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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 112 152
Rank change year-on-year +43 +40 +75
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 606 310 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 2.30% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 2.54% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 206 223
10th Percentile £375 £400 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £645 £642
90th Percentile £759 £766 £738
England median daily rate £513 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £45.65 £58.00 £35.19
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.63 £35.47
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +67.05% -40.14%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £45.96
90th Percentile - - £48.54
England median hourly rate £64.75 £61.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% +26.29% -25.38%

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 13,620 12,187 16,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.80% 90.56% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,063 7,736 11,780
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 150 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.23 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.48 £19.38
Median hourly rate £34.14 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.63 £50.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.08 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +43 86 £500 -4.76% 64
West London -3 15 £625 - 6
South London -3 11 £500 +1.27% 3
East London +5 7 £1,000 - 2
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 97 (16.01%) Apache Spark
2 86 (14.19%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (5.78%) Apache
4 10 (1.65%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.32%) Appian
6 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.66%) SAS
8 3 (0.50%) Confluence
8 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.33%) Luigi
9 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.17%) Camunda
10 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.33%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.33%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.17%) Actimize
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 289 (47.69%) Azure
2 238 (39.27%) AWS
3 117 (19.31%) Azure Data Factory
4 97 (16.01%) Power Platform
5 90 (14.85%) GCP
6 74 (12.21%) GitHub
6 74 (12.21%) Snowflake
7 73 (12.05%) Serverless
8 68 (11.22%) Amazon S3
9 62 (10.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 58 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (9.57%) dbt
11 46 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (3.80%) AWS Step Functions
13 22 (3.63%) Amazon Kinesis
14 18 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (2.81%) Amazon SageMaker
16 15 (2.48%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.66%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.50%) VPN
3 2 (0.33%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.33%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) HTTP
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (20.63%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (15.18%) Data Lake
3 91 (15.02%) Power BI
4 49 (8.09%) Metadata
5 47 (7.76%) NoSQL
6 46 (7.59%) Delta Lake
7 44 (7.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (7.10%) SQL Server
9 34 (5.61%) Big Data
10 33 (5.45%) Tableau
11 29 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (4.46%) BigQuery
13 25 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
14 24 (3.96%) Relational Database
15 21 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
15 21 (3.47%) Star Schema
16 14 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (2.31%) Hadoop
16 14 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (2.15%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 93 (15.35%) Git
2 28 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 28 (4.62%) MLflow
3 22 (3.63%) GitLab
4 16 (2.64%) JIRA
5 3 (0.50%) Selenium
5 3 (0.50%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.50%) Terragrunt
5 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.33%) ERwin
6 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.33%) TestRail
7 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.17%) Gradle
7 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 177 (29.21%) Finance
2 153 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 79 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.25%) Banking
5 34 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.79%) Front Office
7 19 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.81%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.15%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.15%) Marketing
9 13 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.98%) Retail
11 11 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.82%) Legal
12 9 (1.49%) Back Office
12 9 (1.49%) Electronics
13 7 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.66%) Military
15 3 (0.50%) Law
15 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 276 (45.54%) Data Engineer
2 85 (14.03%) Senior
3 73 (12.05%) Developer
4 61 (10.07%) Senior Data Engineer
5 56 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (8.58%) Architect
7 47 (7.76%) Azure Data Engineer
8 44 (7.26%) Lead
9 36 (5.94%) Python Engineer
10 29 (4.79%) Snowflake Engineer
11 28 (4.62%) Data Scientist
12 24 (3.96%) Analyst
12 24 (3.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 23 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 20 (3.30%) Data Architect
14 20 (3.30%) Lead Data Engineer
15 19 (3.14%) Consultant
15 19 (3.14%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (2.97%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (17.99%) PySpark
2 75 (12.38%) Kafka
3 46 (7.59%) Pandas
4 41 (6.77%) PyTorch
5 37 (6.11%) TensorFlow
6 34 (5.61%) scikit-learn
7 32 (5.28%) NumPy
8 29 (4.79%) REST
9 21 (3.47%) FastAPI
10 20 (3.30%) React
11 19 (3.14%) .NET
12 18 (2.97%) Hugging Face
13 17 (2.81%) Flask
13 17 (2.81%) pytest
13 17 (2.81%) RESTful
14 14 (2.31%) LangChain
14 14 (2.31%) Node.js
15 13 (2.15%) JSON
16 12 (1.98%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.98%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.46%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.13%) Distributed Computing
5 22 (3.63%) Derivative
6 21 (3.47%) Equities
7 20 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.64%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.31%) Equity Derivative
10 13 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.98%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.98%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.82%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.65%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.65%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.49%) Replication
15 8 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.32%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.29%) Linux
2 9 (1.49%) Windows
3 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.33%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.17%) CentOS
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (45.21%) Data Engineering
2 240 (39.60%) ETL
3 232 (38.28%) Analytics
4 226 (37.29%) CI/CD
5 218 (35.97%) Data Modelling
6 176 (29.04%) AI
7 160 (26.40%) Agile
8 159 (26.24%) Machine Learning
9 145 (23.93%) Data Science
10 139 (22.94%) DevOps
11 138 (22.77%) Data Governance
12 113 (18.65%) Business Intelligence
13 109 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
14 88 (14.52%) Data Integration
15 86 (14.19%) Data Architecture
16 80 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
17 78 (12.87%) Validation
18 65 (10.73%) Visualisation
19 61 (10.07%) Performance Tuning
20 60 (9.90%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 415 (68.48%) Python
2 346 (57.10%) SQL
3 69 (11.39%) Scala
4 61 (10.07%) Java
5 29 (4.79%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.80%) C++
7 20 (3.30%) C#
8 17 (2.81%) Bicep
9 16 (2.64%) TypeScript
10 13 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (1.98%) R
12 11 (1.82%) Bash
13 10 (1.65%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.49%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.32%) Korn
16 7 (1.16%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.17%) ABAP
18 1 (0.17%) SPARQL
18 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 114 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 95 (15.68%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.09%) Degree
4 23 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.63%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.82%) PhD
8 8 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.17%) GIAC
12 1 (0.17%) HP APS
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (30.86%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.11%) GDPR
3 15 (2.48%) QA
4 12 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.49%) PERC
6 8 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.66%) NIST
8 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.50%) WCAG
9 2 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.33%) EMIR
9 2 (0.33%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.33%) MiFID
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 92 (15.18%) Docker
2 5 (0.83%) zsh
3 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.33%) Ceph
4 2 (0.33%) Firmware
4 2 (0.33%) Lustre
4 2 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 75 (12.38%) Kubernetes
1 75 (12.38%) Terraform
2 6 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (0.99%) Kibana
3 5 (0.83%) logstash
4 4 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Control-M
5 2 (0.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.33%) Istio
5 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 199 (32.84%) Databricks
2 85 (14.03%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.29%) OpenAI
4 23 (3.80%) Google
5 20 (3.30%) Oracle
6 16 (2.64%) Informatica
7 15 (2.48%) Foundry
8 10 (1.65%) Palantir
9 9 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.49%) SAP
9 9 (1.49%) UiPath
10 8 (1.32%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.99%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.83%) Adobe
12 5 (0.83%) mParticle
12 5 (0.83%) NVIDIA
12 5 (0.83%) Solace
12 5 (0.83%) Sophis
12 5 (0.83%) Splunk
12 5 (0.83%) TIBCO