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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 105 170
Rank change year-on-year +37 +65 +81
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 541 375 266
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.78% 2.40% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 2.68% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 260 197
10th Percentile £394 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.68% -11.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £751 £703
England median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £45.90 £58.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £57.13 £60.63 £35.16
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +67.05% -33.49%
75th Percentile £75.38 - £59.88
90th Percentile £78.75 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.25 £53.60
% change year-on-year +9.39% +14.28% -2.55%

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +27 65 £550 +4.76% 29
South London +1 9 £500 -13.13% 6
East London +10 8 £1,000 - 6
West London -4 8 £550 - 7
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 84 (15.53%) Apache Spark
2 83 (15.34%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (6.65%) Apache
4 6 (1.11%) Confluence
4 6 (1.11%) SAS
5 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.55%) Luigi
5 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
Applications
1 20 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.37%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) Aligne
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 238 (43.99%) Azure
2 200 (36.97%) AWS
3 95 (17.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 89 (16.45%) Power Platform
5 86 (15.90%) GCP
6 72 (13.31%) GitHub
7 68 (12.57%) Snowflake
8 59 (10.91%) Amazon S3
8 59 (10.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 56 (10.35%) Serverless
10 55 (10.17%) dbt
11 49 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
13 41 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (2.77%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (2.40%) Azure Functions
17 12 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.74%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.55%) VPN
3 2 (0.37%) DNS
3 2 (0.37%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.18%) HTTP
4 1 (0.18%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (21.26%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (15.34%) Data Lake
2 83 (15.34%) Power BI
3 42 (7.76%) Big Data
3 42 (7.76%) Metadata
4 37 (6.84%) NoSQL
5 34 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (6.28%) BigQuery
6 33 (6.10%) Delta Lake
7 31 (5.73%) Tableau
8 30 (5.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (4.25%) SQL Server
10 22 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (3.70%) Star Schema
12 17 (3.14%) Relational Database
13 16 (2.96%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (2.77%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.59%) Amazon QuickSight
15 14 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 75 (13.86%) Git
2 35 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.14%) GitLab
4 15 (2.77%) MLflow
5 14 (2.59%) JIRA
6 4 (0.74%) Selenium
7 3 (0.55%) ERwin
7 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.37%) TestRail
9 1 (0.18%) GoCD
9 1 (0.18%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.18%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.18%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 153 (28.28%) Finance
2 151 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 82 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.06%) Banking
5 42 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.91%) Front Office
7 28 (5.18%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (2.59%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.40%) Retail
12 11 (2.03%) Legal
12 11 (2.03%) Marketing
13 10 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.48%) Electronics
15 7 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
16 6 (1.11%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.74%) Military
17 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 219 (40.48%) Data Engineer
2 75 (13.86%) Senior
3 74 (13.68%) Developer
4 51 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (8.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (8.13%) Architect
7 42 (7.76%) Azure Data Engineer
8 40 (7.39%) Lead
9 35 (6.47%) Python Engineer
10 34 (6.28%) Analyst
11 21 (3.88%) Data Analyst
11 21 (3.88%) Data Architect
12 20 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
13 19 (3.51%) Python Data Engineer
14 18 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.33%) Consultant
14 18 (3.33%) Data Scientist
15 17 (3.14%) Lead Data Engineer
15 17 (3.14%) Python Developer
15 17 (3.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.16%) PySpark
2 64 (11.83%) Kafka
3 25 (4.62%) TensorFlow
4 24 (4.44%) Pandas
4 24 (4.44%) PyTorch
5 19 (3.51%) React
6 18 (3.33%) REST
7 16 (2.96%) scikit-learn
8 15 (2.77%) .NET
8 15 (2.77%) JSON
8 15 (2.77%) NumPy
9 13 (2.40%) FastAPI
10 12 (2.22%) LangChain
10 12 (2.22%) Node.js
11 11 (2.03%) RESTful
12 10 (1.85%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (1.85%) pytest
12 10 (1.85%) XML
13 9 (1.66%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.44%) Algorithms
4 21 (3.88%) Distributed Computing
5 20 (3.70%) Derivative
6 19 (3.51%) Equities
7 18 (3.33%) Fixed Income
8 17 (3.14%) Product Ownership
9 16 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (2.59%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.22%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.85%) Equity Derivative
13 9 (1.66%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.48%) Genomics
14 8 (1.48%) Hedge funds
14 8 (1.48%) Life Science
14 8 (1.48%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.48%) Replication
15 7 (1.29%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.55%) Linux
2 7 (1.29%) Windows
3 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) CentOS
4 1 (0.18%) Debian
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (39.56%) Data Engineering
2 202 (37.34%) ETL
3 195 (36.04%) CI/CD
4 189 (34.94%) Analytics
5 175 (32.35%) Data Modelling
6 139 (25.69%) Agile
7 133 (24.58%) Data Science
8 132 (24.40%) Machine Learning
9 129 (23.84%) DevOps
10 128 (23.66%) Data Governance
11 126 (23.29%) AI
12 109 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
13 102 (18.85%) Business Intelligence
14 79 (14.60%) Data Integration
15 75 (13.86%) Infrastructure as Code
16 69 (12.75%) Data Architecture
17 63 (11.65%) Software Engineering
18 57 (10.54%) Validation
19 53 (9.80%) Decision-Making
20 50 (9.24%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 374 (69.13%) Python
2 300 (55.45%) SQL
3 61 (11.28%) Java
4 48 (8.87%) Scala
5 31 (5.73%) JavaScript
6 28 (5.18%) C++
7 16 (2.96%) C#
7 16 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.40%) Bash
8 13 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (2.03%) R
9 11 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.85%) Bicep
10 10 (1.85%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.29%) Korn
12 5 (0.92%) C
13 4 (0.74%) Perl
14 3 (0.55%) Go
14 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 92 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.13%) Degree
4 18 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 14 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.66%) PhD
8 5 (0.92%) MCP
9 4 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) CBAP
12 1 (0.18%) GIAC
12 1 (0.18%) HP APS
12 1 (0.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (23.48%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.28%) GDPR
3 20 (3.70%) QA
4 16 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.48%) PERC
6 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.55%) WCAG
8 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.37%) EMIR
8 2 (0.37%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.37%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) NIST
8 2 (0.37%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 75 (13.86%) Docker
2 5 (0.92%) zsh
3 4 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.18%) Ceph
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) HDFS
4 1 (0.18%) Lustre
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (13.12%) Terraform
2 56 (10.35%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.03%) Kibana
4 10 (1.85%) logstash
5 9 (1.66%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.92%) Ansible
7 3 (0.55%) Grafana
8 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.18%) Graphite
9 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.18%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) SCCM
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 171 (31.61%) Databricks
2 74 (13.68%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.10%) Google
4 15 (2.77%) Foundry
5 14 (2.59%) Oracle
6 13 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.22%) Palantir
8 9 (1.66%) SAP
8 9 (1.66%) Solace
9 7 (1.29%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.11%) Informatica
11 5 (0.92%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.92%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.92%) Sophis
11 5 (0.92%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.74%) Adobe
12 4 (0.74%) mParticle
12 4 (0.74%) Tealium
13 3 (0.55%) Refinitiv