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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 83 125
Rank change year-on-year +36 +42 +86
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 970 452 345
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.77% 3.35% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 3.62% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 328 245
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £454 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 0
10th Percentile - £40.33 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £72.00 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -14.18% - -

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 18,096 12,500 14,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.57% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,259 9,770
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 257 182
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +6 103 £575 +3.60% 54
West London +5 32 £520 +0.29% 37
East London +2 6 £460 -54.00% 7
South London -1 5 £500 +11.11% 5
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
1 132 (13.61%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (11.34%) Apache Spark
3 91 (9.38%) Apache
4 17 (1.75%) SAS
5 15 (1.55%) Confluence
6 9 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.82%) CMS
8 7 (0.72%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) Luigi
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 396 (40.82%) Azure
2 348 (35.88%) AWS
3 159 (16.39%) GCP
4 151 (15.57%) Power Platform
5 149 (15.36%) Snowflake
6 120 (12.37%) dbt
7 116 (11.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 111 (11.44%) Amazon S3
9 94 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (9.48%) GitHub
11 86 (8.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 78 (8.04%) Serverless
13 68 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
14 59 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (3.81%) Azure Databricks
16 23 (2.37%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (2.27%) SaaS
18 20 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
19 19 (1.96%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) Network Security
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
3 1 (0.10%) SSH
3 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (19.18%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (14.12%) Power BI
3 128 (13.20%) Data Lake
4 106 (10.93%) Metadata
5 83 (8.56%) BigQuery
6 79 (8.14%) Delta Lake
7 59 (6.08%) Big Data
8 51 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (4.85%) Tableau
10 46 (4.74%) Relational Database
11 43 (4.43%) SQL Server
12 40 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (3.51%) NoSQL
13 34 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
14 33 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
15 30 (3.09%) Looker
16 26 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (2.58%) Flink
18 24 (2.47%) Star Schema
19 20 (2.06%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 99 (10.21%) Git
2 43 (4.43%) GitLab
3 29 (2.99%) JIRA
4 28 (2.89%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.34%) MLflow
6 8 (0.82%) ERwin
6 8 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.72%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.62%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.52%) Gradle
9 5 (0.52%) Maven
9 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.41%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.41%) JUnit
10 4 (0.41%) Selenium
11 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.31%) RStudio
General
1 308 (31.75%) Finance
2 200 (20.62%) Social Skills
3 180 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (9.69%) Banking
5 68 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.78%) Front Office
6 27 (2.78%) Retail
7 23 (2.37%) Marketing
8 17 (1.75%) Back Office
8 17 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.65%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.34%) Publishing
11 12 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.24%) Legal
12 9 (0.93%) Billing
12 9 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.82%) Law
13 8 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 407 (41.96%) Data Engineer
2 167 (17.22%) Senior
3 99 (10.21%) Senior Data Engineer
4 93 (9.59%) Lead
5 92 (9.48%) Developer
6 80 (8.25%) Architect
7 60 (6.19%) Analyst
8 51 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
8 51 (5.26%) Databricks Engineer
9 45 (4.64%) Python Engineer
10 43 (4.43%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 40 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
12 39 (4.02%) Azure Data Engineer
13 36 (3.71%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (3.61%) Data Analyst
14 35 (3.61%) Data Scientist
15 33 (3.40%) Data Architect
16 32 (3.30%) Python Developer
17 31 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 31 (3.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (16.08%) PySpark
2 112 (11.55%) Terraform
3 106 (10.93%) Kafka
4 68 (7.01%) REST
5 52 (5.36%) Pandas
6 33 (3.40%) NumPy
7 28 (2.89%) .NET
7 28 (2.89%) FastAPI
8 26 (2.68%) React
9 23 (2.37%) RESTful
10 21 (2.16%) Flask
10 21 (2.16%) JSON
11 20 (2.06%) Polars
12 18 (1.86%) Apache Avro
12 18 (1.86%) PyTorch
13 14 (1.44%) scikit-learn
13 14 (1.44%) Spring
13 14 (1.44%) Spring Boot
13 14 (1.44%) TensorFlow
14 12 (1.24%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 132 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.98%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.92%) Data Structures
6 37 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
9 17 (1.75%) Hedge funds
10 16 (1.65%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.55%) NHS
12 14 (1.44%) Equities
12 14 (1.44%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.24%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.03%) Derivative
16 10 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.12%) Linux
2 29 (2.99%) Unix
3 15 (1.55%) 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
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (45.36%) Data Engineering
2 409 (42.16%) Analytics
3 370 (38.14%) CI/CD
4 362 (37.32%) Data Modelling
5 336 (34.64%) ETL
6 286 (29.48%) AI
7 236 (24.33%) DevOps
8 221 (22.78%) Agile
9 216 (22.27%) Machine Learning
10 193 (19.90%) Data Governance
11 170 (17.53%) Business Intelligence
12 166 (17.11%) Data Science
13 159 (16.39%) Validation
14 151 (15.57%) Data Transformation
15 150 (15.46%) Data Architecture
16 149 (15.36%) Decision-Making
17 129 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
18 125 (12.89%) Migration
19 117 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
20 110 (11.34%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 550 (56.70%) Python
2 526 (54.23%) SQL
3 87 (8.97%) Java
4 48 (4.95%) C#
5 37 (3.81%) Scala
6 31 (3.20%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.09%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (2.58%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.47%) R
10 21 (2.16%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.96%) Bash
12 10 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.93%) Go
13 9 (0.93%) LookML
14 7 (0.72%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.62%) C++
16 5 (0.52%) Korn
17 4 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 166 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 144 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 38 (3.92%) Degree
4 19 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.13%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.82%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.72%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.41%) CISSP
11 4 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.31%) CISA
12 3 (0.31%) CISM
12 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.31%) PhD
12 3 (0.31%) PMP
13 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (33.51%) Data Quality
2 60 (6.19%) QA
3 25 (2.58%) GDPR
4 23 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.93%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
7 4 (0.41%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 111 (11.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) etcd
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 99 (10.21%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.24%) Grafana
3 9 (0.93%) Ansible
3 9 (0.93%) Control-M
3 9 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.52%) Kibana
5 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.21%) Puppet
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.10%) Istio
7 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 225 (23.20%) Databricks
2 143 (14.74%) Microsoft
3 58 (5.98%) Oracle
4 52 (5.36%) Google
5 41 (4.23%) Informatica
6 18 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.75%) Palantir
8 14 (1.44%) Foundry
9 12 (1.24%) Splunk
10 11 (1.13%) Cloudera
10 11 (1.13%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.93%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.93%) SAP
12 8 (0.82%) Confluent
12 8 (0.82%) Teradata
13 7 (0.72%) Hitachi
14 6 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (0.62%) New Relic
14 6 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.62%) SnapLogic