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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 62 75
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 93 56 50
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.80% 3.12% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 3.32% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 35 32
10th Percentile £410 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £681
90th Percentile £765 £685 £738
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -10.64%
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 2,099 1,687 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.85% 93.88% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,080 1,349
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £451 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.62% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.13 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -21.08% +11.47% -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 3 July 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 18 (19.35%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.38%) Apache
3 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.15%) Confluence
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.08%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.01%) Azure
2 33 (35.48%) Power Platform
3 29 (31.18%) AWS
4 22 (23.66%) Snowflake
5 18 (19.35%) GCP
6 14 (15.05%) dbt
7 13 (13.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (9.68%) Amazon S3
9 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (8.60%) Prefect
10 7 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (7.53%) Serverless
11 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.45%) Dagster
11 6 (6.45%) GitHub
12 5 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.30%) SaaS
14 3 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (3.23%) Boomi
14 3 (3.23%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (31.18%) Power BI
2 24 (25.81%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (13.98%) Tableau
4 10 (10.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (10.75%) Metadata
5 9 (9.68%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (9.68%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.60%) BigQuery
7 6 (6.45%) Looker
8 5 (5.38%) Data Lake
8 5 (5.38%) Delta Lake
8 5 (5.38%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.30%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.30%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (4.30%) Star Schema
10 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (2.15%) Big Data
11 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) GitLab
2 3 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.08%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (43.01%) Finance
2 15 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Banking
4 11 (11.83%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Legal
6 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.30%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.15%) Front Office
7 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Billing
8 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Military
8 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (51.61%) Data Engineer
2 12 (12.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 12 (12.90%) Snowflake Engineer
3 11 (11.83%) Architect
4 10 (10.75%) Senior
5 9 (9.68%) Analyst
6 7 (7.53%) Data Analyst
6 7 (7.53%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) GCP Data Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Business Data Analyst
10 3 (3.23%) Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.28%) PySpark
2 12 (12.90%) Kafka
3 5 (5.38%) React
4 3 (3.23%) .NET
4 3 (3.23%) JSON
4 3 (3.23%) Node.js
4 3 (3.23%) REST
4 3 (3.23%) Vert.x
5 2 (2.15%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.15%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.15%) pytest
5 2 (2.15%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.15%) Redux
5 2 (2.15%) RESTful
5 2 (2.15%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.15%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.30%) Clustering
3 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.15%) Life Science
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) NHS
5 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.08%) Equities
6 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.08%) PMI
6 1 (1.08%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.08%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.76%) Analytics
2 46 (49.46%) Data Engineering
3 43 (46.24%) Data Modelling
4 33 (35.48%) AI
5 29 (31.18%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (31.18%) CI/CD
5 29 (31.18%) ETL
6 23 (24.73%) Data Science
7 20 (21.51%) Agile
8 19 (20.43%) Data Governance
8 19 (20.43%) DevOps
9 17 (18.28%) Machine Learning
10 16 (17.20%) Validation
11 15 (16.13%) Decision-Making
12 14 (15.05%) Generative AI
12 14 (15.05%) Test Automation
13 13 (13.98%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (13.98%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.98%) Use Case
14 12 (12.90%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.14%) Python
2 48 (51.61%) SQL
3 10 (10.75%) Java
4 8 (8.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (5.38%) C#
5 5 (5.38%) Scala
6 4 (4.30%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.23%) R
7 3 (3.23%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.08%) Bash
9 1 (1.08%) Bicep
9 1 (1.08%) Korn
Qualifications
1 13 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.30%) Degree
4 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.15%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.08%) CBAP
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (34.41%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.60%) GDPR
3 5 (5.38%) QA
4 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.08%) GxP
5 1 (1.08%) NCSC
5 1 (1.08%) NIST
5 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (5.38%) Terraform
2 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.08%) Istio
3 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (29.03%) Databricks
2 19 (20.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.53%) Informatica
4 5 (5.38%) Workday
5 3 (3.23%) Google
5 3 (3.23%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.23%) Oracle
5 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.15%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.15%) Palantir
6 2 (2.15%) SAP
7 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.08%) Denodo
7 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.08%) Foundry
7 1 (1.08%) Sitecore