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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 92 97
Rank change year-on-year +44 +5 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 77 28 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.14% 1.50% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 1.63% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 18 29
10th Percentile £319 £438 £406
25th Percentile £397 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £631 £639 £613
90th Percentile £710 £725 £681
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £595
% change year-on-year -6.82% -7.56% +8.18%
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 1,657 1,713 2,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.99% 91.90% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,163 1,043 1,572
10th Percentile £350 £364 £355
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.22% -3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.77% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -18.52%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

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 26 January 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 13 (16.88%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (12.99%) Apache Spark
3 8 (10.39%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.96%) AWS
1 30 (38.96%) Azure
2 18 (23.38%) Power Platform
3 15 (19.48%) Snowflake
4 12 (15.58%) Amazon S3
5 11 (14.29%) Serverless
6 10 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (12.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (11.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (11.69%) dbt
7 9 (11.69%) GCP
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.90%) GitHub
9 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (2.60%) Dagster
10 2 (2.60%) Google Gemini
10 2 (2.60%) Prefect
10 2 (2.60%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.78%) Power BI
2 12 (15.58%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 10 (12.99%) Metadata
5 8 (10.39%) Tableau
6 5 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (6.49%) Delta Lake
7 4 (5.19%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (3.90%) Big Data
8 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.60%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.60%) Redis
9 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.90%) JIRA
4 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 17 (22.08%) Finance
2 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Banking
5 4 (5.19%) Front Office
5 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.19%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.60%) Law
6 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Back Office
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (48.05%) Data Engineer
2 10 (12.99%) Architect
3 6 (7.79%) Lead
4 5 (6.49%) Senior
4 5 (6.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Developer
5 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (3.90%) Data Scientist
6 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.60%) Data Architect
7 2 (2.60%) Gen AI Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.18%) PySpark
2 6 (7.79%) Kafka
3 5 (6.49%) .NET
3 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.49%) Node.js
3 5 (6.49%) React
4 4 (5.19%) PyTorch
4 4 (5.19%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.90%) NumPy
5 3 (3.90%) Pandas
5 3 (3.90%) REST
5 3 (3.90%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.60%) boto
6 2 (2.60%) D3.js
6 2 (2.60%) Vue
7 1 (1.30%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.30%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.30%) OAuth
7 1 (1.30%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.60%) Clustering
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.60%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.30%) NHS
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.30%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.26%) ETL
2 30 (38.96%) Analytics
3 28 (36.36%) Data Engineering
4 27 (35.06%) Data Modelling
5 22 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 21 (27.27%) AI
7 19 (24.68%) Agile
8 18 (23.38%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (22.08%) Data Governance
9 17 (22.08%) Machine Learning
10 16 (20.78%) Data Science
11 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (18.18%) Validation
12 12 (15.58%) Data Integration
12 12 (15.58%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (14.29%) Event-Driven
13 11 (14.29%) Generative AI
14 10 (12.99%) Visualisation
15 9 (11.69%) Data Transformation
15 9 (11.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 50 (64.94%) Python
2 42 (54.55%) SQL
3 8 (10.39%) Scala
4 7 (9.09%) Java
5 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.60%) Korn
6 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.30%) C++
7 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) Degree
4 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.60%) MCP
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) GDPR
3 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.60%) WCAG
5 1 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.30%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.30%) EMIR
5 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Terraform
2 2 (2.60%) Istio
2 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (37.66%) Databricks
2 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.60%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.60%) SAP
5 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.30%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.30%) Foundry
5 1 (1.30%) Informatica
5 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.30%) Palantir
5 1 (1.30%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.30%) Workday