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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 86 94
Rank change year-on-year +37 +8 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 95 31 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.54% 1.76% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.14% 1.91% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 22 24
10th Percentile £324 £401 £413
25th Percentile £410 £453 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £591 £622 £616
90th Percentile £783 £672 £727
Central London median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
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 1,848 1,623 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 91.95% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 1,035 1,497
10th Percentile £362 £368 £350
25th Percentile £444 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £674 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 12
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.03
25th Percentile £19.11 £26.25 £20.15
Median hourly rate £27.75 £33.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% +3.31% -13.91%
75th Percentile £46.29 £47.50 £43.07
90th Percentile £59.13 £112.00 £49.90
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -19.66% +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

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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

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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 20 March 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 18 (18.95%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 8 (8.42%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.05%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.00%) Azure
2 35 (36.84%) AWS
3 30 (31.58%) Power Platform
4 22 (23.16%) Snowflake
5 17 (17.89%) dbt
5 17 (17.89%) GCP
6 11 (11.58%) Amazon S3
6 11 (11.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (10.53%) Serverless
8 9 (9.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (7.37%) Prefect
11 5 (5.26%) Dagster
12 4 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (4.21%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (3.16%) Boomi
13 3 (3.16%) Fivetran
13 3 (3.16%) GitHub
13 3 (3.16%) iPaaS
13 3 (3.16%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.37%) Power BI
2 23 (24.21%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (15.79%) Tableau
4 12 (12.63%) Data Lake
4 12 (12.63%) Metadata
5 9 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (7.37%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.26%) BigQuery
7 5 (5.26%) Delta Lake
7 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.21%) Looker
9 3 (3.16%) Big Data
9 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.16%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.11%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.11%) Redis
10 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (16.84%) Git
2 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.11%) JIRA
4 1 (1.05%) MLflow
General
1 26 (27.37%) Finance
2 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.63%) Banking
5 4 (4.21%) Front Office
5 4 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.21%) Legal
6 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Back Office
8 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.05%) Military
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (51.58%) Data Engineer
2 10 (10.53%) Architect
2 10 (10.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 10 (10.53%) Snowflake Engineer
3 7 (7.37%) Senior
4 6 (6.32%) Lead
4 6 (6.32%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (5.26%) Developer
5 5 (5.26%) Python Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Data Scientist
7 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.16%) GCP Data Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.11%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.89%) PySpark
2 12 (12.63%) Kafka
3 5 (5.26%) React
4 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.21%) Node.js
4 4 (4.21%) PyTorch
4 4 (4.21%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.16%) .NET
5 3 (3.16%) JSON
5 3 (3.16%) NumPy
5 3 (3.16%) Pandas
5 3 (3.16%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.16%) Vert.x
6 2 (2.11%) boto
6 2 (2.11%) D3.js
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.11%) REST
6 2 (2.11%) Vue
6 2 (2.11%) XML
6 2 (2.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.37%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.26%) Clustering
5 4 (4.21%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.11%) Life Science
7 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Equities
8 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.05%) NHS
8 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.05%) Replication
8 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.37%) Analytics
1 45 (47.37%) Data Engineering
2 38 (40.00%) ETL
3 34 (35.79%) Data Modelling
4 30 (31.58%) AI
5 29 (30.53%) CI/CD
6 27 (28.42%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (23.16%) Data Science
8 20 (21.05%) Machine Learning
9 18 (18.95%) Agile
9 18 (18.95%) Data Governance
9 18 (18.95%) Validation
10 16 (16.84%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (15.79%) Data Integration
12 14 (14.74%) Generative AI
13 13 (13.68%) DevOps
14 12 (12.63%) Event-Driven
14 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (11.58%) Use Case
16 10 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (64.21%) Python
2 52 (54.74%) SQL
3 9 (9.47%) Scala
4 8 (8.42%) Java
5 4 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.11%) Korn
7 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.05%) Bicep
8 1 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) C++
8 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.05%) R
8 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) Degree
4 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.26%) GDPR
3 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.11%) WCAG
5 1 (1.05%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.05%) EMIR
5 1 (1.05%) GxP
5 1 (1.05%) NCSC
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.32%) Terraform
2 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.11%) Istio
3 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (36.84%) Databricks
2 20 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.26%) Informatica
4 3 (3.16%) Google
4 3 (3.16%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
4 3 (3.16%) SAP
4 3 (3.16%) Workday
5 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.05%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.05%) Denodo
6 1 (1.05%) Foundry
6 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.05%) Palantir
6 1 (1.05%) Sitecore