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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 110 154
Rank change year-on-year +42 +44 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 596 325 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 2.34% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 2.58% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 216 215
10th Percentile £373 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% -7.83%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £638
90th Percentile £778 £775 £703
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £48.25 £58.00 -
25th Percentile £62.19 £60.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +82.43% -44.97%
75th Percentile £77.81 - £44.54
90th Percentile £78.75 - £47.96
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.25 £42.19
% change year-on-year +9.39% +45.18% -35.09%

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 13,453 12,575 16,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.47% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,910 7,994 11,570
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
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 £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 156 322
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +16.36% -19.79%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.60 £79.38 £72.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +39 83 £506 -7.95% 69
West London -4 13 £625 - 10
South London +1 12 £500 +1.22% 9
East London +7 7 £1,000 - 4
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 96 (16.11%) Apache Spark
2 85 (14.26%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (5.70%) Apache
4 6 (1.01%) Appian
5 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.67%) Luigi
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.34%) Confluence
8 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.50%) Trello
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.17%) Actimize
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 282 (47.32%) Azure
2 232 (38.93%) AWS
3 111 (18.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 100 (16.78%) Power Platform
5 91 (15.27%) GCP
6 76 (12.75%) GitHub
7 72 (12.08%) Serverless
8 71 (11.91%) Snowflake
9 67 (11.24%) Amazon S3
10 60 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (9.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 58 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (9.40%) dbt
14 50 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (4.03%) AWS Step Functions
16 22 (3.69%) Amazon Kinesis
17 18 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
18 17 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (2.35%) Amazon SageMaker
20 13 (2.18%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.67%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.50%) VPN
3 2 (0.34%) HTTP
3 2 (0.34%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (20.81%) Data Warehouse
2 93 (15.60%) Power BI
3 90 (15.10%) Data Lake
4 50 (8.39%) Metadata
5 48 (8.05%) NoSQL
6 45 (7.55%) Delta Lake
7 42 (7.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 42 (7.05%) SQL Server
8 37 (6.21%) Big Data
9 30 (5.03%) Tableau
10 29 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 28 (4.70%) BigQuery
12 25 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (4.19%) Relational Database
13 22 (3.69%) Star Schema
14 20 (3.36%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (2.68%) Hadoop
16 14 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (2.18%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 93 (15.60%) Git
2 29 (4.87%) Jenkins
3 27 (4.53%) MLflow
4 22 (3.69%) GitLab
5 16 (2.68%) JIRA
6 3 (0.50%) ERwin
6 3 (0.50%) Selenium
6 3 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.50%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.34%) TestRail
8 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.17%) NUnit
8 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 174 (29.19%) Finance
2 153 (25.67%) Social Skills
3 78 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (7.89%) Banking
5 34 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.20%) Front Office
7 20 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.19%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.18%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.18%) Marketing
9 13 (2.18%) Retail
10 12 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.85%) Legal
12 10 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.51%) Back Office
13 9 (1.51%) Electronics
14 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.67%) Military
16 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (44.63%) Data Engineer
2 80 (13.42%) Senior
3 76 (12.75%) Developer
4 56 (9.40%) Azure Engineer
5 55 (9.23%) Senior Data Engineer
6 51 (8.56%) Architect
7 47 (7.89%) Azure Data Engineer
8 44 (7.38%) Lead
9 35 (5.87%) Python Engineer
10 27 (4.53%) Data Scientist
10 27 (4.53%) Snowflake Engineer
11 26 (4.36%) Analyst
12 22 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 22 (3.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 21 (3.52%) Consultant
13 21 (3.52%) Data Architect
14 20 (3.36%) Lead Data Engineer
15 19 (3.19%) Data Analyst
16 18 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (3.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (17.95%) PySpark
2 72 (12.08%) Kafka
3 43 (7.21%) Pandas
4 38 (6.38%) PyTorch
5 36 (6.04%) TensorFlow
6 32 (5.37%) scikit-learn
7 30 (5.03%) NumPy
8 26 (4.36%) REST
9 20 (3.36%) React
10 19 (3.19%) .NET
11 18 (3.02%) FastAPI
12 16 (2.68%) Hugging Face
12 16 (2.68%) pytest
13 15 (2.52%) RESTful
14 14 (2.35%) Flask
14 14 (2.35%) JSON
15 13 (2.18%) LangChain
15 13 (2.18%) Node.js
16 12 (2.01%) AngularJS
17 10 (1.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.36%) Algorithms
2 26 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (3.86%) Derivative
3 23 (3.86%) Distributed Computing
4 22 (3.69%) Equities
5 20 (3.36%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.35%) AI Agents
6 14 (2.35%) Equity Derivative
6 14 (2.35%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (1.85%) Reinsurance
9 10 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.68%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.51%) Replication
11 8 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.17%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.36%) Linux
2 8 (1.34%) Windows
3 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) CentOS
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (43.62%) Data Engineering
2 236 (39.60%) ETL
3 228 (38.26%) Analytics
4 220 (36.91%) CI/CD
5 214 (35.91%) Data Modelling
6 167 (28.02%) AI
7 159 (26.68%) Agile
8 150 (25.17%) Machine Learning
9 143 (23.99%) Data Science
10 142 (23.83%) DevOps
11 140 (23.49%) Data Governance
12 114 (19.13%) Business Intelligence
13 110 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (15.27%) Data Integration
15 87 (14.60%) Data Architecture
16 79 (13.26%) Validation
17 73 (12.25%) Infrastructure as Code
18 61 (10.23%) Use Case
19 60 (10.07%) Visualisation
20 59 (9.90%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 408 (68.46%) Python
2 335 (56.21%) SQL
3 68 (11.41%) Scala
4 64 (10.74%) Java
5 30 (5.03%) JavaScript
6 25 (4.19%) C++
7 22 (3.69%) C#
8 17 (2.85%) Bicep
9 15 (2.52%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (2.01%) R
11 11 (1.85%) Bash
12 9 (1.51%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.34%) Korn
13 8 (1.34%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
17 1 (0.17%) Rust
17 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 114 (19.13%) Security Cleared
2 94 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.39%) Degree
4 23 (3.86%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.69%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.85%) PhD
9 9 (1.51%) MCP
10 8 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.17%) CBAP
13 1 (0.17%) HP APS
13 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (30.70%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.04%) GDPR
3 15 (2.52%) QA
4 12 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.51%) PERC
6 8 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.50%) WCAG
9 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.34%) EMIR
9 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.34%) MiFID
9 2 (0.34%) NIST
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (15.10%) Docker
2 5 (0.84%) zsh
3 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.34%) Ceph
4 2 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.34%) Lustre
4 2 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 72 (12.08%) Terraform
2 70 (11.74%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.01%) Kibana
4 5 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (0.84%) logstash
5 3 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.34%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Grafana
6 2 (0.34%) Istio
6 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 198 (33.22%) Databricks
2 83 (13.93%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.19%) Google
4 24 (4.03%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.52%) Oracle
6 17 (2.85%) Informatica
7 15 (2.52%) Foundry
8 12 (2.01%) SAP
9 10 (1.68%) Palantir
10 9 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.17%) UiPath
12 6 (1.01%) Automation Anywhere
12 6 (1.01%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.84%) Adobe
13 5 (0.84%) mParticle
13 5 (0.84%) NVIDIA
13 5 (0.84%) Solace
13 5 (0.84%) Sophis
13 5 (0.84%) Tealium
13 5 (0.84%) TIBCO