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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 108 164
Rank change year-on-year +39 +56 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 564 341 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.91% 2.35% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 2.61% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 226 203
10th Percentile £375 £401 £413
25th Percentile £450 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.68% -11.00%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £751 £735
England median daily rate £520 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -0.95% -0.47% -7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £45.65 £58.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.63 £35.16
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +67.05% -39.91%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £59.88
90th Percentile - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.25 £53.60
% change year-on-year +9.39% +14.28% -17.23%

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 13,198 13,072 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.53% 90.20% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,726 8,366 11,677
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £754 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 163 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £54.50 £57.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +36 75 £519 -9.78% 65
South London -1 11 £500 -0.10% 7
West London -6 11 £575 - 7
East London +6 7 £1,000 - 3
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 93 (16.49%) Apache Spark
2 79 (14.01%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (6.03%) Apache
4 6 (1.06%) SAS
5 4 (0.71%) Confluence
6 3 (0.53%) Appian
6 3 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.53%) Luigi
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.35%) Trello
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 259 (45.92%) Azure
2 209 (37.06%) AWS
3 103 (18.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 93 (16.49%) Power Platform
5 83 (14.72%) GCP
6 71 (12.59%) GitHub
7 67 (11.88%) Serverless
8 65 (11.52%) Amazon S3
8 65 (11.52%) Snowflake
9 60 (10.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 55 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (9.40%) dbt
12 50 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (8.69%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (3.90%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (3.19%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (2.48%) Azure Functions
18 12 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.71%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.53%) VPN
3 2 (0.35%) DNS
3 2 (0.35%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.18%) Firewall
4 1 (0.18%) HTTP
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (21.63%) Data Warehouse
2 91 (16.13%) Data Lake
3 88 (15.60%) Power BI
4 47 (8.33%) Metadata
5 45 (7.98%) NoSQL
6 41 (7.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 37 (6.56%) Big Data
7 37 (6.56%) Delta Lake
8 33 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 32 (5.67%) BigQuery
10 29 (5.14%) SQL Server
11 27 (4.79%) Tableau
12 23 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
13 22 (3.90%) Relational Database
14 21 (3.72%) Star Schema
15 17 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (2.48%) Amazon QuickSight
16 14 (2.48%) Hadoop
16 14 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 84 (14.89%) Git
2 33 (5.85%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.08%) GitLab
4 20 (3.55%) MLflow
5 11 (1.95%) JIRA
6 4 (0.71%) Selenium
7 3 (0.53%) ERwin
7 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.35%) Postman
8 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.35%) TestRail
9 1 (0.18%) GoCD
9 1 (0.18%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 164 (29.08%) Finance
2 157 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 75 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.51%) Banking
5 37 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.67%) Front Office
7 24 (4.26%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (2.48%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.30%) Marketing
12 12 (2.13%) Retail
13 10 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.77%) Legal
14 9 (1.60%) Electronics
15 6 (1.06%) Back Office
16 5 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.89%) Retail Banking
17 3 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 233 (41.31%) Data Engineer
2 78 (13.83%) Developer
3 68 (12.06%) Senior
4 56 (9.93%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (8.16%) Azure Data Engineer
6 43 (7.62%) Architect
7 40 (7.09%) Lead
7 40 (7.09%) Senior Data Engineer
8 32 (5.67%) Python Engineer
9 28 (4.96%) Analyst
10 21 (3.72%) Consultant
11 20 (3.55%) Data Analyst
11 20 (3.55%) Snowflake Engineer
12 19 (3.37%) Data Scientist
12 19 (3.37%) Senior Developer
13 18 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 18 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.19%) Data Architect
14 17 (3.01%) Lead Data Engineer
14 17 (3.01%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (17.91%) PySpark
2 68 (12.06%) Kafka
3 32 (5.67%) Pandas
4 30 (5.32%) PyTorch
5 29 (5.14%) TensorFlow
6 26 (4.61%) REST
7 22 (3.90%) scikit-learn
8 20 (3.55%) NumPy
9 19 (3.37%) React
10 17 (3.01%) .NET
11 16 (2.84%) FastAPI
12 15 (2.66%) JSON
13 14 (2.48%) RESTful
14 13 (2.30%) pytest
15 12 (2.13%) LangChain
15 12 (2.13%) Node.js
16 11 (1.95%) Flask
16 11 (1.95%) Hugging Face
16 11 (1.95%) XML
17 10 (1.77%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.08%) Algorithms
3 23 (4.08%) Derivative
3 23 (4.08%) Distributed Computing
4 22 (3.90%) Equities
5 19 (3.37%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.66%) Fixed Income
6 15 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.48%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (1.95%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.77%) Hedge funds
9 10 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.60%) Replication
11 8 (1.42%) Genomics
11 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.42%) Life Science
11 8 (1.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.96%) Linux
2 8 (1.42%) Windows
3 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) CentOS
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (41.49%) Data Engineering
2 221 (39.18%) ETL
3 210 (37.23%) CI/CD
4 207 (36.70%) Analytics
5 190 (33.69%) Data Modelling
6 143 (25.35%) Agile
7 142 (25.18%) AI
8 141 (25.00%) Machine Learning
9 138 (24.47%) DevOps
10 137 (24.29%) Data Science
11 135 (23.94%) Data Governance
12 111 (19.68%) Business Intelligence
13 106 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
14 86 (15.25%) Data Integration
15 83 (14.72%) Data Architecture
16 72 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 72 (12.77%) Validation
17 62 (10.99%) Software Engineering
18 56 (9.93%) Decision-Making
19 54 (9.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 385 (68.26%) Python
2 310 (54.96%) SQL
3 58 (10.28%) Java
4 56 (9.93%) Scala
5 31 (5.50%) JavaScript
6 27 (4.79%) C++
7 18 (3.19%) C#
8 16 (2.84%) Bicep
8 16 (2.84%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.13%) Bash
10 11 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (1.95%) R
11 10 (1.77%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.60%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.42%) Korn
14 7 (1.24%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.35%) Go
15 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.35%) SPARQL
16 1 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 102 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 80 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.87%) Degree
4 21 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.55%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.95%) PhD
9 10 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.60%) MCP
11 8 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.35%) CISSP
13 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.18%) GIAC
14 1 (0.18%) HP APS
14 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (27.30%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.56%) GDPR
3 18 (3.19%) QA
4 15 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.60%) PERC
6 8 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.53%) WCAG
8 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.35%) EMIR
8 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.35%) MiFID
8 2 (0.35%) NIST
8 2 (0.35%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 83 (14.72%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) zsh
3 4 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Ceph
4 2 (0.35%) Firmware
4 2 (0.35%) Lustre
4 2 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 71 (12.59%) Terraform
2 64 (11.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.42%) Kibana
4 7 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
4 7 (1.24%) logstash
5 4 (0.71%) Ansible
6 3 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.35%) Grafana
7 2 (0.35%) Istio
7 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.18%) Puppet
8 1 (0.18%) SCCM
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 188 (33.33%) Databricks
2 80 (14.18%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.32%) Google
4 17 (3.01%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.84%) Oracle
6 15 (2.66%) Foundry
7 12 (2.13%) Palantir
7 12 (2.13%) SAP
8 7 (1.24%) Informatica
8 7 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.24%) Solace
9 6 (1.06%) Cloudera
10 5 (0.89%) Adobe
10 5 (0.89%) mParticle
10 5 (0.89%) NVIDIA
10 5 (0.89%) Sophis
10 5 (0.89%) Tealium
10 5 (0.89%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.71%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.71%) UiPath