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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 67 81
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 102 50 45
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.37% 2.98% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 3.18% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 30 27
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £424 £453 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £688
90th Percentile £719 £676 £738
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +0.88%
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 1,982 1,571 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.85% 93.51% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,355 988 1,374
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.74% +2.88% -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 24 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the City of London

Data Pipeline
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 19 (18.63%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.88%) Apache
3 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.98%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (39.22%) Azure
2 33 (32.35%) AWS
3 30 (29.41%) Power Platform
4 20 (19.61%) Snowflake
5 17 (16.67%) GCP
6 14 (13.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (12.75%) dbt
8 10 (9.80%) Amazon S3
9 9 (8.82%) Serverless
10 8 (7.84%) Prefect
11 7 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (6.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (5.88%) Dagster
13 5 (4.90%) GitHub
14 4 (3.92%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.94%) AWS Control Tower
15 3 (2.94%) LangSmith
15 3 (2.94%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.49%) Power BI
2 22 (21.57%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (13.73%) Tableau
4 13 (12.75%) Metadata
5 10 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (9.80%) SQL Server
6 9 (8.82%) BigQuery
6 9 (8.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (5.88%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.88%) Delta Lake
7 6 (5.88%) Looker
8 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.94%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.94%) Redis
10 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.94%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.96%) Big Data
11 2 (1.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (10.78%) Git
2 2 (1.96%) GitLab
2 2 (1.96%) JIRA
3 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.98%) MLflow
General
1 38 (37.25%) Finance
2 14 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (13.73%) Banking
3 9 (8.82%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.88%) Legal
5 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.96%) Front Office
7 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.98%) Back Office
8 1 (0.98%) Billing
8 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Military
8 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (53.92%) Data Engineer
2 12 (11.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 12 (11.76%) Snowflake Engineer
3 9 (8.82%) Architect
4 8 (7.84%) Senior
5 7 (6.86%) Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Data Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) GCP Data Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (2.94%) Gen AI Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.61%) PySpark
2 12 (11.76%) Kafka
3 5 (4.90%) React
3 5 (4.90%) REST
4 3 (2.94%) .NET
4 3 (2.94%) JSON
4 3 (2.94%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (2.94%) Node.js
4 3 (2.94%) NumPy
4 3 (2.94%) Pandas
4 3 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 3 (2.94%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.94%) Vert.x
5 2 (1.96%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.96%) Great Expectations
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.96%) Redux
5 2 (1.96%) RESTful
5 2 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.92%) Clustering
4 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.94%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.96%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.96%) Life Science
6 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.96%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.98%) Equities
7 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.98%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.98%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.98%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (48.04%) Analytics
1 49 (48.04%) Data Engineering
2 38 (37.25%) ETL
3 37 (36.27%) Data Modelling
4 32 (31.37%) AI
5 29 (28.43%) CI/CD
6 26 (25.49%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (20.59%) Data Governance
8 20 (19.61%) Data Science
9 19 (18.63%) Validation
10 18 (17.65%) DevOps
11 17 (16.67%) Agile
12 15 (14.71%) Machine Learning
13 13 (12.75%) Event-Driven
13 13 (12.75%) Generative AI
13 13 (12.75%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (12.75%) Test Automation
14 12 (11.76%) Microservices
14 12 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (10.78%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 61 (59.80%) Python
2 50 (49.02%) SQL
3 9 (8.82%) Java
4 8 (7.84%) Scala
5 6 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (4.90%) C#
7 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.94%) Korn
7 3 (2.94%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.96%) R
9 1 (0.98%) Bash
9 1 (0.98%) Bicep
9 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.92%) Degree
4 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.96%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.98%) CBAP
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (38.24%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.86%) GDPR
3 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.94%) QA
4 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) GxP
4 1 (0.98%) NCSC
4 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (8.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.92%) Terraform
3 3 (2.94%) Istio
3 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (31.37%) Databricks
2 16 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.88%) Informatica
4 5 (4.90%) Workday
5 3 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.94%) Google
5 3 (2.94%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.94%) Oracle
5 3 (2.94%) SAP
6 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.98%) Denodo
7 1 (0.98%) Foundry
7 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.98%) Palantir
7 1 (0.98%) Sitecore