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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 63 78
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 90 64 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.74% 3.43% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.64% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 44 27
10th Percentile £425 £400 £420
25th Percentile £450 £481 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +10.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £722 £668 £663
90th Percentile £775 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £555 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +0.91% +4.76% -8.30%

All Process & 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 2,109 1,759 1,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.58% 94.27% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 1,154 1,280
10th Percentile £375 £330 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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

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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

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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 8 August 2026.

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

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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 16 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.56%) Apache
2 5 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.22%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.56%) BambooHR
2 2 (2.22%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.00%) Azure
2 29 (32.22%) Power Platform
3 25 (27.78%) AWS
4 21 (23.33%) Snowflake
5 14 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (15.56%) GCP
6 13 (14.44%) dbt
7 12 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (10.00%) GitHub
8 9 (10.00%) Serverless
9 8 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.89%) Prefect
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (6.67%) Dagster
11 4 (4.44%) SaaS
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.89%) Power BI
2 24 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (12.22%) Tableau
4 10 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (11.11%) Metadata
5 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.89%) BigQuery
6 8 (8.89%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (7.78%) Data Lake
8 6 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (5.56%) Delta Lake
9 5 (5.56%) Looker
9 5 (5.56%) NoSQL
9 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
9 5 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (5.56%) Star Schema
10 4 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Git
1 7 (7.78%) GitLab
2 4 (4.44%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.11%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (44.44%) Finance
2 15 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.00%) Banking
5 6 (6.67%) Legal
6 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.33%) Back Office
7 3 (3.33%) Front Office
7 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.11%) Billing
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
8 1 (1.11%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (54.44%) Data Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) Senior
3 10 (11.11%) Analyst
4 9 (10.00%) Architect
4 9 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Data Analyst
5 8 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 5 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Business Data Analyst
9 3 (3.33%) Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.89%) PySpark
2 9 (10.00%) Kafka
3 5 (5.56%) React
4 4 (4.44%) REST
5 3 (3.33%) .NET
5 3 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (3.33%) JSON
5 3 (3.33%) Node.js
5 3 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.22%) Great Expectations
6 2 (2.22%) pytest
6 2 (2.22%) Redux
6 2 (2.22%) RESTful
7 1 (1.11%) Google JAX
7 1 (1.11%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.11%) JAX
7 1 (1.11%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (1.11%) Snowpark
7 1 (1.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.33%) Clustering
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.11%) Equities
6 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) NHS
6 1 (1.11%) PMI
6 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.11%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (52.22%) Analytics
1 47 (52.22%) Data Engineering
2 45 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 34 (37.78%) CI/CD
4 31 (34.44%) ETL
5 26 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (26.67%) AI
7 23 (25.56%) DevOps
8 22 (24.44%) Data Science
9 21 (23.33%) Data Governance
10 16 (17.78%) Agile
10 16 (17.78%) Validation
11 15 (16.67%) Decision-Making
12 14 (15.56%) Test Automation
13 12 (13.33%) Event-Driven
13 12 (13.33%) Machine Learning
13 12 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (12.22%) Migration
14 11 (12.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 53 (58.89%) Python
2 47 (52.22%) SQL
3 7 (7.78%) C#
3 7 (7.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (7.78%) Java
4 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.44%) Scala
6 3 (3.33%) Korn
6 3 (3.33%) R
6 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (1.11%) Bash
8 1 (1.11%) C++
8 1 (1.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.44%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.22%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.11%) CBAP
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (35.56%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.78%) GDPR
3 6 (6.67%) QA
4 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.11%) GxP
5 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.11%) Terraform
2 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.11%) Istio
3 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Databricks
2 18 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.67%) Informatica
4 5 (5.56%) Workday
5 3 (3.33%) Google
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
6 2 (2.22%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.22%) Palantir
6 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.11%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.11%) Denodo
7 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.11%) Foundry
7 1 (1.11%) OpenAI