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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 81 88
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 100 40 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.45% 2.26% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 2.43% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 26 27
10th Percentile £369 £406 £413
25th Percentile £421 £465 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £588 £641 £675
90th Percentile £759 £678 £726
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -6.82% -6.38% +6.82%
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 1,924 1,644 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.66% 92.83% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,049 1,427
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.72% +3.86% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 13
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -42.20%
75th Percentile £51.00 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -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

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 23 April 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 (18.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.00%) Apache
3 6 (6.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 41 (41.00%) Azure
2 34 (34.00%) AWS
3 32 (32.00%) Power Platform
4 21 (21.00%) Snowflake
5 20 (20.00%) GCP
6 16 (16.00%) dbt
7 11 (11.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 10 (10.00%) Prefect
9 9 (9.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (8.00%) Dagster
10 8 (8.00%) Serverless
11 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (3.00%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (3.00%) Fivetran
13 3 (3.00%) Google Gemini
13 3 (3.00%) LangSmith
13 3 (3.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.00%) Power BI
2 23 (23.00%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (16.00%) Tableau
4 14 (14.00%) Metadata
5 11 (11.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (9.00%) Data Lake
7 8 (8.00%) BigQuery
7 8 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (7.00%) SQL Server
9 6 (6.00%) Looker
10 5 (5.00%) Delta Lake
10 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
10 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
11 4 (4.00%) Star Schema
12 3 (3.00%) Big Data
12 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (3.00%) Redis
12 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.00%) MLflow
General
1 33 (33.00%) Finance
2 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.00%) Banking
5 6 (6.00%) Legal
6 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Front Office
8 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Law
8 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.00%) Back Office
9 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.00%) Military
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Snowflake Engineer
3 10 (10.00%) Architect
4 8 (8.00%) Senior
5 7 (7.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Python Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.00%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.00%) GCP Data Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Lead
9 3 (3.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.00%) PySpark
2 9 (9.00%) Kafka
3 5 (5.00%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 4 (4.00%) JSON
4 4 (4.00%) React
4 4 (4.00%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.00%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (3.00%) Node.js
5 3 (3.00%) NumPy
5 3 (3.00%) Pandas
5 3 (3.00%) REST
5 3 (3.00%) Vert.x
6 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.00%) boto
6 2 (2.00%) Great Expectations
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.00%) pytest
6 2 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.00%) Clustering
5 4 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.00%) Life Science
7 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.00%) Equities
8 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.00%) NHS
8 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.00%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (49.00%) Analytics
2 47 (47.00%) Data Engineering
3 40 (40.00%) ETL
4 36 (36.00%) Data Modelling
5 32 (32.00%) AI
6 28 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
6 28 (28.00%) CI/CD
7 24 (24.00%) Data Science
8 21 (21.00%) Data Governance
9 20 (20.00%) Machine Learning
9 20 (20.00%) Validation
10 19 (19.00%) Agile
11 16 (16.00%) DevOps
12 15 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.00%) Decision-Making
13 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.00%) Use Case
14 12 (12.00%) Data Integration
14 12 (12.00%) Event-Driven
15 11 (11.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (61.00%) Python
2 50 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (8.00%) Java
4 7 (7.00%) Scala
5 4 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.00%) C#
7 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.00%) Korn
7 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.00%) Bash
8 1 (1.00%) Bicep
8 1 (1.00%) C++
8 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.00%) R
8 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) Degree
4 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.00%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (41.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.00%) GDPR
3 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.00%) QA
5 1 (1.00%) GxP
5 1 (1.00%) NCSC
5 1 (1.00%) NIST
5 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.00%) Istio
3 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (34.00%) Databricks
2 18 (18.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.00%) Informatica
4 5 (5.00%) Workday
5 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.00%) Google
5 3 (3.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle
5 3 (3.00%) SAP
6 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.00%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.00%) Denodo
7 1 (1.00%) Foundry
7 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.00%) Palantir
7 1 (1.00%) Sitecore