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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 96 129
Rank change year-on-year +50 +33 +92
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 920 393 355
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.64% 2.89% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 3.13% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 292 261
10th Percentile £400 £408 £400
25th Percentile £455 £456 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £799 £775
England median daily rate £525 £516 £550
% change year-on-year +1.72% -6.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £45.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £61.10 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -19.35%

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 17,636 12,537 14,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.16% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 8,379 10,607
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £686
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 237 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.39
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.81 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.92% -9.40% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 23 July 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 23 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
Central London +8 98 £553 +0.45% 63
West London +8 27 £520 +2.77% 7
East London +7 6 £450 - 2
South London - 3 £500 - 5
North London - 1 £178 -
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
1 109 (11.85%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (10.76%) Apache Spark
3 68 (7.39%) Apache
4 15 (1.63%) Confluence
4 15 (1.63%) SAS
5 10 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.65%) CMS
6 6 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.33%) Appian
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.22%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.54%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 389 (42.28%) Azure
2 329 (35.76%) AWS
3 161 (17.50%) Power Platform
4 146 (15.87%) GCP
5 122 (13.26%) Snowflake
6 108 (11.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 97 (10.54%) Amazon S3
8 95 (10.33%) dbt
9 93 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (9.67%) GitHub
11 88 (9.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 70 (7.61%) Serverless
13 61 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (2.83%) Dagster
16 21 (2.28%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (1.96%) Azure AI
18 17 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
19 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
19 16 (1.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.33%) Network Security
2 2 (0.22%) Broadband
2 2 (0.22%) Firewall
2 2 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.11%) 4G
3 1 (0.11%) 5G
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (18.37%) Data Warehouse
2 142 (15.43%) Power BI
3 128 (13.91%) Data Lake
4 91 (9.89%) Metadata
5 66 (7.17%) Delta Lake
6 64 (6.96%) BigQuery
7 60 (6.52%) Big Data
8 57 (6.20%) Tableau
9 51 (5.54%) SQL Server
10 45 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (4.35%) Relational Database
11 40 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
12 35 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (3.37%) NoSQL
14 30 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 29 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (2.50%) Looker
17 21 (2.28%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.07%) Spark SQL
19 18 (1.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 94 (10.22%) Git
2 32 (3.48%) GitLab
3 31 (3.37%) JIRA
4 25 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.96%) MLflow
6 8 (0.87%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.54%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.54%) ERwin
7 5 (0.54%) Gradle
7 5 (0.54%) Maven
7 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.43%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
General
1 291 (31.63%) Finance
2 184 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 169 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.37%) Banking
5 76 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 26 (2.83%) Retail
7 22 (2.39%) Front Office
8 19 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.85%) Marketing
9 17 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.41%) Back Office
11 12 (1.30%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.30%) Legal
11 12 (1.30%) Publishing
12 9 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 9 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.76%) Law
14 7 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 388 (42.17%) Data Engineer
2 147 (15.98%) Senior
3 97 (10.54%) Developer
4 87 (9.46%) Senior Data Engineer
5 85 (9.24%) Lead
6 83 (9.02%) Architect
7 50 (5.43%) Analyst
8 47 (5.11%) Data Scientist
9 45 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (4.46%) Azure Data Engineer
11 40 (4.35%) Python Engineer
12 37 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
13 33 (3.59%) Data Architect
14 32 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 32 (3.48%) Data Analyst
14 32 (3.48%) Python Developer
14 32 (3.48%) Snowflake Engineer
15 30 (3.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 26 (2.83%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (2.83%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (14.35%) PySpark
2 93 (10.11%) Kafka
3 62 (6.74%) Pandas
4 53 (5.76%) REST
5 39 (4.24%) NumPy
6 30 (3.26%) FastAPI
7 24 (2.61%) Flask
7 24 (2.61%) JSON
7 24 (2.61%) PyTorch
8 23 (2.50%) scikit-learn
9 21 (2.28%) RESTful
9 21 (2.28%) TensorFlow
10 20 (2.17%) .NET
10 20 (2.17%) Polars
11 18 (1.96%) Apache Avro
11 18 (1.96%) React
12 15 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (1.52%) Spring
13 14 (1.52%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 44 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (3.37%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.28%) Algorithms
6 21 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
7 20 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.96%) Hedge funds
9 15 (1.63%) Equities
9 15 (1.63%) NHS
10 14 (1.52%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.41%) Reference Data
11 13 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.09%) Derivative
14 9 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.70%) Linux
2 23 (2.50%) Unix
3 10 (1.09%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (42.93%) Analytics
2 389 (42.28%) Data Engineering
3 340 (36.96%) Data Modelling
4 335 (36.41%) CI/CD
5 316 (34.35%) ETL
6 256 (27.83%) AI
7 222 (24.13%) DevOps
8 203 (22.07%) Machine Learning
9 197 (21.41%) Agile
10 178 (19.35%) Data Governance
10 178 (19.35%) Data Science
11 169 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
12 162 (17.61%) Decision-Making
13 135 (14.67%) Data Architecture
13 135 (14.67%) Validation
14 119 (12.93%) Use Case
15 114 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
16 108 (11.74%) Migration
17 101 (10.98%) Data Transformation
18 97 (10.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 536 (58.26%) Python
2 492 (53.48%) SQL
3 84 (9.13%) Java
4 42 (4.57%) C#
5 40 (4.35%) Scala
6 27 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 26 (2.83%) PowerShell
8 24 (2.61%) Shell Script
9 22 (2.39%) R
10 19 (2.07%) Bash
11 17 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 16 (1.74%) JavaScript
12 16 (1.74%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.76%) Go
14 7 (0.76%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.65%) Bicep
15 6 (0.65%) C++
16 4 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.43%) X++
Qualifications
1 160 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 138 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.89%) Degree
4 20 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.65%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.54%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.43%) CISSP
12 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.33%) CISA
12 3 (0.33%) CISM
12 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.33%) PhD
13 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (30.11%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.65%) QA
3 33 (3.59%) GDPR
4 20 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.65%) SLA
6 5 (0.54%) IFRS
6 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.43%) NIST
7 4 (0.43%) PMO
7 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.22%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
9 2 (0.22%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 104 (11.30%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (11.30%) Terraform
2 88 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.20%) Grafana
4 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.65%) Control-M
6 5 (0.54%) Ansible
7 3 (0.33%) Kibana
7 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 190 (20.65%) Databricks
2 147 (15.98%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.35%) Informatica
4 38 (4.13%) Google
4 38 (4.13%) Oracle
5 19 (2.07%) OpenAI
6 18 (1.96%) Palantir
7 16 (1.74%) Foundry
7 16 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.20%) SAP
9 10 (1.09%) Splunk
10 9 (0.98%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.76%) Amplitude
11 7 (0.76%) Workday
12 6 (0.65%) Confluent
13 5 (0.54%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.54%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.54%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.54%) Talend
14 4 (0.43%) Hortonworks