Data Lineage Contract Job Trends in London

Data Lineage
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Lineage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 282 333
Rank change year-on-year +9 +51 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 196 79 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.59% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.64% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 58 27
10th Percentile £400 £466 £430
25th Percentile £450 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £723 £644
90th Percentile £743 £796 £710
England median daily rate £536 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -2.50% +6.28% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
England median hourly rate £57.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Data Lineage 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,249 12,388 14,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.48% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,954 8,186 9,270
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £665 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 242 178
10th Percentile £15.93 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lineage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Lineage job vacancy trend in London

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Lineage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Lineage

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage in London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in London

Data Lineage
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lineage within the London region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Central London -11 33 £545 -9.17% 12
West London - 2 £475 - 2
Data Lineage
England

Data Lineage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.08%) Apache
2 8 (4.08%) Confluence
3 6 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.02%) HCL Notes
4 2 (1.02%) SAS
4 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.06%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.53%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Front Arena
1 4 (2.04%) Summit
2 3 (1.53%) Cloudability
3 2 (1.02%) Actimize
3 2 (1.02%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.02%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.51%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.51%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (40.82%) Azure
2 45 (22.96%) Power Platform
3 34 (17.35%) AWS
4 26 (13.27%) Collibra
4 26 (13.27%) Microsoft Purview
5 22 (11.22%) GCP
6 20 (10.20%) Snowflake
7 17 (8.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (8.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (5.10%) dbt
9 9 (4.59%) Alation
10 8 (4.08%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.08%) Azure Databricks
11 6 (3.06%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.06%) GitHub
12 5 (2.55%) SaaS
12 5 (2.55%) Serverless
12 5 (2.55%) Vertex AI
13 4 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (45.41%) Metadata
2 45 (22.96%) Power BI
3 34 (17.35%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (12.76%) Data Lake
5 15 (7.65%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.10%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.10%) Tableau
7 8 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (4.08%) Oracle Database
8 7 (3.57%) Delta Lake
8 7 (3.57%) Neo4j
8 7 (3.57%) Power Query
8 7 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.06%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.06%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (2.55%) Data Vault
10 5 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (8.16%) JIRA
2 10 (5.10%) Git
3 6 (3.06%) ERwin
4 5 (2.55%) ER Studio
5 4 (2.04%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.02%) MLflow
6 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 104 (53.06%) Finance
2 60 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 51 (26.02%) Banking
4 43 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.69%) Public Sector
6 18 (9.18%) Investment Banking
7 11 (5.61%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (5.10%) Front Office
9 9 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (3.57%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.57%) Retail
11 6 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (3.06%) Legal
12 5 (2.55%) Retail Banking
13 4 (2.04%) Billing
13 4 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.53%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.53%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.02%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 75 (38.27%) Analyst
2 42 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 41 (20.92%) Data Analyst
4 33 (16.84%) Architect
5 22 (11.22%) Data Business Analyst
6 19 (9.69%) Senior
7 18 (9.18%) Data Architect
7 18 (9.18%) Data Engineer
8 16 (8.16%) Lead
9 11 (5.61%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (5.10%) Consultant
10 10 (5.10%) Senior Business Analyst
11 8 (4.08%) Data Modeller
11 8 (4.08%) Governance Analyst
12 7 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
13 6 (3.06%) Financial Analyst
14 5 (2.55%) Data Consultant
14 5 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (2.55%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.14%) JSON
2 11 (5.61%) PySpark
2 11 (5.61%) Terraform
3 8 (4.08%) Kafka
4 7 (3.57%) REST
5 3 (1.53%) GraphQL
5 3 (1.53%) JSON-LD
5 3 (1.53%) NetworkX
5 3 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.53%) Pandas
5 3 (1.53%) XML
5 3 (1.53%) YAML
6 2 (1.02%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.02%) OAuth
6 2 (1.02%) SAML
6 2 (1.02%) Spring
6 2 (1.02%) Spring Batch
6 2 (1.02%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.02%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.80%) Data Structures
2 20 (10.20%) Reference Data
3 18 (9.18%) Onboarding
4 16 (8.16%) Product Ownership
5 15 (7.65%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (7.14%) Management Information System
6 14 (7.14%) Taxonomies
7 11 (5.61%) Equities
8 9 (4.59%) Derivative
9 8 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (3.57%) Cloud Native
10 7 (3.57%) Fixed Income
11 6 (3.06%) Credit Risk
12 5 (2.55%) AI Agents
13 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.53%) Legacy Code
14 3 (1.53%) Market Risk
14 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
14 3 (1.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.02%) Unix
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) VMS
2 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (61.73%) Data Governance
2 99 (50.51%) Data Modelling
3 77 (39.29%) Analytics
4 67 (34.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 55 (28.06%) Business Intelligence
6 54 (27.55%) AI
7 53 (27.04%) Agile
8 52 (26.53%) Metadata Management
9 48 (24.49%) Data Architecture
10 45 (22.96%) ETL
11 43 (21.94%) Validation
12 40 (20.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 39 (19.90%) Data Pipeline
14 38 (19.39%) Migration
15 37 (18.88%) Data Analysis
15 37 (18.88%) Data Management
16 36 (18.37%) Data Engineering
16 36 (18.37%) Data Transformation
16 36 (18.37%) Decision-Making
17 28 (14.29%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 102 (52.04%) SQL
2 50 (25.51%) Python
3 10 (5.10%) Java
4 8 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.08%) Shell Script
5 7 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.06%) Bash
6 6 (3.06%) Cypher
6 6 (3.06%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.55%) Bicep
7 5 (2.55%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.04%) Korn
9 3 (1.53%) C#
9 3 (1.53%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.53%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.02%) R
11 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.59%) Degree
4 7 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.02%) ACCA
8 2 (1.02%) CIMA
8 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CBAP
9 1 (0.51%) CISA
9 1 (0.51%) CISM
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (60.71%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.63%) GDPR
3 7 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.57%) QA
4 5 (2.55%) IFRS
4 5 (2.55%) MiFID
5 4 (2.04%) GRC
5 4 (2.04%) IFRS 9
5 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.53%) NIST
7 2 (1.02%) IFRS 17
7 2 (1.02%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.51%) Basel III
8 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.51%) COBIT
8 1 (0.51%) COPPA
8 1 (0.51%) EMIR
8 1 (0.51%) GAAP
8 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.53%) Control-M
1 3 (1.53%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.51%) Grafana
Vendors
1 42 (21.43%) Databricks
2 41 (20.92%) Microsoft
3 22 (11.22%) Oracle
4 13 (6.63%) Informatica
5 6 (3.06%) Murex
6 5 (2.55%) Google
6 5 (2.55%) IBM
6 5 (2.55%) SAP
7 4 (2.04%) Calypso
7 4 (2.04%) FIS
7 4 (2.04%) Talend
8 3 (1.53%) Teradata
9 2 (1.02%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.02%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.02%) Lotus
9 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.02%) SGI
9 2 (1.02%) Sparx
9 2 (1.02%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.51%) Salesforce