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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 91 124
Rank change year-on-year +25 +33 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 61 37 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.42% 1.73% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 1.89% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 25 21
10th Percentile £330 £425 £363
25th Percentile £441 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £673 £638 £619
90th Percentile £739 £740 £704
Central London median daily rate £565 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +10.24% -14.58% +9.09%

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 1,658 1,960 2,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.99% 91.67% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,199 1,718
10th Percentile £332 £376 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 13
10th Percentile £17.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.53% +54.55% -46.08%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.71% +30.84% -42.93%

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 24 November 2025.

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

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 11 (18.03%) Apache Spark
2 10 (16.39%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (14.75%) Apache
4 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) AWS
2 24 (39.34%) Azure
3 15 (24.59%) Snowflake
4 14 (22.95%) Power Platform
5 10 (16.39%) Amazon S3
6 9 (14.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (13.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (13.11%) dbt
8 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (11.48%) GCP
8 7 (11.48%) Serverless
9 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (6.56%) GitHub
10 3 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.28%) Dagster
11 2 (3.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (3.28%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.87%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (19.67%) Data Lake
2 12 (19.67%) Power BI
3 5 (8.20%) Big Data
3 5 (8.20%) Hadoop
3 5 (8.20%) Tableau
4 4 (6.56%) Delta Lake
4 4 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.92%) Apache Hive
5 3 (4.92%) Metadata
5 3 (4.92%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.28%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git
2 8 (13.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) JIRA
General
1 20 (32.79%) Finance
2 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.03%) Banking
4 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (13.11%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Front Office
7 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.28%) Law
8 2 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (47.54%) Data Engineer
2 6 (9.84%) Developer
2 6 (9.84%) Lead
2 6 (9.84%) Senior
3 5 (8.20%) Architect
3 5 (8.20%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.28%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (3.28%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Data Architect
7 1 (1.64%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) PySpark
2 5 (8.20%) .NET
2 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
2 5 (8.20%) Kafka
2 5 (8.20%) Node.js
2 5 (8.20%) React
3 4 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (6.56%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (3.28%) CSS
4 2 (3.28%) D3.js
4 2 (3.28%) HTML
4 2 (3.28%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.28%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.28%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.28%) Vue
4 2 (3.28%) XML
5 1 (1.64%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.64%) JWT
5 1 (1.64%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.56%) Fixed Income
2 4 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.92%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.64%) Clustering
5 1 (1.64%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Analytics
2 23 (37.70%) Data Modelling
2 23 (37.70%) ETL
3 20 (32.79%) Data Science
4 19 (31.15%) CI/CD
5 18 (29.51%) Machine Learning
6 16 (26.23%) Data Engineering
7 15 (24.59%) Agile
7 15 (24.59%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (24.59%) DevOps
8 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (18.03%) Data Transformation
9 11 (18.03%) Event-Driven
10 9 (14.75%) AI
10 9 (14.75%) Data Governance
11 8 (13.11%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (13.11%) Visualisation
12 7 (11.48%) Data Analytics
12 7 (11.48%) Data Integration
12 7 (11.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 43 (70.49%) Python
2 35 (57.38%) SQL
3 8 (13.11%) Java
3 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.92%) Scala
6 1 (1.64%) C#
6 1 (1.64%) C++
6 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.64%) R
6 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.48%) Degree
2 7 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.28%) CISSP
3 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (27.87%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) WCAG
4 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.64%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.64%) EMIR
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) Terraform
2 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.56%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (6.56%) Kibana
3 4 (6.56%) logstash
4 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Databricks
2 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.56%) Solace
4 3 (4.92%) Foundry
4 3 (4.92%) Palantir
5 2 (3.28%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.64%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.64%) Sparx
6 1 (1.64%) Workday