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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 86 91
Rank change year-on-year +42 +5 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 95 29 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.48% 1.67% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 1.80% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 21 25
10th Percentile £351 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £758 £680 £724
Central London median daily rate £513 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -2.38% -6.67% +2.27%
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 1,864 1,608 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.92% 92.36% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,286 1,030 1,491
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £447 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £46.29 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.13 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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

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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 26 March 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 18 (18.95%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 8 (8.42%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.05%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (42.11%) Azure
2 34 (35.79%) AWS
3 30 (31.58%) Power Platform
4 21 (22.11%) Snowflake
5 17 (17.89%) dbt
5 17 (17.89%) GCP
6 12 (12.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (9.47%) Amazon S3
9 8 (8.42%) Serverless
10 7 (7.37%) Prefect
11 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.26%) Dagster
13 4 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (4.21%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (3.16%) Boomi
14 3 (3.16%) Fivetran
14 3 (3.16%) GitHub
14 3 (3.16%) iPaaS
14 3 (3.16%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.37%) Power BI
2 24 (25.26%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (14.74%) Tableau
4 12 (12.63%) Data Lake
4 12 (12.63%) Metadata
5 9 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (8.42%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
8 5 (5.26%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.26%) Delta Lake
9 4 (4.21%) Looker
9 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.21%) Star Schema
10 3 (3.16%) Big Data
10 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
11 2 (2.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (15.79%) Git
2 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.11%) JIRA
4 1 (1.05%) MLflow
General
1 26 (27.37%) Finance
2 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.58%) Banking
5 4 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.21%) Legal
6 3 (3.16%) Front Office
6 3 (3.16%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Back Office
8 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.05%) Military
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (51.58%) Data Engineer
2 10 (10.53%) Architect
2 10 (10.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 10 (10.53%) Snowflake Engineer
3 7 (7.37%) Senior
4 6 (6.32%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (5.26%) Lead
5 5 (5.26%) Python Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Developer
7 3 (3.16%) Analyst
7 3 (3.16%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.16%) Data Scientist
7 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.16%) GCP Data Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) PySpark
2 12 (12.63%) Kafka
3 5 (5.26%) React
4 4 (4.21%) JSON
4 4 (4.21%) PyTorch
4 4 (4.21%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.16%) Node.js
5 3 (3.16%) NumPy
5 3 (3.16%) Pandas
5 3 (3.16%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.16%) Vert.x
6 2 (2.11%) boto
6 2 (2.11%) D3.js
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.11%) pytest
6 2 (2.11%) REST
6 2 (2.11%) Vue
6 2 (2.11%) XML
6 2 (2.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.37%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.26%) Clustering
5 4 (4.21%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.11%) Life Science
7 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Equities
8 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.05%) NHS
8 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.05%) Replication
8 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.42%) Data Engineering
2 45 (47.37%) Analytics
3 38 (40.00%) ETL
4 35 (36.84%) Data Modelling
5 31 (32.63%) AI
6 29 (30.53%) CI/CD
7 27 (28.42%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (23.16%) Data Science
9 20 (21.05%) Machine Learning
10 18 (18.95%) Data Governance
10 18 (18.95%) Validation
11 17 (17.89%) Agile
11 17 (17.89%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (15.79%) Data Integration
13 14 (14.74%) Generative AI
14 13 (13.68%) DevOps
15 11 (11.58%) Event-Driven
15 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (11.58%) Use Case
16 10 (10.53%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 60 (63.16%) Python
2 51 (53.68%) SQL
3 9 (9.47%) Scala
4 7 (7.37%) Java
5 4 (4.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.11%) Korn
7 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.05%) Bicep
8 1 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) C++
8 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.05%) R
8 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) Degree
4 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (42.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.26%) GDPR
3 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.11%) WCAG
5 1 (1.05%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.05%) EMIR
5 1 (1.05%) GxP
5 1 (1.05%) NCSC
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.32%) Terraform
2 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.11%) Istio
3 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (37.89%) Databricks
2 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) Informatica
4 3 (3.16%) Google
4 3 (3.16%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
4 3 (3.16%) SAP
4 3 (3.16%) Workday
5 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.05%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.05%) Denodo
6 1 (1.05%) Foundry
6 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.05%) Palantir
6 1 (1.05%) Sitecore