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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 65 75
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 89 63 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.81% 3.42% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 3.63% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 42 27
10th Percentile £420 £409 £425
25th Percentile £450 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £553 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +5.24% -9.48%
75th Percentile £684 £668 £709
90th Percentile £775 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £555 £555 £594
% change year-on-year - -6.53% +1.50%

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 2,045 1,737 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.62% 94.25% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 1,134 1,262
10th Percentile £376 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £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 25 24 16
10th Percentile - £17.89 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.43 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £47.00 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%

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 20 August 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 18 (20.22%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.87%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.74%) Apache
4 3 (3.37%) Confluence
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.12%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 38 (42.70%) Azure
2 28 (31.46%) AWS
3 26 (29.21%) Power Platform
4 20 (22.47%) Snowflake
5 15 (16.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (16.85%) dbt
6 14 (15.73%) Amazon S3
7 13 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (13.48%) GCP
9 9 (10.11%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (10.11%) GitHub
9 9 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (10.11%) Serverless
10 8 (8.99%) Prefect
11 7 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (6.74%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (6.74%) Dagster
13 4 (4.49%) SaaS
14 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.09%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (25.84%) Power BI
3 11 (12.36%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (12.36%) Tableau
4 9 (10.11%) BigQuery
4 9 (10.11%) Metadata
5 8 (8.99%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 7 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (6.74%) Data Lake
7 6 (6.74%) Delta Lake
8 5 (5.62%) Looker
8 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.62%) Relational Database
8 5 (5.62%) Star Schema
9 4 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (4.49%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) GitLab
2 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.62%) Git
3 3 (3.37%) JIRA
4 2 (2.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.12%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (46.07%) Finance
2 14 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.48%) Banking
3 12 (13.48%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Legal
5 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.37%) Back Office
6 3 (3.37%) Front Office
6 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Billing
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Military
8 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (53.93%) Data Engineer
2 13 (14.61%) Senior
3 10 (11.24%) Analyst
4 9 (10.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Snowflake Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Architect
5 8 (8.99%) Data Analyst
6 7 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) AWS Data Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Azure Data Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Business Data Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.47%) PySpark
2 10 (11.24%) Terraform
3 9 (10.11%) Kafka
4 5 (5.62%) React
5 4 (4.49%) REST
6 3 (3.37%) .NET
6 3 (3.37%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (3.37%) Node.js
6 3 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.25%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.25%) Great Expectations
7 2 (2.25%) JSON
7 2 (2.25%) pytest
7 2 (2.25%) Redux
7 2 (2.25%) RESTful
8 1 (1.12%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.12%) Google JAX
8 1 (1.12%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.12%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.37%) Clustering
4 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.25%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.25%) Life Science
6 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.12%) Equities
6 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) PMI
6 1 (1.12%) Replication
6 1 (1.12%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (55.06%) Data Engineering
2 45 (50.56%) Data Modelling
3 44 (49.44%) Analytics
4 36 (40.45%) CI/CD
5 33 (37.08%) ETL
6 26 (29.21%) DevOps
7 24 (26.97%) AI
8 23 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (24.72%) Data Governance
10 19 (21.35%) Agile
11 18 (20.22%) Data Science
12 17 (19.10%) Test Automation
12 17 (19.10%) Validation
13 13 (14.61%) Decision-Making
13 13 (14.61%) Machine Learning
13 13 (14.61%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (13.48%) Event-Driven
14 12 (13.48%) Migration
14 12 (13.48%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (62.92%) Python
2 50 (56.18%) SQL
3 8 (8.99%) Java
4 7 (7.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (6.74%) C#
5 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.49%) R
6 4 (4.49%) Scala
7 3 (3.37%) Korn
7 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.12%) Bash
9 1 (1.12%) Bicep
9 1 (1.12%) C++
9 1 (1.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.12%) CBAP
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (39.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.87%) GDPR
2 7 (7.87%) QA
3 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) GxP
4 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) Istio
2 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (30.34%) Databricks
2 19 (21.35%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.74%) Informatica
4 5 (5.62%) Workday
5 4 (4.49%) Oracle
6 3 (3.37%) Google
7 2 (2.25%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.25%) SAP
8 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.12%) Denodo
8 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.12%) Palantir
8 1 (1.12%) Teradata