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 3 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 51 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 54 26 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.60% 3.05% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 3.25% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 22 8
10th Percentile £418 £404 £436
25th Percentile £500 £503 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £619
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -5.05% +3.99%
75th Percentile £750 £673 £725
90th Percentile £775 £688 £733
Central London median daily rate £613 £588 £619
% change year-on-year +4.26% -5.05% +3.99%

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 927 799 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 96.06% 93.78% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 553 592
10th Percentile £375 £313 £388
25th Percentile £456 £413 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £765 £742 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £579
% change year-on-year - -4.97% +0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile - £19.24 £13.73
25th Percentile £17.60 £25.75 £20.63
Median hourly rate £21.75 £27.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -42.71% +74.55%
75th Percentile £24.53 £36.00 £89.06
90th Percentile £27.59 £58.15 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £30.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.33% -12.14% +30.84%

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 3 months to 15 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

Data Pipeline
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 14 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.16%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.14%) Apache
4 4 (4.08%) Confluence
5 2 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.92%) Azure
2 33 (33.67%) AWS
3 22 (22.45%) Power Platform
4 21 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (17.35%) Amazon S3
5 17 (17.35%) Snowflake
6 16 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (14.29%) dbt
8 13 (13.27%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (13.27%) Serverless
9 12 (12.24%) GCP
10 10 (10.20%) Azure Databricks
10 10 (10.20%) GitHub
10 10 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (6.12%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.47%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (20.41%) Power BI
3 13 (13.27%) Metadata
4 10 (10.20%) BigQuery
5 9 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (9.18%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.16%) Delta Lake
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (7.14%) Looker
8 6 (6.12%) Semantic Layer
8 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
8 6 (6.12%) Star Schema
9 5 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (5.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 5 (5.10%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (5.10%) Tableau
10 4 (4.08%) Data Hub
10 4 (4.08%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) GitLab
2 7 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.08%) Git
3 4 (4.08%) JIRA
4 2 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.02%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (52.04%) Finance
2 22 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
4 17 (17.35%) Banking
5 6 (6.12%) Back Office
6 4 (4.08%) Front Office
7 3 (3.06%) Legal
7 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.02%) Billing
9 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Military
9 1 (1.02%) Publishing
9 1 (1.02%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 17 (17.35%) Senior
3 11 (11.22%) Analyst
3 11 (11.22%) Senior Data Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Architect
4 10 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Data Analyst
6 8 (8.16%) AWS Data Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Databricks Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Business Data Analyst
10 3 (3.06%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.47%) PySpark
2 11 (11.22%) Terraform
3 7 (7.14%) Kafka
4 5 (5.10%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (4.08%) REST
6 3 (3.06%) React
6 3 (3.06%) RESTful
7 2 (2.04%) .NET
7 2 (2.04%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.04%) Redux
8 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.02%) Middleware
8 1 (1.02%) Node.js
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (1.02%) pytest
8 1 (1.02%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.02%) SOAP
8 1 (1.02%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.04%) PropTech
5 1 (1.02%) Clustering
5 1 (1.02%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.02%) NHS
5 1 (1.02%) PMI
5 1 (1.02%) Replication
5 1 (1.02%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) Data Engineering
2 51 (52.04%) Data Modelling
3 48 (48.98%) Analytics
4 44 (44.90%) CI/CD
5 37 (37.76%) ETL
6 30 (30.61%) DevOps
7 29 (29.59%) Data Governance
8 27 (27.55%) Agile
9 25 (25.51%) AI
10 22 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (18.37%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (16.33%) Data Science
12 16 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (16.33%) Validation
13 14 (14.29%) Migration
13 14 (14.29%) Test Automation
14 13 (13.27%) Data Architecture
14 13 (13.27%) Data Transformation
14 13 (13.27%) Machine Learning
14 13 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 58 (59.18%) Python
2 57 (58.16%) SQL
3 10 (10.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (7.14%) Java
5 6 (6.12%) C#
6 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.10%) Korn
6 5 (5.10%) LookML
7 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.08%) R
8 3 (3.06%) Scala
9 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.02%) Bash
10 1 (1.02%) Bicep
10 1 (1.02%) C++
10 1 (1.02%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.06%) Degree
5 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.02%) CBAP
6 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.02%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (41.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.12%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Istio
2 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (31.63%) Databricks
2 21 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.08%) Google
3 4 (4.08%) Oracle
4 3 (3.06%) Informatica
5 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.04%) Teradata
5 2 (2.04%) Workday
6 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.02%) Mistral
6 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.02%) Palantir
6 1 (1.02%) SAP