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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 104 134
Rank change year-on-year +54 +30 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 790 329 323
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.35% 2.70% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 2.92% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 242 248
10th Percentile £376 £401 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -6.74% +1.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £682
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £43.53 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £46.42 £46.75
Median hourly rate £64.75 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £73.50 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.40 - -
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 16,044 11,254 15,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,716 7,590 11,078
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £432 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £31.17 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% +11.65% -28.79%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +27 109 £516 -6.14% 49
West London -3 27 £520 +1.56% 5
East London -1 6 £450 - 7
South London -16 4 £500 +5.26% 2
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
1 103 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 95 (12.03%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (6.33%) Apache
4 10 (1.27%) Confluence
5 8 (1.01%) Appian
5 8 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.01%) SAS
6 5 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.25%) OpenROAD
7 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) Luigi
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.38%) Trello
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.38%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.13%) Actimize
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 377 (47.72%) Azure
2 286 (36.20%) AWS
3 147 (18.61%) Power Platform
4 126 (15.95%) GCP
5 123 (15.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 100 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (11.52%) GitHub
8 89 (11.27%) Snowflake
9 83 (10.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 79 (10.00%) Amazon S3
11 69 (8.73%) dbt
12 68 (8.61%) Serverless
13 58 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.42%) Dagster
16 22 (2.78%) Azure AI
17 20 (2.53%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
18 19 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
18 19 (2.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.38%) Firewall
2 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
2 2 (0.25%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) HTTP
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (20.38%) Data Warehouse
2 125 (15.82%) Power BI
3 123 (15.57%) Data Lake
4 73 (9.24%) Metadata
5 71 (8.99%) Delta Lake
6 63 (7.97%) SQL Server
7 51 (6.46%) BigQuery
8 45 (5.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (5.70%) Big Data
9 44 (5.57%) Tableau
10 43 (5.44%) Relational Database
11 41 (5.19%) Snowflake Schema
12 38 (4.81%) NoSQL
13 32 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 29 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (3.16%) Spark SQL
16 19 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 17 (2.15%) Star Schema
18 16 (2.03%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 112 (14.18%) Git
2 31 (3.92%) JIRA
3 30 (3.80%) MLflow
4 29 (3.67%) GitLab
5 24 (3.04%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.01%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.51%) Gradle
8 4 (0.51%) Maven
8 4 (0.51%) Selenium
9 3 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.25%) Postman
10 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) CMake
11 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.13%) Mocha
11 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 255 (32.28%) Finance
2 161 (20.38%) Social Skills
3 127 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (7.47%) Banking
5 45 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.28%) Retail
8 15 (1.90%) Front Office
8 15 (1.90%) Marketing
9 14 (1.77%) Back Office
9 14 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.65%) Legal
10 13 (1.65%) Publishing
11 11 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.63%) Billing
15 4 (0.51%) Electronics
15 4 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 372 (47.09%) Data Engineer
2 131 (16.58%) Senior
3 89 (11.27%) Developer
4 87 (11.01%) Senior Data Engineer
5 59 (7.47%) Architect
6 55 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
7 53 (6.71%) Lead
8 48 (6.08%) Azure Data Engineer
9 38 (4.81%) Data Scientist
10 36 (4.56%) Python Engineer
11 33 (4.18%) Analyst
12 29 (3.67%) Snowflake Engineer
13 28 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
14 27 (3.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 25 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 24 (3.04%) Python Developer
17 23 (2.91%) AWS Data Engineer
17 23 (2.91%) Data Architect
17 23 (2.91%) Senior Developer
18 22 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (16.71%) PySpark
2 84 (10.63%) Kafka
3 76 (9.62%) Pandas
4 48 (6.08%) NumPy
5 41 (5.19%) REST
6 39 (4.94%) scikit-learn
7 34 (4.30%) PyTorch
8 31 (3.92%) TensorFlow
9 29 (3.67%) FastAPI
10 27 (3.42%) Flask
11 26 (3.29%) RESTful
12 20 (2.53%) Polars
13 18 (2.28%) .NET
14 17 (2.15%) Apache Avro
14 17 (2.15%) Hugging Face
15 15 (1.90%) JSON
15 15 (1.90%) pytest
15 15 (1.90%) React
16 14 (1.77%) Web Services
17 13 (1.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.14%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 24 (3.04%) Algorithms
7 22 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
8 21 (2.66%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.41%) Equities
9 19 (2.41%) Hedge funds
10 15 (1.90%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.52%) Derivative
11 12 (1.52%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.27%) Reinsurance
14 9 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.66%) Linux
2 17 (2.15%) Unix
3 5 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (43.16%) Analytics
2 336 (42.53%) Data Engineering
3 307 (38.86%) ETL
4 305 (38.61%) Data Modelling
5 288 (36.46%) CI/CD
6 223 (28.23%) AI
7 219 (27.72%) DevOps
8 176 (22.28%) Agile
9 172 (21.77%) Data Governance
10 171 (21.65%) Machine Learning
11 155 (19.62%) Data Science
12 148 (18.73%) Business Intelligence
13 120 (15.19%) Decision-Making
14 116 (14.68%) Data Architecture
15 115 (14.56%) Validation
16 110 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
17 95 (12.03%) Use Case
18 88 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
19 84 (10.63%) Migration
20 79 (10.00%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 475 (60.13%) Python
2 441 (55.82%) SQL
3 80 (10.13%) Java
4 66 (8.35%) Scala
5 41 (5.19%) C#
6 29 (3.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.53%) R
8 16 (2.03%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.65%) Bash
11 11 (1.39%) Bicep
11 11 (1.39%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.27%) JavaScript
12 10 (1.27%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.89%) C++
14 6 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.51%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.51%) X++
16 3 (0.38%) Korn
16 3 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 155 (19.62%) Security Cleared
2 138 (17.47%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.57%) Degree
4 25 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.14%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.63%) PhD
10 5 (0.63%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.25%) CISA
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (33.29%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.32%) QA
3 32 (4.05%) GDPR
4 6 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.38%) NIST
7 3 (0.38%) PERC
7 3 (0.38%) PMO
8 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.25%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) Basel III
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (12.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Ceph
2 2 (0.25%) Firmware
2 2 (0.25%) Lustre
2 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) etcd
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (11.90%) Terraform
2 86 (10.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.39%) Grafana
4 10 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.38%) Control-M
5 3 (0.38%) Istio
6 2 (0.25%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.25%) Kibana
6 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 203 (25.70%) Databricks
2 134 (16.96%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.81%) Informatica
4 30 (3.80%) Google
5 28 (3.54%) Oracle
6 25 (3.16%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.65%) Foundry
7 13 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.39%) SAP
9 8 (1.01%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.01%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.01%) Palantir
9 8 (1.01%) UiPath
10 7 (0.89%) Workday
11 6 (0.76%) Splunk
11 6 (0.76%) Talend
12 5 (0.63%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.63%) Teradata
13 4 (0.51%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.51%) NVIDIA