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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 100 129
Rank change year-on-year +54 +29 +110
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 882 380 352
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.56% 2.87% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 3.12% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 278 268
10th Percentile £393 £413 £379
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -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% -39.38%
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% -13.79%

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 17,207 12,190 15,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.22% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,434 8,142 11,106
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 227 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -25.47%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +13 100 £533 -3.18% 83
West London -1 23 £520 +2.77% 9
East London +4 6 £450 - 6
South London -4 2 £500 +5.26% 3
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
1 105 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (10.88%) Apache Spark
3 57 (6.46%) Apache
4 15 (1.70%) Confluence
5 13 (1.47%) SAS
6 10 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.79%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.57%) Appian
8 5 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) Luigi
10 2 (0.23%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.23%) 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
1 392 (44.44%) Azure
2 327 (37.07%) AWS
3 159 (18.03%) Power Platform
4 140 (15.87%) GCP
5 117 (13.27%) Snowflake
6 106 (12.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 98 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (10.43%) Amazon S3
9 90 (10.20%) GitHub
10 88 (9.98%) dbt
11 81 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 70 (7.94%) Serverless
13 62 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.06%) Dagster
16 21 (2.38%) Azure AI
17 20 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
17 20 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
18 17 (1.93%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Firewall
1 2 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.11%) 4G
2 1 (0.11%) 5G
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
2 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (18.93%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (15.65%) Power BI
3 123 (13.95%) Data Lake
4 77 (8.73%) Metadata
5 70 (7.94%) Delta Lake
6 58 (6.58%) BigQuery
6 58 (6.58%) SQL Server
7 56 (6.35%) Tableau
8 55 (6.24%) Big Data
9 47 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (4.76%) Relational Database
10 42 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 34 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
12 31 (3.51%) NoSQL
12 31 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
13 30 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (2.27%) Spark SQL
15 19 (2.15%) Data Vault
15 19 (2.15%) Looker
15 19 (2.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (11.00%) Git
2 35 (3.97%) JIRA
3 31 (3.51%) GitLab
4 24 (2.72%) MLflow
5 23 (2.61%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.91%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.57%) Gradle
7 5 (0.57%) Maven
7 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 289 (32.77%) Finance
2 174 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 152 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (7.82%) Banking
4 69 (7.82%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.17%) Retail
6 21 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.15%) Front Office
8 17 (1.93%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.70%) Marketing
10 13 (1.47%) Back Office
11 12 (1.36%) Legal
11 12 (1.36%) Publishing
12 11 (1.25%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.68%) Billing
16 6 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 391 (44.33%) Data Engineer
2 146 (16.55%) Senior
3 94 (10.66%) Developer
3 94 (10.66%) Senior Data Engineer
4 79 (8.96%) Architect
5 77 (8.73%) Lead
6 47 (5.33%) Data Scientist
7 45 (5.10%) Python Engineer
8 42 (4.76%) Analyst
9 39 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
10 36 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
11 35 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 35 (3.97%) Azure Data Engineer
12 34 (3.85%) Snowflake Engineer
13 33 (3.74%) Data Architect
13 33 (3.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 27 (3.06%) AWS Data Engineer
14 27 (3.06%) Python Developer
15 26 (2.95%) Data Analyst
16 25 (2.83%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (14.74%) PySpark
2 91 (10.32%) Kafka
3 67 (7.60%) Pandas
4 46 (5.22%) REST
5 43 (4.88%) NumPy
6 32 (3.63%) scikit-learn
7 30 (3.40%) FastAPI
7 30 (3.40%) PyTorch
8 27 (3.06%) TensorFlow
9 24 (2.72%) Flask
10 23 (2.61%) RESTful
11 20 (2.27%) JSON
11 20 (2.27%) Polars
12 19 (2.15%) .NET
13 18 (2.04%) React
14 17 (1.93%) Apache Avro
14 17 (1.93%) Spring
14 17 (1.93%) Spring Boot
15 15 (1.70%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (1.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 108 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 44 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.83%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.72%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
8 20 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.15%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.93%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.81%) NHS
12 15 (1.70%) Equities
13 12 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.36%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.25%) Reinsurance
15 10 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.72%) Linux
2 18 (2.04%) Unix
3 4 (0.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Debian
4 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (43.54%) Analytics
2 372 (42.18%) Data Engineering
3 327 (37.07%) Data Modelling
4 325 (36.85%) CI/CD
5 320 (36.28%) ETL
6 262 (29.71%) AI
7 227 (25.74%) DevOps
8 202 (22.90%) Machine Learning
9 194 (22.00%) Agile
10 179 (20.29%) Data Science
11 165 (18.71%) Business Intelligence
12 164 (18.59%) Data Governance
13 156 (17.69%) Decision-Making
14 125 (14.17%) Validation
15 124 (14.06%) Data Architecture
16 118 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
17 110 (12.47%) Use Case
18 100 (11.34%) Migration
19 99 (11.22%) Generative AI
20 96 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 527 (59.75%) Python
2 480 (54.42%) SQL
3 87 (9.86%) Java
4 45 (5.10%) Scala
5 44 (4.99%) C#
6 28 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 24 (2.72%) R
8 19 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.04%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.93%) Bash
11 16 (1.81%) JavaScript
12 15 (1.70%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.79%) Bicep
14 6 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.68%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.57%) C++
15 5 (0.57%) Go
16 4 (0.45%) Rust
16 4 (0.45%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 156 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 136 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.88%) Degree
4 22 (2.49%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.79%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.57%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.34%) CISA
11 3 (0.34%) CISSP
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.23%) CISM
12 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.23%) PhD
12 2 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (30.73%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.56%) QA
3 34 (3.85%) GDPR
4 15 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.57%) IFRS
5 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.45%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.45%) NIST
6 4 (0.45%) SLA
6 4 (0.45%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.34%) PMO
7 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.23%) WCAG
9 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.11%) GxP
9 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 103 (11.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) 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
1 105 (11.90%) Terraform
2 87 (9.86%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.25%) Grafana
4 9 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.45%) Control-M
6 3 (0.34%) Kibana
6 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.23%) Ansible
7 2 (0.23%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 193 (21.88%) Databricks
2 146 (16.55%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.22%) Informatica
4 33 (3.74%) Oracle
5 29 (3.29%) Google
6 25 (2.83%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.93%) Palantir
8 16 (1.81%) Foundry
8 16 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.02%) SAP
10 6 (0.68%) Cloudera
10 6 (0.68%) Splunk
10 6 (0.68%) Talend
10 6 (0.68%) Workday
11 5 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.57%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.57%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.57%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.57%) UiPath
12 4 (0.45%) Denodo