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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 88 128
Rank change year-on-year +41 +40 +86
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 947 429 342
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.72% 3.20% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 3.46% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 316 248
10th Percentile £400 £408 £404
25th Percentile £455 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile - £47.39 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £67.25 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £74.70 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £67.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -9.70% -0.74% -12.90%

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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £325 £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 £675 £688
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 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 95 £553 +0.45% 45
West London +6 34 £520 +0.29% 11
East London +4 6 £450 -55.00% 3
South London -4 4 £500 +11.11% 1
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
1 128 (13.52%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (11.62%) Apache Spark
3 84 (8.87%) Apache
4 17 (1.80%) SAS
5 13 (1.37%) Confluence
6 9 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.84%) CMS
8 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.53%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Luigi
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.11%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (41.71%) Azure
2 344 (36.33%) AWS
3 156 (16.47%) GCP
3 156 (16.47%) Power Platform
4 138 (14.57%) Snowflake
5 112 (11.83%) dbt
6 111 (11.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 104 (10.98%) Amazon S3
8 95 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
9 88 (9.29%) GitHub
10 84 (8.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 77 (8.13%) Serverless
12 67 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.64%) Dagster
15 21 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (2.11%) SaaS
17 17 (1.80%) Amazon Bedrock
17 17 (1.80%) Prefect
18 16 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.21%) Broadband
1 2 (0.21%) Firewall
1 2 (0.21%) Network Security
1 2 (0.21%) SSL
2 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
2 1 (0.11%) SSH
2 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (19.54%) Data Warehouse
2 141 (14.89%) Power BI
3 130 (13.73%) Data Lake
4 101 (10.67%) Metadata
5 79 (8.34%) BigQuery
6 76 (8.03%) Delta Lake
7 63 (6.65%) Big Data
8 53 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 52 (5.49%) Tableau
10 48 (5.07%) SQL Server
11 45 (4.75%) Relational Database
12 41 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
13 37 (3.91%) Snowflake Schema
14 32 (3.38%) NoSQL
14 32 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
15 28 (2.96%) Looker
16 25 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (2.53%) Star Schema
18 23 (2.43%) Flink
19 20 (2.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 86 (9.08%) Git
2 40 (4.22%) GitLab
3 30 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.17%) JIRA
4 12 (1.27%) MLflow
5 7 (0.74%) ERwin
5 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.53%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.53%) Gradle
7 5 (0.53%) Maven
7 5 (0.53%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.42%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.32%) JUnit
9 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.32%) RStudio
9 3 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 291 (30.73%) Finance
2 189 (19.96%) Social Skills
3 161 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (8.66%) Banking
5 68 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.85%) Retail
7 26 (2.75%) Front Office
8 22 (2.32%) Marketing
9 20 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.58%) Back Office
11 14 (1.48%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.27%) Legal
14 11 (1.16%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.16%) Publishing
15 8 (0.84%) Billing
15 8 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.74%) Law
17 6 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 399 (42.13%) Data Engineer
2 154 (16.26%) Senior
3 94 (9.93%) Developer
4 90 (9.50%) Lead
5 89 (9.40%) Senior Data Engineer
6 82 (8.66%) Architect
7 51 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
8 49 (5.17%) Analyst
9 47 (4.96%) Python Engineer
10 42 (4.44%) Azure Data Engineer
11 38 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (3.91%) Data Scientist
13 34 (3.59%) Snowflake Engineer
14 32 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 32 (3.38%) Data Architect
14 32 (3.38%) Python Data Engineer
14 32 (3.38%) Python Developer
15 31 (3.27%) Data Analyst
15 31 (3.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 29 (3.06%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (16.05%) PySpark
2 110 (11.62%) Terraform
3 105 (11.09%) Kafka
4 61 (6.44%) REST
5 50 (5.28%) Pandas
6 31 (3.27%) NumPy
7 27 (2.85%) FastAPI
8 26 (2.75%) React
9 25 (2.64%) .NET
10 22 (2.32%) JSON
11 21 (2.22%) Flask
11 21 (2.22%) PyTorch
11 21 (2.22%) RESTful
12 18 (1.90%) Polars
13 17 (1.80%) Apache Avro
13 17 (1.80%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.48%) scikit-learn
14 14 (1.48%) Spring
14 14 (1.48%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 121 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.70%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.38%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.43%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
10 17 (1.80%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.58%) Equities
12 15 (1.58%) NHS
12 15 (1.58%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.37%) Fixed Income
13 13 (1.37%) Reference Data
14 12 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.16%) Derivative
15 11 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.22%) Linux
2 28 (2.96%) Unix
3 13 (1.37%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (43.40%) Data Engineering
2 403 (42.56%) Analytics
3 357 (37.70%) CI/CD
4 343 (36.22%) Data Modelling
5 323 (34.11%) ETL
6 275 (29.04%) AI
7 232 (24.50%) DevOps
8 217 (22.91%) Agile
9 215 (22.70%) Machine Learning
10 180 (19.01%) Data Governance
11 168 (17.74%) Business Intelligence
11 168 (17.74%) Data Science
12 158 (16.68%) Decision-Making
13 150 (15.84%) Validation
14 141 (14.89%) Data Architecture
15 133 (14.04%) Data Transformation
16 121 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
17 117 (12.35%) Migration
18 108 (11.40%) Use Case
19 99 (10.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 544 (57.44%) Python
2 505 (53.33%) SQL
3 89 (9.40%) Java
4 46 (4.86%) C#
5 38 (4.01%) Scala
6 32 (3.38%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.06%) Shell Script
8 24 (2.53%) JavaScript
8 24 (2.53%) R
9 22 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 20 (2.11%) Bash
10 20 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.95%) Go
12 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.63%) C++
15 5 (0.53%) Bicep
16 4 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 160 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 138 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.01%) Degree
4 19 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.42%) CISSP
10 4 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.32%) CISA
11 3 (0.32%) CISM
11 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.32%) PhD
11 3 (0.32%) PMP
12 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (31.15%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.91%) QA
3 30 (3.17%) GDPR
4 22 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) PMO
7 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 111 (11.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 98 (10.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.16%) Grafana
3 9 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.84%) Ansible
4 8 (0.84%) Control-M
5 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.32%) Kibana
7 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 218 (23.02%) Databricks
2 139 (14.68%) Microsoft
3 52 (5.49%) Oracle
4 47 (4.96%) Google
5 44 (4.65%) Informatica
6 17 (1.80%) Palantir
7 15 (1.58%) Foundry
7 15 (1.58%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.16%) Cloudera
9 11 (1.16%) Splunk
10 9 (0.95%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.95%) SAP
11 8 (0.84%) Confluent
11 8 (0.84%) Workday
12 7 (0.74%) Hitachi
12 7 (0.74%) Teradata
13 6 (0.63%) New Relic
14 5 (0.53%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.53%) Talend