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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 61 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 89 66 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.78% 3.54% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.75% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 44 25
10th Percentile £420 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.30%
75th Percentile £675 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £688 £733
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 2,060 1,759 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.51% 94.27% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,155 1,273
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +4.91% -1.82%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £57.49 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -21.47% +7.67% -22.86%

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 14 August 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

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 16 (17.98%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.74%) Apache
2 6 (6.74%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.25%) Confluence
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.12%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 37 (41.57%) Azure
2 26 (29.21%) AWS
2 26 (29.21%) Power Platform
3 20 (22.47%) Snowflake
4 15 (16.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (15.73%) GCP
6 13 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (14.61%) dbt
7 12 (13.48%) Amazon S3
8 8 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (8.99%) GitHub
8 8 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (8.99%) Prefect
8 8 (8.99%) Serverless
9 7 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (6.74%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (6.74%) Dagster
11 4 (4.49%) SaaS
12 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.84%) Data Warehouse
1 23 (25.84%) Power BI
2 11 (12.36%) Tableau
3 10 (11.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (10.11%) Metadata
5 8 (8.99%) BigQuery
5 8 (8.99%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.74%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.62%) Delta Lake
7 5 (5.62%) Looker
7 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.62%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.62%) Star Schema
8 4 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (4.49%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) GitLab
2 5 (5.62%) Git
3 4 (4.49%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.25%) JIRA
5 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.12%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (43.82%) Finance
2 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Banking
4 10 (11.24%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.74%) Legal
6 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.37%) Back Office
7 3 (3.37%) Front Office
7 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Billing
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Marketing
9 1 (1.12%) Military
9 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (56.18%) Data Engineer
2 13 (14.61%) Senior
3 10 (11.24%) Analyst
4 9 (10.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Snowflake Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Architect
5 8 (8.99%) Data Analyst
6 6 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) GCP Data Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Business Data Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.35%) PySpark
2 9 (10.11%) Kafka
3 5 (5.62%) React
4 4 (4.49%) REST
5 3 (3.37%) .NET
5 3 (3.37%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (3.37%) Node.js
5 3 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.25%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.25%) Great Expectations
6 2 (2.25%) JSON
6 2 (2.25%) pytest
6 2 (2.25%) Redux
6 2 (2.25%) RESTful
7 1 (1.12%) Google JAX
7 1 (1.12%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.12%) JAX
7 1 (1.12%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.12%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Clustering
3 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.25%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.25%) Life Science
5 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.12%) Equities
5 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.12%) NHS
5 1 (1.12%) PMI
5 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.12%) Replication
5 1 (1.12%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (52.81%) Data Engineering
2 46 (51.69%) Analytics
3 43 (48.31%) Data Modelling
4 34 (38.20%) CI/CD
5 33 (37.08%) ETL
6 24 (26.97%) DevOps
7 23 (25.84%) AI
7 23 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (23.60%) Data Governance
9 20 (22.47%) Data Science
10 17 (19.10%) Agile
11 16 (17.98%) Validation
12 15 (16.85%) Decision-Making
12 15 (16.85%) Test Automation
13 12 (13.48%) Event-Driven
13 12 (13.48%) Machine Learning
13 12 (13.48%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (12.36%) Migration
14 11 (12.36%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (11.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 54 (60.67%) Python
2 48 (53.93%) SQL
3 7 (7.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (7.87%) Java
4 6 (6.74%) C#
5 5 (5.62%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.49%) Scala
7 3 (3.37%) Korn
7 3 (3.37%) R
7 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.12%) Bash
9 1 (1.12%) Bicep
9 1 (1.12%) C++
9 1 (1.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.12%) CBAP
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (38.20%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.87%) GDPR
3 6 (6.74%) QA
4 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.12%) GxP
5 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Terraform
2 5 (5.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.12%) Istio
3 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (29.21%) Databricks
2 17 (19.10%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.74%) Informatica
4 5 (5.62%) Workday
5 3 (3.37%) Google
5 3 (3.37%) Oracle
6 2 (2.25%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.25%) SAP
7 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.12%) Denodo
7 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.12%) Palantir