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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 100 115
Rank change year-on-year +54 +15 +122
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 917 384 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.62% 2.84% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 3.08% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 282 268
10th Percentile £392 £413 £394
25th Percentile £457 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £535 £554
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -3.39% -1.12%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile - £45.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +8.25% -33.10%
75th Percentile £73.00 £59.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 £61.10 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.92% -5.20% -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 17,684 12,469 15,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.20% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,337 11,045
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 233 283
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.73 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +6.24% -27.42%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 11 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 11 July 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 11 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 +21 106 £550 - 49
West London +3 24 £520 +2.77% 12
East London +5 6 £450 - 4
South London -8 2 £500 +5.26% 1
North London - 1 £178 - 2
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 (11.89%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (10.91%) Apache Spark
3 61 (6.65%) Apache
4 15 (1.64%) Confluence
5 13 (1.42%) SAS
6 10 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.44%) Appian
8 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) OpenROAD
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%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.44%) 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 8 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.55%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Infor LN
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
Cloud Services
1 410 (44.71%) Azure
2 342 (37.30%) AWS
3 161 (17.56%) Power Platform
4 147 (16.03%) GCP
5 119 (12.98%) Snowflake
6 112 (12.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 99 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
8 96 (10.47%) Amazon S3
9 92 (10.03%) dbt
9 92 (10.03%) GitHub
10 90 (9.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 74 (8.07%) Serverless
12 66 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (5.89%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (2.94%) Dagster
15 20 (2.18%) Amazon EMR
15 20 (2.18%) Amazon SageMaker
15 20 (2.18%) Azure AI
16 18 (1.96%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.22%) Firewall
1 2 (0.22%) Network Security
2 1 (0.11%) 4G
2 1 (0.11%) 5G
2 1 (0.11%) Broadband
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
2 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (18.32%) Data Warehouse
2 140 (15.27%) Power BI
3 125 (13.63%) Data Lake
4 82 (8.94%) Metadata
5 70 (7.63%) Delta Lake
6 59 (6.43%) Big Data
6 59 (6.43%) BigQuery
7 57 (6.22%) Tableau
8 56 (6.11%) SQL Server
9 47 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (4.58%) Relational Database
10 42 (4.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 37 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
12 32 (3.49%) NoSQL
13 31 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
14 30 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (2.18%) Looker
15 20 (2.18%) Spark SQL
15 20 (2.18%) Star Schema
16 19 (2.07%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 96 (10.47%) Git
2 36 (3.93%) JIRA
3 34 (3.71%) GitLab
4 25 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 22 (2.40%) MLflow
6 8 (0.87%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.55%) Gradle
7 5 (0.55%) Maven
7 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.44%) 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
10 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 293 (31.95%) Finance
2 178 (19.41%) Social Skills
3 164 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (7.96%) Banking
4 73 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.05%) Retail
6 21 (2.29%) Front Office
6 21 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.64%) Back Office
8 15 (1.64%) Marketing
9 12 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.31%) Legal
9 12 (1.31%) Publishing
10 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 9 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.65%) Billing
12 6 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 409 (44.60%) Data Engineer
2 150 (16.36%) Senior
3 95 (10.36%) Developer
3 95 (10.36%) Senior Data Engineer
4 84 (9.16%) Lead
5 82 (8.94%) Architect
6 49 (5.34%) Data Scientist
7 45 (4.91%) Analyst
7 45 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
8 43 (4.69%) Python Engineer
9 41 (4.47%) Azure Data Engineer
10 39 (4.25%) AWS Engineer
11 35 (3.82%) Snowflake Engineer
12 34 (3.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 34 (3.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 33 (3.60%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.16%) Data Analyst
15 28 (3.05%) AWS Data Engineer
15 28 (3.05%) Python Developer
16 26 (2.84%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (14.29%) PySpark
2 96 (10.47%) Kafka
3 65 (7.09%) Pandas
4 46 (5.02%) REST
5 42 (4.58%) NumPy
6 30 (3.27%) FastAPI
6 30 (3.27%) scikit-learn
7 29 (3.16%) PyTorch
8 26 (2.84%) TensorFlow
9 24 (2.62%) Flask
10 22 (2.40%) JSON
10 22 (2.40%) RESTful
11 20 (2.18%) Polars
12 19 (2.07%) .NET
13 18 (1.96%) React
14 17 (1.85%) Apache Avro
14 17 (1.85%) Spring
14 17 (1.85%) Spring Boot
15 15 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
16 11 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 118 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.62%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
9 20 (2.18%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.18%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.85%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.74%) Equities
11 16 (1.74%) NHS
12 14 (1.53%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.20%) Reinsurance
15 10 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.05%) Linux
2 19 (2.07%) Unix
3 6 (0.65%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (43.51%) Analytics
2 390 (42.53%) Data Engineering
3 340 (37.08%) Data Modelling
4 339 (36.97%) CI/CD
5 324 (35.33%) ETL
6 260 (28.35%) AI
7 233 (25.41%) DevOps
8 208 (22.68%) Machine Learning
9 198 (21.59%) Agile
10 183 (19.96%) Data Science
11 173 (18.87%) Data Governance
12 167 (18.21%) Business Intelligence
13 161 (17.56%) Decision-Making
14 133 (14.50%) Validation
15 130 (14.18%) Data Architecture
16 124 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
17 116 (12.65%) Use Case
18 103 (11.23%) Migration
19 102 (11.12%) Infrastructure as Code
20 100 (10.91%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 548 (59.76%) Python
2 496 (54.09%) SQL
3 89 (9.71%) Java
4 47 (5.13%) Scala
5 45 (4.91%) C#
6 28 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 24 (2.62%) R
8 22 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.07%) Shell Script
10 18 (1.96%) Bash
10 18 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.74%) JavaScript
12 15 (1.64%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.65%) Bicep
13 6 (0.65%) Go
13 6 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.65%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.55%) C++
15 4 (0.44%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 162 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 141 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.80%) Degree
4 22 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.55%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.33%) CISA
10 3 (0.33%) CISSP
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.33%) PhD
11 2 (0.22%) CISM
11 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.56%) QA
3 34 (3.71%) GDPR
4 18 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.55%) IFRS
5 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.55%) SLA
6 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.44%) NIST
6 4 (0.44%) PMO
6 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.33%) NCSC
7 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.22%) WCAG
9 1 (0.11%) GxP
9 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 108 (11.78%) 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
1 106 (11.56%) Terraform
2 91 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.20%) Grafana
4 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.44%) Control-M
6 3 (0.33%) Ansible
6 3 (0.33%) Kibana
6 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.22%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 198 (21.59%) Databricks
2 149 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.02%) Informatica
4 35 (3.82%) Oracle
5 31 (3.38%) Google
6 24 (2.62%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.85%) Foundry
7 17 (1.85%) Palantir
8 16 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.98%) SAP
10 8 (0.87%) Splunk
11 7 (0.76%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.76%) Talend
12 6 (0.65%) Workday
13 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.55%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.55%) Confluent
13 5 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.44%) Denodo
14 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft