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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 94 120
Rank change year-on-year +49 +26 +109
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 918 394 355
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.62% 2.90% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 3.14% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 292 261
10th Percentile £400 £408 £400
25th Percentile £454 £457 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £799 £775
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £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 £651 £675 £688
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 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 +10 96 £555 +0.91% 46
West London +7 27 £520 +2.77% 10
East London +7 6 £450 - 2
South London - 3 £500 - 4
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
1 111 (12.09%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (10.68%) Apache Spark
3 71 (7.73%) 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 (0.44%) 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 (42.37%) Azure
2 325 (35.40%) AWS
3 160 (17.43%) Power Platform
4 145 (15.80%) GCP
5 120 (13.07%) Snowflake
6 108 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 98 (10.68%) dbt
8 96 (10.46%) Amazon S3
9 94 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (9.69%) GitHub
11 88 (9.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 68 (7.41%) Serverless
13 59 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (2.94%) Dagster
16 21 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (1.96%) Azure AI
18 17 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
19 16 (1.74%) Amazon Bedrock
19 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
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 (18.41%) Data Warehouse
2 142 (15.47%) Power BI
3 129 (14.05%) Data Lake
4 92 (10.02%) Metadata
5 66 (7.19%) Delta Lake
6 65 (7.08%) BigQuery
7 60 (6.54%) Big Data
8 57 (6.21%) Tableau
9 52 (5.66%) SQL Server
10 45 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (4.36%) Relational Database
12 39 (4.25%) Snowflake Schema
13 35 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 30 (3.27%) NoSQL
15 29 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (2.61%) Looker
17 21 (2.29%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.07%) Flink
18 19 (2.07%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 92 (10.02%) Git
2 32 (3.49%) GitLab
3 31 (3.38%) 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 (0.44%) 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
11 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
General
1 290 (31.59%) Finance
2 183 (19.93%) Social Skills
3 169 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.28%) Banking
4 76 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 26 (2.83%) Retail
6 22 (2.40%) Front Office
7 19 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.85%) Marketing
8 17 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.42%) Back Office
10 12 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.31%) Legal
10 12 (1.31%) Publishing
11 9 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.76%) Law
13 7 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 386 (42.05%) Data Engineer
2 146 (15.90%) Senior
3 97 (10.57%) Developer
4 85 (9.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 84 (9.15%) Lead
6 82 (8.93%) Architect
7 50 (5.45%) Analyst
8 46 (5.01%) Data Scientist
9 45 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (4.47%) Azure Data Engineer
10 41 (4.47%) Python Engineer
11 38 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
12 34 (3.70%) Data Architect
13 32 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (3.49%) Data Analyst
13 32 (3.49%) Python Developer
14 31 (3.38%) Snowflake Engineer
15 29 (3.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 27 (2.94%) AWS Data Engineer
16 27 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (14.49%) PySpark
2 91 (9.91%) Kafka
3 61 (6.64%) Pandas
4 53 (5.77%) REST
5 38 (4.14%) NumPy
6 30 (3.27%) FastAPI
7 24 (2.61%) Flask
7 24 (2.61%) JSON
8 23 (2.51%) PyTorch
9 22 (2.40%) scikit-learn
10 21 (2.29%) RESTful
11 20 (2.18%) .NET
11 20 (2.18%) Polars
11 20 (2.18%) TensorFlow
12 18 (1.96%) Apache Avro
12 18 (1.96%) React
13 15 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (1.53%) Spring
14 14 (1.53%) Spring Boot
15 13 (1.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 111 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 45 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (3.49%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
7 20 (2.18%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 20 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.96%) Hedge funds
9 15 (1.63%) Equities
9 15 (1.63%) NHS
10 14 (1.53%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.42%) Reference Data
11 13 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.09%) Derivative
14 9 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.70%) Linux
2 23 (2.51%) Unix
3 11 (1.20%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (43.14%) Analytics
2 388 (42.27%) Data Engineering
3 338 (36.82%) Data Modelling
4 333 (36.27%) CI/CD
5 314 (34.20%) ETL
6 253 (27.56%) AI
7 223 (24.29%) DevOps
8 201 (21.90%) Machine Learning
9 196 (21.35%) Agile
10 178 (19.39%) Data Governance
10 178 (19.39%) Data Science
11 169 (18.41%) Business Intelligence
12 163 (17.76%) Decision-Making
13 134 (14.60%) Data Architecture
14 133 (14.49%) Validation
15 119 (12.96%) Use Case
16 116 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
17 109 (11.87%) Migration
18 105 (11.44%) Data Transformation
19 98 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 535 (58.28%) Python
2 491 (53.49%) SQL
3 85 (9.26%) Java
4 42 (4.58%) C#
5 41 (4.47%) Scala
6 28 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (2.72%) Shell Script
9 22 (2.40%) 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 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 160 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 138 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.90%) Degree
4 20 (2.18%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.31%) 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 (0.44%) 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
1 278 (30.28%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.66%) QA
3 33 (3.59%) GDPR
4 20 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.65%) SLA
6 5 (0.54%) IFRS
6 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.44%) NIST
7 4 (0.44%) PMO
7 4 (0.44%) 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 (11.33%) 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
1 105 (11.44%) Terraform
2 88 (9.59%) 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
1 192 (20.92%) Databricks
2 147 (16.01%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.25%) Google
3 39 (4.25%) Informatica
3 39 (4.25%) Oracle
4 18 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.96%) Palantir
5 16 (1.74%) Foundry
6 15 (1.63%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.20%) SAP
7 11 (1.20%) Splunk
8 9 (0.98%) Cloudera
9 7 (0.76%) Amplitude
9 7 (0.76%) Workday
10 6 (0.65%) Confluent
11 5 (0.54%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.54%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.54%) Talend
12 4 (0.44%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.44%) New Relic