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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 85 124
Rank change year-on-year +38 +39 +84
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 956 439 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.77% 3.31% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 3.58% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 323 237
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £451 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - £39.69 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.84 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £64.88 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £74.03 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £67.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -9.70% -0.74% -12.90%

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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £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 £688
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 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 2 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 2 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 +8 96 £555 +0.45% 64
West London +8 32 £520 +0.29% 35
East London +4 5 £450 -55.00% 5
South London -10 5 £500 +11.11% 3
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 (13.49%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (11.51%) Apache Spark
3 91 (9.52%) Apache
4 17 (1.78%) SAS
5 14 (1.46%) Confluence
6 10 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.84%) CMS
8 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
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 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.42%) 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 9 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
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%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 391 (40.90%) Azure
2 352 (36.82%) AWS
3 156 (16.32%) GCP
4 151 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 145 (15.17%) Snowflake
6 114 (11.92%) dbt
7 110 (11.51%) Amazon S3
7 110 (11.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 93 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
9 88 (9.21%) GitHub
10 84 (8.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 78 (8.16%) Serverless
12 68 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (3.66%) Azure Databricks
15 22 (2.30%) SaaS
16 20 (2.09%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (2.09%) Dagster
17 19 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (1.78%) Amazon EventBridge
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
1 185 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (14.33%) Power BI
3 129 (13.49%) Data Lake
4 105 (10.98%) Metadata
5 77 (8.05%) BigQuery
5 77 (8.05%) Delta Lake
6 61 (6.38%) Big Data
7 52 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (5.13%) Tableau
9 46 (4.81%) Relational Database
10 45 (4.71%) SQL Server
11 40 (4.18%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (3.56%) Snowflake Schema
13 33 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (3.24%) NoSQL
15 28 (2.93%) Looker
16 26 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (2.51%) Flink
17 24 (2.51%) Star Schema
18 21 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 91 (9.52%) Git
2 42 (4.39%) GitLab
3 30 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.14%) JIRA
4 12 (1.26%) MLflow
5 8 (0.84%) ERwin
6 7 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
7 6 (0.63%) Terragrunt
8 5 (0.52%) Gradle
8 5 (0.52%) Maven
8 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.42%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.42%) JUnit
9 4 (0.42%) Selenium
10 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.31%) RStudio
General
1 296 (30.96%) Finance
2 198 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 174 (18.20%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (9.31%) Banking
5 71 (7.43%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.82%) Front Office
6 27 (2.82%) Retail
7 23 (2.41%) Marketing
8 18 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.78%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.67%) Back Office
11 12 (1.26%) Publishing
12 11 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.94%) Billing
14 9 (0.94%) Legal
15 8 (0.84%) Law
16 7 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 403 (42.15%) Data Engineer
2 160 (16.74%) Senior
3 92 (9.62%) Lead
4 91 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 90 (9.41%) Developer
6 82 (8.58%) Architect
7 58 (6.07%) Analyst
8 51 (5.33%) Databricks Engineer
9 50 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
10 46 (4.81%) Python Engineer
11 44 (4.60%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 40 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
13 39 (4.08%) Azure Data Engineer
14 36 (3.77%) Data Scientist
15 35 (3.66%) Data Analyst
15 35 (3.66%) Snowflake Engineer
16 33 (3.45%) Data Architect
17 32 (3.35%) Python Developer
18 31 (3.24%) Python Data Engineer
19 30 (3.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (16.00%) PySpark
2 107 (11.19%) Terraform
3 105 (10.98%) Kafka
4 65 (6.80%) REST
5 52 (5.44%) Pandas
6 32 (3.35%) NumPy
7 28 (2.93%) .NET
8 27 (2.82%) FastAPI
8 27 (2.82%) React
9 23 (2.41%) JSON
10 22 (2.30%) RESTful
11 21 (2.20%) Flask
12 20 (2.09%) Polars
13 18 (1.88%) Apache Avro
13 18 (1.88%) PyTorch
14 14 (1.46%) scikit-learn
14 14 (1.46%) Spring
14 14 (1.46%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.46%) TensorFlow
15 12 (1.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 127 (13.28%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 58 (6.07%) Onboarding
4 46 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (3.66%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.78%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
9 17 (1.78%) Hedge funds
10 16 (1.67%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.57%) Equities
11 15 (1.57%) NHS
11 15 (1.57%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.36%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.15%) Derivative
13 11 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.18%) Linux
2 29 (3.03%) Unix
3 14 (1.46%) 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
1 425 (44.46%) Data Engineering
2 403 (42.15%) Analytics
3 358 (37.45%) CI/CD
4 353 (36.92%) Data Modelling
5 333 (34.83%) ETL
6 278 (29.08%) AI
7 232 (24.27%) DevOps
8 221 (23.12%) Agile
9 214 (22.38%) Machine Learning
10 187 (19.56%) Data Governance
11 167 (17.47%) Business Intelligence
12 166 (17.36%) Data Science
13 157 (16.42%) Validation
14 150 (15.69%) Decision-Making
15 145 (15.17%) Data Architecture
16 144 (15.06%) Data Transformation
17 122 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
18 120 (12.55%) Migration
19 111 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
20 105 (10.98%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 549 (57.43%) Python
2 511 (53.45%) SQL
3 90 (9.41%) Java
4 49 (5.13%) C#
5 36 (3.77%) Scala
6 32 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.14%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.62%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.62%) R
9 23 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (2.20%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.99%) Bash
12 10 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.94%) Go
13 9 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.73%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.63%) C++
16 5 (0.52%) LookML
17 4 (0.42%) Bicep
17 4 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 165 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 145 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 38 (3.97%) Degree
4 18 (1.88%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.52%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.42%) CISSP
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
1 309 (32.32%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.07%) QA
3 28 (2.93%) GDPR
4 22 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.94%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) 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%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (11.40%) 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 97 (10.15%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.26%) Grafana
3 9 (0.94%) Ansible
3 9 (0.94%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.84%) Control-M
5 5 (0.52%) Kibana
6 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.10%) Istio
8 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 219 (22.91%) Databricks
2 140 (14.64%) Microsoft
3 54 (5.65%) Oracle
4 49 (5.13%) Google
5 42 (4.39%) Informatica
6 18 (1.88%) Palantir
6 18 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.46%) Foundry
8 11 (1.15%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.15%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.15%) Splunk
9 9 (0.94%) Amplitude
10 8 (0.84%) Confluent
10 8 (0.84%) SAP
10 8 (0.84%) Teradata
11 7 (0.73%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.63%) New Relic
12 6 (0.63%) SnapLogic
12 6 (0.63%) Workday
13 5 (0.52%) Talend