Data Pipeline Contracts in the City of London

Data Pipelines
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 75 126
Rank change year-on-year +10 +51 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 56 51 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.15% 2.39% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 2.63% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 33 27
10th Percentile £400 £413 £438
25th Percentile £481 £425 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -8.91%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £703
90th Percentile £685 £738 £753
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

All Process and 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 1,669 1,940 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.82% 91.04% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,350 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 12 (21.43%) Apache
3 5 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.57%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.57%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) Azure
2 18 (32.14%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.50%) GCP
5 6 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (7.14%) dbt
6 4 (7.14%) Snowflake
7 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub
8 2 (3.57%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.57%) Serverless
9 1 (1.79%) Alation
9 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (19.64%) Data Lake
3 10 (17.86%) Big Data
4 9 (16.07%) NoSQL
5 8 (14.29%) Hadoop
5 8 (14.29%) Power BI
6 6 (10.71%) Apache Hive
6 6 (10.71%) Metadata
7 5 (8.93%) BigQuery
7 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
8 4 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (7.14%) Data Mining
8 4 (7.14%) Delta Lake
9 3 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
10 2 (3.57%) Parquet
10 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (3.57%) Spark SQL
10 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Git
1 8 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.57%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) RStudio
3 1 (1.79%) Postman
3 1 (1.79%) Selenium
3 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (37.50%) Finance
2 19 (33.93%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.50%) Banking
4 7 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Police
5 4 (7.14%) Retail
6 2 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 32 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Developer
3 6 (10.71%) Senior
4 5 (8.93%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (8.93%) Java Developer
4 5 (8.93%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) QA Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Implementation Project Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) PySpark
2 6 (10.71%) Kafka
3 5 (8.93%) Spark Streaming
4 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.36%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (5.36%) Pandas
4 3 (5.36%) REST
5 2 (3.57%) CSS
5 2 (3.57%) Django
5 2 (3.57%) Flask
5 2 (3.57%) HTML
5 2 (3.57%) JSON
5 2 (3.57%) NumPy
5 2 (3.57%) pydantic
5 2 (3.57%) YAML
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.79%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (8.93%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (8.93%) Market Risk
3 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.36%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.57%) Reference Data
5 2 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Analytics
2 22 (39.29%) ETL
3 21 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (30.36%) CI/CD
6 16 (28.57%) Data Science
7 15 (26.79%) Data Modelling
8 13 (23.21%) Agile
8 13 (23.21%) Decision-Making
9 12 (21.43%) DevOps
10 11 (19.64%) Machine Learning
11 10 (17.86%) Data Integration
11 10 (17.86%) Data Transformation
12 9 (16.07%) Data Analytics
13 8 (14.29%) Data Governance
13 8 (14.29%) Data Security
14 7 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
14 7 (12.50%) Data Management
14 7 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (60.71%) Python
2 28 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (7.14%) Scala
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.57%) Bash
6 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.79%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.79%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.79%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 8 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) Degree
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.57%) PMP
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.21%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (3.57%) GDPR
4 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.14%) Terraform
3 3 (5.36%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (5.36%) Kibana
3 3 (5.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Databricks
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.93%) Google
4 3 (5.36%) Solace
5 2 (3.57%) Foundry
5 2 (3.57%) Palantir
6 1 (1.79%) Confluent
6 1 (1.79%) Informatica
6 1 (1.79%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) SAP
6 1 (1.79%) Sparx