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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 105 143
Rank change year-on-year +55 +38 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 812 321 324
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.42% 2.65% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 2.87% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 237 248
10th Percentile £378 £406 £394
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +1.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £682
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.65% -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 16,287 11,179 15,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.56% 92.25% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,870 7,505 11,106
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 190 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £31.17 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% +11.33% -29.34%
75th Percentile £58.88 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.74 £63.03 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +32 109 £516 -6.14% 24
West London -4 25 £520 +1.56% 4
East London -1 6 £450 - 6
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
1 101 (12.44%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (12.32%) Apache Spark
3 52 (6.40%) Apache
4 11 (1.35%) Confluence
5 8 (0.99%) Appian
5 8 (0.99%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.86%) SAS
7 5 (0.62%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.37%) Trello
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.62%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.25%) 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
1 383 (47.17%) Azure
2 293 (36.08%) AWS
3 150 (18.47%) Power Platform
4 132 (16.26%) GCP
5 120 (14.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 102 (12.56%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (12.56%) Snowflake
7 92 (11.33%) GitHub
8 81 (9.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 80 (9.85%) dbt
10 78 (9.61%) Amazon S3
11 66 (8.13%) Serverless
12 57 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (3.33%) Dagster
15 21 (2.59%) Azure AI
16 19 (2.34%) Power Automate
17 18 (2.22%) Amazon SageMaker
17 18 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.37%) Firewall
2 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
2 2 (0.25%) Network Security
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (19.46%) Data Warehouse
2 129 (15.89%) Power BI
3 122 (15.02%) Data Lake
4 71 (8.74%) Delta Lake
4 71 (8.74%) Metadata
5 64 (7.88%) SQL Server
6 54 (6.65%) BigQuery
7 49 (6.03%) Tableau
8 45 (5.54%) Big Data
9 44 (5.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 42 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (5.05%) Relational Database
12 38 (4.68%) NoSQL
13 33 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
14 28 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (3.08%) Spark SQL
16 20 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
16 20 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (2.22%) Data Vault
18 17 (2.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 109 (13.42%) Git
2 32 (3.94%) JIRA
3 28 (3.45%) GitLab
3 28 (3.45%) MLflow
4 23 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.49%) Gradle
7 4 (0.49%) Maven
7 4 (0.49%) Selenium
8 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) CMake
10 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
General
1 269 (33.13%) Finance
2 164 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 133 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.39%) Banking
5 44 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.46%) Retail
8 17 (2.09%) Front Office
8 17 (2.09%) Marketing
9 14 (1.72%) Back Office
9 14 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.60%) Publishing
11 12 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.48%) Legal
12 8 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.62%) Billing
15 4 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 384 (47.29%) Data Engineer
2 134 (16.50%) Senior
3 89 (10.96%) Developer
3 89 (10.96%) Senior Data Engineer
4 60 (7.39%) Architect
5 54 (6.65%) Lead
6 50 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
7 44 (5.42%) Azure Data Engineer
8 39 (4.80%) Data Scientist
8 39 (4.80%) Python Engineer
9 35 (4.31%) Analyst
10 32 (3.94%) Snowflake Engineer
11 31 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (3.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 26 (3.20%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 25 (3.08%) Python Developer
15 23 (2.83%) Data Analyst
15 23 (2.83%) Data Architect
15 23 (2.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (15.89%) PySpark
2 81 (9.98%) Kafka
3 77 (9.48%) Pandas
4 50 (6.16%) NumPy
5 43 (5.30%) REST
6 40 (4.93%) scikit-learn
7 35 (4.31%) PyTorch
8 32 (3.94%) TensorFlow
9 30 (3.69%) FastAPI
10 27 (3.33%) Flask
11 26 (3.20%) RESTful
12 20 (2.46%) Polars
13 17 (2.09%) .NET
13 17 (2.09%) Apache Avro
14 16 (1.97%) Hugging Face
15 15 (1.85%) React
16 14 (1.72%) pytest
16 14 (1.72%) Spring
16 14 (1.72%) Spring Boot
16 14 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 94 (11.58%) Cloud Native
2 39 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 23 (2.83%) Algorithms
6 23 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
8 19 (2.34%) Equities
8 19 (2.34%) Hedge funds
9 16 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.85%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.48%) Derivative
11 12 (1.48%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.35%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.71%) Linux
2 18 (2.22%) Unix
3 5 (0.62%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (42.86%) Analytics
2 346 (42.61%) Data Engineering
3 318 (39.16%) Data Modelling
4 310 (38.18%) ETL
5 297 (36.58%) CI/CD
6 235 (28.94%) AI
7 221 (27.22%) DevOps
8 179 (22.04%) Agile
8 179 (22.04%) Machine Learning
9 166 (20.44%) Data Governance
10 158 (19.46%) Data Science
11 150 (18.47%) Business Intelligence
12 124 (15.27%) Decision-Making
13 120 (14.78%) Data Architecture
14 114 (14.04%) Validation
15 111 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
16 99 (12.19%) Use Case
17 89 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
18 86 (10.59%) Migration
19 83 (10.22%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 487 (59.98%) Python
2 458 (56.40%) SQL
3 81 (9.98%) Java
4 62 (7.64%) Scala
5 40 (4.93%) C#
6 28 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.46%) R
8 17 (2.09%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.48%) Bash
10 12 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.35%) Bicep
12 10 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.11%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.86%) C++
14 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.49%) Korn
15 4 (0.49%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.49%) X++
16 3 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 157 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 139 (17.12%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.30%) Degree
4 23 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.62%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.49%) PhD
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.25%) CISA
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.12%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (33.25%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.79%) QA
3 33 (4.06%) GDPR
4 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.49%) IFRS
6 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.49%) SLA
7 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.37%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 3 (0.37%) PMO
8 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.25%) PERC
8 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.12%) Basel III
9 1 (0.12%) MiFID
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (12.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Ceph
2 2 (0.25%) Firmware
2 2 (0.25%) Lustre
2 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) etcd
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) RACF
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (11.70%) Terraform
2 85 (10.47%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.35%) Grafana
4 10 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.37%) Control-M
5 3 (0.37%) Istio
6 2 (0.25%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.25%) Kibana
6 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Ansible
7 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 202 (24.88%) Databricks
2 141 (17.36%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.68%) Informatica
4 30 (3.69%) Google
5 28 (3.45%) Oracle
6 25 (3.08%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.60%) Foundry
8 12 (1.48%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.35%) SAP
10 8 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.99%) Palantir
10 8 (0.99%) UiPath
11 7 (0.86%) Workday
12 6 (0.74%) Splunk
12 6 (0.74%) Talend
13 5 (0.62%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.62%) Teradata
14 4 (0.49%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.49%) MicroStrategy