesses across multiple sectors. They are actively exploring how AI can enhance operations, improve workflows, and unlock efficiencies across their portfolio. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, they are looking for an experienced contractor who can influence strategy while remaining hands-on with delivery. The Role and Deliverables Assess existing business processes and identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and optimisation. Design and build AI solutions using technologies such as LLMs, agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Create practical roadmaps for AI adoption, including prioritised implementation plans. Engage with business stakeholders to communicate opportunities, risks and...

Job Information Date Opened 26/08/2026 Job Type Contract Industry IT Services Work Experience 5+ years Salary £475 - £500 Outside IR35 City London Province Greater London Country United Kingdom Postal Code EC1A Job Description About Scrumconnect Consulting:   Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, and more to deliver innovative digital services that matter   Preferred Tech Stack Expertise Cloud Infrastructure : AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM) Secure Hosting : Experience working with air-gapped or government-secure environments Container & Cluster Management : Docker,...

If you are an experienced Data Engineer/GenAI Developer we have anew contract we would like to discuss with you. Please note this role falls outside IR35 and will require some occasional onsite attendance in London. We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to design and build modern data solutions supporting enterprise AI and Generative AI use cases. This is a hands-on engineering position spanning trusted data pipelines, RAG and LLM services, APIs and production deployment. What you'll do: Design and optimise scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. Build production-ready RAG pipelines covering ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval and grounding. Integrate enterprise data with LLM and AI services through secure, reusable APIs and components. Take AI use cases from prototype through production, including testing, CI/CD, monitoring and troubleshooting. Work with data scientists, AI...

Initial 6 months - Outside IR35 Contract Rate: Up to £400/day Hybrid: 3-day onsite a week Security Operations Engineer | Microsoft Security Technologies | Contract Outside IR35 Hybrid: 3-day onsite (Bank Station) OR Liverpool office Rate: £350-£400/day (Outside IR35) Contract Duration: Initial 6 months with a potential extension Industry: Highly Regulated Environment Job Summary: Seeking for a Security Operations Engineer to join one of our highly regulated client on a contract basis. you'll be responsible for monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to security threats across Microsoft and hybrid environments. you'll play a key role in safeguarding critical business systems through proactive threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, and operational support of core security programmes. Key responsibilities: Investigate and respond to escalated security incidents and events Perform event-based and policy-based threat...

Analytics Engineer l DBT Core l DBT Cloud l Bigquery l Data modelling l data warehouse l SQL l End-to-end l 6-Month Contract | £500- £520 per day | Outside IR35 l Hybrid London We 're working with a fast-moving, product-led business looking for an Analytics Engineer to support their data team on an initial 6-month contract. This is a hands-on role sitting between data engineering and analytics - building clean, reliable data models that power reporting and decision-making across the business with a strong emphasis on DBT You 'll be working closely with BI and engineering teams both onshore and offshore, owning dbt models end-to-end and helping improve data quality, performance, and overall usability. What you 'll be doing: Owning and resolving pipeline failures Building new data marts for the BI team Improving our existing data layer 's performance for BI analysis Migrating existing business semantic logic from Tableau into our dbt project...

AI Technical Lead | Generative AI & Machine Learning 12-Month Contract | £500 - £700 per day | Outside IR35 | London 167 Solutions is working with an organisation looking to appoint an experienced AI Technical Lead to lead the design and delivery of production-ready Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate across AI strategy, architecture and engineering , while still being comfortable getting involved in the technology. The Role You will take technical ownership of AI initiatives from initial concept through to production, working with engineering, product and business stakeholders to build scalable AI solutions. Key responsibilities will include: Leading the technical design and delivery of Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions Designing enterprise-grade LLM, RAG and AI agent architectures Building and integrating conversational,...

DevOps Engineer - Platform Engineer - Security - CAF - CAF 4 - AWS - 3 month contract - Paying up to £500 per day(Outside IR35) - Immediate starters Overview Supporting a well-known UK digital consumer brand on a critical engagement to evidence compliance with the CAF 4 framework. The role combines hands-on cloud security remediation with compliance documentation and stakeholder reporting, primarily across AWS with some GCP involvement. Key Responsibilities Assess current security controls and identify remediation needed to meet CAF 4 compliance objectives Implement changes across AWS infrastructure (and GCP where needed) - covering IAM, MFA, network segmentation, TLS/encryption, centralised logging, and backup/recovery Produce clear, audit-ready documentation and evidence to support compliance outcomes Work with internal teams and third-party suppliers to validate shared security responsibilities Provide weekly progress updates to senior stakeholders,...

DevSecOps Engineer - Platform Engineer - Security - CAF 4 - CAF - AWS - 3 month contract - Paying up to £500 per day(Outside IR35) - Immediate starters Overview Supporting a well-known UK digital consumer brand on a critical engagement to evidence compliance with the CAF 4 framework. The role combines hands-on cloud security remediation with compliance documentation and stakeholder reporting, primarily across AWS with some GCP involvement. Key Responsibilities Assess current security controls and identify remediation needed to meet CAF 4 compliance objectives Implement changes across AWS infrastructure (and GCP where needed) - covering IAM, MFA, network segmentation, TLS/encryption, centralised logging, and backup/recovery Produce clear, audit-ready documentation and evidence to support compliance outcomes Work with internal teams and third-party suppliers to validate shared security responsibilities Provide weekly progress updates to senior stakeholders,...

Cloud Engineer 6-month contract - likelihood of extension £500 - £525 per day, Outside IR35 London - Hybrid One of our clients, a successful and well-respected AI consultancy is looking for a Cloud Engineer They are a specialist data and AI consultancy that helps businesses maximize value using the Databricks platform. They design data strategies, build modern cloud data lakehouses, deploy autonomous AI and generative agents, and create governance frameworks to turn raw data into commercial assets Due to ongoing demand from existing clients and winning a number of new projects, they are looking for a number of experienced Data professionals to join them Essential Skills & Experience 5+ years' experience in Data Engineering Extensive experience with both Terraform and Terragrunt deploying data platforms (preferably Databricks Experience designing scalable data pipelines for machine learning workloads Experience implementing orchestration tools such as...

2x Data Engineering Positions - Lead/Senior/Mid Outside IR35: £450 - £525 per day ASAP Start: 6 months initial contract Primarily remote: at maximum once a month travel to London We're supporting a key client in a major CRM migration programme that's looking to share the future of their growing data function. As part of this, we're looking to engage 2x Data Engineers, 1 Lead/Senior and 1 Senior/Mid level. You'll be joining at a genuinely exciting stage: the business is investing heavily in new technology and modernizing its data platform from the ground up. Rather than inheriting years of technical debt, you'll have the opportunity to influence architecture, standards, and ways of working from the beginning. Tech Stack: * Snowflake * dbt * Python * AWS * PowerBI Responsibilities: * Designing, developing, and evolving scalable Data Warehouse and ELT solutions * Driving modern DataOps practices including CI/CD, GitOps, testing, and automation * Implementing robust,...

Initial 6 months - Outside IR35 Contract Rate: Up to £400/day Hybrid: 3-day onsite a week Security Operations Engineer | Microsoft Security Technologies | Contract Outside IR35 Hybrid: 3-day onsite (Bank Station) OR Liverpool office Rate: £350-£400/day (Outside IR35) Contract Duration: Initial 6 months with a potential extension Industry: Highly Regulated Environment Job Summary: Seeking for a Security Operations Engineer to join one of our highly regulated client on a contract basis. you'll be responsible for monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to security threats across Microsoft and hybrid environments. you'll play a key role in safeguarding critical business systems through proactive threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, and operational support of core security programmes. Key responsibilities: Investigate and respond to escalated security incidents and events Perform event-based and policy-based threat...

Power BI Developer - Retail Transformation 3 Month Contract | Outside IR35 | £450-£500 per day | Hybrid - London We're working with a well-established organisation undergoing a major Retail Transformation Programme and are looking to appoint an experienced Power BI Developer on an initial 3-month Outside IR35 contract, with extension potential. This is a retail-focused position , supporting transformation across Retail, Omnichannel and Finance . We're particularly interested in Power BI Developers who have previously worked within large retail organisations and understand the complexities of delivering reporting across stores, digital/online channels, customer, commercial and finance functions. Essential Retail Experience To be considered, you should be able to demonstrate: Strong previous experience working within the Retail sector . Experience delivering Power BI solutions as part of a Retail Transformation Programme . Exposure to Retail, Omnichannel,...

Technical Delivery Manager Location: Central London (4 days on-site / 1 day remote) Rate: £500 - £550 per day - Outside IR35 Employment Type: Contract Clearance Requirement: Active DV Clearance (Sole UK Nationals only) About the Role We are seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Manager to join a pioneering team working on one of the UK's most significant AI initiatives within the Defence sector. In this role, you will be pivotal in driving the delivery of mission-critical systems built on a cutting-edge technical stack. Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams, product managers, and key stakeholders, you will ensure complex, high-stakes software solutions are delivered predictably, securely, and at pace. Key Responsibilities Technical Delivery & Agile Leadership: Lead agile delivery across multiple engineering workstreams, driving sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives. Architecture & Engineering...

Job Information Date Opened 25/08/2026 Job Type Contract Industry IT Services Work Experience 5+ years Salary £400 - £425 Outside IR35 City London Province Greater London Country United Kingdom Postal Code E14 Job Description About Scrumconnect Consulting Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, we continue to build innovative digital services that truly make a difference. Role Purpose We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure server-side services and APIs, while contributing to the adoption of Agentic AI capabilities within our engineering platform. The role sits at SFIA...

Job Information Date Opened 25/08/2026 Job Type Contract Industry IT Services Work Experience 5+ years Salary £400 - £425 Outside IR35 City London Province Greater London Country United Kingdom Postal Code E14 Job Description About Scrumconnect Consulting Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, we continue to build innovative digital services that truly make a difference. Role Purpose We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure server-side services and APIs, while contributing to the adoption of Agentic AI capabilities within our engineering platform. The role sits at SFIA...

Technical Delivery Manager Location: Central London (4 days on-site/1 day remote) Rate: £500 - £550 per day - Outside IR35 Employment Type: Contract Clearance Requirement: Active DV Clearance (Sole UK Nationals only) About the Role We are seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Manager to join a pioneering team working on one of the UK's most significant AI initiatives within the Defence sector. In this role, you will be pivotal in driving the delivery of mission-critical systems built on a cutting-edge technical stack. Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams, product managers, and key stakeholders, you will ensure complex, high-stakes software solutions are delivered predictably, securely, and at pace. Key Responsibilities Technical Delivery & Agile Leadership: Lead agile delivery across multiple engineering workstreams, driving sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives. Architecture & Engineering...

Data Architect - Insurance - London Market Location: London, UK Working Pattern: Hybrid - 2-3 days per week onsite Contract: Outside IR35 Rate: £450 per day Duration: Contract The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced Data Architect with strong insurance domain experience to join a major insurance organisation in London. This is a hands-on architecture role focused on designing, modernising and governing enterprise data platforms. You'll need strong SQL/PostgreSQL, data modelling, migration and data governance experience, alongside a solid understanding of insurance data and processes. Key Responsibilities Own end-to-end data architecture across transactional, analytical and reporting platforms. Design logical, conceptual and physical data models, schemas, data flows and integration patterns. Lead data migration, database modernisation and optimisation initiatives. Work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, data engineers...