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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 122 224
Rank change year-on-year +39 +102 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 447 343 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.38% 2.13% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 2.39% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 246 173
10th Percentile £413 £400 £401
25th Percentile £465 £477 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £679 £673 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 7
10th Percentile £40.33 - £35.00
25th Percentile £51.25 - £35.32
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £72.00 - £83.75
90th Percentile £78.75 - £87.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +83.10%

All Process and 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 12,257 14,351 20,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.57% 89.23% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,103 9,613 14,599
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 180 230
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -12.31% +7.88%
75th Percentile £48.44 £55.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Pipeline in London

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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 15 September 2025. 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 +15 66 £553 -2.86% 72
West London +1 7 £519 - 5
East London +13 6 £1,000 - 4
South London -8 1 £450 - 1
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 68 (15.21%) Apache Spark
2 66 (14.77%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (10.29%) Apache
4 10 (2.24%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.01%) Confluence
6 7 (1.57%) SAS
7 3 (0.67%) Luigi
8 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.01%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.45%) Endur
3 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.22%) Aligne
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 199 (44.52%) Azure
2 156 (34.90%) AWS
3 79 (17.67%) Power Platform
4 73 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 73 (16.33%) GCP
5 58 (12.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 51 (11.41%) Snowflake
7 50 (11.19%) dbt
8 49 (10.96%) GitHub
9 36 (8.05%) Amazon S3
10 35 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (5.59%) Serverless
13 15 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.46%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (1.79%) Azure Functions
16 8 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.89%) SSH
2 2 (0.45%) DNS
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (19.69%) Data Warehouse
2 77 (17.23%) Data Lake
3 75 (16.78%) Power BI
4 45 (10.07%) Big Data
5 35 (7.83%) BigQuery
6 34 (7.61%) Metadata
7 33 (7.38%) SQL Server
8 27 (6.04%) Delta Lake
9 25 (5.59%) NoSQL
10 24 (5.37%) Hadoop
11 22 (4.92%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (4.70%) Star Schema
13 20 (4.47%) Tableau
14 19 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 15 (3.36%) Apache Hive
18 11 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
18 11 (2.46%) Power Query
19 10 (2.24%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 55 (12.30%) Git
2 26 (5.82%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.92%) JIRA
4 13 (2.91%) GitLab
5 9 (2.01%) MLflow
6 5 (1.12%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.89%) ERwin
7 4 (0.89%) RStudio
7 4 (0.89%) Selenium
8 3 (0.67%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.67%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.67%) Postman
9 2 (0.45%) JUnit
9 2 (0.45%) Mockito
9 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.45%) TestRail
10 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.22%) JMeter
10 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 134 (29.98%) Finance
2 129 (28.86%) Social Skills
3 80 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.72%) Banking
4 39 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.15%) Investment Banking
6 17 (3.80%) Front Office
7 15 (3.36%) Retail
8 10 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.01%) Marketing
10 8 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.34%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.89%) Legal
13 4 (0.89%) Local Government
13 4 (0.89%) Police
13 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (43.18%) Data Engineer
2 74 (16.55%) Senior
3 73 (16.33%) Developer
4 47 (10.51%) Senior Data Engineer
5 39 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (8.05%) Architect
7 35 (7.83%) Azure Data Engineer
8 31 (6.94%) Analyst
8 31 (6.94%) Lead
8 31 (6.94%) Python Engineer
9 22 (4.92%) Data Architect
10 18 (4.03%) Data Analyst
11 17 (3.80%) Python Data Engineer
12 16 (3.58%) Python Developer
13 13 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (2.91%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (2.91%) Software Engineer
14 12 (2.68%) GCP Engineer
14 12 (2.68%) Quantitative Developer
15 11 (2.46%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (12.08%) Kafka
2 52 (11.63%) PySpark
3 13 (2.91%) JSON
4 12 (2.68%) Pandas
4 12 (2.68%) TensorFlow
5 11 (2.46%) REST
6 10 (2.24%) FastAPI
6 10 (2.24%) Spark Streaming
7 9 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.01%) Jinja
7 9 (2.01%) pydantic
7 9 (2.01%) pytest
7 9 (2.01%) PyTorch
7 9 (2.01%) React
7 9 (2.01%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (1.79%) GraphQL
8 8 (1.79%) NumPy
8 8 (1.79%) YAML
9 7 (1.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.70%) Distributed Computing
4 18 (4.03%) Algorithms
5 17 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.58%) Derivative
7 15 (3.36%) Equities
7 15 (3.36%) Virtual Team
8 14 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (3.13%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.91%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.68%) Fixed Income
10 12 (2.68%) Reference Data
11 11 (2.46%) Equity Derivative
11 11 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.57%) Market Risk
14 6 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (1.12%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.61%) Linux
2 6 (1.34%) Windows
3 3 (0.67%) Unix
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Debian
4 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (40.49%) ETL
2 158 (35.35%) CI/CD
3 157 (35.12%) Analytics
4 156 (34.90%) Data Engineering
5 148 (33.11%) Data Modelling
6 105 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (22.82%) Data Science
8 94 (21.03%) Agile
8 94 (21.03%) Data Governance
9 89 (19.91%) DevOps
10 88 (19.69%) Machine Learning
11 84 (18.79%) Artificial Intelligence
12 81 (18.12%) Business Intelligence
13 69 (15.44%) Decision-Making
14 67 (14.99%) Data Integration
15 59 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
16 51 (11.41%) Data Transformation
17 47 (10.51%) Migration
18 43 (9.62%) Visualisation
19 42 (9.40%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 296 (66.22%) Python
2 238 (53.24%) SQL
3 56 (12.53%) Java
4 32 (7.16%) C++
5 28 (6.26%) Scala
6 15 (3.36%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.13%) Bash
8 13 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (2.68%) C#
10 10 (2.24%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.57%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.34%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.34%) R
13 6 (1.34%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.12%) Go
15 4 (0.89%) C
15 4 (0.89%) Perl
16 2 (0.45%) SAS Macro
16 2 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.51%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.49%) Degree
4 9 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.57%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.57%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (1.34%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.34%) PMP
7 5 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.67%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.45%) CISSP
10 1 (0.22%) CBAP
10 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (20.58%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.04%) GDPR
3 23 (5.15%) QA
4 15 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.45%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.22%) GxP
7 1 (0.22%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (10.96%) Docker
2 3 (0.67%) zsh
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (12.75%) Terraform
2 41 (9.17%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.46%) Kibana
4 9 (2.01%) logstash
5 8 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.89%) Grafana
6 4 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.67%) Ansible
8 2 (0.45%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.22%) Graphite
9 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 116 (25.95%) Databricks
2 59 (13.20%) Microsoft
3 29 (6.49%) Google
4 15 (3.36%) Palantir
5 14 (3.13%) Oracle
6 11 (2.46%) Foundry
7 10 (2.24%) SAP
8 8 (1.79%) Informatica
8 8 (1.79%) Solace
9 6 (1.34%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.12%) Sophis
11 4 (0.89%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.89%) Dataiku
11 4 (0.89%) DataRobot
11 4 (0.89%) Teradata
12 3 (0.67%) Splunk
12 3 (0.67%) Talend
12 3 (0.67%) TIBCO
13 2 (0.45%) Reuters