Data Pipeline Contracts in the City of London

Data Pipelines
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 85 128
Rank change year-on-year +8 +43 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 42 42 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.39% 1.91% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 2.11% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 26 34
10th Percentile £400 £413 £441
25th Percentile £456 £453 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -16.19%
75th Percentile £640 £644 £672
90th Percentile £677 £728 £735
Central London median daily rate £538 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.44% +2.27% -21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 13 (30.95%) Apache
3 4 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (9.52%) Jupyter
4 2 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Azure
2 14 (33.33%) AWS
3 9 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.90%) dbt
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (9.52%) GCP
5 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
6 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) GitHub
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.38%) Alation
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.38%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (21.43%) Big Data
2 9 (21.43%) Power BI
3 7 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 6 (14.29%) Apache Hive
4 6 (14.29%) Hadoop
5 5 (11.90%) Delta Lake
5 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
5 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
6 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
6 4 (9.52%) Metadata
7 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.76%) Airbyte
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.52%) JIRA
3 4 (9.52%) RStudio
4 1 (2.38%) Postman
4 1 (2.38%) Selenium
4 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Banking
4 6 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.90%) Retail
6 3 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Police
7 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (61.90%) Data Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Data Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) QA Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Data Modeller
6 3 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Implementation Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Implementation Project Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Project Implementation Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) PySpark
2 5 (11.90%) Spark Streaming
3 4 (9.52%) JSON
3 4 (9.52%) Kafka
3 4 (9.52%) pydantic
3 4 (9.52%) REST
3 4 (9.52%) YAML
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.38%) Pandas
4 1 (2.38%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (11.90%) Distributed Computing
1 5 (11.90%) Market Risk
2 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (9.52%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) ETL
2 18 (42.86%) Analytics
2 18 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (40.48%) Data Engineering
4 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 11 (26.19%) Decision-Making
6 10 (23.81%) Agile
7 9 (21.43%) Data Science
8 8 (19.05%) Data Security
9 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 7 (16.67%) Risk Management
10 6 (14.29%) Batch Processing
10 6 (14.29%) Code Quality
10 6 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
10 6 (14.29%) Data Integration
10 6 (14.29%) DevOps
10 6 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (14.29%) Scrum
11 5 (11.90%) Regulatory Compliance
11 5 (11.90%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) Python
2 25 (59.52%) SQL
3 7 (16.67%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) Scala
5 4 (9.52%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) SPARQL
7 1 (2.38%) C#
7 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.38%) SAS Macro
7 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.76%) PMP
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.52%) GDPR
2 4 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
1 1 (2.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Databricks
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) Confluent
4 1 (2.38%) Informatica
4 1 (2.38%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) SAP