Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Data Pipelines
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 1.45% 2.38% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.78% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £609
25th Percentile £313 £588 £623
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £625 £672
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% -6.92% -
75th Percentile £338 £663 £698
90th Percentile - - £699
Central London median daily rate £555 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +0.91% +4.76% -8.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 36 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 92.75% 85.71% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 27 30
10th Percentile £331 £373 £449
25th Percentile £481 £409 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £666 £650 £689
90th Percentile £763 £800 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £52.93 - -
25th Percentile £55.06 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Pipeline relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Pipeline within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster - 1 £325 - 2
Data Pipeline
Central London

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google