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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 82 117
Rank change year-on-year +34 +35 +104
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 951 452 357
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.71% 3.36% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.30% 3.63% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 326 258
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £453 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £673
90th Percentile £775 £775 £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 £55.00 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -17.91% - -

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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 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 18 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 +14 107 £565 - 123
West London +2 30 £520 +0.29% 34
East London +2 6 £460 -54.00% 13
South London -5 5 £500 +14.29% 6
North London - 1 £178 -
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
1 129 (13.56%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (11.46%) Apache Spark
3 88 (9.25%) Apache
4 16 (1.68%) SAS
5 15 (1.58%) Confluence
6 8 (0.84%) CMS
6 8 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 381 (40.06%) Azure
2 341 (35.86%) AWS
3 159 (16.72%) GCP
4 148 (15.56%) Snowflake
5 140 (14.72%) Power Platform
6 122 (12.83%) dbt
7 113 (11.88%) Amazon S3
8 110 (11.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 81 (8.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 80 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
10 80 (8.41%) Serverless
11 79 (8.31%) GitHub
12 69 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (5.57%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (3.79%) Azure Databricks
15 23 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (2.31%) Amazon Bedrock
17 21 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (2.21%) SaaS
18 20 (2.10%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Internet
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) SSH
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (18.72%) Data Warehouse
2 126 (13.25%) Power BI
3 114 (11.99%) Data Lake
4 101 (10.62%) Metadata
5 86 (9.04%) BigQuery
6 79 (8.31%) Delta Lake
7 58 (6.10%) Big Data
8 49 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 45 (4.73%) Tableau
10 44 (4.63%) Relational Database
11 41 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (4.31%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
13 32 (3.36%) NoSQL
13 32 (3.36%) Snowflake Schema
14 30 (3.15%) Looker
15 22 (2.31%) Flink
16 21 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
17 20 (2.10%) Parquet
17 20 (2.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 104 (10.94%) Git
2 46 (4.84%) GitLab
3 27 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.84%) JIRA
4 11 (1.16%) MLflow
5 9 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.74%) ERwin
7 7 (0.74%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.63%) Selenium
9 5 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.53%) Gradle
9 5 (0.53%) JUnit
9 5 (0.53%) Maven
9 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.32%) RStudio
General
1 301 (31.65%) Finance
2 200 (21.03%) Social Skills
3 178 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (10.41%) Banking
5 67 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.84%) Front Office
6 27 (2.84%) Retail
7 25 (2.63%) Marketing
8 19 (2.00%) Back Office
9 17 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.16%) Legal
11 11 (1.16%) Publishing
12 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.95%) Billing
13 9 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.84%) Law
15 7 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 397 (41.75%) Data Engineer
2 167 (17.56%) Senior
3 99 (10.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 91 (9.57%) Lead
5 86 (9.04%) Developer
6 82 (8.62%) Architect
7 56 (5.89%) Analyst
8 52 (5.47%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (4.63%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 44 (4.63%) Python Engineer
11 41 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
12 38 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
13 34 (3.58%) Data Architect
13 34 (3.58%) Data Scientist
14 33 (3.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 31 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 31 (3.26%) Data Analyst
16 30 (3.15%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (15.56%) PySpark
2 115 (12.09%) Terraform
3 100 (10.52%) Kafka
4 64 (6.73%) REST
5 47 (4.94%) Pandas
6 30 (3.15%) NumPy
7 27 (2.84%) .NET
8 26 (2.73%) FastAPI
9 25 (2.63%) React
10 23 (2.42%) RESTful
11 19 (2.00%) Flask
12 18 (1.89%) JSON
12 18 (1.89%) PyTorch
13 17 (1.79%) Polars
14 14 (1.47%) Apache Avro
14 14 (1.47%) Spring
14 14 (1.47%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.47%) TensorFlow
15 13 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (1.26%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 131 (13.77%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 60 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.89%) Data Structures
6 33 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.42%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
10 16 (1.68%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.58%) NHS
12 14 (1.47%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.16%) Equities
14 11 (1.16%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.16%) Taxonomies
15 10 (1.05%) Derivative
16 9 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.00%) Linux
2 28 (2.94%) Unix
3 15 (1.58%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (45.74%) Data Engineering
2 396 (41.64%) Analytics
3 363 (38.17%) CI/CD
4 353 (37.12%) Data Modelling
5 331 (34.81%) ETL
6 287 (30.18%) AI
7 217 (22.82%) Agile
7 217 (22.82%) Machine Learning
8 216 (22.71%) DevOps
9 192 (20.19%) Data Governance
10 162 (17.03%) Data Science
11 160 (16.82%) Validation
12 159 (16.72%) Business Intelligence
13 147 (15.46%) Data Transformation
14 144 (15.14%) Data Architecture
15 142 (14.93%) Decision-Making
16 129 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
17 123 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
18 119 (12.51%) Migration
19 110 (11.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 542 (56.99%) Python
2 506 (53.21%) SQL
3 84 (8.83%) Java
4 48 (5.05%) C#
5 37 (3.89%) Scala
6 30 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.63%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.52%) R
10 22 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (2.21%) TypeScript
12 20 (2.10%) Bash
13 10 (1.05%) Go
14 9 (0.95%) LookML
14 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.63%) C++
17 6 (0.63%) Korn
18 5 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 158 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 136 (14.30%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.10%) Degree
4 21 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.84%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.42%) CISSP
11 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.32%) CISA
12 3 (0.32%) CISM
12 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.32%) PhD
12 3 (0.32%) PMP
12 3 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (34.17%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.68%) QA
3 23 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.31%) GDPR
5 9 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) Basel III
7 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (11.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 97 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.16%) Ansible
3 10 (1.05%) Grafana
4 9 (0.95%) Control-M
5 8 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.53%) Kibana
7 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
9 1 (0.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 227 (23.87%) Databricks
2 133 (13.99%) Microsoft
3 57 (5.99%) Google
3 57 (5.99%) Oracle
4 36 (3.79%) Informatica
5 19 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.68%) Palantir
7 13 (1.37%) Foundry
7 13 (1.37%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.16%) Splunk
9 9 (0.95%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.95%) SAP
10 8 (0.84%) Teradata
11 7 (0.74%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.74%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.63%) New Relic
12 6 (0.63%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.63%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.53%) Bloomberg