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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 57 83
Rank change year-on-year +6 +26 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 96 67 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.21% 3.73% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 3.96% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 45 27
10th Percentile £425 £405 £415
25th Percentile £450 £500 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -11.76%
75th Percentile £725 £675 £709
90th Percentile £775 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £565 £553 £594
% change year-on-year +2.26% -6.95% -0.63%

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 2,017 1,694 1,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.46% 94.22% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,117 1,234
10th Percentile £368 £325 £386
25th Percentile £459 £424 £475
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 £774 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% -11.91% +20.00%

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

Data Pipeline
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 10 September 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 15 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.29%) Apache
4 4 (4.17%) Confluence
5 2 (2.08%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.04%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.79%) Azure
2 34 (35.42%) AWS
3 23 (23.96%) Power Platform
4 20 (20.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (19.79%) Snowflake
6 17 (17.71%) Amazon S3
7 16 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (14.58%) dbt
9 12 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (12.50%) GCP
9 12 (12.50%) Serverless
10 10 (10.42%) GitHub
10 10 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (9.38%) Azure Databricks
11 9 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (7.29%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (5.21%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (5.21%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (5.21%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (21.88%) Power BI
3 13 (13.54%) Metadata
4 9 (9.38%) BigQuery
4 9 (9.38%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (8.33%) Delta Lake
6 7 (7.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (7.29%) Star Schema
7 6 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (6.25%) Looker
7 6 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.25%) Tableau
8 5 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (5.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.17%) Data Hub
9 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) GitLab
2 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.17%) Git
3 4 (4.17%) JIRA
4 2 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.04%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (51.04%) Finance
2 20 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.75%) Banking
4 17 (17.71%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Back Office
5 5 (5.21%) Front Office
6 4 (4.17%) Legal
7 3 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.08%) Marketing
9 1 (1.04%) Billing
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Military
9 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.04%) Publishing
9 1 (1.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (48.96%) Data Engineer
2 16 (16.67%) Senior
3 11 (11.46%) Analyst
4 10 (10.42%) Architect
4 10 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (10.42%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Data Analyst
6 8 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Databricks Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 4 (4.17%) Lead
9 4 (4.17%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) GCP Data Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.96%) PySpark
2 11 (11.46%) Terraform
3 8 (8.33%) Kafka
4 4 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.17%) React
4 4 (4.17%) REST
5 3 (3.13%) .NET
6 2 (2.08%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.08%) Node.js
6 2 (2.08%) Redux
6 2 (2.08%) RESTful
7 1 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.04%) pytest
7 1 (1.04%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.04%) SOAP
7 1 (1.04%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.08%) Clustering
4 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Equities
5 1 (1.04%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.04%) PMI
5 1 (1.04%) PropTech
5 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.04%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (55.21%) Data Engineering
2 50 (52.08%) Data Modelling
3 48 (50.00%) Analytics
4 44 (45.83%) CI/CD
5 35 (36.46%) ETL
6 32 (33.33%) DevOps
7 29 (30.21%) Data Governance
8 26 (27.08%) AI
9 25 (26.04%) Agile
10 23 (23.96%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (17.71%) Data Science
11 17 (17.71%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (16.67%) Validation
13 15 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (14.58%) Migration
14 14 (14.58%) Test Automation
15 13 (13.54%) Data Architecture
15 13 (13.54%) Decision-Making
15 13 (13.54%) Event-Driven
15 13 (13.54%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 59 (61.46%) Python
2 56 (58.33%) SQL
3 10 (10.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (7.29%) Java
5 6 (6.25%) C#
5 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.17%) LookML
6 4 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.17%) R
7 3 (3.13%) Korn
7 3 (3.13%) Scala
7 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.04%) Bash
9 1 (1.04%) Bicep
9 1 (1.04%) C++
9 1 (1.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.17%) Degree
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.08%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.04%) CBAP
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Istio
2 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (29.17%) Databricks
2 22 (22.92%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.17%) Google
3 4 (4.17%) Informatica
3 4 (4.17%) Oracle
4 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.08%) Teradata
4 2 (2.08%) Workday
5 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.04%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.04%) Mistral
5 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.04%) Palantir
5 1 (1.04%) SAP