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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 94 129
Rank change year-on-year +47 +35 +102
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 871 365 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.52% 2.83% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% 3.07% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 265 268
10th Percentile £393 £410 £379
25th Percentile £455 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile - £44.49 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.84 £46.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £73.00 £55.94 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 £59.88 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -13.79%

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 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

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 1 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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 +20 97 £525 -4.55% 86
West London +3 24 £520 +4.00% 8
East London +4 6 £450 - 4
South London -3 2 £500 +5.26% 2
North London - 1 £178 - 2
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
1 104 (11.94%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (11.02%) Apache Spark
3 56 (6.43%) Apache
4 15 (1.72%) Confluence
5 11 (1.26%) SAS
6 9 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.69%) Appian
9 5 (0.57%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) Luigi
11 2 (0.23%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 392 (45.01%) Azure
2 328 (37.66%) AWS
3 159 (18.25%) Power Platform
4 140 (16.07%) GCP
5 115 (13.20%) Snowflake
6 107 (12.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 98 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (10.56%) Amazon S3
9 90 (10.33%) GitHub
10 88 (10.10%) dbt
11 81 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 71 (8.15%) Serverless
13 63 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.10%) Dagster
16 21 (2.41%) Amazon SageMaker
16 21 (2.41%) Azure AI
17 20 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (2.07%) Amazon Bedrock
18 18 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Firewall
1 2 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.11%) 4G
2 1 (0.11%) 5G
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (19.17%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (15.84%) Power BI
3 124 (14.24%) Data Lake
4 76 (8.73%) Metadata
5 70 (8.04%) Delta Lake
6 59 (6.77%) SQL Server
7 58 (6.66%) BigQuery
8 56 (6.43%) Tableau
9 53 (6.08%) Big Data
10 46 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 43 (4.94%) Relational Database
12 41 (4.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 34 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
14 32 (3.67%) NoSQL
15 31 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 30 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
17 22 (2.53%) Spark SQL
18 19 (2.18%) Data Vault
18 19 (2.18%) Looker
19 18 (2.07%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 100 (11.48%) Git
2 35 (4.02%) JIRA
3 31 (3.56%) GitLab
4 25 (2.87%) MLflow
5 23 (2.64%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.57%) Gradle
7 5 (0.57%) Maven
7 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.46%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 287 (32.95%) Finance
2 175 (20.09%) Social Skills
3 150 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.69%) Banking
5 66 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.21%) Retail
7 21 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.18%) Front Office
9 17 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.72%) Marketing
11 14 (1.61%) Back Office
12 12 (1.38%) Legal
12 12 (1.38%) Publishing
13 11 (1.26%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.69%) Billing
16 6 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 385 (44.20%) Data Engineer
2 144 (16.53%) Senior
3 93 (10.68%) Senior Data Engineer
4 92 (10.56%) Developer
5 79 (9.07%) Architect
6 76 (8.73%) Lead
7 48 (5.51%) Data Scientist
8 42 (4.82%) Python Engineer
9 40 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (4.48%) Analyst
11 36 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (4.13%) Azure Data Engineer
12 35 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 33 (3.79%) Data Architect
13 33 (3.79%) Snowflake Engineer
14 32 (3.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 27 (3.10%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (2.99%) Python Developer
17 24 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
18 23 (2.64%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (14.93%) PySpark
2 91 (10.45%) Kafka
3 68 (7.81%) Pandas
4 47 (5.40%) REST
5 44 (5.05%) NumPy
6 34 (3.90%) scikit-learn
7 32 (3.67%) PyTorch
8 31 (3.56%) FastAPI
9 29 (3.33%) TensorFlow
10 25 (2.87%) Flask
11 24 (2.76%) RESTful
12 20 (2.30%) .NET
12 20 (2.30%) Polars
13 19 (2.18%) JSON
14 18 (2.07%) React
15 17 (1.95%) Apache Avro
15 17 (1.95%) Spring
15 17 (1.95%) Spring Boot
16 15 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
17 13 (1.49%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 107 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (3.56%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.76%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
9 20 (2.30%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.18%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.95%) Hedge funds
12 16 (1.84%) Equities
13 15 (1.72%) NHS
14 12 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.38%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.38%) Reinsurance
14 12 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.76%) Linux
2 18 (2.07%) Unix
3 4 (0.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Debian
4 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (43.74%) Analytics
2 370 (42.48%) Data Engineering
3 324 (37.20%) Data Modelling
4 320 (36.74%) CI/CD
5 319 (36.62%) ETL
6 264 (30.31%) AI
7 225 (25.83%) DevOps
8 203 (23.31%) Machine Learning
9 192 (22.04%) Agile
10 179 (20.55%) Data Science
11 164 (18.83%) Business Intelligence
12 161 (18.48%) Data Governance
13 155 (17.80%) Decision-Making
14 125 (14.35%) Data Architecture
15 123 (14.12%) Validation
16 117 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
17 111 (12.74%) Use Case
18 100 (11.48%) Generative AI
19 99 (11.37%) Migration
20 96 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 524 (60.16%) Python
2 471 (54.08%) SQL
3 85 (9.76%) Java
4 45 (5.17%) Scala
5 44 (5.05%) C#
6 25 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.64%) R
8 18 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.07%) Shell Script
8 18 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.95%) Bash
10 15 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.49%) JavaScript
12 8 (0.92%) Bicep
13 6 (0.69%) C++
13 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.69%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.46%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 151 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 133 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.94%) Degree
4 23 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.57%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.34%) CISA
11 3 (0.34%) CISSP
11 3 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.23%) CISM
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.23%) PhD
12 2 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (30.88%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.40%) QA
3 35 (4.02%) GDPR
4 12 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.57%) IFRS
5 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.46%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.46%) NIST
6 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
6 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.34%) PMO
8 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.11%) GxP
9 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
9 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (12.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (12.06%) Terraform
2 88 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.26%) Grafana
4 9 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.46%) Control-M
6 3 (0.34%) Kibana
6 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.23%) Ansible
7 2 (0.23%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 192 (22.04%) Databricks
2 144 (16.53%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.28%) Informatica
4 31 (3.56%) Oracle
5 29 (3.33%) Google
6 27 (3.10%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.84%) Palantir
7 16 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.61%) Foundry
9 9 (1.03%) SAP
10 6 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere
10 6 (0.69%) Cloudera
10 6 (0.69%) Splunk
10 6 (0.69%) Talend
10 6 (0.69%) UiPath
10 6 (0.69%) Workday
11 5 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.57%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.57%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.46%) MuleSoft