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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 95 100
Rank change year-on-year +48 +5 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 83 27 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.34% 1.49% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 1.63% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 18 27
10th Percentile £320 £409 £400
25th Percentile £400 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £620
90th Percentile £750 £725 £717
Central London median daily rate £513 £524 £595
% change year-on-year -2.15% -11.97% +8.18%
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 1,700 1,661 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.91% 91.57% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,001 1,526
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £775 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +24.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £43.86 £64.56 £45.52
90th Percentile £54.35 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.74% +25.85% -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 16 February 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 11 (13.25%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (12.05%) Apache Spark
3 7 (8.43%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) Confluence
4 1 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 32 (38.55%) Azure
2 31 (37.35%) AWS
3 21 (25.30%) Power Platform
4 16 (19.28%) Snowflake
5 12 (14.46%) Serverless
6 11 (13.25%) Amazon S3
6 11 (13.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (13.25%) GCP
7 10 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (10.84%) dbt
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (3.61%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.41%) Google Gemini
11 2 (2.41%) LangSmith
11 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.41%) Textract
11 2 (2.41%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.89%) Power BI
2 15 (18.07%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (13.25%) Data Lake
3 11 (13.25%) Metadata
4 8 (9.64%) Tableau
5 5 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.02%) Delta Lake
6 4 (4.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (3.61%) Big Data
7 3 (3.61%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.41%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.41%) Redis
9 1 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (18.07%) Git
2 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) JIRA
4 1 (1.20%) MLflow
General
1 20 (24.10%) Finance
2 13 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Banking
4 4 (4.82%) Front Office
4 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.82%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Law
6 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Back Office
7 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Military
7 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (45.78%) Data Engineer
2 11 (13.25%) Architect
3 7 (8.43%) Lead
4 6 (7.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 6 (7.23%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Developer
5 4 (4.82%) Python Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Senior
6 3 (3.61%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (3.61%) Data Architect
6 3 (3.61%) Data Scientist
6 3 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.41%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (2.41%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) PySpark
2 9 (10.84%) Kafka
3 5 (6.02%) .NET
3 5 (6.02%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.02%) React
4 4 (4.82%) Node.js
4 4 (4.82%) PyTorch
4 4 (4.82%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.61%) NumPy
5 3 (3.61%) Pandas
5 3 (3.61%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.61%) Vert.x
6 2 (2.41%) boto
6 2 (2.41%) D3.js
6 2 (2.41%) JSON
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.41%) REST
6 2 (2.41%) Vue
6 2 (2.41%) XML
6 2 (2.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.82%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.61%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.41%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.41%) Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.20%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (42.17%) Analytics
2 34 (40.96%) Data Engineering
3 31 (37.35%) ETL
4 29 (34.94%) Data Modelling
5 25 (30.12%) AI
6 22 (26.51%) CI/CD
7 21 (25.30%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (22.89%) Agile
8 19 (22.89%) Machine Learning
9 18 (21.69%) Data Science
10 16 (19.28%) Data Governance
11 14 (16.87%) Event-Driven
11 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (16.87%) Validation
12 13 (15.66%) Data Integration
12 13 (15.66%) Generative AI
13 12 (14.46%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (12.05%) MLOps
14 10 (12.05%) Visualisation
15 9 (10.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 53 (63.86%) Python
2 44 (53.01%) SQL
3 9 (10.84%) Java
4 8 (9.64%) Scala
5 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.61%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.41%) Korn
7 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.20%) Bicep
8 1 (1.20%) C#
8 1 (1.20%) C++
8 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.20%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Degree
4 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (36.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.61%) GDPR
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) WCAG
4 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.20%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.20%) EMIR
4 1 (1.20%) NCSC
4 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.02%) Terraform
2 2 (2.41%) Istio
2 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (34.94%) Databricks
2 19 (22.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.41%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.20%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.20%) Foundry
5 1 (1.20%) Informatica
5 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.20%) Palantir
5 1 (1.20%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.20%) Workday