UK Data Recruitment

Data & Analytics
Recruitment
Specialists

Helping UK companies hire Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, BI Developers and Data Scientists — matched by people who've done the job.

Active candidates
ready to interview
Risk-free model

No placement,
no fee.

You only pay when you hire the right person. Zero risk to explore your options.

Pre-screened candidates
First shortlist in 48hrs
Contingency basis only
48h
Aim to shortlist first candidate

Need to hire
data talent?

We specialise exclusively in data and analytics recruitment. That means deeper candidate networks, faster shortlists, and a recruitment partner who genuinely understands the technical brief.

Data Engineers
Analytics Engineers
Data Scientists
BI Developers
Data Architects

Pre-screened candidates

Every candidate is technically assessed before you see their CV. No wasted interview time.

Contingency based

No placement, no fee. We only earn when you successfully hire the right person.

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Bad hiring costs more
than just the fee

We've been on both sides of the table. As former data practitioners who've managed teams, hired colleagues, and dealt with the fallout of poor recruitment — we know exactly how much damage a misaligned hire can do.

Project timelines slip

A vacant or poorly-filled data role doesn't just create a gap. It blocks pipelines, delays dashboards, and stalls every downstream team waiting on data they can't get.

CVs that tick boxes but miss the brief

Recruiters who don't understand the stack send candidates with the right keywords but the wrong depth. Your engineers pay for it in wasted interview rounds.

The wrong hire is worse than no hire

A misaligned data engineer can generate months of technical debt. Undoing a poor placement costs more in morale, momentum, and engineering time than the original vacancy ever did.

Interview cycles that never convert

Without proper technical pre-screening, roles stay open for months while your team burns time on candidates who were never going to pass a technical review.

We've managed data colleagues. We know what good looks like.

Having hired and managed data teams ourselves — across engineering, analytics, and science — we've sat in those interviews. We know the difference between someone who has used a tool and someone who genuinely understands it. Between a candidate who can answer questions and one who will own outcomes.

That experience shapes every candidate we put forward. We're not matching keywords — we're applying the same judgement we'd use if we were filling the seat ourselves.

Technical depth, not just surface familiarity with tools
Communication across technical and business stakeholders
Ownership mentality — delivery, not just contribution
Curiosity about the problem domain, not just the tech stack
Proven performance in a data team environment

Open roles
right now

Live mandates from clients we're actively recruiting for. Each role has been briefed directly.

Permanent
London / Hybrid£55,000 – £70,000

Data Engineer

A fast-growing fintech is expanding their data platform team. You'll build and maintain core ingestion pipelines and work closely with analytics engineers to deliver trusted data products.

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Permanent
Manchester / Remote£55,000 – £70,000

Analytics Engineer

A well-funded e-commerce brand needs an Analytics Engineer to take ownership of their dbt project and partner with stakeholders across marketing, finance, and operations.

dbtBigQueryLookerSQL
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Permanent
London (Hybrid)£65,000 – £80,000

Data Scientist

A Series B healthtech is hiring their first dedicated Data Scientist. You'll design and deploy predictive models to improve patient outcomes, working directly with clinical and product teams.

PythonSparkDatabricksML
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Contract
Edinburgh / Hybrid£400 – £500 / day

BI Developer

An established financial services firm needs a senior BI Developer to lead a dashboard migration from legacy reporting tools into Power BI, working alongside a small data team.

Power BISQL ServerAzureDAX
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Looking for your
next data role?

We specialise exclusively in data and analytics. That means we understand your stack, your career trajectory, and what a genuinely good role looks like — not just the job title.

From junior data engineers to principal architects, we work across the full spectrum of data roles — placing candidates with companies across industries who are serious about building their data capability.

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Tell us what you're looking for. We'll be in touch when the right role comes up.

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Former data practitioners

We've done the job
you're hiring for

Most recruiters don't understand the jobs they're recruiting for. We do. Our team has held data roles — as a Data Engineer, a Data Analyst, and a Data Scientist — from individual contributors to team leads and project leads. We know what strong data talent actually looks like.

That experience means we ask the right questions, understand the real technical requirements, and can represent your opportunity honestly to candidates who know when they're being sold to.

Technical depth, not just job titles
Pre-screened before you meet them
Honest about fit — on both sides
Exclusively data and analytics
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Ready to hire?
Let's talk.

Tell us about your hiring need and we'll come back to you within 24 hours. No sales pitch — just a straight conversation about what you're looking for.

hello@shalala.co.uk