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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 78 116
Rank change year-on-year +30 +38 +89
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 953 457 365
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.69% 3.39% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 3.67% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 327 262
10th Percentile £400 £413 £401
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - £39.69 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.84 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £73.69 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.24 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -44.42% - -

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 18,055 12,462 14,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 8,241 9,589
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 183
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.80 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.42 £25.04 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -16.44% -1.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

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 25 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 25 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 +13 107 £565 +2.26% 119
West London 0 31 £520 +0.29% 51
East London +2 6 £460 -54.00% 7
South London -7 4 £556 +27.14% 6
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
1 135 (14.17%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (11.75%) Apache Spark
3 90 (9.44%) Apache
4 16 (1.68%) SAS
5 15 (1.57%) Confluence
6 8 (0.84%) CMS
6 8 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) Luigi
11 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 382 (40.08%) Azure
2 343 (35.99%) AWS
3 161 (16.89%) GCP
4 151 (15.84%) Snowflake
5 139 (14.59%) Power Platform
6 126 (13.22%) dbt
7 113 (11.86%) Amazon S3
8 110 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 82 (8.60%) Serverless
10 78 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
10 78 (8.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 76 (7.97%) GitHub
12 69 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (3.99%) Azure Databricks
15 24 (2.52%) Amazon Bedrock
16 23 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
16 23 (2.41%) SaaS
17 20 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (2.10%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) Internet
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
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 (18.89%) Data Warehouse
2 124 (13.01%) Power BI
3 115 (12.07%) Data Lake
4 99 (10.39%) Metadata
5 86 (9.02%) BigQuery
6 80 (8.39%) Delta Lake
7 59 (6.19%) Big Data
8 51 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.83%) Tableau
10 44 (4.62%) Relational Database
11 43 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
12 39 (4.09%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (3.25%) NoSQL
15 30 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 27 (2.83%) Looker
17 21 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
18 20 (2.10%) Flink
18 20 (2.10%) Parquet
19 19 (1.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 109 (11.44%) Git
2 45 (4.72%) GitLab
3 26 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.62%) JIRA
5 12 (1.26%) MLflow
6 9 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.73%) ERwin
8 7 (0.73%) Terragrunt
9 6 (0.63%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.52%) Gradle
10 5 (0.52%) JUnit
10 5 (0.52%) Maven
10 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.42%) Selenium
12 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.31%) RStudio
13 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 302 (31.69%) Finance
2 204 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 178 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (10.91%) Banking
5 66 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 28 (2.94%) Front Office
7 27 (2.83%) Retail
8 22 (2.31%) Marketing
9 18 (1.89%) Back Office
10 17 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.68%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.15%) Legal
12 11 (1.15%) Publishing
13 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.94%) Billing
14 9 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.84%) Law
15 8 (0.84%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 401 (42.08%) Data Engineer
2 168 (17.63%) Senior
3 97 (10.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 91 (9.55%) Lead
5 85 (8.92%) Developer
6 82 (8.60%) Architect
7 58 (6.09%) Analyst
8 53 (5.56%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (4.72%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 44 (4.62%) Python Engineer
12 40 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
13 39 (4.09%) Snowflake Engineer
14 38 (3.99%) Azure Data Engineer
15 35 (3.67%) Data Architect
16 34 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 33 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 33 (3.46%) Data Scientist
18 31 (3.25%) Data Analyst
19 30 (3.15%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (15.53%) PySpark
2 118 (12.38%) Terraform
3 99 (10.39%) Kafka
4 66 (6.93%) REST
5 45 (4.72%) Pandas
6 30 (3.15%) NumPy
7 28 (2.94%) .NET
8 26 (2.73%) FastAPI
8 26 (2.73%) React
9 22 (2.31%) RESTful
10 20 (2.10%) PyTorch
11 19 (1.99%) Flask
12 17 (1.78%) JSON
13 16 (1.68%) Polars
13 16 (1.68%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.47%) Spring
14 14 (1.47%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.26%) Apache Avro
16 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (1.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 137 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.51%) Onboarding
3 58 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 46 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.88%) Data Structures
6 31 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.62%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.89%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
11 15 (1.57%) NHS
12 13 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.36%) Hedge funds
12 13 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.26%) Equities
13 12 (1.26%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.15%) Derivative
14 11 (1.15%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.09%) Linux
2 28 (2.94%) Unix
3 14 (1.47%) 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
1 436 (45.75%) Data Engineering
2 399 (41.87%) Analytics
3 369 (38.72%) CI/CD
4 356 (37.36%) Data Modelling
5 332 (34.84%) ETL
6 290 (30.43%) AI
7 219 (22.98%) Machine Learning
8 213 (22.35%) Agile
9 206 (21.62%) DevOps
10 192 (20.15%) Data Governance
11 161 (16.89%) Data Science
11 161 (16.89%) Validation
12 158 (16.58%) Business Intelligence
13 150 (15.74%) Data Transformation
14 143 (15.01%) Decision-Making
15 141 (14.80%) Data Architecture
16 128 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
17 127 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
18 125 (13.12%) Migration
19 111 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 551 (57.82%) Python
2 512 (53.73%) SQL
3 84 (8.81%) Java
4 47 (4.93%) C#
5 36 (3.78%) Scala
6 30 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 27 (2.83%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.52%) R
9 24 (2.52%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (2.20%) Bash
12 10 (1.05%) Go
13 9 (0.94%) LookML
14 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.73%) SPARQL
15 7 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.63%) C++
16 6 (0.63%) Korn
17 5 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 155 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 134 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.30%) Degree
4 20 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.42%) CISSP
11 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.31%) CISA
12 3 (0.31%) CISM
12 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.31%) PhD
12 3 (0.31%) PMP
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (34.52%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.35%) QA
3 23 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.20%) GDPR
5 9 (0.94%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) Basel III
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 106 (11.12%) Docker
2 3 (0.31%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 97 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.36%) Ansible
3 10 (1.05%) Grafana
4 9 (0.94%) Control-M
5 6 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.52%) Kibana
7 3 (0.31%) Puppet
7 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.21%) systemd
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.10%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 231 (24.24%) Databricks
2 130 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 60 (6.30%) Google
4 56 (5.88%) Oracle
5 31 (3.25%) Informatica
6 16 (1.68%) Palantir
6 16 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.57%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.47%) Foundry
9 10 (1.05%) Splunk
10 9 (0.94%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.94%) SAP
11 8 (0.84%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.84%) Teradata
12 7 (0.73%) Hitachi
12 7 (0.73%) Workday
13 6 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (0.63%) New Relic
13 6 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.63%) SnapLogic