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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 89 92
Rank change year-on-year +44 +3 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 89 27 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.40% 1.50% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 1.63% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 19 27
10th Percentile £322 £400 £400
25th Percentile £401 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £619
90th Percentile £785 £638 £717
Central London median daily rate £513 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -1.91% -5.00% -
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 1,795 1,655 2,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.77% 91.64% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,039 1,497
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 9 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 16 (17.98%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (11.24%) Apache Spark
3 8 (8.99%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.12%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.20%) Azure
2 30 (33.71%) AWS
3 28 (31.46%) Power Platform
4 19 (21.35%) Snowflake
5 15 (16.85%) dbt
6 14 (15.73%) GCP
7 11 (12.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (11.24%) Serverless
9 9 (10.11%) Amazon S3
9 9 (10.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.62%) Dagster
11 5 (5.62%) Prefect
12 4 (4.49%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (3.37%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (3.37%) Boomi
13 3 (3.37%) iPaaS
13 3 (3.37%) SaaS
14 2 (2.25%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.97%) Power BI
2 21 (23.60%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (14.61%) Tableau
4 12 (13.48%) Data Lake
4 12 (13.48%) Metadata
5 9 (10.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.62%) BigQuery
6 5 (5.62%) Delta Lake
6 5 (5.62%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.49%) Looker
8 3 (3.37%) Big Data
8 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.25%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.25%) Redis
9 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Git
2 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.12%) MLflow
General
1 23 (25.84%) Finance
2 14 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Banking
4 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.37%) Legal
5 3 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Front Office
6 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Law
7 1 (1.12%) Back Office
7 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.12%) Military
7 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (51.69%) Data Engineer
2 10 (11.24%) Architect
3 8 (8.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 8 (8.99%) Snowflake Engineer
4 7 (7.87%) Senior
5 6 (6.74%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Lead
7 4 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Developer
7 4 (4.49%) Python Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.37%) GCP Data Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.25%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.98%) PySpark
2 10 (11.24%) Kafka
3 4 (4.49%) PyTorch
3 4 (4.49%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.37%) NumPy
4 3 (3.37%) Pandas
4 3 (3.37%) React
4 3 (3.37%) TensorFlow
4 3 (3.37%) Vert.x
5 2 (2.25%) .NET
5 2 (2.25%) boto
5 2 (2.25%) D3.js
5 2 (2.25%) JSON
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.25%) Node.js
5 2 (2.25%) REST
5 2 (2.25%) Vue
5 2 (2.25%) XML
5 2 (2.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.87%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.49%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Clustering
4 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.37%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.25%) Life Science
5 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.12%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.12%) Replication
6 1 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.07%) Analytics
1 41 (46.07%) Data Engineering
2 36 (40.45%) ETL
3 31 (34.83%) Data Modelling
4 27 (30.34%) AI
5 25 (28.09%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (26.97%) CI/CD
7 19 (21.35%) Data Science
7 19 (21.35%) Machine Learning
8 18 (20.22%) Agile
9 16 (17.98%) Data Governance
9 16 (17.98%) Validation
10 15 (16.85%) Data Integration
11 14 (15.73%) Generative AI
11 14 (15.73%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (12.36%) Event-Driven
12 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (12.36%) Use Case
13 10 (11.24%) MLOps
13 10 (11.24%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 55 (61.80%) Python
2 48 (53.93%) SQL
3 9 (10.11%) Scala
4 6 (6.74%) Java
5 3 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.25%) Korn
6 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.12%) Bicep
7 1 (1.12%) C#
7 1 (1.12%) C++
7 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.37%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (39.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.62%) GDPR
3 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.25%) WCAG
5 1 (1.12%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.12%) EMIR
5 1 (1.12%) GxP
5 1 (1.12%) NCSC
5 1 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (5.62%) Terraform
2 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.25%) Istio
3 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (38.20%) Databricks
2 18 (20.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.37%) Informatica
3 3 (3.37%) MuleSoft
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle
3 3 (3.37%) SAP
3 3 (3.37%) Workday
4 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.12%) Denodo
5 1 (1.12%) Foundry
5 1 (1.12%) Google
5 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.12%) Palantir
5 1 (1.12%) Sitecore