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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 66 85
Rank change year-on-year +22 +19 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 97 50 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.20% 2.86% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 3.06% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 31 22
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £420 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £669
90th Percentile £730 £675 £736
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.82% -2.22% +0.45%
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 1,957 1,635 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.59% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,027 1,378
10th Percentile £363 £353 £350
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 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 12
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.12% +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

Data Pipeline
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 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the City of London

Data Pipeline
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

Data Pipeline
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 17 (17.53%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.03%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 39 (40.21%) Azure
2 32 (32.99%) AWS
3 28 (28.87%) Power Platform
4 21 (21.65%) Snowflake
5 16 (16.49%) GCP
6 14 (14.43%) dbt
7 13 (13.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (9.28%) Amazon S3
9 8 (8.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (8.25%) Prefect
9 8 (8.25%) Serverless
10 6 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.19%) Dagster
11 5 (5.15%) GitHub
12 4 (4.12%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (3.09%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (3.09%) LangSmith
13 3 (3.09%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (24.74%) Power BI
2 23 (23.71%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (14.43%) Tableau
4 13 (13.40%) Metadata
5 10 (10.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (10.31%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (8.25%) BigQuery
6 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.19%) Data Lake
7 6 (6.19%) Looker
8 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.12%) Delta Lake
9 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.09%) DynamoDB
10 3 (3.09%) Redis
10 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.09%) Star Schema
11 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.06%) Big Data
11 2 (2.06%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Git
2 2 (2.06%) GitLab
2 2 (2.06%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) MLflow
General
1 36 (37.11%) Finance
2 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.40%) Banking
4 9 (9.28%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Legal
6 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.06%) Front Office
9 1 (1.03%) Back Office
9 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Military
9 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (52.58%) Data Engineer
2 13 (13.40%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 13 (13.40%) Snowflake Engineer
3 9 (9.28%) Architect
4 8 (8.25%) Senior
5 7 (7.22%) Analyst
5 7 (7.22%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Python Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Azure Data Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.09%) GCP Data Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) PySpark
2 10 (10.31%) Kafka
3 5 (5.15%) React
3 5 (5.15%) REST
4 3 (3.09%) .NET
4 3 (3.09%) JSON
4 3 (3.09%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (3.09%) Node.js
4 3 (3.09%) NumPy
4 3 (3.09%) Pandas
4 3 (3.09%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.09%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.09%) Vert.x
5 2 (2.06%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.06%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.06%) Redux
5 2 (2.06%) RESTful
5 2 (2.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.12%) Clustering
5 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.09%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.06%) Life Science
6 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.06%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.03%) Equities
7 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.03%) NHS
7 1 (1.03%) PMI
7 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.03%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.45%) Data Engineering
2 45 (46.39%) Analytics
3 35 (36.08%) ETL
4 34 (35.05%) Data Modelling
5 32 (32.99%) AI
6 28 (28.87%) CI/CD
7 24 (24.74%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (19.59%) Data Governance
8 19 (19.59%) Data Science
9 18 (18.56%) Agile
9 18 (18.56%) Validation
10 17 (17.53%) DevOps
11 15 (15.46%) Machine Learning
12 14 (14.43%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (14.43%) Test Automation
13 13 (13.40%) Event-Driven
13 13 (13.40%) Generative AI
14 12 (12.37%) Microservices
15 11 (11.34%) Decision-Making
16 10 (10.31%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 58 (59.79%) Python
2 47 (48.45%) SQL
3 8 (8.25%) Java
4 7 (7.22%) Scala
5 6 (6.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (5.15%) C#
7 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.09%) Korn
7 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.06%) R
9 1 (1.03%) Bash
9 1 (1.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Degree
4 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.09%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.06%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.03%) CBAP
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (39.18%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.22%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.03%) GxP
4 1 (1.03%) NCSC
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (9.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.12%) Terraform
3 3 (3.09%) Istio
3 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (31.96%) Databricks
2 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.19%) Informatica
4 5 (5.15%) Workday
5 3 (3.09%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.09%) Google
5 3 (3.09%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle
5 3 (3.09%) SAP
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) Denodo
7 1 (1.03%) Foundry
7 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.03%) Palantir
7 1 (1.03%) Sitecore