Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Pipelines
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 82 131
Rank change year-on-year +22 +49 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 58 44 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.46% 2.09% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.27% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 16
10th Percentile £324 £418 £388
25th Percentile £484 £460 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £598
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.23% +3.91%
75th Percentile £669 £644 £638
90th Percentile £714 £729 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,586 1,938 2,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.52% 91.89% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,190 1,791
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% +3.30%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -37.06%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Pipeline relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (15.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (12.07%) Apache
4 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) AWS
1 22 (37.93%) Azure
2 13 (22.41%) Snowflake
3 9 (15.52%) Power Platform
4 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
4 8 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (12.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (12.07%) GCP
6 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.34%) Serverless
7 5 (8.62%) dbt
8 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.90%) GitHub
8 4 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (3.45%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.86%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (22.41%) Data Lake
3 8 (13.79%) Power BI
4 6 (10.34%) Big Data
5 5 (8.62%) BigQuery
5 5 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.90%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.17%) Apache Hive
7 3 (5.17%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.17%) Metadata
7 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.45%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.72%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.72%) Parquet
9 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Git
1 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 19 (32.76%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Banking
4 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Front Office
6 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.45%) Police
8 1 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (55.17%) Data Engineer
2 7 (12.07%) Developer
3 6 (10.34%) Lead
4 5 (8.62%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Senior
5 4 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.45%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) Kafka
2 5 (8.62%) .NET
2 5 (8.62%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (8.62%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (8.62%) Node.js
2 5 (8.62%) PySpark
3 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.90%) React
4 2 (3.45%) CSS
4 2 (3.45%) Django
4 2 (3.45%) Flask
4 2 (3.45%) HTML
4 2 (3.45%) NumPy
4 2 (3.45%) Pandas
5 1 (1.72%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.72%) D3.js
5 1 (1.72%) OAuth
5 1 (1.72%) REST
5 1 (1.72%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.62%) Fixed Income
2 5 (8.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.45%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Data Modelling
2 20 (34.48%) Analytics
2 20 (34.48%) ETL
3 19 (32.76%) CI/CD
4 17 (29.31%) Data Science
5 16 (27.59%) Data Engineering
5 16 (27.59%) Machine Learning
6 15 (25.86%) DevOps
7 12 (20.69%) Agile
8 11 (18.97%) Event-Driven
9 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (17.24%) Data Integration
9 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.52%) AI
10 9 (15.52%) Data Transformation
11 8 (13.79%) Data Analytics
11 8 (13.79%) Data Governance
11 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (10.34%) Decision-Making
12 6 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (70.69%) Python
2 34 (58.62%) SQL
3 8 (13.79%) Java
4 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.45%) Scala
7 1 (1.72%) C#
7 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.72%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (1.72%) EMIR
3 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.79%) Terraform
3 5 (8.62%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (8.62%) Kibana
3 5 (8.62%) logstash
4 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Databricks
2 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) Google
3 5 (8.62%) Solace
4 3 (5.17%) Foundry
4 3 (5.17%) Palantir
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Sparx
5 1 (1.72%) Workday