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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 89 120
Rank change year-on-year +44 +31 +93
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 956 415 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.75% 3.03% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 3.29% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 305 247
10th Percentile £394 £407 £418
25th Percentile £455 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £756
England median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -5.00% -
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 £67.25 £67.00 £44.62
% change year-on-year +0.37% +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 17,940 12,624 14,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,801 8,441 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £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 299 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -14.20%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +5 96 £553 +0.45% 69
West London +3 29 £520 +1.56% 22
East London +7 6 £450 - 4
South London -12 3 £500 +11.11% 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
1 128 (13.39%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (11.30%) Apache Spark
3 83 (8.68%) Apache
4 16 (1.67%) SAS
5 15 (1.57%) Confluence
6 10 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.84%) CMS
8 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.42%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.10%) Luigi
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.52%) 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 (0.10%) Endur
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 407 (42.57%) Azure
2 346 (36.19%) AWS
3 165 (17.26%) Power Platform
4 162 (16.95%) GCP
5 132 (13.81%) Snowflake
6 111 (11.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 108 (11.30%) dbt
8 100 (10.46%) Amazon S3
9 99 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
10 93 (9.73%) GitHub
11 90 (9.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 73 (7.64%) Serverless
13 64 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
14 56 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (3.03%) Dagster
16 23 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (1.88%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (1.78%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.78%) Prefect
18 17 (1.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) Network Security
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Firewall
2 2 (0.21%) SSL
3 1 (0.10%) 4G
3 1 (0.10%) 5G
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (18.93%) Data Warehouse
2 148 (15.48%) Power BI
3 131 (13.70%) Data Lake
4 99 (10.36%) Metadata
5 77 (8.05%) BigQuery
6 72 (7.53%) Delta Lake
7 62 (6.49%) Big Data
8 53 (5.54%) SQL Server
9 50 (5.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 50 (5.23%) Tableau
10 45 (4.71%) Relational Database
11 40 (4.18%) Amazon Athena
12 39 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 32 (3.35%) NoSQL
14 30 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
15 27 (2.82%) Looker
16 26 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (2.30%) Flink
17 22 (2.30%) Star Schema
18 20 (2.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 95 (9.94%) Git
2 41 (4.29%) GitLab
3 31 (3.24%) JIRA
4 29 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.57%) MLflow
6 9 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.52%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.52%) ERwin
7 5 (0.52%) Gradle
7 5 (0.52%) Maven
7 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.42%) Selenium
9 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.31%) JUnit
9 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 300 (31.38%) Finance
2 191 (19.98%) Social Skills
3 175 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (8.47%) Banking
5 76 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 26 (2.72%) Front Office
6 26 (2.72%) Retail
7 22 (2.30%) Marketing
8 19 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.57%) Back Office
11 14 (1.46%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.36%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.26%) Legal
14 11 (1.15%) Publishing
15 8 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.73%) Law
17 6 (0.63%) Billing
17 6 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 404 (42.26%) Data Engineer
2 156 (16.32%) Senior
3 98 (10.25%) Developer
4 91 (9.52%) Lead
5 89 (9.31%) Senior Data Engineer
6 85 (8.89%) Architect
7 52 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
8 51 (5.33%) Analyst
9 46 (4.81%) Python Engineer
10 44 (4.60%) Azure Data Engineer
11 42 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
11 42 (4.39%) Data Scientist
12 36 (3.77%) Data Architect
13 33 (3.45%) Data Analyst
13 33 (3.45%) Snowflake Engineer
14 32 (3.35%) Python Developer
15 31 (3.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 31 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
15 31 (3.24%) Python Data Engineer
16 30 (3.14%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (14.85%) PySpark
2 100 (10.46%) Kafka
3 56 (5.86%) REST
4 55 (5.75%) Pandas
5 35 (3.66%) NumPy
6 28 (2.93%) FastAPI
7 25 (2.62%) .NET
8 23 (2.41%) JSON
8 23 (2.41%) React
9 22 (2.30%) RESTful
10 21 (2.20%) Flask
10 21 (2.20%) PyTorch
11 19 (1.99%) Polars
12 18 (1.88%) scikit-learn
12 18 (1.88%) TensorFlow
13 17 (1.78%) Apache Avro
14 14 (1.46%) Spring
14 14 (1.46%) Spring Boot
15 13 (1.36%) Middleware
16 12 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 121 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 55 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 38 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 19 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
10 18 (1.88%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.88%) Hedge funds
11 15 (1.57%) Equities
11 15 (1.57%) Fixed Income
11 15 (1.57%) NHS
12 14 (1.46%) Reference Data
12 14 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.15%) Derivative
15 9 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.77%) Linux
2 26 (2.72%) Unix
3 12 (1.26%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Debian
5 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (43.31%) Analytics
2 404 (42.26%) Data Engineering
3 355 (37.13%) CI/CD
4 348 (36.40%) Data Modelling
5 326 (34.10%) ETL
6 265 (27.72%) AI
7 242 (25.31%) DevOps
8 214 (22.38%) Agile
9 212 (22.18%) Machine Learning
10 184 (19.25%) Data Governance
11 182 (19.04%) Data Science
12 174 (18.20%) Business Intelligence
12 174 (18.20%) Decision-Making
13 142 (14.85%) Validation
14 141 (14.75%) Data Architecture
15 126 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
16 123 (12.87%) Data Transformation
17 117 (12.24%) Use Case
18 112 (11.72%) Migration
19 101 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 549 (57.43%) Python
2 502 (52.51%) SQL
3 88 (9.21%) Java
4 49 (5.13%) C#
5 40 (4.18%) Scala
6 33 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 27 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 22 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 22 (2.30%) R
9 20 (2.09%) Bash
10 18 (1.88%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.67%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.84%) Go
12 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.73%) Bicep
13 7 (0.73%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.63%) C++
15 4 (0.42%) Cypher
15 4 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 166 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 144 (15.06%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.50%) Degree
4 21 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.42%) CISSP
10 4 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.31%) CISA
11 3 (0.31%) CISM
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PhD
12 2 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (30.65%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.07%) QA
3 31 (3.24%) GDPR
4 20 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.63%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
6 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.42%) PMO
7 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) GRC
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (11.82%) Docker
2 3 (0.31%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) etcd
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (11.82%) Terraform
2 97 (10.15%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.15%) Grafana
4 9 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.73%) Ansible
5 7 (0.73%) Control-M
6 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 210 (21.97%) Databricks
2 146 (15.27%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.02%) Google
4 43 (4.50%) Oracle
5 41 (4.29%) Informatica
6 18 (1.88%) Palantir
7 16 (1.67%) Foundry
7 16 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.57%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.26%) SAP
10 11 (1.15%) Cloudera
10 11 (1.15%) Splunk
11 9 (0.94%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.84%) Workday
13 6 (0.63%) Confluent
13 6 (0.63%) Hitachi
13 6 (0.63%) New Relic
13 6 (0.63%) Teradata
14 5 (0.52%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.52%) Talend