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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 80 126
Rank change year-on-year +8 +46 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 61 56 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.97% 2.34% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 2.56% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 33 28
10th Percentile £400 £413 £438
25th Percentile £481 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.30% -15.19%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £681
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +8.25% -39.38% +137.04%

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 1,922 2,184 3,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.57% 91.38% 90.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,513 2,298
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 27
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.28 £17.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £50.75 £42.15 £53.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £85.63 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £30.16 £41.04
% change year-on-year +6.10% -26.51% +14.80%

Data Pipeline
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 14 July 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 14 July 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 +13 60 £550 +10.00% 69
City of Westminster +1 1 £625 -3.85% 2
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London

Data Pipeline
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 (22.95%) Apache Spark
2 12 (19.67%) Apache
3 5 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.28%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.28%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (44.26%) Azure
2 19 (31.15%) AWS
3 9 (14.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (14.75%) Power Platform
4 8 (13.11%) GCP
5 7 (11.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.56%) dbt
6 4 (6.56%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub
8 2 (3.28%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.28%) Serverless
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) SSH
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (18.03%) Big Data
2 11 (18.03%) Data Lake
3 9 (14.75%) NoSQL
3 9 (14.75%) Power BI
4 8 (13.11%) Hadoop
5 6 (9.84%) Apache Hive
5 6 (9.84%) BigQuery
5 6 (9.84%) Metadata
6 5 (8.20%) Delta Lake
6 5 (8.20%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (6.56%) Data Mining
8 3 (4.92%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.28%) Parquet
9 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.28%) Spark SQL
9 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.75%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) JIRA
3 2 (3.28%) RStudio
4 1 (1.64%) Postman
4 1 (1.64%) Selenium
4 1 (1.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (37.70%) Finance
2 19 (31.15%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.75%) Banking
4 9 (14.75%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Police
5 4 (6.56%) Retail
6 2 (3.28%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Front Office
7 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (54.10%) Data Engineer
2 11 (18.03%) Developer
3 6 (9.84%) Senior
4 5 (8.20%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Java Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) QA Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Python Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.28%) Implementation Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Project Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.67%) PySpark
2 6 (9.84%) Kafka
3 5 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.20%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (8.20%) Spark Streaming
4 4 (6.56%) Pandas
5 3 (4.92%) NumPy
5 3 (4.92%) REST
6 2 (3.28%) CSS
6 2 (3.28%) Django
6 2 (3.28%) Flask
6 2 (3.28%) HTML
6 2 (3.28%) JSON
6 2 (3.28%) pydantic
6 2 (3.28%) YAML
7 1 (1.64%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.64%) Apache Beam
7 1 (1.64%) Polars
7 1 (1.64%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.84%) Fixed Income
2 6 (9.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (8.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.20%) Market Risk
4 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.28%) Reference Data
6 2 (3.28%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.64%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) Analytics
2 24 (39.34%) ETL
3 21 (34.43%) Data Engineering
4 20 (32.79%) CI/CD
5 19 (31.15%) Data Science
6 18 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (26.23%) DevOps
8 15 (24.59%) Data Modelling
9 14 (22.95%) Agile
9 14 (22.95%) Machine Learning
10 13 (21.31%) Decision-Making
11 10 (16.39%) Data Analytics
11 10 (16.39%) Data Integration
11 10 (16.39%) Data Transformation
12 9 (14.75%) Data Governance
13 8 (13.11%) Data Security
14 7 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (11.48%) Data Management
14 7 (11.48%) Project Management
14 7 (11.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (63.93%) Python
2 30 (49.18%) SQL
3 8 (13.11%) Java
4 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.56%) Scala
6 2 (3.28%) Bash
6 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.64%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.28%) PMP
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.56%) QA
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.20%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (8.20%) Kibana
2 5 (8.20%) logstash
2 5 (8.20%) Terraform
3 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (24.59%) Databricks
2 6 (9.84%) Google
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.20%) Solace
4 2 (3.28%) Foundry
4 2 (3.28%) Palantir
5 1 (1.64%) Confluent
5 1 (1.64%) Informatica
5 1 (1.64%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) Sparx