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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 101 140
Rank change year-on-year +51 +39 +84
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 781 345 311
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.34% 2.78% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 3.01% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 254 237
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £45.46 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £64.75 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% +8.25% -33.10%
75th Percentile £73.50 £65.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.40 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £58.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.89% -6.00% -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 15,883 11,458 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 7,744 11,113
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £809 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 179 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.11 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +22.13% -25.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +32 106 £513 -6.82% 81
West London 0 26 £520 +1.56% 13
East London -2 5 £450 - 10
South London -8 4 £500 +5.26% 8
North London - 1 £178 - 1
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
1 105 (13.44%) Apache Spark
2 90 (11.52%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (6.15%) Apache
4 11 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.28%) Confluence
6 8 (1.02%) Appian
6 8 (1.02%) SAS
7 5 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.26%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.38%) Trello
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.64%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 373 (47.76%) Azure
2 278 (35.60%) AWS
3 147 (18.82%) Power Platform
4 125 (16.01%) Azure Data Factory
4 125 (16.01%) GCP
5 95 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
6 90 (11.52%) GitHub
7 86 (11.01%) Snowflake
8 83 (10.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 74 (9.48%) Amazon S3
10 68 (8.71%) Serverless
11 64 (8.19%) dbt
12 58 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (3.33%) Dagster
15 22 (2.82%) Azure AI
16 19 (2.43%) Amazon Kinesis
16 19 (2.43%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (2.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.38%) Firewall
2 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
2 2 (0.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) HTTP
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (21.38%) Data Warehouse
2 125 (16.01%) Power BI
3 120 (15.36%) Data Lake
4 73 (9.35%) Metadata
5 69 (8.83%) Delta Lake
6 63 (8.07%) SQL Server
7 51 (6.53%) BigQuery
8 50 (6.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (5.76%) Big Data
10 43 (5.51%) Tableau
11 42 (5.38%) NoSQL
11 42 (5.38%) Relational Database
12 38 (4.87%) Snowflake Schema
13 33 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 28 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (3.20%) Spark SQL
16 20 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
17 18 (2.30%) Star Schema
18 16 (2.05%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 111 (14.21%) Git
2 31 (3.97%) JIRA
2 31 (3.97%) MLflow
3 27 (3.46%) GitLab
4 26 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.02%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.64%) Selenium
8 4 (0.51%) Gradle
8 4 (0.51%) Maven
9 3 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.26%) Postman
10 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) CMake
11 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.13%) Mocha
11 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 241 (30.86%) Finance
2 162 (20.74%) Social Skills
3 125 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.17%) Banking
5 46 (5.89%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.18%) Retail
8 15 (1.92%) Marketing
9 14 (1.79%) Front Office
9 14 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.66%) Back Office
10 13 (1.66%) Publishing
11 12 (1.54%) Legal
12 11 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.90%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.64%) Billing
17 4 (0.51%) Electronics
17 4 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 370 (47.38%) Data Engineer
2 131 (16.77%) Senior
3 91 (11.65%) Developer
4 87 (11.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 60 (7.68%) Azure Engineer
6 57 (7.30%) Architect
7 53 (6.79%) Azure Data Engineer
7 53 (6.79%) Lead
8 38 (4.87%) Python Engineer
9 37 (4.74%) Data Scientist
10 34 (4.35%) Analyst
11 29 (3.71%) Snowflake Engineer
12 27 (3.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 25 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 24 (3.07%) Python Developer
14 24 (3.07%) Senior Developer
15 23 (2.94%) Data Architect
16 22 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
16 22 (2.82%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (16.77%) PySpark
2 83 (10.63%) Kafka
3 79 (10.12%) Pandas
4 52 (6.66%) NumPy
5 40 (5.12%) REST
5 40 (5.12%) scikit-learn
6 34 (4.35%) PyTorch
7 31 (3.97%) TensorFlow
8 29 (3.71%) FastAPI
9 28 (3.59%) Flask
10 26 (3.33%) RESTful
11 20 (2.56%) Polars
12 17 (2.18%) .NET
12 17 (2.18%) Apache Avro
13 16 (2.05%) Hugging Face
14 15 (1.92%) JSON
14 15 (1.92%) pytest
14 15 (1.92%) React
15 14 (1.79%) Spring
15 14 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 85 (10.88%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.84%) Data Structures
5 26 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
7 22 (2.82%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.43%) Hedge funds
10 18 (2.30%) Equities
11 15 (1.92%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.79%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.54%) Derivative
15 11 (1.41%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
17 8 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
17 8 (1.02%) Low-Code
18 7 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.82%) Linux
2 17 (2.18%) Unix
3 5 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (43.28%) Analytics
2 335 (42.89%) Data Engineering
3 307 (39.31%) ETL
4 304 (38.92%) Data Modelling
5 285 (36.49%) CI/CD
6 216 (27.66%) AI
7 211 (27.02%) DevOps
8 177 (22.66%) Agile
9 176 (22.54%) Data Governance
10 170 (21.77%) Machine Learning
11 155 (19.85%) Data Science
12 148 (18.95%) Business Intelligence
13 118 (15.11%) Data Architecture
13 118 (15.11%) Decision-Making
14 113 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
15 112 (14.34%) Validation
16 91 (11.65%) Use Case
17 87 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
18 82 (10.50%) Data Integration
19 79 (10.12%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 473 (60.56%) Python
2 445 (56.98%) SQL
3 78 (9.99%) Java
4 68 (8.71%) Scala
5 41 (5.25%) C#
6 29 (3.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (2.69%) R
8 18 (2.30%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.66%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.54%) Bash
12 11 (1.41%) Bicep
12 11 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.41%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.90%) C++
15 4 (0.51%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.51%) X++
16 3 (0.38%) Korn
16 3 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 159 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 141 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.63%) Degree
4 25 (3.20%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.64%) PhD
10 5 (0.64%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.26%) CISA
13 2 (0.26%) CISSP
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (32.91%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.99%) QA
3 34 (4.35%) GDPR
4 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
4 6 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.51%) SLA
6 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.38%) NIST
6 3 (0.38%) PERC
6 3 (0.38%) PMO
7 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.26%) IFRS
7 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) Basel III
8 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (12.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.26%) Ceph
2 2 (0.26%) Firmware
2 2 (0.26%) Lustre
2 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) etcd
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (11.65%) Terraform
2 89 (11.40%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.41%) Grafana
4 10 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.38%) Control-M
5 3 (0.38%) Istio
6 2 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.26%) Kibana
6 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 208 (26.63%) Databricks
2 129 (16.52%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.61%) Informatica
4 31 (3.97%) Google
5 28 (3.59%) Oracle
6 24 (3.07%) OpenAI
7 16 (2.05%) Foundry
8 13 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.41%) Palantir
9 11 (1.41%) SAP
10 8 (1.02%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.02%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.02%) UiPath
11 7 (0.90%) Workday
12 6 (0.77%) Splunk
13 5 (0.64%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.64%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.64%) Talend
14 4 (0.51%) Confluent
14 4 (0.51%) NVIDIA