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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 101 125
Rank change year-on-year +54 +24 +109
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 910 387 362
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.59% 2.84% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 3.08% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 284 267
10th Percentile £400 £408 £403
25th Percentile £456 £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 £796 £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 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -19.35%

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 17,611 12,570 15,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,652 8,414 10,744
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
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 274 239 254
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.63 £24.66 £20.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.53% -22.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £70.73
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 20 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 20 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 +20 98 £550 - 46
West London +3 26 £520 +2.77% 8
East London +6 6 £450 - 3
South London - 2 £575 - 4
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
1 110 (12.09%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (10.66%) Apache Spark
3 67 (7.36%) Apache
4 15 (1.65%) Confluence
4 15 (1.65%) SAS
5 10 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.44%) CMS
7 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.33%) Appian
9 2 (0.22%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
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
1 392 (43.08%) Azure
2 332 (36.48%) AWS
3 160 (17.58%) Power Platform
4 146 (16.04%) GCP
5 122 (13.41%) Snowflake
6 106 (11.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 97 (10.66%) Amazon S3
8 94 (10.33%) dbt
9 92 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (10.00%) GitHub
11 87 (9.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 73 (8.02%) Serverless
13 64 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (2.97%) Dagster
16 21 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
17 19 (2.09%) Amazon SageMaker
17 19 (2.09%) Azure AI
18 18 (1.98%) Amazon Bedrock
19 16 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.22%) Broadband
1 2 (0.22%) Firewall
1 2 (0.22%) Network Security
1 2 (0.22%) SSL
2 1 (0.11%) 4G
2 1 (0.11%) 5G
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (18.24%) Data Warehouse
2 140 (15.38%) Power BI
3 125 (13.74%) Data Lake
4 87 (9.56%) Metadata
5 63 (6.92%) Delta Lake
6 62 (6.81%) BigQuery
7 60 (6.59%) Big Data
8 58 (6.37%) Tableau
9 48 (5.27%) SQL Server
10 45 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 41 (4.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 40 (4.40%) Relational Database
13 36 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 30 (3.30%) NoSQL
15 28 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (2.53%) Looker
17 22 (2.42%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.09%) Spark SQL
19 18 (1.98%) Flink
Development Applications
1 98 (10.77%) Git
2 33 (3.63%) GitLab
3 31 (3.41%) JIRA
4 25 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 19 (2.09%) 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
1 287 (31.54%) Finance
2 177 (19.45%) Social Skills
3 166 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.35%) Public Sector
5 73 (8.02%) Banking
6 26 (2.86%) Retail
7 22 (2.42%) Front Office
8 19 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.76%) Marketing
11 14 (1.54%) Back Office
12 12 (1.32%) Publishing
13 11 (1.21%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.21%) Legal
14 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.66%) Billing
17 6 (0.66%) Law
Job Titles
1 387 (42.53%) Data Engineer
2 144 (15.82%) Senior
3 97 (10.66%) Developer
4 86 (9.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 85 (9.34%) Lead
6 81 (8.90%) Architect
7 49 (5.38%) Data Scientist
8 48 (5.27%) Analyst
9 42 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (4.51%) Python Engineer
11 39 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (4.18%) Azure Data Engineer
13 34 (3.74%) Snowflake Engineer
14 32 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 32 (3.52%) Data Architect
14 32 (3.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 30 (3.30%) Data Analyst
15 30 (3.30%) Python Developer
16 28 (3.08%) AWS Data Engineer
17 26 (2.86%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (14.07%) PySpark
2 91 (10.00%) Kafka
3 62 (6.81%) Pandas
4 51 (5.60%) REST
5 39 (4.29%) NumPy
6 30 (3.30%) FastAPI
7 25 (2.75%) PyTorch
7 25 (2.75%) scikit-learn
8 24 (2.64%) Flask
9 23 (2.53%) JSON
10 22 (2.42%) TensorFlow
11 21 (2.31%) RESTful
12 20 (2.20%) .NET
12 20 (2.20%) Polars
13 18 (1.98%) React
14 17 (1.87%) Apache Avro
15 15 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
15 15 (1.65%) Spring
15 15 (1.65%) Spring Boot
16 12 (1.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.53%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.42%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.31%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
9 20 (2.20%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.98%) Hedge funds
11 15 (1.65%) Equities
11 15 (1.65%) NHS
12 13 (1.43%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.10%) Reference Data
15 9 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.99%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.63%) Linux
2 22 (2.42%) 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 (42.86%) Analytics
2 384 (42.20%) Data Engineering
3 336 (36.92%) CI/CD
4 334 (36.70%) Data Modelling
5 313 (34.40%) ETL
6 258 (28.35%) AI
7 223 (24.51%) DevOps
8 207 (22.75%) Machine Learning
9 198 (21.76%) Agile
10 179 (19.67%) Data Science
11 174 (19.12%) Data Governance
12 167 (18.35%) Business Intelligence
13 163 (17.91%) Decision-Making
14 132 (14.51%) Data Architecture
14 132 (14.51%) Validation
15 117 (12.86%) Use Case
16 116 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
17 104 (11.43%) Migration
18 100 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
19 97 (10.66%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 536 (58.90%) Python
2 485 (53.30%) SQL
3 86 (9.45%) Java
4 44 (4.84%) C#
5 42 (4.62%) Scala
6 28 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 25 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.53%) R
8 23 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.09%) Bash
10 18 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.87%) JavaScript
11 17 (1.87%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.77%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.66%) Bicep
14 6 (0.66%) Go
15 5 (0.55%) C++
16 4 (0.44%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 161 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 140 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.95%) Degree
4 20 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (1.65%) 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 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.33%) CISA
10 3 (0.33%) CISSP
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.33%) PhD
11 2 (0.22%) CISM
11 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (29.89%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.71%) QA
3 34 (3.74%) GDPR
4 20 (2.20%) 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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
9 2 (0.22%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) GxP
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 107 (11.76%) 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
1 107 (11.76%) Terraform
2 89 (9.78%) 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
1 185 (20.33%) Databricks
2 147 (16.15%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.40%) Informatica
4 36 (3.96%) Google
5 35 (3.85%) Oracle
6 21 (2.31%) OpenAI
7 18 (1.98%) Foundry
7 18 (1.98%) Palantir
8 15 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.21%) SAP
10 10 (1.10%) Splunk
11 9 (0.99%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.77%) Workday
13 6 (0.66%) Amplitude
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