Data Pipeline Contracts in the City of London

Data Pipelines
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 81 119
Rank change year-on-year +16 +38 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 52 43 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.06% 2.00% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 2.20% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 28
10th Percentile £400 £413 £446
25th Percentile £467 £425 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.30% -6.76%
75th Percentile £642 £700 £675
90th Percentile £687 £738 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

All Process and 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 1,589 1,953 3,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.58% 90.75% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,368 2,128
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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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 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (26.92%) Apache
1 14 (26.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.62%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (7.69%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.85%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) Azure
2 17 (32.69%) AWS
3 10 (19.23%) Power Platform
4 7 (13.46%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (13.46%) GCP
5 5 (9.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (9.62%) dbt
6 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Functions
6 3 (5.77%) GitHub
6 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.92%) Alation
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (19.23%) Big Data
2 10 (19.23%) Power BI
3 8 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 8 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 7 (13.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (13.46%) Metadata
4 7 (13.46%) Relational Database
5 6 (11.54%) Apache Hive
5 6 (11.54%) Delta Lake
5 6 (11.54%) Hadoop
6 5 (9.62%) BigQuery
6 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
7 4 (7.69%) Data Mining
8 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.85%) Airbyte
9 2 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.92%) Flink
10 1 (1.92%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.69%) JIRA
3 4 (7.69%) RStudio
4 1 (1.92%) Postman
4 1 (1.92%) Selenium
4 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 5 (9.62%) Retail
6 4 (7.69%) Police
7 3 (5.77%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (5.77%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (59.62%) Data Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) QA Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Data Modeller
6 3 (5.77%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Python Data Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) PySpark
2 6 (11.54%) Kafka
3 5 (9.62%) Spark Streaming
4 4 (7.69%) JSON
4 4 (7.69%) pydantic
4 4 (7.69%) REST
4 4 (7.69%) YAML
5 2 (3.85%) Pandas
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.92%) Django
6 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.92%) Flask
6 1 (1.92%) NumPy
6 1 (1.92%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (9.62%) Distributed Computing
1 5 (9.62%) Market Risk
2 4 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.69%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Analytics
1 24 (46.15%) ETL
2 23 (44.23%) Data Engineering
3 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (26.92%) Decision-Making
5 13 (25.00%) Agile
5 13 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 12 (23.08%) Data Science
7 10 (19.23%) Data Integration
7 10 (19.23%) Data Security
8 9 (17.31%) DevOps
9 8 (15.38%) Data Governance
9 8 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
9 8 (15.38%) Machine Learning
10 7 (13.46%) Data Analytics
10 7 (13.46%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 7 (13.46%) Risk Management
11 6 (11.54%) Batch Processing
11 6 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (63.46%) Python
2 28 (53.85%) SQL
3 8 (15.38%) Java
4 6 (11.54%) Scala
5 4 (7.69%) Bash
6 2 (3.85%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.92%) C#
7 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.85%) PMP
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.69%) GDPR
2 4 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.62%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.92%) Kibana
3 1 (1.92%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Databricks
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.62%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) Confluent
4 1 (1.92%) Informatica
4 1 (1.92%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.92%) Solace
4 1 (1.92%) Sparx