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Dec 03, 2025
up to 6 Months
Principal Data Engineer at Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, UK Wide, 3 months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy United Kingdom
On behalf of DSIT we are looking for a Principal Data Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 3 month contract (until 31/03/26) . Remote working.  The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) brings together the relevant parts of the former Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the former Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The responsibilities for the DSIT are: Positioning the UK at the forefront of global scientific and technological advancement. Driving innovations that change lives and sustain economic growth. Delivering talent programmes, physical and digital infrastructure, and regulation to support our economy, security, and public services. R&D funding. The Technology & Science Insights (TSI) team in the Government Office for Science has recently completed a major data transition project, moving from API ingestion to internally hosted data on a cloud platform. This strategic shift has...
Contract Spy
Dec 03, 2025
Duration not stated
Senior Data Engineer at Methods Business and Digital Technology, Ledbury, £600-£700 per day
£600 - £700 per day
Contract Spy Ledbury HR8, UK
Senior Data Engineer On-site Full time Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future. Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet. We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we...
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Dec 02, 2025
up to 6 Months
Principal Data Engineer at Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, Remote, 3 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Remote (United Kingdom)
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) brings together the relevant parts of the former Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the former Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).   The responsibilities for the DSIT are: Positioning the UK at the forefront of global scientific and technological advancement. Driving innovations that change lives and sustain economic growth. Delivering talent programmes, physical and digital infrastructure, and regulation to support our economy, security, and public services. R&D funding.   The Technology & Science Insights (TSI) team in the Government Office for Science has recently completed a major data transition project, moving from API ingestion to internally hosted data on a cloud platform. This strategic shift has improved cost efficiency, data quality, and automation.   We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Data...
Contract Spy
Dec 01, 2025
Hourly/Freelance
Data Engineer - AI Trainer at DataAnnotation, Remote, £Hourly Rate
Contract Spy Remote
Join the DataAnnotation team and contribute to developing cutting-edge AI systems, while enjoying the flexibility of remote work and setting your own schedule. We are looking for a proficient Data Engineer to help advance AI development. As a member of DataAnnotation’s coding team, you’ll be part of a growing community of over 100,000 professionals — including front-end, back-end, full-stack, machine learning, and other engineers — who are driving real-world impact in AI development. Our platform offers an engaging blend of flexibility and challenge: you’ll work closely with state-of the art AI models to take on programming tasks that include creating and solving challenging coding problems, building beautiful apps with rich functionality, and synthesizing insights through data analysis and visualization. Your work directly contributes to refining intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and evolve. Some team members fit this work alongside a...
Contract Spy
Nov 27, 2025
Duration not stated
Data Engineer at EFTbook, Remote, £B2B Contract Rate
Contract Spy Remote
Data Engineer Location:  Remote (European Time Zone) Contract Type:  B2B About Us:  is a Swiss SaaS company providing data, analytics, and custom solutions in the Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) space. Founded in 2020, we aim to make global ETF data accessible, actionable, and valuable for institutional participants, including ETF issuers, index providers, fund service providers, market makers, exchanges, and buy-side institutions. We develop a platform which offers comprehensive insights through a user-friendly web application and robust APIs, covering areas such as product analysis, fund flow tracking, performance comparisons, and liquidity assessments. About the role:  You’ll join a highly skilled data engineering team, part of a technology department. This team develops and maintains a cutting-edge platform on Azure using most advanced technologies (e.g. Azure Databricks) to support all core business functions. Your primary goal will be building...
Contract Spy
Nov 26, 2025
Duration not stated
Senior Data Engineer at Methods Business and Digital Technology, Ledbury, £600-£700 per day
£600 - £700 per day
Contract Spy Ledbury HR8, UK
Senior Data Engineer On-site Full time Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future. Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet. We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we...
Contract Spy
Nov 24, 2025
Hourly/Freelance
Data Engineer - AI Trainer at DataAnnotation, Remote, £Hourly Rate
Contract Spy Remote
Join the DataAnnotation team and contribute to developing cutting-edge AI systems, while enjoying the flexibility of remote work and setting your own schedule. We are looking for a proficient Data Engineer to help advance AI development. As a member of DataAnnotation’s coding team, you’ll be part of a growing community of over 100,000 professionals — including front-end, back-end, full-stack, machine learning, and other engineers — who are driving real-world impact in AI development. Our platform offers an engaging blend of flexibility and challenge: you’ll work closely with state-of the art AI models to take on programming tasks that include creating and solving challenging coding problems, building beautiful apps with rich functionality, and synthesizing insights through data analysis and visualization. Your work directly contributes to refining intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and evolve. Some team members fit this work alongside a...
Contract Spy
Nov 21, 2025
Hourly/Freelance
Data Engineer (OCR & Data Pipelines) at Intelance, United Kingdom, £450-£750 per day
£450 - £750 per day
Contract Spy United Kingdom
Intelance is a specialist architecture and AI consultancy working with clients in regulated, high-trust environments (healthcare, pharma, life sciences, financial services). We are assembling a lean senior team to deliver an AI-assisted clinical report marking tool for a UK-based, UKAS-accredited organisation in human genetic testing. We are looking for a Data Engineer (OCR & Pipelines) who can turn messy PDFs and documents into clean, reliable, auditable data flows for ML and downstream systems. This is a contract / freelance role (2-3 days/week) working closely with our AI Solution Architect, Lead ML Engineer, and Integration Engineer. Tasks   Design and implement the end-to-end data pipeline for the project: ○ Ingest PDF/Word reports from secure storage ○ Run OCR / text extraction and layout parsing ○ Normalise, structure, and validate the data ○ Store outputs in a form ready for ML and integration.  ...
Contract Spy
Nov 21, 2025
Duration not stated
Senior Data Engineer at CreateFuture, London, 6 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, England, United Kingdom
Who We Are CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country. We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, adidas, Natwest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few. Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe,...
Contract Spy
Nov 19, 2025
Duration not stated
Senior Data Engineer at Methods Business and Digital Technology, Ledbury, £600-£700 per day
£600 - £700 per day
Contract Spy Ledbury HR8, UK
Senior Data Engineer On-site Full time Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future. Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet. We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we...
Contract Spy
Nov 18, 2025
6 Months or more
Data Engineer at bigspark, Glasgow/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Data Engineer - Glasgow Hybrid - 6 month contract - Inside IR35 About Bigspark We are creating a world of opportunity for businesses by responsibly harnessing data and AI to enable positive change. We adapt to our clients needs and then bring our engineering, development and consultancy expertise. Our people and our solutions ensure they head into the future equipped to succeed. Our clients include Tier 1 Banking and Insurance clients, we have also been listed in the Sunday Times Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies. The Role Were looking for a Data Engineer to developer enterprise-scale data platforms and pipelines that power analytics, AI, and business decision-making. You'll work in a hybrid capacity which will require 2 days per month onsite in Glasgow offices. What You'll Do Develop highly available, scalable batch and streaming pipelines (ETL/ELT) using modern orchestration frameworks. Integrate and process large, diverse datasets across hybrid...
Contract Spy
Nov 17, 2025
Hourly/Freelance
Data Engineer - AI Trainer at DataAnnotation, Remote, £Hourly Rate
Contract Spy Remote
Join the DataAnnotation team and contribute to developing cutting-edge AI systems, while enjoying the flexibility of remote work and setting your own schedule. We are looking for a proficient Data Engineer to help advance AI development. As a member of DataAnnotation’s coding team, you’ll be part of a growing community of over 100,000 professionals — including front-end, back-end, full-stack, machine learning, and other engineers — who are driving real-world impact in AI development. Our platform offers an engaging blend of flexibility and challenge: you’ll work closely with state-of the art AI models to take on programming tasks that include creating and solving challenging coding problems, building beautiful apps with rich functionality, and synthesizing insights through data analysis and visualization. Your work directly contributes to refining intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and evolve. Some team members fit this work alongside a...
Contract Spy
Nov 14, 2025
Duration not stated
Mid Data Engineer (SQL, Python) at Toucanberry Tech, Remote, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
Contract Spy Remote (London, UK)
The Role As a Mid Data Engineer at Toucanberry Tech, you will join one of our high-performing consultant teams, delivering cutting-edge solutions for our financial services clients. This is a hands-on role where your data analysis skills and financial acumen will be essential to supporting senior business experts. You will be moving beyond the limitations of standard tools like Excel to solve complex data challenges. Working directly with critical data in the reinsurance domain, performing data crunching & providing actionable insights that inform key decisions. Key Responsibilities Perform complex data manipulation and analysis to support senior business experts and stakeholders. Utilize Python and its data libraries to handle large datasets and automate analytical tasks. Design and execute robust data mapping and analysis projects. Work with our expert teams to understand client needs and translate them into effective data solutions.  ...
Contract Spy
Nov 12, 2025
6 Months or more
Data Engineer at Homes England, Remote/Birmingham/Liverpool, 6 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Remote (Birmingham, UK)
Homes England, the government's housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.   As a Data Engineer , your main responsibilities will be: Function as a Data Engineering Subject Matter Expert individual contributor, provide technical leadership and guidance in the development and implementation of analytics solutions for the organisation. Support the Head of Engineering & Platform and Lead Data Engineer to ensure that the team 's work is aligned with the agency 's strategic objectives and business needs, and that it follows the agency 's data standards and practices. Design and implement automated solutions for data collection, management, cleaning, and organisation....
Contract Spy
Nov 14, 2025
Duration not stated
Senior AI/Data Engineer at CreateFuture, Leeds/Remote, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (Leeds, UK)
Who We Are CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country. We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, adidas, Natwest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few. Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe,...
Contract Spy
Nov 14, 2025
Duration not stated
Senior AI/Data Engineer at CreateFuture, London/Remote, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Who We Are CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country. We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, adidas, Natwest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few. Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe,...
Contract Spy
Nov 14, 2025
Duration not stated
Senior AI/Data Engineer at CreateFuture, Edinburgh/Remote, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (Edinburgh, UK)
Who We Are CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country. We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, adidas, Natwest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few. Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe,...
Contract Spy
Nov 18, 2025
Duration not stated
AI Data Engineering Lead at GSMA, London/Remote, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
  Department: Technology Team: AI Location: London with hybrid ways of working Position type: Short Term Contract (Inside IR35) until the end of Dec 2026   What the hiring manager says As an AI Data Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our efforts to build open telco models and advance AI in the telecom sector. This is a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge data engineering pipelines, collaborate with academic and industry partners, and contribute to the development of synthetic data and knowledge resources that will shape the future of telecom AI.   About the Team You’ll join a dynamic, cross-functional team dedicated to advancing AI capabilities in the telecom sector. Our team is growing rapidly, with a culture of collaboration and technical excellence. We value curiosity, initiative, and a drive to set new benchmarks for the industry.   About the role You will lead the GSMA commitment to opensource...
Contract Spy
Nov 21, 2025
Duration not stated
Lead ML Engineer (Document AI NLP) at Intelance, London, £500-£800 per day
£500 - £800 per day
Contract Spy London, England, United Kingdom
Intelance is a specialist architecture and AI consultancy working with clients in regulated, high-trust environments (healthcare, pharma, life sciences, financial services). We are building a lean senior team to deliver an AI-assisted clinical tool for a UK-based organisation in human genetic testing. We are looking for a Lead ML Engineer who can turn messy real-world documents into reliable, explainable model outputs. This is a contract / freelance role, part-time (2-3 days/week), working closely with our AI Solution Architect and Data Engineer. Tasks   Design and implement the ML/NLP core of an AI-assisted marking tool that: ○ Ingests clinical-style reports (PDF/Word) via an OCR + parsing pipeline ○ Extracts relevant content and features ○ Applies a hybrid scoring approach (rules + LLM / transformer models) ○ Outputs scores, rationales, and confidence levels.   Build and iterate prompting / few-shot setups and rule...
Contract Spy
Nov 21, 2025
Duration not stated
AI Solution Architect (Document AI) at Intelance, London, £550-£800 per day
£550 - £800 per day
Contract Spy London, England, United Kingdom
Intelance is a specialist architecture and AI consultancy working with clients in regulated, high-trust environments (healthcare, pharma, life sciences, financial services). We are building a small senior team to deliver an AI-assisted clinical tool for a UK-based organisation in human genetic testing. This is a contract / freelance role where you will act as the lead AI Solution Architect on a real production system . Tasks   Own the end-to-end solution architecture for an AI-assisted tool that reads clinical-style reports (PDF/Word), applies scoring rules, and returns explainable outputs into an existing assessment platform. Translate business goals, marking rubrics, and regulatory constraints into a concrete technical blueprint (data flows, components, interfaces, security boundaries). Design a hybrid scoring approach that combines deterministic rules with LLM-powered NLP, including confidence scoring, thresholds, and human-in-the-loop workflows....
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