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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 87 101
Rank change year-on-year +37 +14 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 79 26 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.22% 1.42% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 1.55% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 17 26
10th Percentile £318 £435 £397
25th Percentile £395 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £598
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.13% +8.64%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £623
90th Percentile £715 £725 £721
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
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 1,663 1,680 2,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.84% 91.45% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,003 1,534
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £428 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +28.57% -10.00%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £52.64 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

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

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 9 February 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 (15.19%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (12.66%) Apache Spark
3 8 (10.13%) Apache
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.51%) AWS
2 30 (37.97%) Azure
3 18 (22.78%) Power Platform
4 15 (18.99%) Snowflake
5 11 (13.92%) Amazon S3
5 11 (13.92%) Serverless
6 10 (12.66%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (12.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (11.39%) dbt
7 9 (11.39%) GCP
8 8 (10.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.06%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (3.80%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (2.53%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.53%) Dagster
11 2 (2.53%) Google Gemini
11 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.53%) Textract
11 2 (2.53%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) Power BI
2 13 (16.46%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (12.66%) Data Lake
3 10 (12.66%) Metadata
4 8 (10.13%) Tableau
5 5 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.33%) Delta Lake
6 4 (5.06%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (3.80%) Big Data
7 3 (3.80%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.53%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.53%) Redis
8 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.27%) Data Hub
9 1 (1.27%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Git
2 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) JIRA
4 1 (1.27%) MLflow
General
1 19 (24.05%) Finance
2 13 (16.46%) Banking
2 13 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Front Office
4 4 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.06%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Law
6 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Back Office
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.27%) Military
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (44.30%) Data Engineer
2 10 (12.66%) Architect
3 8 (10.13%) Lead
4 6 (7.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Developer
5 4 (5.06%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Senior
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (3.80%) Data Scientist
6 3 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.53%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (2.53%) Gen AI Engineer
7 2 (2.53%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) PySpark
2 9 (11.39%) Kafka
3 5 (6.33%) .NET
3 5 (6.33%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.33%) Node.js
3 5 (6.33%) React
4 4 (5.06%) PyTorch
4 4 (5.06%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.80%) NumPy
5 3 (3.80%) Pandas
5 3 (3.80%) REST
5 3 (3.80%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.80%) Vert.x
6 2 (2.53%) boto
6 2 (2.53%) D3.js
6 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.53%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (2.53%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.53%) Vue
7 1 (1.27%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.86%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.53%) Clustering
5 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.53%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.27%) NHS
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.27%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.27%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.51%) Data Engineering
2 31 (39.24%) Analytics
2 31 (39.24%) ETL
3 27 (34.18%) Data Modelling
4 24 (30.38%) AI
5 22 (27.85%) CI/CD
6 19 (24.05%) Agile
6 19 (24.05%) Machine Learning
7 18 (22.78%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (20.25%) Data Governance
9 14 (17.72%) Data Science
9 14 (17.72%) Event-Driven
9 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.72%) Validation
10 13 (16.46%) Generative AI
11 12 (15.19%) Data Integration
11 12 (15.19%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (12.66%) MLOps
12 10 (12.66%) Visualisation
13 9 (11.39%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 52 (65.82%) Python
2 43 (54.43%) SQL
3 10 (12.66%) Java
4 8 (10.13%) Scala
5 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.53%) Korn
7 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.27%) C++
8 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (36.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.53%) WCAG
5 1 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.27%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.27%) EMIR
5 1 (1.27%) NCSC
5 1 (1.27%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.06%) Terraform
2 2 (2.53%) Istio
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (35.44%) Databricks
2 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle
4 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.53%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.53%) SAP
5 1 (1.27%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.27%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.27%) Informatica
5 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.27%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.27%) Workday