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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 84 128
Rank change year-on-year +38 +44 +93
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 952 440 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.74% 3.29% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 3.55% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 324 237
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £796 £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 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £64.88 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £74.03 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £67.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -9.70% -0.74% -12.90%

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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
10th Percentile £360 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 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 1 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 +7 97 £555 +0.45% 52
West London +7 32 £520 +0.29% 31
East London +3 5 £450 -55.00% 2
South London -11 5 £500 +11.11% 5
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
1 129 (13.55%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (11.34%) Apache Spark
3 89 (9.35%) Apache
4 17 (1.79%) SAS
5 13 (1.37%) Confluence
6 10 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.84%) CMS
8 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.53%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.11%) Luigi
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.11%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 387 (40.65%) Azure
2 350 (36.76%) AWS
3 153 (16.07%) Power Platform
4 151 (15.86%) GCP
5 143 (15.02%) Snowflake
6 118 (12.39%) dbt
7 109 (11.45%) Amazon S3
8 108 (11.34%) Azure Data Factory
9 90 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (9.14%) GitHub
11 83 (8.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 79 (8.30%) Serverless
13 69 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (5.57%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (3.57%) Azure Databricks
16 22 (2.31%) Dagster
16 22 (2.31%) SaaS
17 20 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
19 17 (1.79%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.21%) Broadband
1 2 (0.21%) Firewall
1 2 (0.21%) Network Security
1 2 (0.21%) SSL
2 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
2 1 (0.11%) SSH
2 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (19.33%) Data Warehouse
2 139 (14.60%) Power BI
3 128 (13.45%) Data Lake
4 103 (10.82%) Metadata
5 77 (8.09%) BigQuery
6 76 (7.98%) Delta Lake
7 59 (6.20%) Big Data
8 53 (5.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 51 (5.36%) Tableau
10 46 (4.83%) Relational Database
11 42 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
11 42 (4.41%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.68%) Snowflake Schema
13 30 (3.15%) Looker
13 30 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
14 29 (3.05%) NoSQL
15 26 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (2.52%) Flink
16 24 (2.52%) Star Schema
17 21 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 86 (9.03%) Git
2 41 (4.31%) GitLab
3 30 (3.15%) Jenkins
4 29 (3.05%) JIRA
5 12 (1.26%) MLflow
6 8 (0.84%) ERwin
7 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.63%) Terragrunt
9 5 (0.53%) Gradle
9 5 (0.53%) Maven
9 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.42%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.42%) JUnit
10 4 (0.42%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
General
1 296 (31.09%) Finance
2 196 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 170 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (8.93%) Banking
5 69 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.84%) Front Office
6 27 (2.84%) Retail
7 22 (2.31%) Marketing
8 19 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.68%) Back Office
9 16 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.16%) Legal
11 11 (1.16%) Publishing
12 9 (0.95%) Billing
13 8 (0.84%) Law
13 8 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 399 (41.91%) Data Engineer
2 158 (16.60%) Senior
3 91 (9.56%) Lead
3 91 (9.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 90 (9.45%) Developer
5 82 (8.61%) Architect
6 56 (5.88%) Analyst
7 50 (5.25%) Databricks Engineer
8 49 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
9 45 (4.73%) Python Engineer
10 43 (4.52%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 40 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (3.99%) Azure Data Engineer
13 36 (3.78%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (3.68%) Data Scientist
15 34 (3.57%) Data Analyst
16 33 (3.47%) Data Architect
17 32 (3.36%) Python Developer
18 31 (3.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 30 (3.15%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (15.86%) PySpark
2 109 (11.45%) Terraform
3 104 (10.92%) Kafka
4 64 (6.72%) REST
5 51 (5.36%) Pandas
6 32 (3.36%) NumPy
7 27 (2.84%) .NET
7 27 (2.84%) FastAPI
7 27 (2.84%) React
8 23 (2.42%) JSON
9 22 (2.31%) RESTful
10 21 (2.21%) Flask
11 20 (2.10%) Polars
12 19 (2.00%) PyTorch
13 17 (1.79%) Apache Avro
14 15 (1.58%) TensorFlow
15 14 (1.47%) scikit-learn
15 14 (1.47%) Spring
15 14 (1.47%) Spring Boot
16 12 (1.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 124 (13.03%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 56 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 46 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (3.26%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
10 17 (1.79%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.68%) Reference Data
12 15 (1.58%) Equities
12 15 (1.58%) NHS
13 14 (1.47%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.37%) Fixed Income
15 12 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.16%) Derivative
16 11 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
17 10 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.20%) Linux
2 28 (2.94%) Unix
3 13 (1.37%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (44.33%) Data Engineering
2 399 (41.91%) Analytics
3 351 (36.87%) CI/CD
4 350 (36.76%) Data Modelling
5 330 (34.66%) ETL
6 276 (28.99%) AI
7 228 (23.95%) DevOps
8 218 (22.90%) Agile
9 210 (22.06%) Machine Learning
10 181 (19.01%) Data Governance
11 170 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
12 162 (17.02%) Data Science
13 153 (16.07%) Decision-Making
13 153 (16.07%) Validation
14 144 (15.13%) Data Architecture
15 143 (15.02%) Data Transformation
16 122 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
17 118 (12.39%) Migration
18 107 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 107 (11.24%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 547 (57.46%) Python
2 509 (53.47%) SQL
3 90 (9.45%) Java
4 48 (5.04%) C#
5 36 (3.78%) Scala
6 32 (3.36%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.05%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.63%) R
9 23 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (2.21%) TypeScript
11 19 (2.00%) Bash
12 10 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.95%) Go
13 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.63%) C++
16 5 (0.53%) LookML
17 4 (0.42%) Bicep
17 4 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 163 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 142 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 37 (3.89%) Degree
4 17 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.53%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.42%) CISSP
11 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.32%) CISA
11 3 (0.32%) CISM
11 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.32%) PhD
11 3 (0.32%) PMP
12 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (31.83%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.88%) QA
3 29 (3.05%) GDPR
4 22 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 108 (11.34%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 97 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.16%) Grafana
3 9 (0.95%) Ansible
3 9 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.84%) Control-M
5 4 (0.42%) Kibana
5 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.21%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.11%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 218 (22.90%) Databricks
2 136 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 54 (5.67%) Oracle
4 45 (4.73%) Google
5 42 (4.41%) Informatica
6 18 (1.89%) Palantir
7 16 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.47%) Foundry
9 11 (1.16%) Cloudera
9 11 (1.16%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.16%) Splunk
10 9 (0.95%) Amplitude
11 8 (0.84%) Confluent
11 8 (0.84%) SAP
11 8 (0.84%) Teradata
11 8 (0.84%) Workday
12 7 (0.74%) Hitachi
13 6 (0.63%) New Relic
13 6 (0.63%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.53%) Talend