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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 109 140
Rank change year-on-year +54 +31 +81
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 748 327 312
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.30% 2.57% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 2.80% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 236 247
10th Percentile £394 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £680
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.55% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £54.00 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £58.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £64.75 £65.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +34.02% -33.10%
75th Percentile £73.50 - £50.25
90th Percentile £74.40 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -11.03%

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 15,467 11,685 15,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 91.96% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 7,937 11,324
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £429 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £758 £803 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.98 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.60 £63.50 £66.70
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +41 110 £516 -6.14% 91
West London - 26 £575 - 2
South London -9 10 £500 +3.90% 1
East London -1 4 £450 - 6
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
1 117 (15.64%) Apache Spark
2 102 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (6.68%) Apache
4 12 (1.60%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.07%) Appian
5 8 (1.07%) SAS
6 5 (0.67%) Confluence
6 5 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) OpenROAD
7 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Luigi
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.40%) Trello
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (49.06%) Azure
2 276 (36.90%) AWS
3 150 (20.05%) Power Platform
4 133 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 124 (16.58%) GCP
6 94 (12.57%) Snowflake
7 90 (12.03%) GitHub
8 89 (11.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 88 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
10 76 (10.16%) Amazon S3
11 75 (10.03%) Serverless
12 68 (9.09%) dbt
13 63 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (6.68%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.61%) Dagster
16 26 (3.48%) AWS Step Functions
17 24 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
18 23 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
19 22 (2.94%) Azure AI
20 19 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) Network Security
3 2 (0.27%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (23.66%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (17.51%) Power BI
3 119 (15.91%) Data Lake
4 74 (9.89%) Metadata
5 61 (8.16%) Delta Lake
6 58 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 58 (7.75%) SQL Server
7 49 (6.55%) NoSQL
8 48 (6.42%) Big Data
9 46 (6.15%) BigQuery
10 45 (6.02%) Tableau
11 41 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 38 (5.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 35 (4.68%) Relational Database
14 29 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
15 23 (3.07%) Spark SQL
16 21 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 20 (2.67%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
19 15 (2.01%) Looker
Development Applications
1 112 (14.97%) Git
2 31 (4.14%) MLflow
3 26 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 26 (3.48%) JIRA
4 24 (3.21%) GitLab
5 6 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.67%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.13%) ERwin
9 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.13%) Gradle
9 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 215 (28.74%) Finance
2 168 (22.46%) Social Skills
3 118 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.82%) Banking
5 50 (6.68%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.41%) Legal
8 15 (2.01%) Retail
9 14 (1.87%) Front Office
10 13 (1.74%) Marketing
10 13 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.60%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.47%) Back Office
12 11 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.20%) Electronics
14 9 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.20%) Publishing
15 4 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 356 (47.59%) Data Engineer
2 116 (15.51%) Senior
3 80 (10.70%) Developer
4 79 (10.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 59 (7.89%) Architect
6 57 (7.62%) Azure Engineer
7 55 (7.35%) Lead
8 51 (6.82%) Azure Data Engineer
9 37 (4.95%) Data Scientist
10 34 (4.55%) Python Engineer
11 33 (4.41%) Analyst
12 32 (4.28%) Snowflake Engineer
13 29 (3.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 26 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 25 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (3.34%) Data Architect
16 24 (3.21%) GCP Engineer
17 21 (2.81%) Lead Data Engineer
18 20 (2.67%) AWS Data Engineer
18 20 (2.67%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (18.18%) PySpark
2 81 (10.83%) Kafka
3 73 (9.76%) Pandas
4 51 (6.82%) NumPy
5 45 (6.02%) scikit-learn
6 40 (5.35%) PyTorch
7 38 (5.08%) TensorFlow
8 31 (4.14%) REST
9 25 (3.34%) FastAPI
10 23 (3.07%) Flask
11 19 (2.54%) pytest
12 18 (2.41%) JSON
13 17 (2.27%) React
14 16 (2.14%) .NET
14 16 (2.14%) Hugging Face
14 16 (2.14%) RESTful
15 15 (2.01%) Web Services
16 14 (1.87%) Polars
17 13 (1.74%) YAML
18 12 (1.60%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.74%) Data Structures
3 27 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.34%) Distributed Computing
4 25 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.21%) Algorithms
5 24 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.54%) AI Agents
6 19 (2.54%) Equities
7 16 (2.14%) Hedge funds
8 14 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.74%) Derivative
10 12 (1.60%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.34%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.07%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.27%) Linux
2 11 (1.47%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (45.05%) Data Engineering
2 334 (44.65%) Analytics
3 297 (39.71%) Data Modelling
3 297 (39.71%) ETL
4 278 (37.17%) CI/CD
5 205 (27.41%) AI
6 201 (26.87%) DevOps
7 187 (25.00%) Data Governance
8 186 (24.87%) Agile
9 173 (23.13%) Machine Learning
10 168 (22.46%) Data Science
11 154 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
12 117 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
13 113 (15.11%) Data Architecture
13 113 (15.11%) Decision-Making
14 105 (14.04%) Validation
15 94 (12.57%) Data Integration
16 93 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
17 84 (11.23%) Use Case
18 75 (10.03%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 476 (63.64%) Python
2 438 (58.56%) SQL
3 78 (10.43%) Scala
4 68 (9.09%) Java
5 34 (4.55%) C#
6 27 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (2.54%) R
8 18 (2.41%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.27%) Bicep
10 15 (2.01%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.47%) Bash
11 11 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.34%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.07%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.94%) C++
14 7 (0.94%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.80%) Korn
16 4 (0.53%) SAS Macro
17 3 (0.40%) Ruby
18 2 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 153 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 134 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.28%) Degree
4 24 (3.21%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.54%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.07%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.07%) PhD
10 7 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) CISA
12 2 (0.27%) CISSP
12 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (33.96%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.02%) GDPR
3 32 (4.28%) QA
4 9 (1.20%) PERC
5 8 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
9 3 (0.40%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.27%) PMO
11 1 (0.13%) Basel III
11 1 (0.13%) GAAP
11 1 (0.13%) GxP
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (13.64%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Ceph
3 2 (0.27%) Firmware
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
3 2 (0.27%) Lustre
3 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.13%) etcd
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (13.37%) Terraform
2 84 (11.23%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.20%) Grafana
3 9 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.40%) Istio
4 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.27%) Control-M
5 2 (0.27%) Fluentd
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 221 (29.55%) Databricks
2 127 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.41%) Google
4 31 (4.14%) Informatica
5 28 (3.74%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.61%) Oracle
7 17 (2.27%) Foundry
8 14 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.60%) Palantir
10 11 (1.47%) SAP
11 9 (1.20%) UiPath
12 8 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (0.94%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.94%) Workday
14 6 (0.80%) Splunk
15 5 (0.67%) Adobe
15 5 (0.67%) mParticle
15 5 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 5 (0.67%) Tealium