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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 89 111
Rank change year-on-year +33 +22 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 70 32 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.81% 1.59% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 1.72% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 18 24
10th Percentile £317 £450 £424
25th Percentile £400 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £620
90th Percentile £703 £725 £704
Central London median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +9.09%

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 1,656 1,860 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.20% 92.17% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,128 1,572
10th Percentile £343 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.88 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

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 1 January 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 12 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 9 (12.86%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) AWS
2 23 (32.86%) Azure
3 15 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 14 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 12 (17.14%) Amazon S3
6 10 (14.29%) Serverless
7 9 (12.86%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (11.43%) dbt
9 7 (10.00%) GCP
10 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.71%) GitHub
11 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.86%) Dagster
12 2 (2.86%) Google Gemini
12 2 (2.86%) Prefect
12 2 (2.86%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (18.57%) Power BI
2 11 (15.71%) Data Lake
3 8 (11.43%) Metadata
4 6 (8.57%) Tableau
5 5 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (7.14%) Big Data
5 5 (7.14%) Delta Lake
6 4 (5.71%) BigQuery
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.86%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (18.57%) Git
2 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.86%) JIRA
4 1 (1.43%) MLflow
General
1 16 (22.86%) Finance
2 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.29%) Banking
4 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.57%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.71%) Front Office
7 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.86%) Law
8 2 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Back Office
9 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (47.14%) Data Engineer
2 6 (8.57%) Lead
3 5 (7.14%) Architect
3 5 (7.14%) Developer
4 4 (5.71%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (5.71%) Senior
4 4 (5.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (5.71%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Python Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Analyst
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (2.86%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Data Architect
6 2 (2.86%) Data Scientist
6 2 (2.86%) Security Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) PySpark
2 5 (7.14%) .NET
2 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 5 (7.14%) Kafka
2 5 (7.14%) Node.js
2 5 (7.14%) React
3 3 (4.29%) NumPy
3 3 (4.29%) Pandas
3 3 (4.29%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.29%) REST
3 3 (4.29%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.86%) boto
4 2 (2.86%) D3.js
4 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.86%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.86%) Vue
4 2 (2.86%) XML
5 1 (1.43%) HTML
5 1 (1.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.86%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.86%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.43%) Clustering
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.43%) IoT
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) ETL
2 25 (35.71%) Analytics
3 24 (34.29%) CI/CD
4 22 (31.43%) Data Engineering
4 22 (31.43%) Data Modelling
5 18 (25.71%) Data Science
6 17 (24.29%) Machine Learning
7 16 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (22.86%) Data Governance
8 14 (20.00%) Agile
8 14 (20.00%) AI
8 14 (20.00%) DevOps
9 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (17.14%) Validation
11 10 (14.29%) Data Integration
11 10 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 10 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (11.43%) Data Transformation
12 8 (11.43%) Generative AI
12 8 (11.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (71.43%) Python
2 41 (58.57%) SQL
3 7 (10.00%) Java
4 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.57%) Scala
5 2 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.86%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.43%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) C++
6 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.43%) Korn
6 1 (1.43%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Degree
4 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) CISSP
5 2 (2.86%) MCP
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) WCAG
4 1 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.43%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.43%) EMIR
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) Terraform
2 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Istio
3 2 (2.86%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (2.86%) Kibana
3 2 (2.86%) logstash
3 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (34.29%) Databricks
2 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.86%) Google
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) SAP
3 2 (2.86%) Solace
4 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.43%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.43%) Foundry
4 1 (1.43%) Palantir
4 1 (1.43%) Workday