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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 59 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 90 63 49
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.75% 3.37% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.58% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 43 27
10th Percentile £425 £400 £420
25th Percentile £450 £481 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +10.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £703 £668 £709
90th Percentile £775 £688 £738
Central London median daily rate £555 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +0.91% +4.76% -8.30%

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 2,085 1,761 1,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.77% 94.07% 91.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,135 1,301
10th Percentile £368 £335 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.71
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -7.46% -4.29%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.74% -1.52% -5.71%

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 24 July 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 16 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.56%) Apache
3 4 (4.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.22%) Confluence
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.56%) BambooHR
2 2 (2.22%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 33 (36.67%) Azure
2 28 (31.11%) Power Platform
3 27 (30.00%) AWS
4 21 (23.33%) Snowflake
5 14 (15.56%) dbt
5 14 (15.56%) GCP
6 11 (12.22%) Amazon S3
6 11 (12.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.89%) GitHub
8 8 (8.89%) Prefect
8 8 (8.89%) Serverless
9 7 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.67%) Dagster
11 5 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.78%) Power BI
2 24 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (12.22%) Tableau
4 10 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (10.00%) Metadata
5 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.89%) BigQuery
6 8 (8.89%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.56%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.56%) Looker
7 5 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.44%) Delta Lake
8 4 (4.44%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.44%) Star Schema
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.22%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Git
2 5 (5.56%) GitLab
3 3 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.22%) JIRA
5 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.11%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (44.44%) Finance
2 16 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.33%) Banking
4 9 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Legal
6 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.33%) Front Office
7 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.22%) Back Office
9 1 (1.11%) Billing
9 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Military
9 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (52.22%) Data Engineer
2 11 (12.22%) Senior
3 10 (11.11%) Analyst
3 10 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
4 8 (8.89%) Architect
4 8 (8.89%) Data Analyst
5 7 (7.78%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) AWS Data Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Lead
7 4 (4.44%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) PySpark
2 11 (12.22%) Kafka
3 5 (5.56%) React
4 4 (4.44%) REST
5 3 (3.33%) .NET
5 3 (3.33%) JSON
5 3 (3.33%) Node.js
5 3 (3.33%) Vert.x
6 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.22%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.22%) Great Expectations
6 2 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.22%) pytest
6 2 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.22%) Redux
6 2 (2.22%) RESTful
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.11%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.33%) Clustering
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.11%) Equities
6 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) NHS
6 1 (1.11%) PMI
6 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.11%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.33%) Data Engineering
2 47 (52.22%) Analytics
3 45 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 31 (34.44%) CI/CD
5 29 (32.22%) ETL
6 27 (30.00%) AI
7 25 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (24.44%) Data Science
9 20 (22.22%) DevOps
10 19 (21.11%) Data Governance
11 16 (17.78%) Validation
12 15 (16.67%) Agile
12 15 (16.67%) Decision-Making
12 15 (16.67%) Test Automation
13 14 (15.56%) Event-Driven
14 13 (14.44%) Machine Learning
15 11 (12.22%) Migration
15 11 (12.22%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (12.22%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (12.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 54 (60.00%) Python
2 48 (53.33%) SQL
3 9 (10.00%) Java
4 7 (7.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (5.56%) C#
6 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.33%) R
7 3 (3.33%) Scala
7 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.11%) Bash
8 1 (1.11%) Bicep
8 1 (1.11%) C++
8 1 (1.11%) Go
8 1 (1.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.44%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.22%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.11%) CBAP
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (35.56%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.78%) GDPR
3 6 (6.67%) QA
4 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.11%) GxP
5 1 (1.11%) NIST
5 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.78%) Terraform
2 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.11%) Istio
3 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (24.44%) Databricks
2 18 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.67%) Informatica
4 5 (5.56%) Workday
5 3 (3.33%) Google
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
6 2 (2.22%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.22%) Palantir
6 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.11%) Denodo
7 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.11%) Foundry
7 1 (1.11%) OpenAI