Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in London

Data Pipelines
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 101 137
Rank change year-on-year +52 +36 +84
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 819 332 318
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.45% 2.75% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.02% 2.98% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 245 242
10th Percentile £390 £407 £383
25th Percentile £450 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% +2.51%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £774
England median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £57.60 £43.53 -
25th Percentile £58.88 £46.42 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £74.00 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.60 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +28.57% -16.00% -17.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,309 11,148 15,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.30% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,878 7,454 11,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £430 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 194 318
10th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.98 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in London

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in London

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Pipeline in London

Data Pipeline
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 Pipeline within the London region over the 6 months to 4 June 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 +29 106 £520 -5.45% 74
West London 0 25 £520 +1.56% 6
East London 0 6 £450 - 9
South London -11 4 £500 +5.26% 2
North London - 1 £178 - 1
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
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 98 (11.97%) Apache Airflow
1 98 (11.97%) Apache Spark
2 51 (6.23%) Apache
3 13 (1.59%) Confluence
4 11 (1.34%) SAS
5 8 (0.98%) Appian
5 8 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) CICS
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.73%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.61%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 384 (46.89%) Azure
2 297 (36.26%) AWS
3 157 (19.17%) Power Platform
4 130 (15.87%) GCP
5 116 (14.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 103 (12.58%) Snowflake
7 101 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (11.23%) GitHub
9 84 (10.26%) dbt
10 80 (9.77%) Amazon S3
11 79 (9.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 68 (8.30%) Serverless
13 60 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.30%) Dagster
16 21 (2.56%) Azure AI
17 19 (2.32%) Power Automate
18 18 (2.20%) Amazon SageMaker
18 18 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
19 17 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.37%) Firewall
2 2 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.12%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (19.66%) Data Warehouse
2 136 (16.61%) Power BI
3 123 (15.02%) Data Lake
4 69 (8.42%) Delta Lake
4 69 (8.42%) Metadata
5 63 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 52 (6.35%) BigQuery
7 50 (6.11%) Tableau
8 45 (5.49%) Big Data
9 42 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
10 41 (5.01%) Relational Database
11 39 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 38 (4.64%) NoSQL
13 36 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 31 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (2.93%) Spark SQL
16 19 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (2.32%) Star Schema
17 18 (2.20%) Data Vault
17 18 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 109 (13.31%) Git
2 33 (4.03%) JIRA
3 30 (3.66%) GitLab
4 28 (3.42%) MLflow
5 22 (2.69%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.98%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.49%) Gradle
8 4 (0.49%) Maven
8 4 (0.49%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.24%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.12%) Mocha
11 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 273 (33.33%) Finance
2 166 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 134 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (7.45%) Banking
5 47 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.69%) Retail
7 20 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.20%) Front Office
9 16 (1.95%) Marketing
10 15 (1.83%) Back Office
11 14 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.59%) Publishing
13 12 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.34%) Legal
15 10 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
19 5 (0.61%) Billing
20 4 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 382 (46.64%) Data Engineer
2 138 (16.85%) Senior
3 92 (11.23%) Developer
4 91 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 64 (7.81%) Architect
6 62 (7.57%) Lead
7 47 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
8 42 (5.13%) Azure Data Engineer
9 40 (4.88%) Python Engineer
10 39 (4.76%) Data Scientist
11 33 (4.03%) Analyst
12 32 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (3.91%) Snowflake Engineer
13 31 (3.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 27 (3.30%) AWS Data Engineer
15 26 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 25 (3.05%) Python Developer
17 24 (2.93%) Senior Developer
18 23 (2.81%) Data Architect
18 23 (2.81%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (15.63%) PySpark
2 78 (9.52%) Kafka
3 75 (9.16%) Pandas
4 48 (5.86%) NumPy
5 43 (5.25%) REST
6 38 (4.64%) scikit-learn
7 34 (4.15%) PyTorch
8 31 (3.79%) TensorFlow
9 30 (3.66%) FastAPI
10 27 (3.30%) Flask
11 26 (3.17%) RESTful
12 20 (2.44%) Polars
13 18 (2.20%) .NET
14 17 (2.08%) Apache Avro
15 15 (1.83%) pytest
15 15 (1.83%) React
16 14 (1.71%) JSON
16 14 (1.71%) Spring
16 14 (1.71%) Spring Boot
16 14 (1.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 99 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 39 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.81%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
8 20 (2.44%) Equities
9 19 (2.32%) Hedge funds
10 16 (1.95%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.59%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.47%) Derivative
14 11 (1.34%) Reinsurance
14 11 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
16 9 (1.10%) Reference Data
17 8 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.56%) Linux
2 18 (2.20%) Unix
3 5 (0.61%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (42.86%) Analytics
2 349 (42.61%) Data Engineering
3 317 (38.71%) Data Modelling
4 311 (37.97%) ETL
5 301 (36.75%) CI/CD
6 236 (28.82%) AI
7 221 (26.98%) DevOps
8 183 (22.34%) Agile
9 182 (22.22%) Machine Learning
10 160 (19.54%) Data Governance
11 156 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
11 156 (19.05%) Data Science
12 126 (15.38%) Decision-Making
13 120 (14.65%) Data Architecture
14 116 (14.16%) Validation
15 110 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
16 99 (12.09%) Use Case
17 90 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
18 88 (10.74%) Migration
19 83 (10.13%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 494 (60.32%) Python
2 460 (56.17%) SQL
3 79 (9.65%) Java
4 58 (7.08%) Scala
5 41 (5.01%) C#
6 26 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (2.56%) R
8 16 (1.95%) Shell Script
8 16 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 14 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.47%) Bash
11 11 (1.34%) Bicep
12 10 (1.22%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.10%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.85%) C++
14 7 (0.85%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.49%) Korn
15 4 (0.49%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.49%) X++
16 3 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 160 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 143 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.25%) Degree
4 22 (2.69%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.61%) SnowPro
9 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.37%) CISA
9 3 (0.37%) CISSP
9 3 (0.37%) PhD
10 2 (0.24%) CISM
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (32.23%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.86%) QA
3 31 (3.79%) GDPR
4 6 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.49%) IFRS
6 4 (0.49%) SLA
7 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.37%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 3 (0.37%) PMO
8 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.12%) Basel III
9 1 (0.12%) GxP
9 1 (0.12%) MiFID
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (11.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) Ceph
2 1 (0.12%) etcd
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
2 1 (0.12%) HDFS
2 1 (0.12%) Lustre
2 1 (0.12%) RACF
2 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (11.84%) Terraform
2 80 (9.77%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.34%) Grafana
4 10 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.61%) Control-M
6 3 (0.37%) Istio
6 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.24%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.24%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Ansible
8 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 195 (23.81%) Databricks
2 142 (17.34%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.88%) Informatica
4 27 (3.30%) Google
4 27 (3.30%) Oracle
5 25 (3.05%) OpenAI
6 13 (1.59%) Foundry
7 11 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.34%) SAP
8 8 (0.98%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (0.98%) Dynatrace
8 8 (0.98%) Palantir
8 8 (0.98%) UiPath
9 7 (0.85%) Workday
10 6 (0.73%) Splunk
10 6 (0.73%) Talend
11 5 (0.61%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.49%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.49%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.49%) Teradata