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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 63 78
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 92 62 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.78% 3.33% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 3.54% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 41 27
10th Percentile £420 £400 £420
25th Percentile £450 £481 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £666 £668 £709
90th Percentile £775 £688 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

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 2,108 1,750 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.61% 93.93% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 1,133 1,334
10th Percentile £370 £338 £363
25th Percentile £455 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%

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 18 July 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

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 18 (19.57%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.43%) Apache
3 4 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.17%) Confluence
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) BambooHR
2 2 (2.17%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.13%) Azure
2 31 (33.70%) AWS
2 31 (33.70%) Power Platform
3 23 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 17 (18.48%) GCP
5 15 (16.30%) dbt
6 12 (13.04%) Amazon S3
7 11 (11.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (9.78%) Serverless
9 8 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.70%) GitHub
9 8 (8.70%) Prefect
10 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (6.52%) Dagster
12 5 (5.43%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (5.43%) SaaS
13 3 (3.26%) Boomi
13 3 (3.26%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.35%) Power BI
2 24 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (13.04%) Tableau
4 10 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (10.87%) Metadata
5 9 (9.78%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (8.70%) BigQuery
6 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.52%) Looker
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.43%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
9 4 (4.35%) Delta Lake
9 4 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (4.35%) Star Schema
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (2.17%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Git
2 5 (5.43%) GitLab
3 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.17%) JIRA
5 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.09%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (44.57%) Finance
2 17 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Banking
4 10 (10.87%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Legal
6 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.26%) Front Office
7 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.17%) Back Office
8 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Billing
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Military
9 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (52.17%) Data Engineer
2 12 (13.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 12 (13.04%) Snowflake Engineer
3 11 (11.96%) Senior
4 10 (10.87%) Analyst
5 9 (9.78%) Architect
6 8 (8.70%) Data Analyst
7 7 (7.61%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) GCP Data Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Lead
9 4 (4.35%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) PySpark
2 12 (13.04%) Kafka
3 5 (5.43%) React
4 3 (3.26%) .NET
4 3 (3.26%) JSON
4 3 (3.26%) Node.js
4 3 (3.26%) REST
4 3 (3.26%) Vert.x
5 2 (2.17%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.17%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (2.17%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.17%) pytest
5 2 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.17%) Redux
5 2 (2.17%) RESTful
6 1 (1.09%) Django
6 1 (1.09%) Spring
6 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.35%) Clustering
3 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.17%) Life Science
6 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Equities
6 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.09%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.09%) PMI
6 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.09%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.26%) Data Engineering
2 48 (52.17%) Analytics
3 45 (48.91%) Data Modelling
4 32 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 30 (32.61%) AI
6 28 (30.43%) ETL
7 27 (29.35%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (23.91%) Data Science
9 19 (20.65%) Data Governance
10 18 (19.57%) Agile
10 18 (19.57%) DevOps
11 17 (18.48%) Validation
12 15 (16.30%) Decision-Making
12 15 (16.30%) Event-Driven
12 15 (16.30%) Machine Learning
12 15 (16.30%) Test Automation
13 13 (14.13%) Generative AI
13 13 (14.13%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (14.13%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (13.04%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 54 (58.70%) Python
2 48 (52.17%) SQL
3 9 (9.78%) Java
4 8 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (5.43%) C#
6 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.35%) Scala
7 3 (3.26%) R
7 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.09%) Bash
9 1 (1.09%) Bicep
9 1 (1.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.35%) Degree
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.17%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.09%) CBAP
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.61%) GDPR
3 6 (6.52%) QA
4 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.09%) GxP
5 1 (1.09%) NIST
5 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.61%) Terraform
2 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.09%) Istio
3 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (23.91%) Databricks
2 19 (20.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.52%) Informatica
4 5 (5.43%) Workday
5 3 (3.26%) Google
5 3 (3.26%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.26%) Oracle
6 2 (2.17%) Palantir
6 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.17%) SAP
7 1 (1.09%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.09%) Denodo
7 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.09%) Foundry
7 1 (1.09%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.09%) Sitecore