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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 99 141
Rank change year-on-year +49 +42 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 792 328 320
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.35% 2.70% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 2.93% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 242 246
10th Percentile £376 £401 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £555
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -3.38% -1.77%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £43.53 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £46.42 £46.75
Median hourly rate £64.75 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £73.50 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.40 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +28.57% -16.00% -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 16,108 11,188 15,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,765 7,537 11,061
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 306
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.90% -28.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.88
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +32 109 £513 -6.82% 81
West London -3 27 £520 +1.56% 6
East London -1 6 £450 - 6
South London -16 4 £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
1 105 (13.26%) Apache Spark
2 95 (11.99%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (6.31%) Apache
4 10 (1.26%) Confluence
5 8 (1.01%) Appian
5 8 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.01%) SAS
6 5 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.25%) OpenROAD
7 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) Luigi
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.38%) Trello
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 377 (47.60%) Azure
2 284 (35.86%) AWS
3 148 (18.69%) Power Platform
4 126 (15.91%) GCP
5 124 (15.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 99 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 92 (11.62%) GitHub
8 88 (11.11%) Snowflake
9 84 (10.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 79 (9.97%) Amazon S3
11 69 (8.71%) dbt
12 68 (8.59%) Serverless
13 58 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.41%) Dagster
16 22 (2.78%) Azure AI
17 19 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
17 19 (2.40%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (2.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.38%) Firewall
2 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
2 2 (0.25%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) HTTP
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (20.71%) Data Warehouse
2 126 (15.91%) Power BI
3 124 (15.66%) Data Lake
4 74 (9.34%) Metadata
5 71 (8.96%) Delta Lake
6 64 (8.08%) SQL Server
7 51 (6.44%) BigQuery
8 47 (5.93%) Big Data
9 46 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 44 (5.56%) Tableau
11 43 (5.43%) Relational Database
12 40 (5.05%) Snowflake Schema
13 39 (4.92%) NoSQL
14 32 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (3.16%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
19 18 (2.27%) Star Schema
20 16 (2.02%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 113 (14.27%) Git
2 31 (3.91%) JIRA
3 29 (3.66%) GitLab
3 29 (3.66%) MLflow
4 25 (3.16%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.76%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.63%) Selenium
8 4 (0.51%) Gradle
8 4 (0.51%) Maven
9 3 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.25%) Postman
10 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.25%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) CMake
11 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.13%) Mocha
11 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 252 (31.82%) Finance
2 162 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 127 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.32%) Banking
5 46 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.15%) Retail
8 15 (1.89%) Back Office
8 15 (1.89%) Front Office
8 15 (1.89%) Marketing
9 14 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.64%) Legal
10 13 (1.64%) Publishing
11 11 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.63%) Billing
15 4 (0.51%) Electronics
15 4 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 372 (46.97%) Data Engineer
2 132 (16.67%) Senior
3 90 (11.36%) Developer
4 87 (10.98%) Senior Data Engineer
5 58 (7.32%) Architect
6 56 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
7 53 (6.69%) Lead
8 49 (6.19%) Azure Data Engineer
9 38 (4.80%) Data Scientist
10 37 (4.67%) Python Engineer
11 34 (4.29%) Analyst
12 29 (3.66%) Snowflake Engineer
13 28 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
14 27 (3.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 24 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 24 (3.03%) Python Developer
16 23 (2.90%) AWS Data Engineer
16 23 (2.90%) Data Architect
16 23 (2.90%) Senior Developer
17 22 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (16.79%) PySpark
2 84 (10.61%) Kafka
3 77 (9.72%) Pandas
4 49 (6.19%) NumPy
5 41 (5.18%) REST
6 38 (4.80%) scikit-learn
7 33 (4.17%) PyTorch
8 30 (3.79%) TensorFlow
9 29 (3.66%) FastAPI
10 28 (3.54%) Flask
11 26 (3.28%) RESTful
12 20 (2.53%) Polars
13 18 (2.27%) .NET
14 17 (2.15%) Apache Avro
15 16 (2.02%) Hugging Face
16 15 (1.89%) JSON
16 15 (1.89%) pytest
16 15 (1.89%) React
17 14 (1.77%) Web Services
18 13 (1.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.79%) Data Structures
5 29 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.90%) Algorithms
7 22 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
8 21 (2.65%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.40%) Equities
9 19 (2.40%) Hedge funds
10 15 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.89%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.52%) Derivative
11 12 (1.52%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.14%) Reinsurance
14 8 (1.01%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.78%) Linux
2 17 (2.15%) Unix
3 5 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (43.06%) Analytics
2 337 (42.55%) Data Engineering
3 312 (39.39%) ETL
4 306 (38.64%) Data Modelling
5 290 (36.62%) CI/CD
6 222 (28.03%) AI
7 219 (27.65%) DevOps
8 180 (22.73%) Agile
9 175 (22.10%) Data Governance
10 170 (21.46%) Machine Learning
11 153 (19.32%) Data Science
12 151 (19.07%) Business Intelligence
13 121 (15.28%) Decision-Making
14 117 (14.77%) Data Architecture
15 114 (14.39%) Validation
16 113 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
17 94 (11.87%) Use Case
18 88 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
19 86 (10.86%) Migration
20 80 (10.10%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 477 (60.23%) Python
2 446 (56.31%) SQL
3 79 (9.97%) Java
4 66 (8.33%) Scala
5 42 (5.30%) C#
6 29 (3.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.53%) R
8 18 (2.27%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 14 (1.77%) Bash
11 12 (1.52%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.39%) Bicep
12 11 (1.39%) JavaScript
13 10 (1.26%) TypeScript
14 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.88%) C++
16 4 (0.51%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.51%) X++
17 3 (0.38%) Korn
17 3 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 156 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 138 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.68%) Degree
4 25 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.01%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.63%) PhD
10 5 (0.63%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.25%) CISA
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (33.21%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.43%) QA
3 33 (4.17%) GDPR
4 6 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.38%) NIST
7 3 (0.38%) PERC
7 3 (0.38%) PMO
8 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.25%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) Basel III
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (12.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Ceph
2 2 (0.25%) Firmware
2 2 (0.25%) Lustre
2 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) etcd
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (11.87%) Terraform
2 87 (10.98%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.39%) Grafana
4 10 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.38%) Control-M
5 3 (0.38%) Istio
6 2 (0.25%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.25%) Kibana
6 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 204 (25.76%) Databricks
2 136 (17.17%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.80%) Informatica
4 30 (3.79%) Google
5 29 (3.66%) Oracle
6 24 (3.03%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.64%) Foundry
7 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.39%) SAP
9 8 (1.01%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.01%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.01%) Palantir
9 8 (1.01%) UiPath
10 7 (0.88%) Workday
11 6 (0.76%) Splunk
11 6 (0.76%) Talend
12 5 (0.63%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.63%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.63%) Teradata
13 4 (0.51%) NVIDIA