Data Pipeline Contracts in London

Data Pipelines
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 129 239
Rank change year-on-year +30 +110 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 380 352 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.87% 2.00% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 2.26% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 268 189
10th Percentile £413 £379 £410
25th Percentile £463 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £763 £775
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £45.46 - £67.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.75 £71.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -39.38% +137.04%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £86.25
90th Percentile £61.10 - £88.50
England median hourly rate £59.25 £62.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -5.20% -13.79% +114.81%

All Process and 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 12,188 15,591 23,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.48% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,144 11,105 16,751
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 296 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £22.93
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in London

Data Pipeline
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Pipeline in London

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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 4 July 2025. 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 +9 59 £550 +4.76% 270
West London +15 5 £506 - 38
East London - 2 - - 8
South London -1 1 £475 +5.56% 15
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 72 (18.95%) Apache Spark
2 54 (14.21%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (13.68%) Apache
4 10 (2.63%) Jupyter
5 6 (1.58%) Confluence
6 4 (1.05%) SAS
7 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.58%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.53%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) Aligne
3 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 166 (43.68%) Azure
2 145 (38.16%) AWS
3 68 (17.89%) GCP
4 61 (16.05%) Power Platform
5 56 (14.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 54 (14.21%) Snowflake
7 48 (12.63%) dbt
8 46 (12.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 32 (8.42%) GitHub
10 30 (7.89%) Amazon S3
11 27 (7.11%) Serverless
12 22 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
17 6 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.05%) SSH
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (22.89%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (17.37%) Data Lake
3 60 (15.79%) Power BI
4 52 (13.68%) Big Data
5 34 (8.95%) BigQuery
6 28 (7.37%) SQL Server
7 27 (7.11%) Tableau
8 26 (6.84%) NoSQL
9 24 (6.32%) Hadoop
9 24 (6.32%) Metadata
10 21 (5.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (4.74%) Delta Lake
13 16 (4.21%) Apache Hive
14 15 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (3.68%) Relational Database
16 12 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (2.89%) Flink
Development Applications
1 41 (10.79%) Git
2 17 (4.47%) Jenkins
2 17 (4.47%) JIRA
3 10 (2.63%) GitLab
4 8 (2.11%) MLflow
5 6 (1.58%) ERwin
6 5 (1.32%) Terragrunt
7 4 (1.05%) RStudio
8 3 (0.79%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.79%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.53%) MagicDraw
9 2 (0.53%) Postman
9 2 (0.53%) Selenium
10 1 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.26%) JMeter
10 1 (0.26%) Locust
10 1 (0.26%) Mockito
10 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.26%) Spinnaker
General
1 104 (27.37%) Finance
2 98 (25.79%) Social Skills
3 65 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.95%) Banking
5 30 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.32%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.95%) Retail
8 9 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.11%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.32%) Front Office
11 5 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.05%) Local Government
12 4 (1.05%) Marketing
12 4 (1.05%) Police
13 3 (0.79%) Legal
13 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (45.00%) Data Engineer
2 62 (16.32%) Senior
3 61 (16.05%) Developer
4 37 (9.74%) Senior Data Engineer
5 35 (9.21%) Architect
6 29 (7.63%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (7.37%) Azure Data Engineer
8 26 (6.84%) Analyst
9 24 (6.32%) AWS Data Engineer
9 24 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (6.32%) Lead
10 23 (6.05%) Python Engineer
11 21 (5.53%) Data Architect
12 17 (4.47%) Python Data Engineer
13 14 (3.68%) Data Analyst
14 13 (3.42%) Lead Data Engineer
14 13 (3.42%) Python Developer
15 11 (2.89%) GCP Engineer
16 10 (2.63%) Quantitative Developer
16 10 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (14.74%) PySpark
2 38 (10.00%) Kafka
3 16 (4.21%) pytest
4 13 (3.42%) Pandas
5 12 (3.16%) Spark Streaming
6 11 (2.89%) Jinja
7 10 (2.63%) NumPy
7 10 (2.63%) TensorFlow
8 9 (2.37%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.37%) pydantic
8 9 (2.37%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.37%) YAML
9 8 (2.11%) JSON
10 7 (1.84%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.58%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (1.58%) LangChain
12 5 (1.32%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.32%) PostGIS
12 5 (1.32%) React
12 5 (1.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (6.05%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
4 16 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.95%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.42%) Derivative
6 13 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.89%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.89%) Reference Data
7 11 (2.89%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.63%) Equities
8 10 (2.63%) Market Risk
9 8 (2.11%) Equity Derivative
10 7 (1.84%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.32%) Clustering
11 5 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.84%) Linux
2 4 (1.05%) Unix
3 1 (0.26%) Debian
3 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (40.53%) ETL
2 136 (35.79%) Analytics
3 131 (34.47%) Data Engineering
4 122 (32.11%) Data Modelling
5 120 (31.58%) CI/CD
6 98 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (20.53%) Agile
7 78 (20.53%) Data Science
8 77 (20.26%) Machine Learning
9 74 (19.47%) Data Governance
10 70 (18.42%) DevOps
11 67 (17.63%) Artificial Intelligence
12 61 (16.05%) Data Integration
13 60 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
13 60 (15.79%) Decision-Making
14 48 (12.63%) Visualisation
15 45 (11.84%) Data Transformation
16 44 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 40 (10.53%) Migration
18 35 (9.21%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 246 (64.74%) Python
2 206 (54.21%) SQL
3 38 (10.00%) Java
4 27 (7.11%) Scala
5 22 (5.79%) C++
6 12 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (2.89%) R
8 9 (2.37%) Bash
9 7 (1.84%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.58%) C#
10 6 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.58%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.05%) C
12 4 (1.05%) Perl
13 3 (0.79%) Go
13 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.79%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.53%) SAS Macro
15 1 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 59 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.63%) Degree
4 10 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.37%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.11%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.58%) PMP
8 5 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.53%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.26%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (20.53%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.32%) QA
3 15 (3.95%) GDPR
4 12 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.53%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.26%) GxP
6 1 (0.26%) HL7
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 40 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (14.21%) Terraform
2 46 (12.11%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.11%) Kibana
4 6 (1.58%) logstash
5 4 (1.05%) Grafana
5 4 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.53%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.26%) Ansible
7 1 (0.26%) Graphite
7 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 89 (23.42%) Databricks
2 36 (9.47%) Microsoft
3 26 (6.84%) Google
4 11 (2.89%) Oracle
4 11 (2.89%) Palantir
5 10 (2.63%) Informatica
6 7 (1.84%) Foundry
7 6 (1.58%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (1.32%) Dataiku
8 5 (1.32%) DataRobot
9 4 (1.05%) SAP
9 4 (1.05%) Solace
9 4 (1.05%) Teradata
10 3 (0.79%) Sparx
10 3 (0.79%) Splunk
10 3 (0.79%) Talend
11 2 (0.53%) Aareon
11 2 (0.53%) Duck Creek
11 2 (0.53%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.53%) OpenAI