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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 113 150
Rank change year-on-year +50 +37 +79
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 695 308 292
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 2.43% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 2.66% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 221 226
10th Percentile £391 £400 £409
25th Percentile £450 £436 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £645 £665
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £61.63 £52.75 £40.54
25th Percentile £62.19 £55.00 £41.57
Median hourly rate £66.25 £61.25 £45.35
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +35.08% -37.46%
75th Percentile £72.19 £65.00 £48.82
90th Percentile £73.88 - £49.68
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -11.03%

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 14,942 11,579 15,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.72% 91.43% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,023 7,821 11,436
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +14.75% -21.79%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +59 102 £513 -2.15% 115
West London - 21 £600 - 5
South London -8 11 £500 +2.56% 1
East London -3 3 £450 - 6
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
1 108 (15.54%) Apache Spark
2 97 (13.96%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (6.04%) Apache
4 10 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.15%) Appian
6 7 (1.01%) SAS
7 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.72%) Confluence
9 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.29%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.43%) Trello
4 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Aladdin
1 3 (0.43%) BambooHR
1 3 (0.43%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 349 (50.22%) Azure
2 264 (37.99%) AWS
3 133 (19.14%) Power Platform
4 129 (18.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 119 (17.12%) GCP
6 91 (13.09%) GitHub
7 90 (12.95%) Snowflake
8 84 (12.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 78 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (10.65%) Serverless
11 69 (9.93%) Amazon S3
12 63 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
13 62 (8.92%) dbt
14 48 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (3.60%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (3.31%) Dagster
17 22 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (2.73%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (2.73%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.58%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.43%) Firewall
2 3 (0.43%) Network Security
2 3 (0.43%) VPN
3 2 (0.29%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (23.74%) Data Warehouse
2 118 (16.98%) Power BI
3 114 (16.40%) Data Lake
4 66 (9.50%) Metadata
5 58 (8.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 55 (7.91%) SQL Server
7 54 (7.77%) Delta Lake
8 50 (7.19%) NoSQL
9 43 (6.19%) Big Data
10 42 (6.04%) BigQuery
11 39 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 39 (5.61%) Tableau
12 34 (4.89%) Snowflake Schema
13 30 (4.32%) Relational Database
14 22 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
15 20 (2.88%) Spark SQL
16 19 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 17 (2.45%) Star Schema
18 15 (2.16%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 110 (15.83%) Git
2 31 (4.46%) MLflow
3 28 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 27 (3.88%) GitLab
5 24 (3.45%) JIRA
6 4 (0.58%) Selenium
6 4 (0.58%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.43%) ERwin
7 3 (0.43%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.14%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 200 (28.78%) Finance
2 164 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 101 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (7.05%) Banking
5 43 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.02%) Front Office
8 16 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 15 (2.16%) Legal
10 12 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.58%) Marketing
11 11 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.44%) Back Office
12 10 (1.44%) Retail
13 9 (1.29%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.15%) Electronics
15 7 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.72%) Publishing
17 3 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 331 (47.63%) Data Engineer
2 96 (13.81%) Senior
3 70 (10.07%) Developer
4 68 (9.78%) Senior Data Engineer
5 57 (8.20%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (7.63%) Architect
7 51 (7.34%) Azure Data Engineer
8 50 (7.19%) Lead
9 36 (5.18%) Data Scientist
10 34 (4.89%) Python Engineer
11 32 (4.60%) Snowflake Engineer
12 28 (4.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 27 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 25 (3.60%) Analyst
15 24 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (3.02%) Consultant
16 21 (3.02%) Data Architect
16 21 (3.02%) GCP Engineer
16 21 (3.02%) Lead Data Engineer
17 20 (2.88%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (18.56%) PySpark
2 74 (10.65%) Kafka
3 58 (8.35%) Pandas
4 44 (6.33%) scikit-learn
5 41 (5.90%) PyTorch
6 40 (5.76%) NumPy
7 39 (5.61%) TensorFlow
8 28 (4.03%) REST
9 22 (3.17%) FastAPI
10 19 (2.73%) pytest
10 19 (2.73%) React
11 18 (2.59%) Flask
11 18 (2.59%) JSON
12 16 (2.30%) Hugging Face
13 14 (2.01%) .NET
14 13 (1.87%) YAML
15 12 (1.73%) Django
15 12 (1.73%) RESTful
15 12 (1.73%) Web Services
16 11 (1.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.03%) Data Structures
4 27 (3.88%) Algorithms
5 25 (3.60%) Distributed Computing
6 22 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.88%) Equities
8 18 (2.59%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.59%) Derivative
9 17 (2.45%) Fixed Income
9 17 (2.45%) Product Ownership
10 14 (2.01%) Hedge funds
11 10 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.29%) Equity Derivative
13 8 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.15%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.15%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.15%) Reinsurance
14 7 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.73%) Linux
2 9 (1.29%) Unix
3 4 (0.58%) Windows
4 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (46.33%) Data Engineering
2 303 (43.60%) Analytics
3 274 (39.42%) ETL
4 273 (39.28%) Data Modelling
5 262 (37.70%) CI/CD
6 205 (29.50%) AI
7 191 (27.48%) DevOps
8 178 (25.61%) Machine Learning
9 177 (25.47%) Agile
10 167 (24.03%) Data Governance
11 162 (23.31%) Data Science
12 142 (20.43%) Business Intelligence
13 109 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
14 99 (14.24%) Data Architecture
15 90 (12.95%) Data Integration
15 90 (12.95%) Validation
16 88 (12.66%) Decision-Making
17 82 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
18 76 (10.94%) Use Case
19 74 (10.65%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 458 (65.90%) Python
2 408 (58.71%) SQL
3 73 (10.50%) Scala
4 55 (7.91%) Java
5 26 (3.74%) C#
6 24 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.88%) JavaScript
8 16 (2.30%) Bicep
8 16 (2.30%) T-SQL
9 13 (1.87%) R
10 11 (1.58%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.44%) C++
11 10 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.15%) Korn
14 7 (1.01%) Bash
14 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.43%) SAS Macro
16 2 (0.29%) Ruby
17 1 (0.14%) C
Qualifications
1 136 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 118 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.63%) Degree
4 23 (3.31%) Azure Certification
4 23 (3.31%) Master's Degree
5 12 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.58%) PhD
7 10 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
9 8 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.58%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.43%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.29%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) HP APS
13 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (32.81%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.90%) GDPR
3 30 (4.32%) QA
4 9 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.29%) PERC
5 7 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.29%) EMIR
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
8 2 (0.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.29%) PMO
8 2 (0.29%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) Basel III
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 92 (13.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Ceph
3 2 (0.29%) Firmware
3 2 (0.29%) HDFS
3 2 (0.29%) Lustre
3 2 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.14%) etcd
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (12.95%) Terraform
2 80 (11.51%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.43%) Grafana
4 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.43%) Kibana
4 3 (0.43%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.29%) Control-M
5 2 (0.29%) Istio
5 2 (0.29%) logstash
6 1 (0.14%) Ansible
6 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 218 (31.37%) Databricks
2 114 (16.40%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.89%) Google
4 31 (4.46%) Informatica
5 29 (4.17%) OpenAI
6 22 (3.17%) Oracle
7 15 (2.16%) Foundry
8 13 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.44%) Palantir
10 9 (1.29%) SAP
10 9 (1.29%) UiPath
11 8 (1.15%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (1.01%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.72%) Adobe
14 5 (0.72%) mParticle
14 5 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.72%) NVIDIA
14 5 (0.72%) Splunk
14 5 (0.72%) Tealium