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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 118 193
Rank change year-on-year +39 +75 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 511 350 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.63% 2.23% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 2.50% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 246 183
10th Percentile £400 £403 £400
25th Percentile £465 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% +7.68% -11.00%
75th Percentile £688 £660 £638
90th Percentile £800 £751 £717
England median daily rate £525 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -1.69% +1.71% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £44.13 - £35.00
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.25 £35.16
Median hourly rate £66.25 £57.50 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% +47.78% -25.89%
75th Percentile £77.06 £58.75 £59.88
90th Percentile £78.75 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £42.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +59.52% -35.38% +20.93%

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 13,002 14,024 18,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.38% 89.18% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,556 9,051 12,959
10th Percentile £332 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 168 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% - -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.19 £61.31
90th Percentile £67.25 £80.23 £76.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%

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 14 November 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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 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 +18 63 £565 +13.00% 275
East London +8 8 £1,000 - 5
South London +2 8 £487 -15.26% 1
West London -2 8 £525 - 8
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 83 (16.24%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (15.66%) Apache Spark
3 41 (8.02%) Apache
4 9 (1.76%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.78%) SAS
6 3 (0.59%) Luigi
7 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.39%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.39%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Aligne
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Endur
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 221 (43.25%) Azure
2 202 (39.53%) AWS
3 92 (18.00%) GCP
4 82 (16.05%) Power Platform
5 81 (15.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (13.11%) GitHub
7 65 (12.72%) Snowflake
8 55 (10.76%) dbt
9 54 (10.57%) Amazon S3
10 50 (9.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 49 (9.59%) Serverless
12 44 (8.61%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
18 12 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
18 12 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
19 11 (2.15%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.39%) DNS
2 2 (0.39%) VPN
3 1 (0.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (20.16%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (16.24%) Data Lake
3 77 (15.07%) Power BI
4 37 (7.24%) Big Data
4 37 (7.24%) BigQuery
4 37 (7.24%) Metadata
5 31 (6.07%) NoSQL
5 31 (6.07%) Tableau
6 29 (5.68%) Delta Lake
7 28 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (4.31%) SQL Server
9 20 (3.91%) Hadoop
9 20 (3.91%) Star Schema
10 13 (2.54%) Amazon QuickSight
10 13 (2.54%) Relational Database
10 13 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 66 (12.92%) Git
2 27 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.13%) JIRA
4 15 (2.94%) GitLab
5 12 (2.35%) MLflow
6 6 (1.17%) ERwin
7 3 (0.59%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.59%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.39%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.39%) Postman
8 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.39%) TestRail
8 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Gradle
9 1 (0.20%) JUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 148 (28.96%) Social Skills
2 147 (28.77%) Finance
3 77 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.39%) Banking
5 41 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.26%) Front Office
7 31 (6.07%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.94%) Retail
10 14 (2.74%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.76%) Marketing
14 8 (1.57%) Legal
15 7 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
15 7 (1.37%) Retail Banking
16 6 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.98%) Electronics
17 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (41.10%) Data Engineer
2 75 (14.68%) Senior
3 73 (14.29%) Developer
4 47 (9.20%) Senior Data Engineer
5 45 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
6 43 (8.41%) Architect
7 38 (7.44%) Azure Data Engineer
7 38 (7.44%) Lead
8 37 (7.24%) Python Engineer
9 30 (5.87%) Analyst
10 23 (4.50%) Data Architect
11 22 (4.31%) Python Data Engineer
12 19 (3.72%) Python Developer
13 18 (3.52%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.52%) Lead Data Engineer
14 17 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (3.33%) Consultant
14 17 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
14 17 (3.33%) Software Engineer
15 14 (2.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (12.92%) PySpark
2 60 (11.74%) Kafka
3 21 (4.11%) TensorFlow
4 20 (3.91%) PyTorch
5 18 (3.52%) Pandas
5 18 (3.52%) React
5 18 (3.52%) REST
6 14 (2.74%) FastAPI
7 13 (2.54%) .NET
7 13 (2.54%) JSON
8 12 (2.35%) Node.js
8 12 (2.35%) scikit-learn
9 11 (2.15%) RESTful
10 10 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (1.96%) LangChain
10 10 (1.96%) NumPy
10 10 (1.96%) pytest
10 10 (1.96%) XML
11 9 (1.76%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.76%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.89%) Algorithms
4 23 (4.50%) Distributed Computing
5 22 (4.31%) Derivative
6 21 (4.11%) Equities
6 21 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.52%) Fixed Income
8 16 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (2.74%) Virtual Team
10 13 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.35%) Equity Derivative
12 10 (1.96%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.96%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.76%) Life Science
13 9 (1.76%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.57%) Genomics
14 8 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.57%) Hedge funds
15 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.48%) Linux
2 7 (1.37%) Windows
3 3 (0.59%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Debian
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (37.77%) ETL
2 187 (36.59%) CI/CD
3 186 (36.40%) Data Engineering
4 174 (34.05%) Analytics
5 164 (32.09%) Data Modelling
6 130 (25.44%) Data Science
6 130 (25.44%) Machine Learning
7 127 (24.85%) Agile
8 123 (24.07%) AI
9 122 (23.87%) DevOps
10 111 (21.72%) Data Governance
11 103 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
12 94 (18.40%) Business Intelligence
13 73 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 66 (12.92%) Data Integration
15 60 (11.74%) Software Engineering
16 59 (11.55%) Data Architecture
17 55 (10.76%) Decision-Making
18 51 (9.98%) Data Transformation
19 49 (9.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 353 (69.08%) Python
2 282 (55.19%) SQL
3 55 (10.76%) Java
4 37 (7.24%) Scala
5 31 (6.07%) C++
6 29 (5.68%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.94%) C#
7 15 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.35%) Bash
8 12 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.57%) Bicep
10 8 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.57%) R
10 8 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.37%) Korn
12 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.78%) C
13 4 (0.78%) Perl
14 3 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 73 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.57%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.20%) Degree
4 17 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 15 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.37%) PhD
9 6 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) CISSP
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.39%) MCP
12 1 (0.20%) CBAP
12 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.20%) GIAC
12 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (21.33%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.48%) GDPR
3 24 (4.70%) QA
4 16 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.98%) PERC
6 3 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.59%) WCAG
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.39%) EMIR
7 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.39%) NIST
7 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.39%) SLA
7 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) GxP
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 66 (12.92%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) zsh
3 4 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (13.31%) Terraform
2 50 (9.78%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.15%) Kibana
4 10 (1.96%) logstash
5 9 (1.76%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.98%) Ansible
7 3 (0.59%) Grafana
8 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.20%) Graphite
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 146 (28.57%) Databricks
2 73 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.46%) Google
4 18 (3.52%) Foundry
5 15 (2.94%) Palantir
6 11 (2.15%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.15%) Oracle
7 9 (1.76%) SAP
7 9 (1.76%) Solace
8 6 (1.17%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.17%) Informatica
9 5 (0.98%) Sophis
9 5 (0.98%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.78%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.59%) Splunk
11 3 (0.59%) Teradata
12 2 (0.39%) GoldenSource
12 2 (0.39%) Reuters
12 2 (0.39%) Salesforce