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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 64 80
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 99 54 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.20% 3.20% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 3.41% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 32 26
10th Percentile £369 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £467 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -8.30%
75th Percentile £588 £642 £694
90th Percentile £758 £687 £738
Central London median daily rate £523 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.33% -6.52%
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 2,015 1,582 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.56% 93.66% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 998 1,364
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £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 25 14 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -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

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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

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 5 June 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 19 (19.19%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.06%) Apache
3 5 (5.05%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.01%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.40%) Azure
2 34 (34.34%) AWS
3 29 (29.29%) Power Platform
4 20 (20.20%) Snowflake
5 17 (17.17%) GCP
6 13 (13.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (13.13%) dbt
7 11 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 9 (9.09%) Serverless
9 8 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.08%) Prefect
10 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (6.06%) Dagster
12 5 (5.05%) GitHub
13 4 (4.04%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.03%) AWS Control Tower
14 3 (3.03%) Google Gemini
14 3 (3.03%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.25%) Power BI
2 21 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (13.13%) Metadata
3 13 (13.13%) Tableau
4 11 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (10.10%) SQL Server
6 9 (9.09%) BigQuery
7 8 (8.08%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (6.06%) Looker
9 5 (5.05%) Data Lake
9 5 (5.05%) Delta Lake
9 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
11 3 (3.03%) DynamoDB
11 3 (3.03%) Redis
11 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.03%) Star Schema
12 2 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (2.02%) Big Data
12 2 (2.02%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) Git
2 2 (2.02%) GitLab
2 2 (2.02%) JIRA
3 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.01%) MLflow
General
1 38 (38.38%) Finance
2 14 (14.14%) Banking
3 13 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.06%) Legal
6 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.02%) Front Office
8 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.01%) Billing
9 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Military
9 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (53.54%) Data Engineer
2 12 (12.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 12 (12.12%) Snowflake Engineer
3 10 (10.10%) Architect
4 9 (9.09%) Senior
5 7 (7.07%) Analyst
5 7 (7.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.05%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) GCP Data Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Developer
9 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.20%) PySpark
2 12 (12.12%) Kafka
3 5 (5.05%) React
3 5 (5.05%) REST
4 3 (3.03%) .NET
4 3 (3.03%) JSON
4 3 (3.03%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (3.03%) Node.js
4 3 (3.03%) NumPy
4 3 (3.03%) Pandas
4 3 (3.03%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.03%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.03%) Vert.x
5 2 (2.02%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.02%) boto
5 2 (2.02%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.02%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.02%) Redux
5 2 (2.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.10%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.04%) Clustering
3 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.02%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.02%) Life Science
5 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.01%) Equities
6 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.01%) NHS
6 1 (1.01%) PMI
6 1 (1.01%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.01%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.48%) Data Engineering
2 46 (46.46%) Analytics
3 38 (38.38%) Data Modelling
4 36 (36.36%) ETL
5 32 (32.32%) AI
6 28 (28.28%) CI/CD
7 25 (25.25%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (20.20%) Data Science
8 20 (20.20%) Validation
9 19 (19.19%) Data Governance
10 17 (17.17%) Agile
10 17 (17.17%) DevOps
11 16 (16.16%) Machine Learning
12 14 (14.14%) Event-Driven
12 14 (14.14%) Generative AI
13 13 (13.13%) Test Automation
14 12 (12.12%) Decision-Making
14 12 (12.12%) Microservices
14 12 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (61.62%) Python
2 50 (50.51%) SQL
3 9 (9.09%) Java
4 8 (8.08%) Scala
5 5 (5.05%) C#
5 5 (5.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.03%) Korn
6 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.02%) R
7 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.01%) Bash
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.04%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.03%) Degree
5 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.02%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.01%) CBAP
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (37.37%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.07%) GDPR
3 4 (4.04%) QA
4 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.01%) GxP
5 1 (1.01%) NCSC
5 1 (1.01%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.04%) Terraform
3 3 (3.03%) Istio
3 3 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (30.30%) Databricks
2 16 (16.16%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.07%) Informatica
4 5 (5.05%) Workday
5 3 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.03%) Google
5 3 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.03%) Oracle
5 3 (3.03%) SAP
6 2 (2.02%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.01%) Denodo
7 1 (1.01%) Foundry
7 1 (1.01%) Palantir
7 1 (1.01%) Sitecore