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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 69 80
Rank change year-on-year +20 +11 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 98 55 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.57% 3.19% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 3.38% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 39 30
10th Percentile £403 £350 £423
25th Percentile £450 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.13%
75th Percentile £731 £671 £669
90th Percentile £775 £695 £726
Central London median daily rate £588 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% -12.50%

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 1,939 1,628 1,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.44% 94.43% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,094 1,210
10th Percentile £363 £326 £367
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
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 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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

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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 8 October 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 12 (12.24%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.16%) Apache
2 8 (8.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.08%) Confluence
4 2 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.02%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.86%) Azure
2 28 (28.57%) AWS
3 21 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (19.39%) Power Platform
5 17 (17.35%) Amazon S3
6 16 (16.33%) Serverless
7 15 (15.31%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (15.31%) Snowflake
8 14 (14.29%) dbt
9 11 (11.22%) GitHub
10 10 (10.20%) Azure Databricks
10 10 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (9.18%) GCP
12 7 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.45%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (18.37%) Power BI
3 15 (15.31%) Metadata
4 9 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (9.18%) BigQuery
4 9 (9.18%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (8.16%) Delta Lake
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.12%) Looker
7 5 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (5.10%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.10%) Star Schema
8 4 (4.08%) Data Hub
8 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.06%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.06%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) GitLab
2 8 (8.16%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.10%) Git
3 5 (5.10%) JIRA
4 2 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.02%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.02%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (52.04%) Finance
2 24 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.37%) Banking
3 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Back Office
5 4 (4.08%) Front Office
6 3 (3.06%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.06%) Marketing
6 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Legal
7 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.02%) Automotive
8 1 (1.02%) Billing
8 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Publishing
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (51.02%) Data Engineer
2 17 (17.35%) Senior
3 11 (11.22%) Analyst
3 11 (11.22%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (11.22%) Senior Data Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Architect
5 9 (9.18%) AWS Data Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Databricks Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Developer
8 4 (4.08%) Lead
8 4 (4.08%) Snowflake Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Business Data Analyst
9 3 (3.06%) Data Manager
9 3 (3.06%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.47%) PySpark
2 11 (11.22%) Terraform
3 6 (6.12%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (6.12%) Kafka
3 6 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.08%) REST
5 3 (3.06%) RESTful
6 2 (2.04%) .NET
6 2 (2.04%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.04%) React
6 2 (2.04%) Redux
7 1 (1.02%) Google JAX
7 1 (1.02%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.02%) LangChain
7 1 (1.02%) Middleware
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.02%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.02%) Snowpark
7 1 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.04%) PropTech
4 2 (2.04%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.02%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.02%) NHS
5 1 (1.02%) PMI
5 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.02%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.04%) Data Engineering
1 51 (52.04%) Data Modelling
2 45 (45.92%) Analytics
3 42 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 33 (33.67%) Data Governance
5 32 (32.65%) ETL
6 29 (29.59%) Agile
7 26 (26.53%) DevOps
8 22 (22.45%) AI
9 20 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (20.41%) Performance Optimisation
10 18 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (16.33%) Migration
11 16 (16.33%) Validation
12 14 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 13 (13.27%) Data Transformation
13 13 (13.27%) Decision-Making
13 13 (13.27%) Event-Driven
13 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (13.27%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 58 (59.18%) Python
2 56 (57.14%) SQL
3 10 (10.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (5.10%) Java
4 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.10%) Korn
4 5 (5.10%) LookML
5 4 (4.08%) C#
5 4 (4.08%) R
5 4 (4.08%) Scala
6 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.02%) Bicep
8 1 (1.02%) C++
8 1 (1.02%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.02%) CBAP
5 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.12%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Istio
2 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (31.63%) Databricks
2 21 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Oracle
4 4 (4.08%) Google
5 2 (2.04%) Informatica
5 2 (2.04%) Palantir
5 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.04%) Teradata
6 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.02%) Braze
6 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.02%) Mistral
6 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (1.02%) Workday