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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 101 128
Rank change year-on-year +56 +27 +103
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 870 357 355
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.55% 2.81% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 3.04% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 262 271
10th Percentile £400 £408 £400
25th Percentile £455 £451 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £43.53 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £46.42 £46.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +12.97% -4.40% -17.22%

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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +19 100 £525 -4.55% 26
West London -3 23 £520 +4.00% 6
East London +5 6 £450 - 3
South London -5 3 £500 +5.26% 2
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
1 102 (11.72%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (11.03%) Apache Spark
3 54 (6.21%) Apache
4 15 (1.72%) Confluence
5 11 (1.26%) SAS
6 9 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.69%) Appian
9 5 (0.57%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Luigi
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 389 (44.71%) Azure
2 325 (37.36%) AWS
3 159 (18.28%) Power Platform
4 138 (15.86%) GCP
5 113 (12.99%) Snowflake
6 110 (12.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 98 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (10.69%) Amazon S3
9 91 (10.46%) GitHub
10 87 (10.00%) dbt
11 84 (9.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 72 (8.28%) Serverless
13 65 (7.47%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.10%) Dagster
16 22 (2.53%) Amazon SageMaker
17 21 (2.41%) Azure AI
18 20 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
19 19 (2.18%) Amazon Bedrock
19 19 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Firewall
1 2 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.11%) 4G
2 1 (0.11%) 5G
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (19.20%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (15.86%) Power BI
3 126 (14.48%) Data Lake
4 75 (8.62%) Metadata
5 69 (7.93%) Delta Lake
6 59 (6.78%) SQL Server
7 58 (6.67%) BigQuery
8 55 (6.32%) Tableau
9 52 (5.98%) Big Data
10 46 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 44 (5.06%) Relational Database
12 42 (4.83%) Snowflake Schema
13 35 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
14 32 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (3.68%) NoSQL
15 28 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (2.53%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.30%) Data Vault
18 18 (2.07%) Looker
18 18 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 102 (11.72%) Git
2 36 (4.14%) JIRA
3 32 (3.68%) GitLab
4 26 (2.99%) MLflow
5 23 (2.64%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.57%) Gradle
7 5 (0.57%) Maven
7 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.46%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.11%) Mocha
11 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 286 (32.87%) Finance
2 178 (20.46%) Social Skills
3 147 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.70%) Banking
5 65 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.33%) Retail
7 21 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.18%) Front Office
9 16 (1.84%) Back Office
9 16 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.72%) Marketing
11 12 (1.38%) Publishing
12 11 (1.26%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.26%) Legal
13 10 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.69%) Billing
15 6 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 388 (44.60%) Data Engineer
2 142 (16.32%) Senior
3 92 (10.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 91 (10.46%) Developer
5 76 (8.74%) Architect
5 76 (8.74%) Lead
6 47 (5.40%) Data Scientist
7 44 (5.06%) Python Engineer
8 41 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
9 38 (4.37%) Analyst
10 37 (4.25%) Azure Data Engineer
11 36 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (3.68%) Snowflake Engineer
14 31 (3.56%) Data Architect
14 31 (3.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 27 (3.10%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (2.99%) Python Developer
17 24 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
18 23 (2.64%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (15.17%) PySpark
2 86 (9.89%) Kafka
3 69 (7.93%) Pandas
4 46 (5.29%) REST
5 45 (5.17%) NumPy
6 35 (4.02%) scikit-learn
7 32 (3.68%) PyTorch
8 31 (3.56%) FastAPI
9 28 (3.22%) TensorFlow
10 25 (2.87%) Flask
11 24 (2.76%) RESTful
12 21 (2.41%) .NET
13 20 (2.30%) Polars
14 19 (2.18%) JSON
15 18 (2.07%) React
16 17 (1.95%) Apache Avro
17 15 (1.72%) Spring
17 15 (1.72%) Spring Boot
18 14 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
19 13 (1.49%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 107 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.76%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.41%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.30%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
10 17 (1.95%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.84%) Equities
12 15 (1.72%) NHS
13 12 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.38%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.38%) Reinsurance
13 12 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.87%) Linux
2 18 (2.07%) Unix
3 5 (0.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Debian
4 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (43.56%) Analytics
2 371 (42.64%) Data Engineering
3 325 (37.36%) Data Modelling
4 318 (36.55%) CI/CD
5 317 (36.44%) ETL
6 265 (30.46%) AI
7 225 (25.86%) DevOps
8 202 (23.22%) Machine Learning
9 194 (22.30%) Agile
10 180 (20.69%) Data Science
11 166 (19.08%) Business Intelligence
12 162 (18.62%) Data Governance
13 152 (17.47%) Decision-Making
14 125 (14.37%) Data Architecture
15 121 (13.91%) Validation
16 118 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
17 111 (12.76%) Use Case
18 102 (11.72%) Generative AI
19 100 (11.49%) Migration
20 97 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 527 (60.57%) Python
2 475 (54.60%) SQL
3 81 (9.31%) Java
4 46 (5.29%) Scala
5 44 (5.06%) C#
6 25 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.64%) R
8 18 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.07%) Shell Script
8 18 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.95%) Bash
10 14 (1.61%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.38%) JavaScript
12 8 (0.92%) Bicep
13 6 (0.69%) C++
13 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.69%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.46%) Rust
14 4 (0.46%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 156 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 138 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.94%) Degree
4 23 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.57%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.34%) CISA
11 3 (0.34%) CISSP
11 3 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.23%) CISM
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.23%) PhD
12 2 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (31.15%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.52%) QA
3 34 (3.91%) GDPR
4 9 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.69%) IFRS
6 5 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.46%) NIST
7 4 (0.46%) SLA
7 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.34%) PMO
9 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.11%) Basel III
10 1 (0.11%) GAAP
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (11.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) 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 (12.30%) Terraform
2 86 (9.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.26%) Grafana
4 10 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.57%) Control-M
6 3 (0.34%) Kibana
6 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.23%) Ansible
7 2 (0.23%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.23%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 196 (22.53%) Databricks
2 146 (16.78%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.29%) Informatica
4 32 (3.68%) Oracle
5 28 (3.22%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.10%) Google
7 16 (1.84%) Palantir
7 16 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.61%) Foundry
9 10 (1.15%) SAP
10 7 (0.80%) Workday
11 6 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.69%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.69%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.69%) Splunk
11 6 (0.69%) Talend
11 6 (0.69%) UiPath
12 5 (0.57%) Amplitude
13 4 (0.46%) Confluent
13 4 (0.46%) Denodo