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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 101 136
Rank change year-on-year +52 +35 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 843 345 332
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.48% 2.82% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.04% 3.05% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 248 253
10th Percentile £390 £407 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.70%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £760
England median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £43.53 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £46.42 £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 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +28.57% -16.00% -17.22%

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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +20 107 £523 -5.00% 46
West London -3 24 £520 +4.00% 7
East London +1 6 £450 - 7
South London -6 4 £500 +5.26% 1
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 98 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (11.03%) Apache Spark
3 49 (5.81%) Apache
4 13 (1.54%) Confluence
5 11 (1.30%) SAS
6 8 (0.95%) Appian
6 8 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.24%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.59%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.12%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 384 (45.55%) Azure
2 310 (36.77%) AWS
3 161 (19.10%) Power Platform
4 129 (15.30%) GCP
5 113 (13.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 109 (12.93%) Snowflake
7 101 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (11.03%) GitHub
9 90 (10.68%) Amazon S3
10 83 (9.85%) dbt
11 78 (9.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 75 (8.90%) Serverless
13 67 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
14 56 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.20%) Dagster
16 20 (2.37%) Amazon SageMaker
16 20 (2.37%) Azure AI
17 19 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (2.25%) Power Automate
18 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (19.45%) Data Warehouse
2 140 (16.61%) Power BI
3 126 (14.95%) Data Lake
4 71 (8.42%) Metadata
5 69 (8.19%) Delta Lake
6 62 (7.35%) SQL Server
7 54 (6.41%) BigQuery
7 54 (6.41%) Tableau
8 50 (5.93%) Big Data
9 44 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (4.98%) Relational Database
10 42 (4.98%) Snowflake Schema
11 36 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (4.15%) NoSQL
13 24 (2.85%) Spark SQL
14 23 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (2.25%) Data Vault
15 19 (2.25%) Star Schema
16 18 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 105 (12.46%) Git
2 34 (4.03%) JIRA
3 30 (3.56%) GitLab
4 27 (3.20%) MLflow
5 23 (2.73%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.47%) Gradle
8 4 (0.47%) Maven
8 4 (0.47%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.36%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.12%) Snyk
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 278 (32.98%) Finance
2 170 (20.17%) Social Skills
3 137 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (7.47%) Banking
5 54 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 24 (2.85%) Retail
7 19 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.02%) Front Office
9 16 (1.90%) Back Office
9 16 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.78%) Marketing
11 13 (1.54%) Publishing
12 10 (1.19%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.19%) Legal
13 9 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.07%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.71%) Billing
15 6 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 383 (45.43%) Data Engineer
2 138 (16.37%) Senior
3 91 (10.79%) Developer
3 91 (10.79%) Senior Data Engineer
4 69 (8.19%) Architect
4 69 (8.19%) Lead
5 44 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
6 42 (4.98%) Data Scientist
7 40 (4.74%) Azure Data Engineer
7 40 (4.74%) Python Engineer
8 35 (4.15%) Analyst
9 34 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
10 32 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 32 (3.80%) Snowflake Engineer
11 31 (3.68%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 28 (3.32%) Data Architect
13 27 (3.20%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (2.97%) Python Developer
15 23 (2.73%) Senior Developer
16 22 (2.61%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (14.83%) PySpark
2 79 (9.37%) Kafka
3 73 (8.66%) Pandas
4 47 (5.58%) NumPy
4 47 (5.58%) REST
5 37 (4.39%) scikit-learn
6 33 (3.91%) PyTorch
7 32 (3.80%) FastAPI
8 30 (3.56%) TensorFlow
9 27 (3.20%) Flask
10 26 (3.08%) RESTful
11 20 (2.37%) Polars
12 18 (2.14%) .NET
13 17 (2.02%) Apache Avro
14 16 (1.90%) React
15 15 (1.78%) pytest
16 14 (1.66%) JSON
16 14 (1.66%) Web Services
17 13 (1.54%) Spring
17 13 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 107 (12.69%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.73%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.37%) Distributed Computing
9 18 (2.14%) Equities
10 17 (2.02%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.90%) AI Agents
11 16 (1.90%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.42%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.42%) Reinsurance
13 11 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.19%) Derivative
15 9 (1.07%) Reference Data
15 9 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.37%) Linux
2 18 (2.14%) Unix
3 5 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (43.65%) Analytics
2 361 (42.82%) Data Engineering
3 324 (38.43%) Data Modelling
4 317 (37.60%) ETL
5 309 (36.65%) CI/CD
6 254 (30.13%) AI
7 222 (26.33%) DevOps
8 191 (22.66%) Machine Learning
9 182 (21.59%) Agile
10 167 (19.81%) Data Science
11 166 (19.69%) Business Intelligence
12 157 (18.62%) Data Governance
13 138 (16.37%) Decision-Making
14 122 (14.47%) Data Architecture
15 120 (14.23%) Validation
16 111 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
17 103 (12.22%) Use Case
18 98 (11.63%) Generative AI
19 93 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
19 93 (11.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 509 (60.38%) Python
2 468 (55.52%) SQL
3 79 (9.37%) Java
4 53 (6.29%) Scala
5 41 (4.86%) C#
6 27 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.73%) R
8 17 (2.02%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 14 (1.66%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.42%) Bash
12 11 (1.30%) Bicep
12 11 (1.30%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.19%) JavaScript
14 6 (0.71%) C++
14 6 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.47%) Korn
15 4 (0.47%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.47%) X++
16 3 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 159 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 141 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.86%) Degree
4 25 (2.97%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.07%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.59%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.36%) CISA
11 3 (0.36%) CISSP
12 2 (0.24%) CISM
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (32.15%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.69%) QA
3 32 (3.80%) GDPR
4 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.59%) IFRS
5 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.47%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.47%) NIST
6 4 (0.47%) SLA
7 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.36%) PMO
7 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.12%) Basel III
9 1 (0.12%) GxP
9 1 (0.12%) MiFID
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (11.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) etcd
2 1 (0.12%) HDFS
2 1 (0.12%) RACF
2 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (12.57%) Terraform
2 79 (9.37%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.30%) Grafana
4 10 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.59%) Control-M
6 3 (0.36%) Istio
6 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.24%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.24%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Ansible
8 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 191 (22.66%) Databricks
2 147 (17.44%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.74%) Informatica
4 30 (3.56%) Oracle
5 26 (3.08%) Google
5 26 (3.08%) OpenAI
6 14 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.54%) Foundry
8 12 (1.42%) SAP
9 9 (1.07%) Palantir
10 8 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (0.95%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.95%) UiPath
11 7 (0.83%) Workday
12 6 (0.71%) Splunk
12 6 (0.71%) Talend
13 5 (0.59%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.47%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.47%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.47%) Teradata