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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 80 85
Rank change year-on-year +33 +5 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 98 43 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.26% 2.45% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 2.63% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 28 26
10th Percentile £369 £400 £413
25th Percentile £421 £459 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £640 £644
90th Percentile £746 £677 £728
Central London median daily rate £516 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.14% -2.22% +2.27%
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 1,962 1,638 1,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.19% 93.28% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 1,037 1,404
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £809
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 3 May 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 16 (16.33%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.12%) Apache
2 6 (6.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.86%) Azure
2 33 (33.67%) AWS
3 32 (32.65%) Power Platform
4 19 (19.39%) Snowflake
5 18 (18.37%) GCP
6 14 (14.29%) dbt
7 12 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (9.18%) Amazon S3
8 9 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (8.16%) Prefect
10 7 (7.14%) Serverless
11 6 (6.12%) Dagster
12 5 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (5.10%) GitHub
13 4 (4.08%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.06%) AWS Control Tower
14 3 (3.06%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.55%) Power BI
2 21 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (15.31%) Metadata
4 14 (14.29%) Tableau
5 10 (10.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (8.16%) BigQuery
6 8 (8.16%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.16%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
8 6 (6.12%) Looker
9 5 (5.10%) Delta Lake
9 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
11 3 (3.06%) Big Data
11 3 (3.06%) Redis
11 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.06%) Star Schema
12 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
12 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) GitLab
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.02%) MLflow
General
1 34 (34.69%) Finance
2 14 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (14.29%) Banking
2 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.12%) Legal
4 4 (4.08%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Front Office
7 1 (1.02%) Back Office
7 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Law
7 1 (1.02%) Military
7 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (48.98%) Data Engineer
2 12 (12.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 12 (12.24%) Snowflake Engineer
3 10 (10.20%) Architect
4 8 (8.16%) Senior
5 6 (6.12%) Python Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Analyst
6 5 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.06%) Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.06%) GCP Data Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Lead
8 3 (3.06%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.39%) PySpark
2 11 (11.22%) Kafka
3 5 (5.10%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.10%) React
3 5 (5.10%) REST
3 5 (5.10%) scikit-learn
4 4 (4.08%) JSON
4 4 (4.08%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.06%) .NET
5 3 (3.06%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (3.06%) Node.js
5 3 (3.06%) NumPy
5 3 (3.06%) Pandas
5 3 (3.06%) Vert.x
6 2 (2.04%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.04%) boto
6 2 (2.04%) Great Expectations
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.10%) Clustering
3 5 (5.10%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.06%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.04%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.04%) Life Science
6 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.02%) Equities
7 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.02%) PMI
7 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.96%) Analytics
2 46 (46.94%) Data Engineering
3 37 (37.76%) Data Modelling
4 36 (36.73%) ETL
5 32 (32.65%) AI
6 29 (29.59%) CI/CD
7 27 (27.55%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (21.43%) Data Governance
8 21 (21.43%) Data Science
9 20 (20.41%) Agile
9 20 (20.41%) Machine Learning
10 19 (19.39%) Validation
11 18 (18.37%) DevOps
12 15 (15.31%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.27%) Decision-Making
13 13 (13.27%) Event-Driven
13 13 (13.27%) Test Automation
13 13 (13.27%) Use Case
14 11 (11.22%) MLOps
14 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 60 (61.22%) Python
2 47 (47.96%) SQL
3 8 (8.16%) Java
4 7 (7.14%) Scala
5 6 (6.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (5.10%) C#
7 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.04%) Korn
8 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.02%) Bash
9 1 (1.02%) Bicep
9 1 (1.02%) C++
9 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) Degree
4 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.04%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CBAP
6 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (40.82%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) GxP
4 1 (1.02%) NCSC
4 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (9.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.08%) Terraform
3 3 (3.06%) Istio
3 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (33.67%) Databricks
2 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.12%) Informatica
4 5 (5.10%) Workday
5 3 (3.06%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.06%) Google
5 3 (3.06%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle
5 3 (3.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.02%) Denodo
7 1 (1.02%) Foundry
7 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.02%) Palantir
7 1 (1.02%) Sitecore