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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 64 74
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 94 55 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.88% 3.14% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 3.35% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 34 35
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £430 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £614 £644 £688
90th Percentile £764 £685 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 2,077 1,643 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.78% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 1,050 1,354
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 18 14
10th Percentile £17.53 £16.90 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.29
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £43.00 £54.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £71.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £30.04 £27.41
% change year-on-year -9.27% +9.60% -21.70%

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 26 June 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 19 (20.21%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.32%) Apache
2 5 (5.32%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.13%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.06%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 39 (41.49%) Azure
2 31 (32.98%) Power Platform
3 30 (31.91%) AWS
4 21 (22.34%) Snowflake
5 18 (19.15%) GCP
6 14 (14.89%) dbt
7 13 (13.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
9 8 (8.51%) Prefect
10 7 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (7.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (7.45%) Serverless
11 6 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.38%) Dagster
11 6 (6.38%) GitHub
12 5 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.26%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (3.19%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (3.19%) Matillion
14 3 (3.19%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.72%) Power BI
2 23 (24.47%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (13.83%) Tableau
4 11 (11.70%) Metadata
5 10 (10.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (9.57%) BigQuery
6 9 (9.57%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (9.57%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.38%) Looker
8 5 (5.32%) Delta Lake
8 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.26%) Data Lake
10 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.19%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.19%) Star Schema
11 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.13%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (9.57%) Git
2 3 (3.19%) JIRA
3 2 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.06%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.06%) MLflow
General
1 40 (42.55%) Finance
2 14 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (14.89%) Banking
3 11 (11.70%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Legal
5 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.26%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.13%) Front Office
6 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Billing
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Military
7 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (52.13%) Data Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) Snowflake Engineer
3 11 (11.70%) Architect
4 9 (9.57%) Senior
5 7 (7.45%) Analyst
5 7 (7.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) GCP Data Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.19%) Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.19%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) PySpark
2 12 (12.77%) Kafka
3 5 (5.32%) React
4 3 (3.19%) .NET
4 3 (3.19%) JSON
4 3 (3.19%) Node.js
4 3 (3.19%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.19%) REST
4 3 (3.19%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.19%) Vert.x
5 2 (2.13%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.13%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.13%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.13%) pytest
5 2 (2.13%) Redux
5 2 (2.13%) RESTful
5 2 (2.13%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.06%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Clustering
3 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.13%) Life Science
5 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.13%) NHS
5 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.06%) PMI
6 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.06%) Replication
6 1 (1.06%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.06%) Analytics
1 48 (51.06%) Data Engineering
2 40 (42.55%) Data Modelling
3 34 (36.17%) AI
4 30 (31.91%) ETL
5 29 (30.85%) CI/CD
6 27 (28.72%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (24.47%) Data Science
8 20 (21.28%) Agile
8 20 (21.28%) Data Governance
9 18 (19.15%) DevOps
9 18 (19.15%) Machine Learning
10 17 (18.09%) Validation
11 15 (15.96%) Decision-Making
11 15 (15.96%) Generative AI
12 14 (14.89%) Test Automation
13 13 (13.83%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.83%) Use Case
14 12 (12.77%) Event-Driven
14 12 (12.77%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (60.64%) Python
2 47 (50.00%) SQL
3 9 (9.57%) Java
4 6 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (5.32%) C#
5 5 (5.32%) Scala
6 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.19%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.13%) Korn
7 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.13%) R
8 1 (1.06%) Bash
8 1 (1.06%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.26%) Degree
4 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.13%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.06%) CBAP
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (36.17%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.57%) GDPR
3 4 (4.26%) QA
4 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.06%) GxP
5 1 (1.06%) NCSC
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.32%) Terraform
2 2 (2.13%) Istio
2 2 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (29.79%) Databricks
2 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.45%) Informatica
4 5 (5.32%) Workday
5 3 (3.19%) Google
5 3 (3.19%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.19%) Oracle
5 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.13%) Palantir
6 2 (2.13%) SAP
7 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.06%) Denodo
7 1 (1.06%) Foundry
7 1 (1.06%) Sitecore