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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 113 147
Rank change year-on-year +50 +34 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 675 312 302
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 2.39% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 2.63% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 223 236
10th Percentile £375 £400 £409
25th Percentile £450 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% -3.73%
75th Percentile £650 £648 £665
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £61.63 £58.00 £40.54
25th Percentile £62.19 £60.63 £41.57
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £45.35
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +43.35% -30.24%
75th Percentile £72.19 - £48.82
90th Percentile £73.88 - £49.68
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 14,719 11,874 16,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.80% 91.07% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,879 7,921 11,507
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 160 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.41 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.06 £49.91
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.59 £69.28
England median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%

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 15 March 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
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 15 March 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 +53 100 £513 -2.15% 102
West London - 20 £600 - 9
South London -7 11 £500 +2.56%
East London +2 3 £450 - 6
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
1 110 (16.30%) Apache Spark
2 96 (14.22%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (5.93%) Apache
4 10 (1.48%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.19%) Appian
6 7 (1.04%) SAS
7 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.74%) Confluence
9 3 (0.44%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.30%) OpenROAD
10 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.15%) Camunda
11 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.15%) Luigi
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.44%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.44%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.15%) Actimize
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 340 (50.37%) Azure
2 260 (38.52%) AWS
3 130 (19.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 121 (17.93%) Power Platform
5 118 (17.48%) GCP
6 87 (12.89%) GitHub
7 86 (12.74%) Snowflake
8 74 (10.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 73 (10.81%) Serverless
10 71 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (9.19%) Amazon S3
11 62 (9.19%) dbt
12 59 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.56%) AWS Step Functions
15 23 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (3.11%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (2.96%) Dagster
18 19 (2.81%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (2.81%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.59%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.44%) Firewall
2 3 (0.44%) Network Security
2 3 (0.44%) VPN
3 2 (0.30%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.15%) 4G
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (23.26%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (16.15%) Data Lake
3 107 (15.85%) Power BI
4 61 (9.04%) Metadata
5 56 (8.30%) Delta Lake
6 54 (8.00%) SQL Server
7 52 (7.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (7.26%) NoSQL
9 43 (6.37%) Big Data
10 41 (6.07%) BigQuery
11 39 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 38 (5.63%) Tableau
13 31 (4.59%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (3.85%) Relational Database
15 23 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (2.81%) Spark SQL
19 15 (2.22%) Data Vault
19 15 (2.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 105 (15.56%) Git
2 33 (4.89%) MLflow
3 25 (3.70%) GitLab
3 25 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.81%) JIRA
5 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.44%) ERwin
6 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.30%) Selenium
7 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.15%) Gradle
8 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 187 (27.70%) Finance
2 163 (24.15%) Social Skills
3 99 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.41%) Banking
5 43 (6.37%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.56%) Front Office
7 22 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.67%) Investment Banking
9 15 (2.22%) Legal
10 13 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.48%) Retail
13 9 (1.33%) Back Office
14 8 (1.19%) Electronics
14 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.19%) Marketing
14 8 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.59%) Publishing
16 3 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 320 (47.41%) Data Engineer
2 94 (13.93%) Senior
3 73 (10.81%) Developer
4 66 (9.78%) Senior Data Engineer
5 59 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
6 56 (8.30%) Architect
7 52 (7.70%) Azure Data Engineer
8 49 (7.26%) Lead
9 37 (5.48%) Data Scientist
10 33 (4.89%) Python Engineer
11 31 (4.59%) Snowflake Engineer
12 28 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (3.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 23 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (3.26%) Analyst
15 22 (3.26%) Data Architect
16 21 (3.11%) Consultant
16 21 (3.11%) Lead Data Engineer
17 20 (2.96%) Python Data Engineer
18 18 (2.67%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (19.11%) PySpark
2 69 (10.22%) Kafka
3 57 (8.44%) Pandas
4 45 (6.67%) PyTorch
5 42 (6.22%) scikit-learn
6 41 (6.07%) NumPy
6 41 (6.07%) TensorFlow
7 29 (4.30%) REST
8 23 (3.41%) FastAPI
9 20 (2.96%) pytest
10 19 (2.81%) .NET
10 19 (2.81%) React
11 17 (2.52%) Flask
11 17 (2.52%) Hugging Face
12 16 (2.37%) RESTful
13 14 (2.07%) JSON
13 14 (2.07%) LangChain
14 13 (1.93%) YAML
15 12 (1.78%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.78%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 94 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.30%) Algorithms
3 28 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 25 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
6 20 (2.96%) AI Agents
6 20 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.81%) Equities
8 18 (2.67%) Derivative
9 17 (2.52%) Fixed Income
9 17 (2.52%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.78%) Hedge funds
11 9 (1.33%) Equity Derivative
11 9 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.33%) Reinsurance
12 8 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.19%) Life Science
12 8 (1.19%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.81%) Linux
2 7 (1.04%) Unix
3 3 (0.44%) Windows
4 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.15%) CentOS
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (46.22%) Data Engineering
2 292 (43.26%) Analytics
3 265 (39.26%) ETL
4 257 (38.07%) Data Modelling
5 255 (37.78%) CI/CD
6 200 (29.63%) AI
7 178 (26.37%) Agile
7 178 (26.37%) Machine Learning
8 176 (26.07%) DevOps
9 164 (24.30%) Data Governance
9 164 (24.30%) Data Science
10 130 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
11 110 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
12 96 (14.22%) Data Architecture
13 89 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
14 88 (13.04%) Data Integration
14 88 (13.04%) Validation
15 79 (11.70%) Use Case
16 77 (11.41%) Decision-Making
17 69 (10.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 453 (67.11%) Python
2 395 (58.52%) SQL
3 74 (10.96%) Scala
4 53 (7.85%) Java
5 24 (3.56%) JavaScript
6 22 (3.26%) C#
7 19 (2.81%) Bicep
7 19 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.07%) R
8 14 (2.07%) T-SQL
8 14 (2.07%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.63%) Bash
9 11 (1.63%) C++
10 9 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.19%) Korn
12 7 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.44%) SAS Macro
14 2 (0.30%) Ruby
15 1 (0.15%) C
Qualifications
1 127 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 108 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.30%) Degree
4 25 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 25 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 12 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.63%) PhD
7 9 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.30%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.15%) GIAC
11 1 (0.15%) HP APS
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (32.89%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.78%) GDPR
3 23 (3.41%) QA
4 12 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.33%) PERC
6 7 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.59%) NIST
9 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.44%) WCAG
10 2 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.30%) EMIR
10 2 (0.30%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
10 2 (0.30%) MiFID
10 2 (0.30%) PMO
10 2 (0.30%) SLA
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 92 (13.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Ceph
3 2 (0.30%) Firmware
3 2 (0.30%) HDFS
3 2 (0.30%) Lustre
3 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (0.30%) zsh
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (14.07%) Terraform
2 79 (11.70%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.59%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.44%) Kibana
4 3 (0.44%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.30%) Ansible
5 2 (0.30%) Control-M
5 2 (0.30%) Grafana
5 2 (0.30%) Istio
5 2 (0.30%) logstash
6 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 223 (33.04%) Databricks
2 100 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.04%) Google
4 31 (4.59%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.11%) Informatica
5 21 (3.11%) Oracle
6 17 (2.52%) Foundry
7 10 (1.48%) Palantir
7 10 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.33%) SAP
8 9 (1.33%) UiPath
9 8 (1.19%) Automation Anywhere
10 7 (1.04%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.89%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.74%) Adobe
12 5 (0.74%) mParticle
12 5 (0.74%) NVIDIA
12 5 (0.74%) Splunk
12 5 (0.74%) Tealium
13 4 (0.59%) Bloomberg