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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 79
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 97 58 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.41% 3.33% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 3.53% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 41 30
10th Percentile £413 £355 £423
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -12.13%
75th Percentile £700 £668 £669
90th Percentile £775 £688 £726
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +2.73% +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 1,981 1,642 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.00% 94.37% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 1,103 1,211
10th Percentile £365 £325 £368
25th Percentile £455 £420 £470
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 £771 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.02 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.83 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -27.73% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £47.00 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £66.25 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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 2 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 (12.37%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.25%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.19%) Apache
4 4 (4.12%) Confluence
5 2 (2.06%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.06%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.33%) Azure
2 29 (29.90%) AWS
3 21 (21.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 21 (21.65%) Power Platform
4 16 (16.49%) Amazon S3
4 16 (16.49%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (16.49%) Snowflake
5 15 (15.46%) Serverless
6 14 (14.43%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (14.43%) dbt
7 12 (12.37%) GitHub
8 11 (11.34%) Azure Databricks
8 11 (11.34%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (10.31%) GCP
10 9 (9.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (7.22%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (7.22%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (7.22%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.71%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (19.59%) Power BI
3 14 (14.43%) Metadata
4 10 (10.31%) BigQuery
5 9 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (9.28%) Data Lake
5 9 (9.28%) Delta Lake
6 8 (8.25%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (7.22%) Looker
8 6 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (5.15%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
9 5 (5.15%) Star Schema
10 4 (4.12%) Data Hub
10 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.12%) Tableau
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (12.37%) GitLab
2 8 (8.25%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.15%) Git
3 5 (5.15%) JIRA
4 2 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.03%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (52.58%) Finance
2 22 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.56%) Banking
3 18 (18.56%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.22%) Back Office
5 4 (4.12%) Front Office
6 3 (3.09%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.09%) Legal
6 3 (3.09%) Marketing
6 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.03%) Automotive
8 1 (1.03%) Billing
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Military
8 1 (1.03%) Publishing
8 1 (1.03%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (51.55%) Data Engineer
2 18 (18.56%) Senior
3 12 (12.37%) Senior Data Engineer
4 11 (11.34%) Analyst
4 11 (11.34%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (10.31%) Architect
6 9 (9.28%) AWS Data Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) Databricks Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Data Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Architect
10 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Business Data Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Data Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Lead
10 3 (3.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.68%) PySpark
2 11 (11.34%) Terraform
3 6 (6.19%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (6.19%) Kafka
3 6 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (5.15%) REST
5 3 (3.09%) RESTful
6 2 (2.06%) .NET
6 2 (2.06%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.06%) React
6 2 (2.06%) Redux
7 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.03%) Middleware
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.03%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.03%) SOAP
7 1 (1.03%) Spring
7 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.06%) PropTech
4 2 (2.06%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.03%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.03%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) NHS
5 1 (1.03%) PMI
5 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.03%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (53.61%) Data Engineering
2 50 (51.55%) Data Modelling
3 46 (47.42%) Analytics
4 42 (43.30%) CI/CD
5 34 (35.05%) ETL
6 31 (31.96%) Data Governance
7 29 (29.90%) Agile
8 27 (27.84%) DevOps
9 22 (22.68%) AI
10 21 (21.65%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (19.59%) Performance Optimisation
12 17 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (16.49%) Migration
14 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
14 15 (15.46%) Validation
15 14 (14.43%) Event-Driven
16 13 (13.40%) Decision-Making
16 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 13 (13.40%) Integration Patterns
17 12 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 57 (58.76%) Python
2 56 (57.73%) SQL
3 10 (10.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (6.19%) Java
5 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.15%) Korn
5 5 (5.15%) LookML
6 4 (4.12%) C#
6 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.12%) R
6 4 (4.12%) Scala
7 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.03%) Bash
8 1 (1.03%) Bicep
8 1 (1.03%) C++
8 1 (1.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.06%) Degree
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.03%) CBAP
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (42.27%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.19%) QA
3 5 (5.15%) GDPR
4 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Istio
2 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (34.02%) Databricks
2 21 (21.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.15%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) Google
5 2 (2.06%) Informatica
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.06%) Teradata
5 2 (2.06%) Workday
6 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.03%) Braze
6 1 (1.03%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.03%) Mistral
6 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.03%) Palantir
6 1 (1.03%) SAP