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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 97 121
Rank change year-on-year +51 +24 +114
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 951 399 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.74% 2.93% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 3.18% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 293 251
10th Percentile £395 £409 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -5.25% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile - £46.42 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £67.25 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £44.62
% change year-on-year +0.75% +50.17% -42.43%

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 17,865 12,538 14,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 8,407 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
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 295 245 209
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 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 31 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 +12 96 £555 +0.91% 50
West London +7 28 £520 +1.56% 16
East London +7 6 £450 - 2
South London - 3 £500 - 5
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
1 122 (12.83%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (11.04%) Apache Spark
3 79 (8.31%) Apache
4 15 (1.58%) Confluence
4 15 (1.58%) SAS
5 10 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.74%) CMS
7 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Appian
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
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
Cloud Services
1 405 (42.59%) Azure
2 339 (35.65%) AWS
3 166 (17.46%) Power Platform
4 154 (16.19%) GCP
5 129 (13.56%) Snowflake
6 113 (11.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 108 (11.36%) dbt
8 100 (10.52%) Amazon S3
9 99 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
10 93 (9.78%) GitHub
11 89 (9.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 71 (7.47%) Serverless
13 62 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (3.05%) Dagster
16 22 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (1.79%) Azure AI
18 16 (1.68%) Amazon Bedrock
18 16 (1.68%) Amazon SageMaker
18 16 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Network Security
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Firewall
2 2 (0.21%) 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
1 176 (18.51%) Data Warehouse
2 148 (15.56%) Power BI
3 130 (13.67%) Data Lake
4 96 (10.09%) Metadata
5 72 (7.57%) BigQuery
6 69 (7.26%) Delta Lake
7 61 (6.41%) Big Data
8 55 (5.78%) SQL Server
8 55 (5.78%) Tableau
9 47 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 44 (4.63%) Relational Database
11 40 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
12 38 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (3.26%) NoSQL
13 31 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
14 28 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (2.73%) Looker
16 22 (2.31%) Flink
17 21 (2.21%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 94 (9.88%) Git
2 39 (4.10%) GitLab
3 31 (3.26%) JIRA
4 29 (3.05%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.68%) MLflow
6 8 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.53%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.53%) ERwin
7 5 (0.53%) Gradle
7 5 (0.53%) Maven
7 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.42%) Selenium
9 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.21%) Postman
10 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 302 (31.76%) Finance
2 190 (19.98%) Social Skills
3 174 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (8.62%) Banking
5 76 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 26 (2.73%) Retail
7 25 (2.63%) Front Office
8 20 (2.10%) Marketing
9 19 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.47%) Back Office
12 13 (1.37%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.26%) Legal
13 12 (1.26%) Publishing
14 8 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.74%) Law
16 6 (0.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 401 (42.17%) Data Engineer
2 153 (16.09%) Senior
3 99 (10.41%) Developer
4 90 (9.46%) Senior Data Engineer
5 89 (9.36%) Lead
6 83 (8.73%) Architect
7 51 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
8 50 (5.26%) Analyst
9 45 (4.73%) Python Engineer
10 43 (4.52%) Azure Data Engineer
10 43 (4.52%) Data Scientist
11 39 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
12 34 (3.58%) Data Architect
13 33 (3.47%) Python Developer
13 33 (3.47%) Snowflake Engineer
14 32 (3.36%) Data Analyst
15 31 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 30 (3.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 29 (3.05%) GCP Engineer
17 29 (3.05%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (14.41%) PySpark
2 97 (10.20%) Kafka
3 58 (6.10%) Pandas
4 57 (5.99%) REST
5 37 (3.89%) NumPy
6 30 (3.15%) FastAPI
7 24 (2.52%) Flask
7 24 (2.52%) JSON
8 23 (2.42%) .NET
8 23 (2.42%) PyTorch
9 22 (2.31%) RESTful
10 21 (2.21%) React
11 20 (2.10%) Polars
11 20 (2.10%) scikit-learn
12 19 (2.00%) TensorFlow
13 18 (1.89%) Apache Avro
14 15 (1.58%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (1.47%) Spring
15 14 (1.47%) Spring Boot
16 13 (1.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 121 (12.72%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 50 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 39 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.36%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.21%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
8 20 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.89%) Hedge funds
10 15 (1.58%) Equities
10 15 (1.58%) Fixed Income
10 15 (1.58%) NHS
11 14 (1.47%) Reference Data
11 14 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.16%) Derivative
15 9 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.68%) Linux
2 26 (2.73%) Unix
3 11 (1.16%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (43.22%) Analytics
2 407 (42.80%) Data Engineering
3 351 (36.91%) CI/CD
4 346 (36.38%) Data Modelling
5 328 (34.49%) ETL
6 262 (27.55%) AI
7 235 (24.71%) DevOps
8 210 (22.08%) Agile
9 207 (21.77%) Machine Learning
10 184 (19.35%) Data Governance
11 182 (19.14%) Data Science
12 176 (18.51%) Business Intelligence
13 172 (18.09%) Decision-Making
14 140 (14.72%) Validation
15 139 (14.62%) Data Architecture
16 125 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
17 119 (12.51%) Use Case
18 115 (12.09%) Data Transformation
19 114 (11.99%) Migration
20 104 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 549 (57.73%) Python
2 504 (53.00%) SQL
3 89 (9.36%) Java
4 47 (4.94%) C#
5 43 (4.52%) Scala
6 30 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 27 (2.84%) Shell Script
8 22 (2.31%) R
9 20 (2.10%) Bash
9 20 (2.10%) JavaScript
10 18 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.68%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.84%) Go
12 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.63%) Bicep
14 6 (0.63%) C++
15 4 (0.42%) Korn
15 4 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 165 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 142 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.63%) Degree
4 20 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.42%) CISSP
10 4 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.32%) CISA
11 3 (0.32%) CISM
11 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.32%) PhD
12 2 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (30.70%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.89%) QA
3 31 (3.26%) GDPR
4 20 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.63%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
6 5 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.42%) NIST
7 4 (0.42%) PMO
7 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (11.46%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) 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
1 110 (11.57%) Terraform
2 97 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.16%) Grafana
4 10 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.74%) Control-M
6 6 (0.63%) Ansible
7 3 (0.32%) Kibana
7 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 208 (21.87%) Databricks
2 148 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.52%) Google
4 41 (4.31%) Informatica
4 41 (4.31%) Oracle
5 18 (1.89%) Palantir
6 17 (1.79%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.68%) Foundry
8 15 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.26%) SAP
9 12 (1.26%) Splunk
10 11 (1.16%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.84%) Amplitude
11 8 (0.84%) Workday
12 6 (0.63%) Confluent
12 6 (0.63%) New Relic
12 6 (0.63%) Teradata
13 5 (0.53%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.53%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.53%) Talend