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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 98 123
Rank change year-on-year +53 +25 +111
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 912 384 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.61% 2.83% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 3.07% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 283 265
10th Percentile £400 £408 £402
25th Percentile £457 £456 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £525 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +2.54% -6.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £45.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £56.75 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £63.44 £59.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £69.18 £61.10 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £55.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +12.61% -28.39%

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 17,589 12,488 14,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 8,349 10,661
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 276 238 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +11 99 £550 - 63
West London +10 27 £520 +2.77% 8
East London +6 6 £450 - 3
South London - 2 £575 - 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
1 111 (12.17%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 67 (7.35%) Apache
4 15 (1.64%) Confluence
4 15 (1.64%) SAS
5 10 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.55%) CMS
8 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.33%) Appian
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) OpenROAD
10 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.99%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.55%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 391 (42.87%) Azure
2 330 (36.18%) AWS
3 159 (17.43%) Power Platform
4 145 (15.90%) GCP
5 123 (13.49%) Snowflake
6 106 (11.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 96 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 94 (10.31%) dbt
9 92 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (9.98%) GitHub
11 87 (9.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 72 (7.89%) Serverless
13 63 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (2.96%) Dagster
16 21 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
17 19 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
18 17 (1.86%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.86%) Azure AI
19 16 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.33%) Network Security
2 2 (0.22%) Broadband
2 2 (0.22%) Firewall
2 2 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.11%) 4G
3 1 (0.11%) 5G
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (18.31%) Data Warehouse
2 140 (15.35%) Power BI
3 125 (13.71%) Data Lake
4 88 (9.65%) Metadata
5 64 (7.02%) Delta Lake
6 63 (6.91%) BigQuery
7 59 (6.47%) Big Data
8 58 (6.36%) Tableau
9 48 (5.26%) SQL Server
10 45 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 41 (4.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 40 (4.39%) Relational Database
13 35 (3.84%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
14 30 (3.29%) NoSQL
15 28 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (2.63%) Looker
17 22 (2.41%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.08%) Spark SQL
19 18 (1.97%) Flink
Development Applications
1 98 (10.75%) Git
2 32 (3.51%) GitLab
3 31 (3.40%) JIRA
4 25 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 19 (2.08%) MLflow
6 8 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.55%) Gradle
7 5 (0.55%) Maven
7 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.44%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.22%) ERwin
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
General
1 285 (31.25%) Finance
2 178 (19.52%) Social Skills
3 166 (18.20%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 73 (8.00%) Banking
6 26 (2.85%) Retail
7 22 (2.41%) Front Office
8 19 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.86%) Marketing
9 17 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.54%) Back Office
11 12 (1.32%) Legal
11 12 (1.32%) Publishing
12 11 (1.21%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.66%) Billing
16 6 (0.66%) Law
Job Titles
1 386 (42.32%) Data Engineer
2 144 (15.79%) Senior
3 97 (10.64%) Developer
4 86 (9.43%) Senior Data Engineer
5 85 (9.32%) Lead
6 81 (8.88%) Architect
7 49 (5.37%) Analyst
8 48 (5.26%) Data Scientist
9 42 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (4.50%) Python Engineer
11 38 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 38 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
12 34 (3.73%) Snowflake Engineer
13 32 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (3.51%) Data Architect
13 32 (3.51%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 31 (3.40%) Data Analyst
15 30 (3.29%) Python Developer
16 27 (2.96%) AWS Data Engineer
17 26 (2.85%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (14.04%) PySpark
2 91 (9.98%) Kafka
3 62 (6.80%) Pandas
4 51 (5.59%) REST
5 39 (4.28%) NumPy
6 29 (3.18%) FastAPI
7 25 (2.74%) PyTorch
7 25 (2.74%) scikit-learn
8 23 (2.52%) Flask
8 23 (2.52%) JSON
9 22 (2.41%) TensorFlow
10 21 (2.30%) RESTful
11 20 (2.19%) .NET
11 20 (2.19%) Polars
12 17 (1.86%) Apache Avro
12 17 (1.86%) React
13 15 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
13 15 (1.64%) Spring
13 15 (1.64%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 113 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.61%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.41%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
9 20 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.08%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.97%) Hedge funds
12 15 (1.64%) Equities
12 15 (1.64%) NHS
13 13 (1.43%) Fixed Income
13 13 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.10%) Reference Data
16 9 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (0.99%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.62%) Linux
2 22 (2.41%) Unix
3 8 (0.88%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (42.76%) Analytics
2 383 (42.00%) Data Engineering
3 337 (36.95%) CI/CD
4 335 (36.73%) Data Modelling
5 313 (34.32%) ETL
6 257 (28.18%) AI
7 222 (24.34%) DevOps
8 204 (22.37%) Machine Learning
9 199 (21.82%) Agile
10 180 (19.74%) Data Science
11 174 (19.08%) Data Governance
12 167 (18.31%) Business Intelligence
13 162 (17.76%) Decision-Making
14 132 (14.47%) Validation
15 131 (14.36%) Data Architecture
16 117 (12.83%) Use Case
17 114 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
18 104 (11.40%) Migration
19 99 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
20 96 (10.53%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 534 (58.55%) Python
2 484 (53.07%) SQL
3 84 (9.21%) Java
4 42 (4.61%) C#
4 42 (4.61%) Scala
5 28 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 23 (2.52%) Shell Script
8 22 (2.41%) R
9 19 (2.08%) Bash
10 17 (1.86%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.75%) TypeScript
12 15 (1.64%) JavaScript
13 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.77%) Go
14 7 (0.77%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.66%) Bicep
15 6 (0.66%) C++
16 4 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 160 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 139 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.93%) Degree
4 20 (2.19%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.55%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.44%) CISSP
11 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.33%) CISA
11 3 (0.33%) CISM
11 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.33%) PhD
12 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (29.93%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.70%) QA
3 33 (3.62%) GDPR
4 20 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.66%) SLA
6 5 (0.55%) IFRS
6 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.44%) NIST
7 4 (0.44%) PMO
7 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.22%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
9 2 (0.22%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (11.62%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (11.62%) Terraform
2 89 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.21%) Grafana
4 9 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.66%) Control-M
6 4 (0.44%) Ansible
7 3 (0.33%) Kibana
7 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 186 (20.39%) Databricks
2 146 (16.01%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.39%) Informatica
4 36 (3.95%) Google
5 35 (3.84%) Oracle
6 20 (2.19%) OpenAI
7 18 (1.97%) Palantir
8 16 (1.75%) Foundry
9 15 (1.64%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.21%) SAP
11 10 (1.10%) Splunk
12 9 (0.99%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.77%) Amplitude
13 7 (0.77%) Workday
14 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.55%) Confluent
14 5 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.55%) Talend
15 4 (0.44%) Hortonworks
15 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft