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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 100 60 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.46% 3.43% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.02% 3.64% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 40 29
10th Percentile £419 £399 £420
25th Percentile £450 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £553 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +5.24% -12.50%
75th Percentile £706 £669 £700
90th Percentile £775 £688 £728
Central London median daily rate £575 £555 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% +5.71% -12.50%

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 1,994 1,647 1,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 94.17% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 1,095 1,226
10th Percentile £368 £321 £375
25th Percentile £458 £415 £471
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 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 16
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +4.26% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +34.62%

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 20 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 13 (13.00%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.00%) Apache
4 4 (4.00%) Confluence
5 2 (2.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.00%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.00%) Azure
2 32 (32.00%) AWS
3 21 (21.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 21 (21.00%) Power Platform
4 17 (17.00%) Amazon S3
4 17 (17.00%) Snowflake
5 16 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (15.00%) Serverless
7 14 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (14.00%) dbt
8 11 (11.00%) Azure Databricks
8 11 (11.00%) GCP
8 11 (11.00%) GitHub
8 11 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (7.00%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (7.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (7.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.00%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (19.00%) Power BI
3 14 (14.00%) Metadata
4 10 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (10.00%) BigQuery
5 9 (9.00%) Data Lake
5 9 (9.00%) Delta Lake
6 8 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (7.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (7.00%) Looker
8 6 (6.00%) Semantic Layer
8 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
9 5 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 5 (5.00%) Star Schema
10 4 (4.00%) Data Hub
10 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (4.00%) Tableau
11 3 (3.00%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 12 (12.00%) GitLab
2 8 (8.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.00%) Git
4 4 (4.00%) JIRA
5 2 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.00%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (52.00%) Finance
2 22 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.00%) Banking
3 18 (18.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Back Office
5 4 (4.00%) Front Office
6 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.00%) Legal
6 3 (3.00%) Marketing
6 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.00%) Automotive
8 1 (1.00%) Billing
8 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Military
8 1 (1.00%) Publishing
8 1 (1.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (51.00%) Data Engineer
2 18 (18.00%) Senior
3 12 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 11 (11.00%) Analyst
4 11 (11.00%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Architect
6 9 (9.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Data Analyst
7 8 (8.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Databricks Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Data Architect
9 5 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
11 3 (3.00%) Azure Data Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Lead
11 3 (3.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.00%) PySpark
2 12 (12.00%) Terraform
3 6 (6.00%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (6.00%) Kafka
3 6 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.00%) REST
5 3 (3.00%) React
5 3 (3.00%) RESTful
6 2 (2.00%) .NET
6 2 (2.00%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.00%) Redux
7 1 (1.00%) JSON
7 1 (1.00%) Middleware
7 1 (1.00%) Node.js
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.00%) pytest
7 1 (1.00%) SOAP
7 1 (1.00%) Spring
7 1 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.00%) PropTech
5 2 (2.00%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.00%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.00%) NHS
6 1 (1.00%) PMI
6 1 (1.00%) Replication
6 1 (1.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (54.00%) Data Engineering
2 52 (52.00%) Data Modelling
3 48 (48.00%) Analytics
4 44 (44.00%) CI/CD
5 36 (36.00%) ETL
6 30 (30.00%) Data Governance
7 29 (29.00%) Agile
7 29 (29.00%) DevOps
8 24 (24.00%) AI
9 21 (21.00%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (19.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 17 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (15.00%) Migration
12 15 (15.00%) Test Automation
12 15 (15.00%) Validation
13 14 (14.00%) Data Science
13 14 (14.00%) Event-Driven
13 14 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (13.00%) Decision-Making
14 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 59 (59.00%) Python
2 58 (58.00%) SQL
3 10 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (7.00%) Java
5 6 (6.00%) C#
6 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.00%) Korn
6 5 (5.00%) LookML
7 4 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.00%) R
7 4 (4.00%) Scala
8 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.00%) Bash
9 1 (1.00%) Bicep
9 1 (1.00%) C++
9 1 (1.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.00%) CBAP
6 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (43.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.00%) QA
3 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.00%) Istio
2 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (33.00%) Databricks
2 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.00%) Google
3 4 (4.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.00%) Informatica
5 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.00%) Teradata
5 2 (2.00%) Workday
6 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.00%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.00%) Mistral
6 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) Palantir
6 1 (1.00%) SAP