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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 76 83
Rank change year-on-year +33 +7 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 98 40 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.29% 2.26% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.03% 2.43% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 26 26
10th Percentile £369 £406 £413
25th Percentile £420 £465 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £644
90th Percentile £760 £678 £728
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

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 1,949 1,644 1,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.22% 92.93% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,046 1,406
10th Percentile £362 £363 £359
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 13
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 28 April 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 16 (16.33%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.12%) Apache
2 6 (6.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.82%) Azure
2 31 (31.63%) AWS
2 31 (31.63%) Power Platform
3 19 (19.39%) Snowflake
4 18 (18.37%) GCP
5 14 (14.29%) dbt
6 12 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (9.18%) Amazon S3
7 9 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (8.16%) Prefect
9 7 (7.14%) Serverless
10 6 (6.12%) Dagster
11 5 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.08%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (3.06%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (3.06%) Boomi
13 3 (3.06%) Google Gemini
13 3 (3.06%) LangSmith
13 3 (3.06%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.53%) Power BI
2 21 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (15.31%) Metadata
3 15 (15.31%) Tableau
4 10 (10.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (8.16%) BigQuery
5 8 (8.16%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.16%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.12%) Looker
8 5 (5.10%) Delta Lake
8 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.06%) Big Data
10 3 (3.06%) Redis
10 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.06%) Star Schema
11 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
11 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
11 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.02%) MLflow
General
1 33 (33.67%) Finance
2 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Banking
4 6 (6.12%) Legal
5 4 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Front Office
7 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Back Office
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (47.96%) Data Engineer
2 12 (12.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 12 (12.24%) Snowflake Engineer
3 10 (10.20%) Architect
4 7 (7.14%) Senior
5 6 (6.12%) Analyst
5 6 (6.12%) Python Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.06%) GCP Data Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Lead
8 3 (3.06%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.35%) PySpark
2 9 (9.18%) Kafka
3 5 (5.10%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.10%) scikit-learn
4 4 (4.08%) JSON
4 4 (4.08%) React
4 4 (4.08%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.06%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (3.06%) Node.js
5 3 (3.06%) NumPy
5 3 (3.06%) Pandas
5 3 (3.06%) REST
5 3 (3.06%) Vert.x
6 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.04%) boto
6 2 (2.04%) Great Expectations
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.04%) pytest
6 2 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.12%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.10%) Clustering
4 5 (5.10%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.06%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.04%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.04%) Life Science
7 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.02%) Equities
8 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.02%) NHS
8 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.02%) PMI
8 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.02%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (50.00%) Analytics
2 46 (46.94%) Data Engineering
3 37 (37.76%) ETL
4 35 (35.71%) Data Modelling
5 32 (32.65%) AI
6 27 (27.55%) CI/CD
7 26 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (22.45%) Data Science
9 21 (21.43%) Data Governance
10 20 (20.41%) Machine Learning
10 20 (20.41%) Validation
11 19 (19.39%) Agile
12 16 (16.33%) DevOps
13 13 (13.27%) Decision-Making
13 13 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.27%) Use Case
14 12 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (11.22%) Event-Driven
15 11 (11.22%) Generative AI
15 11 (11.22%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 59 (60.20%) Python
2 48 (48.98%) SQL
3 8 (8.16%) Java
4 7 (7.14%) Scala
5 4 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.06%) C#
7 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.04%) Korn
7 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.02%) Bash
8 1 (1.02%) Bicep
8 1 (1.02%) C++
8 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.02%) R
8 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) Degree
4 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.04%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CBAP
6 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (40.82%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.02%) GxP
4 1 (1.02%) NCSC
4 1 (1.02%) NIST
4 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (9.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.08%) Terraform
3 3 (3.06%) Istio
3 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (34.69%) Databricks
2 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.12%) Informatica
4 5 (5.10%) Workday
5 3 (3.06%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.06%) Google
5 3 (3.06%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle
5 3 (3.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.02%) Denodo
7 1 (1.02%) Foundry
7 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.02%) Palantir
7 1 (1.02%) Sitecore