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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 61 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 91 66 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.97% 3.67% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 3.89% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 45 27
10th Percentile £425 £405 £415
25th Percentile £450 £500 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +4.76% -10.26%
75th Percentile £703 £668 £709
90th Percentile £775 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £555 £553 £594
% change year-on-year +0.45% -6.95% +0.64%

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 2,018 1,697 1,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.08% 94.28% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,122 1,245
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £463 £419 £475
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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -13.60%

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

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 1 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

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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 (17.58%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.49%) Apache
4 3 (3.30%) Confluence
5 2 (2.20%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.10%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.96%) Azure
2 31 (34.07%) AWS
3 25 (27.47%) Power Platform
4 19 (20.88%) Snowflake
5 17 (18.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (16.48%) Amazon S3
6 15 (16.48%) dbt
7 14 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (10.99%) GCP
8 10 (10.99%) Serverless
9 9 (9.89%) GitHub
9 9 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (8.79%) Azure Databricks
10 8 (8.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (8.79%) Prefect
11 6 (6.59%) Dagster
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (5.49%) SaaS
13 4 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.47%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (25.27%) Power BI
3 10 (10.99%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (10.99%) Metadata
4 9 (9.89%) BigQuery
4 9 (9.89%) Tableau
5 8 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (7.69%) Delta Lake
6 7 (7.69%) Looker
7 6 (6.59%) Data Lake
7 6 (6.59%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.59%) Star Schema
8 5 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (5.49%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.30%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) GitLab
2 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.40%) Git
4 3 (3.30%) JIRA
5 2 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.10%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (48.35%) Finance
2 17 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Banking
4 6 (6.59%) Legal
5 4 (4.40%) Back Office
5 4 (4.40%) Front Office
5 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.10%) Billing
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Military
7 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (50.55%) Data Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) Senior
3 10 (10.99%) Analyst
4 9 (9.89%) Architect
4 9 (9.89%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Snowflake Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) Data Analyst
5 8 (8.79%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Databricks Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Lead
9 4 (4.40%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) GCP Data Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.18%) PySpark
2 10 (10.99%) Terraform
3 7 (7.69%) Kafka
4 5 (5.49%) React
5 4 (4.40%) REST
6 3 (3.30%) .NET
6 3 (3.30%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (3.30%) Node.js
6 3 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.20%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.20%) Great Expectations
7 2 (2.20%) JSON
7 2 (2.20%) pytest
7 2 (2.20%) Redux
7 2 (2.20%) RESTful
8 1 (1.10%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.10%) JAX
8 1 (1.10%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (1.10%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.10%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.20%) Clustering
5 2 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.20%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) Equities
6 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.10%) Life Science
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) PMI
6 1 (1.10%) Replication
6 1 (1.10%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (56.04%) Data Engineering
2 49 (53.85%) Data Modelling
3 45 (49.45%) Analytics
4 37 (40.66%) CI/CD
5 34 (37.36%) ETL
6 28 (30.77%) DevOps
7 25 (27.47%) AI
7 25 (27.47%) Business Intelligence
7 25 (27.47%) Data Governance
8 22 (24.18%) Agile
9 17 (18.68%) Data Science
10 16 (17.58%) Test Automation
10 16 (17.58%) Validation
11 15 (16.48%) Decision-Making
11 15 (16.48%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (14.29%) Event-Driven
13 13 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 12 (13.19%) Data Architecture
14 12 (13.19%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 60 (65.93%) Python
2 53 (58.24%) SQL
3 9 (9.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (8.79%) Java
5 6 (6.59%) C#
5 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.40%) R
7 3 (3.30%) Korn
7 3 (3.30%) Scala
7 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.20%) LookML
8 2 (2.20%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) Bicep
9 1 (1.10%) C++
9 1 (1.10%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.40%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.20%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.10%) CBAP
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.69%) GDPR
3 6 (6.59%) QA
4 4 (4.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.10%) GxP
5 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (6.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.10%) Istio
2 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (32.97%) Databricks
2 19 (20.88%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.49%) Workday
4 4 (4.40%) Informatica
4 4 (4.40%) Oracle
5 2 (2.20%) Google
5 2 (2.20%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.20%) Teradata
6 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.10%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.10%) Mistral
6 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.10%) Palantir
6 1 (1.10%) SAP