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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 82 118
Rank change year-on-year +32 +36 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 929 461 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.61% 3.44% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 3.71% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 327 255
10th Percentile £385 £411 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £658
90th Percentile £775 £775 £744
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 £56.00 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% - -
75th Percentile £61.00 £73.69 -
90th Percentile £68.20 £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 17,901 12,416 14,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.61% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,188 9,440
10th Percentile £358 £332 £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 £664 £663 £675
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 334 243 183
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +16 101 £575 +4.07% 111
West London +9 36 £520 +0.29% 32
East London +1 5 £470 -53.00% 5
South London -6 4 £556 +27.14% 6
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
1 134 (14.42%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (11.84%) Apache Spark
3 86 (9.26%) Apache
4 15 (1.61%) Confluence
4 15 (1.61%) SAS
5 8 (0.86%) CMS
6 7 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.11%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.43%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.22%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.22%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.22%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 375 (40.37%) Azure
2 323 (34.77%) AWS
3 161 (17.33%) GCP
4 149 (16.04%) Snowflake
5 127 (13.67%) Power Platform
6 122 (13.13%) dbt
7 104 (11.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 102 (10.98%) Amazon S3
9 76 (8.18%) Serverless
10 74 (7.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 71 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
12 70 (7.53%) GitHub
13 64 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (4.31%) Azure Databricks
16 26 (2.80%) SaaS
17 24 (2.58%) Amazon Bedrock
18 22 (2.37%) Amazon EMR
19 18 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (1.94%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Internet
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.22%) Broadband
2 2 (0.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) SSH
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (18.41%) Data Warehouse
2 114 (12.27%) Power BI
3 109 (11.73%) Data Lake
4 97 (10.44%) Metadata
5 89 (9.58%) BigQuery
6 78 (8.40%) Delta Lake
7 59 (6.35%) Big Data
8 55 (5.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (4.52%) Relational Database
9 42 (4.52%) Tableau
10 37 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (3.88%) SQL Server
12 34 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
13 30 (3.23%) NoSQL
14 28 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
15 26 (2.80%) Looker
16 20 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
17 19 (2.05%) Flink
18 18 (1.94%) Data Vault
18 18 (1.94%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 111 (11.95%) Git
2 47 (5.06%) GitLab
3 25 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.58%) JIRA
5 10 (1.08%) MLflow
6 9 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.75%) ERwin
7 7 (0.75%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.65%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.65%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.65%) JUnit
8 6 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.43%) Gradle
10 4 (0.43%) Maven
10 4 (0.43%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
12 2 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 304 (32.72%) Finance
2 202 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 174 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (11.19%) Banking
5 64 (6.89%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.01%) Front Office
7 26 (2.80%) Retail
8 21 (2.26%) Marketing
9 18 (1.94%) Back Office
9 18 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.18%) Legal
12 9 (0.97%) Billing
12 9 (0.97%) Publishing
13 8 (0.86%) Law
13 8 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 380 (40.90%) Data Engineer
2 157 (16.90%) Senior
3 93 (10.01%) Senior Data Engineer
4 88 (9.47%) Lead
5 82 (8.83%) Architect
6 80 (8.61%) Developer
7 54 (5.81%) Analyst
8 53 (5.71%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (4.74%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 43 (4.63%) Python Engineer
12 38 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (3.98%) Azure Data Engineer
14 36 (3.88%) Snowflake Engineer
15 34 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 34 (3.66%) Data Scientist
16 33 (3.55%) Data Architect
17 31 (3.34%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 30 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
18 30 (3.23%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (15.61%) PySpark
2 110 (11.84%) Terraform
3 96 (10.33%) Kafka
4 65 (7.00%) REST
5 41 (4.41%) Pandas
6 27 (2.91%) .NET
6 27 (2.91%) NumPy
7 26 (2.80%) FastAPI
8 24 (2.58%) React
9 23 (2.48%) PyTorch
10 20 (2.15%) RESTful
11 19 (2.05%) Flask
11 19 (2.05%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.51%) JSON
13 13 (1.40%) Polars
13 13 (1.40%) scikit-learn
14 11 (1.18%) Apache Beam
14 11 (1.18%) Django
14 11 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (1.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 137 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.24%) Onboarding
3 53 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 44 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (4.09%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.44%) Algorithms
7 31 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.80%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.72%) Reference Data
10 15 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
11 14 (1.51%) Derivative
11 14 (1.51%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.51%) NHS
12 11 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.18%) Equities
12 11 (1.18%) Taxonomies
12 11 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.08%) Hedge funds
14 9 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.20%) Linux
2 28 (3.01%) Unix
3 14 (1.51%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (46.07%) Data Engineering
2 382 (41.12%) Analytics
3 362 (38.97%) CI/CD
4 342 (36.81%) Data Modelling
5 322 (34.66%) ETL
6 287 (30.89%) AI
7 228 (24.54%) Machine Learning
8 212 (22.82%) Agile
9 198 (21.31%) DevOps
10 183 (19.70%) Data Governance
11 156 (16.79%) Validation
12 151 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
13 150 (16.15%) Data Science
14 147 (15.82%) Data Transformation
15 140 (15.07%) Decision-Making
16 136 (14.64%) Data Architecture
17 127 (13.67%) Migration
18 125 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
19 121 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
20 108 (11.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 531 (57.16%) Python
2 490 (52.74%) SQL
3 73 (7.86%) Java
4 43 (4.63%) C#
5 34 (3.66%) Scala
6 29 (3.12%) Shell Script
7 28 (3.01%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.91%) JavaScript
9 23 (2.48%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 20 (2.15%) R
12 17 (1.83%) Bash
13 9 (0.97%) Go
13 9 (0.97%) LookML
14 8 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.75%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.65%) C++
16 6 (0.65%) Korn
16 6 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 147 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 125 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.52%) Degree
4 19 (2.05%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.40%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.32%) CISSP
13 3 (0.32%) PhD
13 3 (0.32%) PMP
14 2 (0.22%) CISA
14 2 (0.22%) CISM
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (35.31%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.49%) QA
3 22 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.15%) GDPR
5 6 (0.65%) SLA
6 5 (0.54%) Basel III
6 5 (0.54%) EU AI Act
6 5 (0.54%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.22%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
9 2 (0.22%) NIST
9 2 (0.22%) PMO
9 2 (0.22%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 98 (10.55%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 96 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.29%) Ansible
3 10 (1.08%) Control-M
4 4 (0.43%) Grafana
4 4 (0.43%) Kibana
4 4 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.32%) Puppet
5 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.22%) systemd
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.11%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 232 (24.97%) Databricks
2 122 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 62 (6.67%) Google
4 55 (5.92%) Oracle
5 32 (3.44%) Informatica
6 16 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.40%) Palantir
8 11 (1.18%) Foundry
9 9 (0.97%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.97%) SAP
9 9 (0.97%) Splunk
10 8 (0.86%) Cloudera
10 8 (0.86%) Teradata
11 7 (0.75%) Hitachi
11 7 (0.75%) Workday
12 6 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.65%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.65%) SnapLogic
12 6 (0.65%) Talend