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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 92 116
Rank change year-on-year +27 +24 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 62 36 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.45% 1.69% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 1.84% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 24 22
10th Percentile £322 £433 £368
25th Percentile £413 £463 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £668 £639 £618
90th Percentile £688 £743 £700
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 8 December 2025.

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 10 (16.13%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (14.52%) Apache Spark
3 8 (12.90%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (35.48%) Azure
2 21 (33.87%) AWS
3 15 (24.19%) Power Platform
3 15 (24.19%) Snowflake
4 10 (16.13%) Amazon S3
5 9 (14.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (14.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (12.90%) dbt
6 8 (12.90%) Serverless
7 7 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.29%) GCP
8 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.45%) GitHub
9 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (3.23%) Dagster
10 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (3.23%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (20.97%) Power BI
3 10 (16.13%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.68%) Tableau
5 5 (8.06%) Big Data
5 5 (8.06%) Delta Lake
6 4 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (4.84%) Metadata
8 2 (3.23%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.23%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.61%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Git
2 8 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 19 (30.65%) Finance
2 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Banking
4 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.90%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.45%) Front Office
6 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.23%) Law
8 2 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Back Office
9 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (46.77%) Data Engineer
2 6 (9.68%) Developer
2 6 (9.68%) Lead
3 5 (8.06%) Senior
4 4 (6.45%) Architect
4 4 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (3.23%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) PySpark
2 5 (8.06%) .NET
2 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
2 5 (8.06%) Kafka
2 5 (8.06%) Node.js
2 5 (8.06%) React
3 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (3.23%) D3.js
4 2 (3.23%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.23%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.23%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.23%) Vue
4 2 (3.23%) XML
5 1 (1.61%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.61%) Flask
5 1 (1.61%) JSON
5 1 (1.61%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.61%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.45%) Fixed Income
2 4 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.61%) Clustering
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.32%) ETL
2 24 (38.71%) Analytics
3 21 (33.87%) Data Modelling
4 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
5 19 (30.65%) Data Science
6 18 (29.03%) Data Engineering
7 17 (27.42%) Machine Learning
8 16 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (25.81%) DevOps
9 13 (20.97%) Agile
9 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (19.35%) Data Governance
11 11 (17.74%) AI
12 10 (16.13%) Data Transformation
12 10 (16.13%) Event-Driven
13 9 (14.52%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (12.90%) Data Integration
14 8 (12.90%) Visualisation
15 7 (11.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 6 (9.68%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 43 (69.35%) Python
2 35 (56.45%) SQL
3 7 (11.29%) Java
4 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.84%) Scala
7 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.61%) C#
8 1 (1.61%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.61%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.23%) CISSP
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.61%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (30.65%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) WCAG
4 1 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.61%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.61%) EMIR
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Terraform
2 4 (6.45%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (6.45%) Kibana
2 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.45%) logstash
3 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (33.87%) Databricks
2 14 (22.58%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) Solace
4 2 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.61%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.61%) Foundry
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) Palantir
5 1 (1.61%) Workday