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Jul 31, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Data Engineer (Python/ETL/SQL) at e-Synergy, London/Remote, £Flexible Rate
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Senior Data Engineer (Python / ETL / SQL) Associate | Flexible rate | Remote Overview We're supporting a large-scale Workday HCM implementation and are looking for several experienced Data Engineers to join the programme immediately. This is a hands-on role working alongside senior stakeholders and delivery partners to support data migration, transformation and integration activities, helping ensure the successful delivery of a critical HR transformation programme.   What you'll be doing Supporting data migration and transformation activities for a Workday HCM implementation Designing and building data pipelines and ETL processes Extracting, cleansing, transforming and loading data into Workday Working closely with business, HR and technology stakeholders to resolve data quality challenges Supporting data validation, reconciliation and testing activities Collaborating with implementation partners and...
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Jul 31, 2026
up to 6 Months
Principal AI Data Engineer at Deloitte, London, 4 Months, £Day Rate
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Principal AI Data Engineer   London, United Kingdom | Posted on 30/07/2026 Contract role: Principal AI Data Engineer Contract Location: London, 5 days onsite weekly Contract Start Date: August 2026 Contract Duration: 4 months   ​Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll  Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay   Job Description:   Key Responsibilities Develop and evaluate AI/GenAI/AgenticAI prototypes using tools like Copilot Studio, AI Foundry and Copilot Analyst Agent, Mosiac AI, Genie, AgentBricks, MLflow with a focus on quick wins and enterprise integration. Build and tune Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, including embedding model selection, prompt engineering, and traceable evaluation. Design and deploy basic AI agents using frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, and smolagents Communicate complex AI concepts clearly to business stakeholders and...
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Jul 28, 2026
Duration not stated
Principal Data Engineer at UST, London/Remote, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Role description Principal Data Engineer Nottingham/ London (Hybrid) Contract Inside IR35/ Permanent   About the Role As a Principal Data Engineer, you will combine deep technical expertise with engineering leadership to drive the design, development and evolution of our cloud-scale data platform. You will provide technical leadership across distributed data processing, data products, streaming architectures and data platform capabilities, while remaining hands-on with coding, design and engineering best practices. You will play a key role in shaping engineering standards, mentoring teams, influencing technical direction and delivering robust, scalable data solutions that enable our Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Governance teams to unlock business value.   What You'll Do Lead the design, development and continuous evolution of cloud-scale data platforms and data products across batch and streaming workloads...
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Jul 24, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Data Engineer at Legal 500, London, 6 Months, £400-£500 per day
£400 - £500 per day
Contract Spy London, UK
Skills & Experience Job roles: Data Engineer Experience level: Senior Tech stack/tooling used: dbt, Snowflake, SQL Core skills considered: dbt, SQL, Python, Snowflake Logistics Base salary: £400 - £500 per day Employment type: Freelance/Contract Remote working: Hybrid (up to 3 remote days p/w) Visa sponsorship: Not available Job Description Location: London, Fleet Street (Hybrid) Contract: Initial 6 Months Start Date: ASAP Work Pattern: Minimum 3 days per week in the office, with flexibility for more office-based working if preferred. About the Role We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer Contractor to join our growing Data team on a project-focused engagement. Over the coming months, several business-critical applications are being deployed into production, creating a significant volume of...
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Jul 23, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Data Engineer at LegalEase, London Fleet Street/Remote, 6 Months initial, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London Area, United Kingdom)
Location: London, Fleet Street (Hybrid) Contract: Initial 6 Months Start Date: ASAP Work Pattern: Minimum 3 days per week in the office, with flexibility for more office-based working if preferred.   About the Role We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer Contractor to join our growing Data team on a project-focused engagement.   Over the coming months, several business-critical applications are being deployed into production, creating a significant volume of data remodelling work as source systems evolve. We're looking for someone who can quickly embed into the team, take ownership of this workstream, and deliver impact from day one.   This role is ideally suited to someone with a strong consultancy or contracting background who enjoys solving complex data transformation challenges and is comfortable operating with minimal oversight.   What You'll Be Doing Remodelling and transforming data as...
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Jul 21, 2026
Duration not stated
Principal Data Engineer at UST, London/Remote, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Role description Principal Data Engineer Nottingham/ London (Hybrid) Contract Inside IR35/ Permanent     About the Role As a Principal Data Engineer, you will combine deep technical expertise with engineering leadership to drive the design, development and evolution of our cloud-scale data platform. You will provide technical leadership across distributed data processing, data products, streaming architectures and data platform capabilities, while remaining hands-on with coding, design and engineering best practices. You will play a key role in shaping engineering standards, mentoring teams, influencing technical direction and delivering robust, scalable data solutions that enable our Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Governance teams to unlock business value.     What You'll Do Lead the design, development and continuous evolution of cloud-scale data platforms and data products across batch and...
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Jul 16, 2026
6 Months or more
Manager - (Quantexa) Data Engineer at KPMG, London/Remote, 6 Months, £Contractor Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Role Title: Manager - (Quantexa) Data Engineer Contract Length: 6 months Engagement Type:  Umbrella or PAYE Location: London / hybrid Requirement: Current SC Clearance / Quantexa Technical Certification is mandatory ALL KPMG UK CONTRACTORS MUST RESIDE AND HAVE PROOF OF RIGHTS TO WORK IN THE UK The KPMG Data Engineering function is a cornerstone of our business. We do work that matters to our local business and communities – supporting technical innovation and adoption of cutting-edge solutions across the UK. Working on complex engagements in Quantexa solutions this team is responsible for the delivery of cutting-edge technical solutions and trusted to get it right first time. KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancy businesses, we've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK...
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Jul 16, 2026
6 Months or more
Assistant Manager - (Quantexa) Data Engineer at KPMG, London/Remote, 6 Months, £Contractor Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Role Title: Assistant Manager - (Quantexa) Data Engineer Contract Length: 6 months Engagement Type:  Umbrella or PAYE Location: London / hybrid Requirement: Current SC Clearance / Quantexa Technical Certification is mandatory ALL KPMG UK CONTRACTORS MUST RESIDE AND HAVE PROOF OF RIGHTS TO WORK IN THE UK The KPMG Data Engineering function is a cornerstone of our business. We do work that matters to our local business and communities – supporting technical innovation and adoption of cutting-edge solutions across the UK. Working on complex engagements in Quantexa solutions this team is responsible for the delivery of cutting-edge technical solutions and trusted to get it right first time.   KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancy businesses, we've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses...
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Jul 15, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Data Engineer at LegalEase, London Fleet Street/Remote, 6 Months initial, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London Area, United Kingdom)
Location: London, Fleet Street (Hybrid) Contract: Initial 6 Months Start Date: ASAP Work Pattern: Minimum 3 days per week in the office, with flexibility for more office-based working if preferred.   About the Role We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer Contractor to join our growing Data team on a project-focused engagement.   Over the coming months, several business-critical applications are being deployed into production, creating a significant volume of data remodelling work as source systems evolve. We're looking for someone who can quickly embed into the team, take ownership of this workstream, and deliver impact from day one.   This role is ideally suited to someone with a strong consultancy or contracting background who enjoys solving complex data transformation challenges and is comfortable operating with minimal oversight.   What You'll Be Doing Remodelling and transforming data as...
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Jul 14, 2026
Duration not stated
Principal Data Engineer at UST, London/Remote, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Role description Principal Data Engineer Nottingham/ London (Hybrid) Contract Inside IR35/ Permanent     About the Role As a Principal Data Engineer, you will combine deep technical expertise with engineering leadership to drive the design, development and evolution of our cloud-scale data platform. You will provide technical leadership across distributed data processing, data products, streaming architectures and data platform capabilities, while remaining hands-on with coding, design and engineering best practices. You will play a key role in shaping engineering standards, mentoring teams, influencing technical direction and delivering robust, scalable data solutions that enable our Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Governance teams to unlock business value.     What You'll Do Lead the design, development and continuous evolution of cloud-scale data platforms and data products across batch and...
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Jul 13, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Data Engineer at Legal 500, London, 6 Months, £400-£500 per day
£400 - £500 per day
Contract Spy London Area, United Kingdom
Location: London, Fleet Street (Hybrid) Contract: Initial 6 Months Start Date: ASAP Work Pattern: Minimum 3 days per week in the office, with flexibility for more office-based working if preferred.   About the Role We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer Contractor to join our growing Data team on a project-focused engagement.   Over the coming months, several business-critical applications are being deployed into production, creating a significant volume of data remodelling work as source systems evolve. We're looking for someone who can quickly embed into the team, take ownership of this workstream, and deliver impact from day one.   This role is ideally suited to someone with a strong consultancy or contracting background who enjoys solving complex data transformation challenges and is comfortable operating with minimal oversight.   What You'll Be Doing Remodelling and transforming data as...
Contract Spy
Jul 16, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Manager - (Quantexa) Data Engineer at KPMG, London/Remote, 6 Months, £Contractor Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Role Title: Senior Manager - (Quantexa) Tech Lead Contract Length: 6  months Engagement Type:   Umbrella or PAYE Location:  London / hybrid Mandatory Requirement: Current SC Clearance /  Quantexa Technical Certification      ALL KPMG UK CONTRACTORS MUST RESIDE AND HAVE PROOF OF RIGHTS TO WORK IN THE UK   At KPMG, our Data & AI practice is a fast-growing and strategic capability. We combine technical implementation with deep domain understanding to deliver high-impact solutions for our clients. Within this space, Quantexa plays a critical role in enabling advanced entity resolution, network generation, and contextual analytics across complex data ecosystems.   The Role – Quantexa Tech Lead We are seeking a Quantexa Tech Lead to join our growing team and play a key role in the delivery of data-driven solutions using the Quantexa platform. The ideal candidate will be Quantexa...
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Jul 30, 2026
Duration not stated
Data Platform Engineer at Crosstide, Remote/London, £550-£650 per day
£550 - £650 per day
Contract Spy Remote (City of London, London, UK)
Data Platform Engineer 3 months Contract outside IR35   A data or platform engineer with strong Python skills and a track record of building data infrastructure is required for an asap start to provide ongoing operational support and build new solutions for a data lakehouse and scale it out to serve internal analytics and AI use cases that boost productivity across the business. Play a key role in modernising our legacy monolithic SQL Server database — extracting data into our lakehouse and other parallel data stores, introducing data retention policies, and helping migrate to modern SQL frameworks and languages.   Tech stack: Databricks, DBT, Fivetran, Python, SQL, AWS, Terraform, Kafka, ECS, Kubernetes. Location: London HQ but mainly remote.
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Jul 30, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Full Stack Data Quality Engineer at Tokio Marine, London St Botolph, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
Contract Spy London, UK
Senior Full Stack Data Quality Engineer Assignment type: Outside IR35   The supplier will be engaged to provide specialist hands-on data quality engineering services to the Finance & Data Reporting Product Team across TMHCC’s modern data platform testing, data quality engineering, and test automation.   The engagement is focused on delivering agreed testing and automation outcomes across defined operational assurance priorities and initiative delivery outcomes. The supplier will validate data across the full data lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, data lake, data warehouse, reporting and BI, APIs, metadata, lineage, and reconciliation.   Assignment Tasks / Deliverables   Full Stack Data Quality Engineering: Design and execute data quality testing across ingestion, transformation, warehouse, reporting/BI, APIs, metadata, lineage, and reconciliation layers. Validate Snowflake data lake and data...
Contract Spy
Jul 28, 2026
6 Months or more
Data Scientist/AI Engineer at BP, London Canary Wharf, 12 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Canary Wharf, London, UK
Published 1 day ago Job Title: Data Scientist/ AI Engineer Job Location: 4 days in Canary Wharf, ideally 4 days per week onsite Contract Length: 12 Months Industry: Oil and Energy / HR Technology Working Hours: 40 hours per week   Summary We’re looking for engineers who think holistically, automate relentlessly, and are fluent in the fast-moving world of AI tooling and infrastructure—but grounded in disciplined engineering principles. Our AI organization is building high-impact AI-powered applications that deliver real business value at speed. As a Senior AI Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in building and deploying scalable AI-powered applications through solid software engineering excellence combined with pragmatic use of modern AI capabilities. This is a role for seasoned engineers who are excited about applying AI in practical and scalable ways. We’re looking for individuals who thrive at the...
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Jul 23, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Full Stack Data Quality Engineer at Tokio Marine, London St Botolph, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
Contract Spy London, UK
Senior Full Stack Data Quality Engineer Assignment type: Outside IR35   The supplier will be engaged to provide specialist hands-on data quality engineering services to the Finance & Data Reporting Product Team across TMHCC’s modern data platform testing, data quality engineering, and test automation.   The engagement is focused on delivering agreed testing and automation outcomes across defined operational assurance priorities and initiative delivery outcomes. The supplier will validate data across the full data lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, data lake, data warehouse, reporting and BI, APIs, metadata, lineage, and reconciliation.   Assignment Tasks / Deliverables   Full Stack Data Quality Engineering: Design and execute data quality testing across ingestion, transformation, warehouse, reporting/BI, APIs, metadata, lineage, and reconciliation layers. Validate Snowflake data lake and data...
Contract Spy
Jul 16, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Full Stack Data Quality Engineer at Tokio Marine, London St Botolph, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
Contract Spy London, UK
Senior Full Stack Data Quality Engineer Assignment type: Outside IR35   The supplier will be engaged to provide specialist hands-on data quality engineering services to the Finance & Data Reporting Product Team across TMHCC’s modern data platform testing, data quality engineering, and test automation.   The engagement is focused on delivering agreed testing and automation outcomes across defined operational assurance priorities and initiative delivery outcomes. The supplier will validate data across the full data lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, data lake, data warehouse, reporting and BI, APIs, metadata, lineage, and reconciliation.   Assignment Tasks / Deliverables   Full Stack Data Quality Engineering: Design and execute data quality testing across ingestion, transformation, warehouse, reporting/BI, APIs, metadata, lineage, and reconciliation layers. Validate Snowflake data lake and data...
Contract Spy
Jul 16, 2026
6 Months or more
Cyber-Security/Information Security Senior Threat Modeler at Deloitte, London, 6 Months, £Competitive Day Rate
Contract Spy London, England, United Kingdom
Role: Senior Threat Modeler Location: London / Belfast Start Date: ASAP End Date: 6 Months Daily Rate: Competitive Day Rate, Inside IR35 Payroll provider – Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay Responsibilities Threat Modeling using a documented process. Development of automation tools as required. Maintain a high standard of work in identifying threats and specifying mitigating controls. Attending to the lifecycle of identified threats and controls. Delivery of threat models and supporting tasks within existing timeframes. Provide feedback, support, and improvements to the existing threat modeling process. Present work to seniors, the team, and other technical teams. Train newer members of the team Supervise junior members of the team Run parts of our threat model service Work with little supervision to complete work Develop, test, and deploy secure and efficient Python-based...
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Jul 28, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Software Engineer at Softwire, London Area, £500-£600 per day (Outside IR35)
£500 - £600 per day
Contract Spy London Area, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer - Outside IR35 - Contract (Energy)   About the role   We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (ideally with some Data Engineering experience) to join our client team in the energy trading sector.   End date is not certain, but likely to be December 2026 or early Q1 2027.   We are looking for experience in the following technologies:   Microsoft Azure ecosystem Understanding of networking & security options in Microsoft Azure Infrastructure-as-code (preferably Bicep) Python   Experience in the below would also be beneficial:   Azure DevOps (pipelines) SQL   We generally spend 2 days per week on-site with the client in central London (Monday & Thursday).   £500-600 per day outside IR35   Start date: 10/08/2026 End date: December 2026 or early Q1 2027   About Softwire  ...
Contract Spy
Jul 28, 2026
Duration not stated
kdb+ Contractor (Capital Markets) at Data Intellect, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Company Description Join the world’s largest kdb+ Consultancy where every query matters, every millisecond counts and every system you build shapes the future of data-driven finance. At Data Intellect , we thrive on solving complex data challenges in high-stakes environments. We’re a team of engineers, problem-solvers and collaborators who believe in pushing boundaries, not egos. If you're a proficient kdb+ developer ready to lead, innovate and make an impact, we want to hear from you. Job Description As a Senior kdb+ Engineer at [DI] you’ll be at the forefront of delivering high-performance, scalable solutions for some of the world’s most data-intensive financial institutions. You’ll: Lead technical delivery on client projects, setting the standard for quality and performance. Design and implement robust kdb+ architectures that handle billions of rows of time-series data. Collaborate with quants, traders, and analysts to...
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