Data Pipeline Contracts in Central London

Data Pipelines
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 85 120
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 43 48 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.15% 1.96% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.17% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 35
10th Percentile £400 £413 £443
25th Percentile £459 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +2.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £642 £669 £669
90th Percentile £677 £738 £735
London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +8.25% -33.10% +114.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Pipeline falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Pipeline within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +8 42 £525 - 14
City of Westminster 0 1 £625 -10.71% 1
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (32.56%) Apache Spark
2 13 (30.23%) Apache
3 4 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (9.30%) Jupyter
4 2 (4.65%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) Azure
2 15 (34.88%) AWS
3 9 (20.93%) Power Platform
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.63%) dbt
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (9.30%) GCP
5 4 (9.30%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub
7 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) Alation
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.33%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (20.93%) Big Data
2 9 (20.93%) Power BI
3 7 (16.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (16.28%) Relational Database
4 6 (13.95%) Apache Hive
4 6 (13.95%) Hadoop
5 5 (11.63%) Delta Lake
5 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
5 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
6 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
6 4 (9.30%) Metadata
7 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.65%) Airbyte
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.65%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.33%) Parquet
9 1 (2.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.30%) JIRA
3 4 (9.30%) RStudio
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (41.86%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Finance
3 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 6 (13.95%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.63%) Retail
6 3 (6.98%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (6.98%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.65%) Police
7 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.33%) Front Office
8 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (60.47%) Data Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Data Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Python Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) QA Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Data Modeller
6 3 (6.98%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Implementation Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Implementation Project Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Project Implementation Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.33%) Analyst
8 1 (2.33%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) PySpark
2 5 (11.63%) Spark Streaming
3 4 (9.30%) JSON
3 4 (9.30%) Kafka
3 4 (9.30%) pydantic
3 4 (9.30%) REST
3 4 (9.30%) YAML
4 2 (4.65%) Pandas
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Avro
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.33%) NumPy
5 1 (2.33%) Polars
5 1 (2.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (11.63%) Distributed Computing
1 5 (11.63%) Market Risk
2 4 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.30%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (9.30%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) ETL
2 19 (44.19%) Analytics
3 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (39.53%) Data Engineering
5 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
6 11 (25.58%) Decision-Making
7 10 (23.26%) Agile
8 9 (20.93%) Data Science
9 8 (18.60%) Data Security
10 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
10 7 (16.28%) Risk Management
11 6 (13.95%) Batch Processing
11 6 (13.95%) Code Quality
11 6 (13.95%) Data Ingestion
11 6 (13.95%) Data Integration
11 6 (13.95%) DevOps
11 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (13.95%) Scrum
12 5 (11.63%) Regulatory Compliance
12 5 (11.63%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) Python
2 25 (58.14%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) Scala
5 4 (9.30%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) SPARQL
7 1 (2.33%) C#
7 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.33%) SAS Macro
7 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.65%) PMP
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
2 4 (9.30%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
1 1 (2.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Databricks
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Confluent
4 1 (2.33%) Informatica
4 1 (2.33%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) SAP