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 citing Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	51	74	109
Rank change year-on-year	+23	+35	+94
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline	944	503	361
As % of all contract jobs in London	4.66%	3.68%	2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	5.19%	3.98%	2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted	652	356	253
10^th Percentile	£400	£402	£400
25^th Percentile	£450	£463	£475
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£558	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+1.36%	-4.35%	+7.68%
75^th Percentile	£688	£688	£650
90^th Percentile	£775	£800	£751
England median daily rate	£525	£525	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-	-1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted	7	6	1
10^th Percentile	£45.27	£44.13	-
25^th Percentile	£55.00	£55.38	£56.25
Median hourly rate	£57.00	£66.25	£57.50
Median % change year-on-year	-13.96%	+15.22%	+47.78%
75^th Percentile	-	£77.06	£58.75
90^th Percentile	-	£78.75	-
England median hourly rate	£48.00	£67.00	£42.00
% change year-on-year	-28.36%	+59.52%	-21.63%

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 citing process or methodology skills in London.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	18,180	12,625	13,970
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	89.75%	92.45%	89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted	11,961	8,303	9,001
10^th Percentile	£360	£331	£350
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£538	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+2.33%	-2.27%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£663	£663	£675
90^th Percentile	£775	£775	£800
England median daily rate	£525	£508	£525
% change year-on-year	+3.45%	-3.33%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	376	253	169
10^th Percentile	£15.57	£18.03	£17.45
25^th Percentile	£18.75	£25.15	£25.23
Median hourly rate	£31.92	£31.49	£39.00
Median % change year-on-year	+1.37%	-19.26%	-1.58%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£47.50	£58.75
90^th Percentile	£81.25	£64.95	£80.15
England median hourly rate	£35.00	£25.15	£39.59
% change year-on-year	+39.17%	-36.47%	-11.03%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 31 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.

Data Pipeline Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 31 October 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 31 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	+19	110	£588	+6.33%	29
West London	+7	35	£520	-0.95%	23
South London	-3	9	£590	+27.57%	2
East London	0	4	£523	-47.75%	6
Data Pipeline England

Data Pipeline Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Pipeline also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Data Pipeline.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	58.9%	556
2	SQL	53.3%	503
3	Data Engineering	48.6%	459
4	Analytics	42.2%	398
5	CI/CD	40.6%	383
6	Azure	40.1%	379
7	Data Quality	37.9%	358
8	ETL	36.3%	343
9	Data Modelling	35.9%	339
10	AWS	35.6%	336
11	AI	31.4%	296
12	Databricks	27.2%	257
13	Machine Learning	24.5%	231
14	Agile	22.6%	213
15	Data Governance	20.2%	191
16	DevOps	19.6%	185
17	Data Warehouse	18.4%	174
18	PySpark	17.1%	161
19	Validation	16.6%	157
20	GCP	16.5%	156
21	Business Intelligence	16.2%	153
21	Security Cleared	16.2%	153
23	Snowflake	16.0%	151
24	Data Science	15.9%	150
25	Data Transformation	15.7%	148
26	Apache Airflow	15.3%	144
27	Problem-Solving	14.7%	139
28	Decision-Making	14.4%	136
29	Migration	14.2%	134
30	dbt	13.7%	129

Data Pipeline Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Engineering	48.6%	459
2	Analytics	42.2%	398
3	CI/CD	40.6%	383
4	ETL	36.3%	343
5	Data Modelling	35.9%	339
6	AI	31.4%	296
7	Machine Learning	24.5%	231
8	Agile	22.6%	213
9	Data Governance	20.2%	191
10	DevOps	19.6%	185
11	Validation	16.6%	157
12	Business Intelligence	16.2%	153
13	Data Science	15.9%	150
14	Data Transformation	15.7%	148
15	Problem-Solving	14.7%	139
16	Decision-Making	14.4%	136
17	Migration	14.2%	134
18	Stakeholder Management	13.0%	123
19	Data Architecture	12.9%	122
20	Software Engineering	12.8%	121