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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 90 127
Rank change year-on-year +44 +37 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 956 412 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.74% 3.03% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 3.28% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 304 247
10th Percentile £395 £407 £418
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -9.18% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £796 £756
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile - £46.42 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £67.25 -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £67.00 £44.62
% change year-on-year -1.49% +50.17% -42.43%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 August 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 12 August 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 +6 96 £550 - 56
West London +7 31 £520 +1.56% 18
East London +9 6 £450 - 3
South London -7 4 £500 +11.11% 4
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
1 129 (13.49%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (11.40%) Apache Spark
3 84 (8.79%) Apache
4 16 (1.67%) SAS
5 14 (1.46%) Confluence
6 10 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.84%) CMS
8 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.42%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) Luigi
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.10%) Endur
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 403 (42.15%) Azure
2 347 (36.30%) AWS
3 164 (17.15%) Power Platform
4 160 (16.74%) GCP
5 137 (14.33%) Snowflake
6 113 (11.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 107 (11.19%) dbt
8 100 (10.46%) Amazon S3
8 100 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
9 96 (10.04%) GitHub
10 89 (9.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 74 (7.74%) Serverless
12 65 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
13 58 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (3.03%) Dagster
15 23 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (1.88%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (1.78%) Prefect
17 17 (1.78%) SaaS
18 16 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) Firewall
1 3 (0.31%) Network Security
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) SSL
3 1 (0.10%) 4G
3 1 (0.10%) 5G
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
3 1 (0.10%) SSH
3 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (19.14%) Data Warehouse
2 147 (15.38%) Power BI
3 133 (13.91%) Data Lake
4 101 (10.56%) Metadata
5 77 (8.05%) BigQuery
6 71 (7.43%) Delta Lake
7 62 (6.49%) Big Data
8 52 (5.44%) SQL Server
9 51 (5.33%) Tableau
10 50 (5.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 45 (4.71%) Relational Database
12 40 (4.18%) Snowflake Schema
13 39 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
14 33 (3.45%) NoSQL
15 31 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (2.82%) Looker
17 25 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
18 22 (2.30%) Flink
18 22 (2.30%) Star Schema
19 19 (1.99%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 90 (9.41%) Git
2 41 (4.29%) GitLab
3 31 (3.24%) JIRA
4 30 (3.14%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.57%) MLflow
6 9 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.63%) ERwin
8 5 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.52%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.52%) Gradle
8 5 (0.52%) Maven
8 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.42%) Selenium
9 4 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.31%) JUnit
10 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 297 (31.07%) Finance
2 190 (19.87%) Social Skills
3 174 (18.20%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (8.58%) Banking
5 73 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 26 (2.72%) Front Office
6 26 (2.72%) Retail
7 22 (2.30%) Marketing
8 19 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.57%) Back Office
9 15 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.46%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.26%) Legal
12 11 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.15%) Publishing
13 8 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.73%) Law
15 6 (0.63%) Billing
15 6 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 406 (42.47%) Data Engineer
2 155 (16.21%) Senior
3 96 (10.04%) Developer
4 94 (9.83%) Lead
5 89 (9.31%) Senior Data Engineer
6 83 (8.68%) Architect
7 51 (5.33%) Analyst
7 51 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
8 46 (4.81%) Python Engineer
9 43 (4.50%) Azure Data Engineer
10 42 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
11 40 (4.18%) Data Scientist
12 35 (3.66%) Data Architect
13 33 (3.45%) Data Analyst
13 33 (3.45%) Snowflake Engineer
14 31 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
14 31 (3.24%) Lead Data Engineer
14 31 (3.24%) Python Data Engineer
14 31 (3.24%) Python Developer
15 30 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (14.96%) PySpark
2 101 (10.56%) Kafka
3 56 (5.86%) REST
4 53 (5.54%) Pandas
5 33 (3.45%) NumPy
6 27 (2.82%) FastAPI
7 25 (2.62%) .NET
8 23 (2.41%) JSON
8 23 (2.41%) React
9 22 (2.30%) RESTful
10 21 (2.20%) Flask
10 21 (2.20%) PyTorch
11 19 (1.99%) Polars
12 18 (1.88%) TensorFlow
13 17 (1.78%) Apache Avro
14 16 (1.67%) scikit-learn
15 14 (1.46%) Spring
15 14 (1.46%) Spring Boot
16 13 (1.36%) Middleware
17 12 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 124 (12.97%) Cloud Native
2 55 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.02%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 19 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
10 18 (1.88%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.88%) Hedge funds
11 15 (1.57%) Equities
11 15 (1.57%) NHS
12 14 (1.46%) Reference Data
12 14 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.36%) Fixed Income
13 13 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.15%) Derivative
15 9 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.97%) Linux
2 26 (2.72%) Unix
3 12 (1.26%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (43.51%) Analytics
2 402 (42.05%) Data Engineering
3 355 (37.13%) CI/CD
4 348 (36.40%) Data Modelling
5 325 (34.00%) ETL
6 266 (27.82%) AI
7 241 (25.21%) DevOps
8 217 (22.70%) Agile
9 210 (21.97%) Machine Learning
10 184 (19.25%) Data Governance
11 179 (18.72%) Data Science
12 173 (18.10%) Business Intelligence
13 169 (17.68%) Decision-Making
14 144 (15.06%) Validation
15 142 (14.85%) Data Architecture
16 125 (13.08%) Data Transformation
16 125 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
17 114 (11.92%) Use Case
18 113 (11.82%) Migration
19 102 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 547 (57.22%) Python
2 503 (52.62%) SQL
3 88 (9.21%) Java
4 47 (4.92%) C#
5 39 (4.08%) Scala
6 32 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 27 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 22 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 22 (2.30%) R
9 21 (2.20%) Bash
10 18 (1.88%) TypeScript
11 15 (1.57%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.84%) Go
12 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.73%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.63%) Bicep
14 6 (0.63%) C++
15 4 (0.42%) Korn
15 4 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 163 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 140 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.50%) Degree
4 21 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.42%) CISSP
11 4 (0.42%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (30.65%) Data Quality
2 60 (6.28%) QA
3 31 (3.24%) GDPR
4 20 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.63%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
6 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.42%) PMO
7 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) GRC
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (11.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) etcd
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (12.03%) Terraform
2 97 (10.15%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.15%) Grafana
4 9 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.73%) Ansible
5 7 (0.73%) Control-M
6 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 212 (22.18%) Databricks
2 145 (15.17%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.02%) Google
4 44 (4.60%) Oracle
5 41 (4.29%) Informatica
6 18 (1.88%) Palantir
7 16 (1.67%) Foundry
7 16 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.46%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.15%) Cloudera
9 11 (1.15%) SAP
9 11 (1.15%) Splunk
10 9 (0.94%) Amplitude
11 8 (0.84%) Confluent
11 8 (0.84%) Workday
12 6 (0.63%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.63%) New Relic
12 6 (0.63%) Teradata
13 5 (0.52%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.52%) MicroStrategy