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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 87 112
Rank change year-on-year +26 +25 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 68 32 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.69% 1.56% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 1.69% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 18 21
10th Percentile £318 £459 £413
25th Percentile £413 £469 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £654 £643 £619
90th Percentile £688 £733 £703
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%

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 1,667 1,895 2,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.55% 92.17% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 1,156 1,601
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £759 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 10
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.84% +34.62% -35.80%

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 23 December 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

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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 11 (16.18%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (13.24%) Apache
2 9 (13.24%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.76%) AWS
2 24 (35.29%) Azure
3 15 (22.06%) Power Platform
3 15 (22.06%) Snowflake
4 13 (19.12%) Amazon S3
5 11 (16.18%) Serverless
6 10 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (13.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (13.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (11.76%) dbt
9 7 (10.29%) GCP
10 4 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.88%) GitHub
11 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.94%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (19.12%) Power BI
3 12 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 6 (8.82%) Tableau
5 5 (7.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (7.35%) Big Data
5 5 (7.35%) Delta Lake
5 5 (7.35%) Metadata
6 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.94%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.94%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Git
2 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 17 (25.00%) Finance
2 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Banking
4 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.88%) Front Office
7 3 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.94%) Law
8 2 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Back Office
9 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (51.47%) Data Engineer
2 6 (8.82%) Lead
3 5 (7.35%) AWS Data Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) Developer
3 5 (7.35%) Senior
4 4 (5.88%) Architect
4 4 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Python Engineer
6 2 (2.94%) Analyst
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (2.94%) Data Analyst
6 2 (2.94%) Data Architect
6 2 (2.94%) Data Scientist
6 2 (2.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (2.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.18%) PySpark
2 5 (7.35%) .NET
2 5 (7.35%) AngularJS
2 5 (7.35%) Kafka
2 5 (7.35%) Node.js
2 5 (7.35%) React
3 4 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (4.41%) REST
5 2 (2.94%) boto
5 2 (2.94%) D3.js
5 2 (2.94%) NumPy
5 2 (2.94%) Pandas
5 2 (2.94%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.94%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.94%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.94%) Vue
5 2 (2.94%) XML
6 1 (1.47%) JWT
6 1 (1.47%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.82%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.88%) Fixed Income
3 4 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.94%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.47%) Clustering
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.47%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.47%) IoT
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) ETL
2 25 (36.76%) Analytics
3 23 (33.82%) Data Modelling
4 20 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 19 (27.94%) Data Science
6 18 (26.47%) Data Engineering
7 16 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (23.53%) Machine Learning
8 15 (22.06%) DevOps
9 13 (19.12%) Agile
9 13 (19.12%) Data Governance
9 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (17.65%) Event-Driven
11 11 (16.18%) AI
12 10 (14.71%) Data Integration
12 10 (14.71%) Data Transformation
12 10 (14.71%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (13.24%) Validation
14 8 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 8 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (67.65%) Python
2 37 (54.41%) SQL
3 7 (10.29%) Java
4 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.82%) Scala
5 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.47%) C#
7 1 (1.47%) C++
7 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.47%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.94%) CISSP
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (33.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) WCAG
4 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.47%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.47%) EMIR
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Terraform
2 4 (5.88%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (5.88%) Kibana
2 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) logstash
3 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (35.29%) Databricks
2 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.88%) Solace
4 2 (2.94%) Google
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle
4 2 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.47%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.47%) Foundry
5 1 (1.47%) Palantir
5 1 (1.47%) Workday