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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 85 115
Rank change year-on-year +36 +30 +88
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 937 457 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.63% 3.43% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.21% 3.71% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 324 254
10th Percentile £388 £410 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -7.37% +7.95%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £659
90th Percentile £775 £775 £745
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - £39.69 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.84 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% - -
75th Percentile £61.00 £73.69 -
90th Percentile £68.20 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £46.12 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -31.16% - -

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 17,988 12,322 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,124 9,349
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 241 182
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.14% -5.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +21 100 £575 +4.55% 110
West London +7 36 £520 +0.29% 32
East London +1 5 £470 -53.00% 5
South London -7 4 £556 +27.14% 6
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
1 134 (14.30%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (11.85%) Apache Spark
3 86 (9.18%) Apache
4 15 (1.60%) Confluence
4 15 (1.60%) SAS
5 8 (0.85%) CMS
6 7 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.53%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.96%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.43%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 378 (40.34%) Azure
2 324 (34.58%) AWS
3 162 (17.29%) GCP
4 148 (15.80%) Snowflake
5 128 (13.66%) Power Platform
6 121 (12.91%) dbt
7 105 (11.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 102 (10.89%) Amazon S3
9 77 (8.22%) Serverless
10 74 (7.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 72 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
12 71 (7.58%) GitHub
13 64 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (4.38%) Azure Databricks
16 26 (2.77%) SaaS
17 24 (2.56%) Amazon Bedrock
18 22 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
19 18 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Internet
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) SSH
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (18.36%) Data Warehouse
2 115 (12.27%) Power BI
3 110 (11.74%) Data Lake
4 98 (10.46%) Metadata
5 88 (9.39%) BigQuery
6 78 (8.32%) Delta Lake
7 60 (6.40%) Big Data
8 54 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (4.59%) Relational Database
10 41 (4.38%) Tableau
11 37 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
11 37 (3.95%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
13 30 (3.20%) NoSQL
14 28 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
15 25 (2.67%) Looker
16 20 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
17 19 (2.03%) Flink
18 18 (1.92%) Hadoop
18 18 (1.92%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 111 (11.85%) Git
2 48 (5.12%) GitLab
3 26 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.56%) JIRA
5 10 (1.07%) MLflow
6 9 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.75%) ERwin
7 7 (0.75%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.64%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.64%) JUnit
8 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.43%) Gradle
10 4 (0.43%) Maven
10 4 (0.43%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
12 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 305 (32.55%) Finance
2 204 (21.77%) Social Skills
3 177 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (11.21%) Banking
5 66 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 28 (2.99%) Front Office
7 26 (2.77%) Retail
8 21 (2.24%) Marketing
9 19 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.92%) Back Office
11 15 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.07%) Legal
14 9 (0.96%) Billing
14 9 (0.96%) Publishing
15 8 (0.85%) Law
15 8 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 385 (41.09%) Data Engineer
2 158 (16.86%) Senior
3 93 (9.93%) Senior Data Engineer
4 89 (9.50%) Lead
5 83 (8.86%) Architect
6 81 (8.64%) Developer
7 54 (5.76%) Analyst
7 54 (5.76%) Databricks Engineer
8 51 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
9 44 (4.70%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 43 (4.59%) Python Engineer
11 38 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (3.95%) Azure Data Engineer
13 36 (3.84%) Snowflake Engineer
14 34 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 34 (3.63%) Data Architect
14 34 (3.63%) Data Scientist
15 31 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
15 31 (3.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 30 (3.20%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (15.58%) PySpark
2 111 (11.85%) Terraform
3 96 (10.25%) Kafka
4 67 (7.15%) REST
5 42 (4.48%) Pandas
6 28 (2.99%) NumPy
7 27 (2.88%) .NET
7 27 (2.88%) FastAPI
8 24 (2.56%) React
9 23 (2.45%) PyTorch
10 20 (2.13%) Flask
10 20 (2.13%) RESTful
11 19 (2.03%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.49%) JSON
13 13 (1.39%) Polars
13 13 (1.39%) scikit-learn
14 12 (1.28%) Django
15 11 (1.17%) Apache Beam
15 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (1.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 137 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 53 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (4.27%) Data Structures
6 33 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (3.42%) Algorithms
8 26 (2.77%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.92%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.81%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.60%) Derivative
11 15 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
11 15 (1.60%) Fixed Income
12 14 (1.49%) NHS
13 11 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.17%) Equities
13 11 (1.17%) Taxonomies
13 11 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.07%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.38%) Linux
2 29 (3.09%) Unix
3 15 (1.60%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (46.10%) Data Engineering
2 385 (41.09%) Analytics
3 366 (39.06%) CI/CD
4 345 (36.82%) Data Modelling
5 325 (34.69%) ETL
6 288 (30.74%) AI
7 230 (24.55%) Machine Learning
8 215 (22.95%) Agile
9 199 (21.24%) DevOps
10 187 (19.96%) Data Governance
11 158 (16.86%) Validation
12 153 (16.33%) Business Intelligence
13 151 (16.12%) Data Science
14 148 (15.80%) Data Transformation
15 140 (14.94%) Decision-Making
16 137 (14.62%) Data Architecture
17 130 (13.87%) Migration
18 128 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
19 124 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
20 110 (11.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 534 (56.99%) Python
2 495 (52.83%) SQL
3 73 (7.79%) Java
4 43 (4.59%) C#
5 34 (3.63%) Scala
6 31 (3.31%) Shell Script
7 28 (2.99%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.88%) JavaScript
9 23 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 23 (2.45%) TypeScript
10 20 (2.13%) R
11 18 (1.92%) Bash
12 10 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.96%) Go
13 9 (0.96%) LookML
14 7 (0.75%) SPARQL
14 7 (0.75%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.64%) C++
15 6 (0.64%) Korn
15 6 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 150 (16.01%) Security Cleared
2 128 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.48%) Degree
4 20 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.32%) CISSP
13 3 (0.32%) PhD
13 3 (0.32%) PMP
14 2 (0.21%) CISA
14 2 (0.21%) CISM
14 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (35.22%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.44%) QA
3 23 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.03%) GDPR
5 6 (0.64%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) Basel III
6 5 (0.53%) EU AI Act
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 99 (10.57%) Docker
2 4 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 97 (10.35%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.39%) Ansible
3 10 (1.07%) Control-M
4 5 (0.53%) Grafana
5 4 (0.43%) Kibana
5 4 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.43%) Puppet
6 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.21%) systemd
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 232 (24.76%) Databricks
2 124 (13.23%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.72%) Google
4 58 (6.19%) Oracle
5 32 (3.42%) Informatica
6 16 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.49%) Palantir
8 12 (1.28%) Foundry
9 9 (0.96%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.96%) Cloudera
9 9 (0.96%) SAP
9 9 (0.96%) Splunk
10 8 (0.85%) Teradata
11 7 (0.75%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.64%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.64%) Talend
12 6 (0.64%) Workday