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Data engineering contracts

UK public sector · 121 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
121
Last 12 months
Median contract
£393k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£748m
116 of 117 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
79
Suppliers
96

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most data engineering contracts took 17% of them (20 of 121).
  • The median contract, £393k, is 3.6 times the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS awarded 6% of the data engineering contracts (7 of 121).

Who buys data engineering

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS7 contracts
  2. 2Department for Work and Pensions4 contracts
  3. 3Department of Health and Social Care4 contracts
  4. 4Ministry of Defence4 contracts
  5. 5Met Office4 contracts
  6. 6UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)4 contracts
  7. 7De Montfort University4 contracts
  8. 8Ministry of Justice3 contracts
  9. 9Department for Education3 contracts
  10. 10Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)3 contracts

Top data engineering contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Simpson Associates5 contracts
  2. 2ANS Group5 contracts
  3. 3Softcat4 contracts
  4. 4Capgemini3 contracts
  5. 5IBM3 contracts
  6. 6Credera2 contracts
  7. 7PA Consulting2 contracts
  8. 8Deloitte2 contracts
  9. 9Telefonica Tech2 contracts
  10. 10Manuka AI Ltd2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

30Q4 2025*29Q1 202647Q2 202615Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 114 · Wales 4 · Scotland 3

London29North West16South West10South East8North East5West Midlands5East Midlands3East of England3Wales3Scotland3Yorkshire and The Humber2UK-wide or not stated34

What is included

An organisation's central data platform, data warehouse or data lake, and the engineering to build, extend, run and support it. Includes ingestion pipelines, onboarding of new data sources and bespoke data hubs for a programme.

  • Enterprise data platform build and enhancement
  • Data warehouse build and support
  • Data ingestion pipelines and onboarding of new sources
  • Big data platform DevOps and run services
  • Bespoke data management systems and data hubs for a programme or regulator
  • Multi-agency data sharing platforms
  • Data engineering development partners

What is not included

  • Packaged ETL, data quality, catalogue and MDM tools (it.data.data-integration-and-data-quality)
  • Database licences and DBMS support (it.data.database-software-and-support)
  • Dashboards and reports on top of the platform (it.data.business-intelligence-and-dashboards)
  • Genomic data platforms (it.data.genomic-data-platforms-and-bioinformatics)
  • Customer data platforms for marketing (another family: CRM and marketing technology)
  • BIM common data environments (another family: construction and asset information management)

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