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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 83 122
Rank change year-on-year +37 +39 +102
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 958 447 343
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.73% 3.38% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 3.65% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 322 246
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £465 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £673
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 0
10th Percentile - £40.33 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £72.00 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -17.91% - -

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 17,996 12,259 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,759 8,104 9,616
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th 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 300 254 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.02 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +8 104 £565 +2.26% 97
West London +5 30 £520 +0.29% 41
East London +2 6 £460 -54.00% 14
South London -6 5 £500 +11.11% 7
North London - 1 £178 - 1
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
1 129 (13.47%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (11.06%) Apache Spark
3 88 (9.19%) Apache
4 16 (1.67%) SAS
5 15 (1.57%) Confluence
6 9 (0.94%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.84%) CMS
8 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) Luigi
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 388 (40.50%) Azure
2 348 (36.33%) AWS
3 160 (16.70%) GCP
4 149 (15.55%) Power Platform
5 148 (15.45%) Snowflake
6 122 (12.73%) dbt
7 114 (11.90%) Amazon S3
8 110 (11.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 87 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (8.87%) GitHub
11 84 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 81 (8.46%) Serverless
13 71 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (3.44%) Azure Databricks
16 23 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (2.19%) SaaS
18 20 (2.09%) Amazon Bedrock
18 20 (2.09%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Internet
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
3 1 (0.10%) SSH
3 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (18.79%) Data Warehouse
2 135 (14.09%) Power BI
3 120 (12.53%) Data Lake
4 100 (10.44%) Metadata
5 85 (8.87%) BigQuery
6 77 (8.04%) Delta Lake
7 56 (5.85%) Big Data
8 49 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.80%) Relational Database
9 46 (4.80%) Tableau
10 43 (4.49%) SQL Server
11 41 (4.28%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (3.55%) NoSQL
12 34 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
12 34 (3.55%) Snowflake Schema
13 30 (3.13%) Looker
14 24 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (2.51%) Flink
15 22 (2.30%) Star Schema
16 21 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 105 (10.96%) Git
2 44 (4.59%) GitLab
3 29 (3.03%) JIRA
4 27 (2.82%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.25%) MLflow
6 8 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.73%) ERwin
7 7 (0.73%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.52%) Gradle
9 5 (0.52%) JUnit
9 5 (0.52%) Maven
9 5 (0.52%) Selenium
9 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.31%) RStudio
General
1 306 (31.94%) Finance
2 198 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 179 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (10.13%) Banking
5 67 (6.99%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.82%) Retail
7 26 (2.71%) Front Office
8 24 (2.51%) Marketing
9 18 (1.88%) Back Office
10 17 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.57%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.25%) Publishing
13 11 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.15%) Legal
14 9 (0.94%) Billing
14 9 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.84%) Law
16 7 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 401 (41.86%) Data Engineer
2 167 (17.43%) Senior
3 98 (10.23%) Senior Data Engineer
4 90 (9.39%) Lead
5 89 (9.29%) Developer
6 81 (8.46%) Architect
7 58 (6.05%) Analyst
8 52 (5.43%) Databricks Engineer
9 49 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (4.70%) Python Engineer
11 44 (4.59%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 40 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (3.86%) Azure Data Engineer
13 37 (3.86%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (3.65%) Data Scientist
15 33 (3.44%) Data Analyst
15 33 (3.44%) Data Architect
16 32 (3.34%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 31 (3.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 30 (3.13%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (15.76%) PySpark
2 113 (11.80%) Terraform
3 103 (10.75%) Kafka
4 65 (6.78%) REST
5 50 (5.22%) Pandas
6 31 (3.24%) NumPy
7 28 (2.92%) FastAPI
8 27 (2.82%) .NET
9 26 (2.71%) React
10 24 (2.51%) RESTful
11 21 (2.19%) Flask
11 21 (2.19%) JSON
12 19 (1.98%) Polars
12 19 (1.98%) PyTorch
13 17 (1.77%) Apache Avro
14 15 (1.57%) TensorFlow
15 14 (1.46%) Spring
15 14 (1.46%) Spring Boot
16 13 (1.36%) OpenTelemetry
17 12 (1.25%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 127 (13.26%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.26%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.16%) Onboarding
4 46 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.86%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.40%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.98%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.88%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
11 16 (1.67%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.67%) Reference Data
12 15 (1.57%) NHS
13 13 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.25%) Equities
15 10 (1.04%) Derivative
15 10 (1.04%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.04%) Taxonomies
16 9 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.86%) Linux
2 27 (2.82%) Unix
3 15 (1.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Debian
5 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (45.62%) Data Engineering
2 402 (41.96%) Analytics
3 363 (37.89%) CI/CD
4 357 (37.27%) Data Modelling
5 336 (35.07%) ETL
6 288 (30.06%) AI
7 222 (23.17%) DevOps
8 218 (22.76%) Machine Learning
9 215 (22.44%) Agile
10 191 (19.94%) Data Governance
11 167 (17.43%) Business Intelligence
12 166 (17.33%) Data Science
13 162 (16.91%) Validation
14 149 (15.55%) Data Transformation
15 148 (15.45%) Decision-Making
16 143 (14.93%) Data Architecture
17 128 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
18 120 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
19 117 (12.21%) Migration
20 113 (11.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 544 (56.78%) Python
2 516 (53.86%) SQL
3 87 (9.08%) Java
4 49 (5.11%) C#
5 35 (3.65%) Scala
6 31 (3.24%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.92%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (2.61%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.51%) R
10 21 (2.19%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.98%) Bash
12 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.94%) Go
13 9 (0.94%) LookML
13 9 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.73%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.63%) C++
15 6 (0.63%) Korn
16 4 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 164 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 142 (14.82%) SC Cleared
3 38 (3.97%) Degree
4 20 (2.09%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.42%) CISSP
9 4 (0.42%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.31%) CISA
10 3 (0.31%) CISM
10 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.31%) PhD
10 3 (0.31%) PMP
11 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (33.40%) Data Quality
2 59 (6.16%) QA
3 23 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.30%) GDPR
5 9 (0.94%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.31%) Basel III
8 3 (0.31%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.31%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 111 (11.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) etcd
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 99 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.15%) Grafana
3 10 (1.04%) Ansible
4 9 (0.94%) Control-M
5 8 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.52%) Kibana
7 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.10%) logstash
9 1 (0.10%) systemd
Vendors
1 223 (23.28%) Databricks
2 140 (14.61%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.85%) Oracle
4 55 (5.74%) Google
5 40 (4.18%) Informatica
6 18 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.77%) Palantir
8 14 (1.46%) Foundry
9 12 (1.25%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.15%) Splunk
11 9 (0.94%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.94%) SAP
12 8 (0.84%) Teradata
13 7 (0.73%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.73%) Confluent
13 7 (0.73%) Hitachi
14 6 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (0.63%) New Relic
14 6 (0.63%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.63%) SnapLogic