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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 96 126
Rank change year-on-year +50 +30 +102
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 928 397 348
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.64% 2.91% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.21% 3.15% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 292 255
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £455 £462 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £799 £775
England median daily rate £525 £516 £550
% change year-on-year +1.72% -6.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £45.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £61.10 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.25% +3.60% -19.35%

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 17,802 12,600 14,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.23% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,756 8,430 10,474
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 240 222
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £20.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.63
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -13.36% -20.27%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +0.91% 48
West London +4 27 £520 +1.56% 10
East London +9 6 £450 - 2
South London - 3 £500 - 5
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
1 112 (12.07%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (10.78%) Apache Spark
3 74 (7.97%) Apache
4 15 (1.62%) Confluence
4 15 (1.62%) SAS
5 10 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.65%) CMS
6 6 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.32%) Appian
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.22%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.08%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.54%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 392 (42.24%) Azure
2 329 (35.45%) AWS
3 160 (17.24%) Power Platform
4 147 (15.84%) GCP
5 122 (13.15%) Snowflake
6 108 (11.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 99 (10.67%) dbt
8 97 (10.45%) Amazon S3
9 95 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (9.70%) GitHub
11 88 (9.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 70 (7.54%) Serverless
13 61 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (3.02%) Dagster
16 22 (2.37%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (1.94%) Azure AI
18 17 (1.83%) Amazon SageMaker
19 16 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
19 16 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Network Security
2 2 (0.22%) Broadband
2 2 (0.22%) Firewall
2 2 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.11%) 4G
3 1 (0.11%) 5G
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (18.21%) Data Warehouse
2 142 (15.30%) Power BI
3 129 (13.90%) Data Lake
4 93 (10.02%) Metadata
5 68 (7.33%) Delta Lake
6 67 (7.22%) BigQuery
7 60 (6.47%) Big Data
8 56 (6.03%) Tableau
9 53 (5.71%) SQL Server
10 46 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (4.53%) Relational Database
12 39 (4.20%) Snowflake Schema
13 37 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (3.34%) NoSQL
15 30 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
15 30 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (2.48%) Looker
17 21 (2.26%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.05%) Flink
18 19 (2.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 93 (10.02%) Git
2 32 (3.45%) GitLab
3 31 (3.34%) JIRA
4 25 (2.69%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.94%) MLflow
6 8 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.54%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.54%) ERwin
7 5 (0.54%) Gradle
7 5 (0.54%) Maven
7 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.43%) Selenium
9 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 298 (32.11%) Finance
2 185 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 171 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (8.62%) Banking
5 76 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 26 (2.80%) Retail
7 25 (2.69%) Front Office
8 19 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.83%) Marketing
9 17 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.51%) Back Office
11 12 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.29%) Legal
11 12 (1.29%) Publishing
12 11 (1.19%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.75%) Law
15 6 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 393 (42.35%) Data Engineer
2 148 (15.95%) Senior
3 97 (10.45%) Developer
4 87 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 84 (9.05%) Lead
6 82 (8.84%) Architect
7 50 (5.39%) Analyst
8 46 (4.96%) Data Scientist
9 45 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
10 43 (4.63%) Python Engineer
11 41 (4.42%) Azure Data Engineer
12 40 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
13 34 (3.66%) Data Architect
14 33 (3.56%) Snowflake Engineer
15 32 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 32 (3.45%) Data Analyst
15 32 (3.45%) Python Developer
16 31 (3.34%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 29 (3.13%) AWS Data Engineer
18 28 (3.02%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (14.55%) PySpark
2 92 (9.91%) Kafka
3 61 (6.57%) Pandas
4 53 (5.71%) REST
5 38 (4.09%) NumPy
6 30 (3.23%) FastAPI
7 24 (2.59%) Flask
7 24 (2.59%) JSON
7 24 (2.59%) PyTorch
8 22 (2.37%) scikit-learn
9 21 (2.26%) .NET
9 21 (2.26%) RESTful
10 20 (2.16%) Polars
10 20 (2.16%) TensorFlow
11 19 (2.05%) React
12 18 (1.94%) Apache Avro
13 15 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (1.51%) Spring
14 14 (1.51%) Spring Boot
15 13 (1.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 113 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.28%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
8 20 (2.16%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.94%) Hedge funds
10 15 (1.62%) Equities
10 15 (1.62%) NHS
11 14 (1.51%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.51%) Reference Data
12 13 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.08%) Derivative
15 9 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.66%) Linux
2 23 (2.48%) Unix
3 11 (1.19%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (43.32%) Analytics
2 394 (42.46%) Data Engineering
3 341 (36.75%) Data Modelling
4 338 (36.42%) CI/CD
5 318 (34.27%) ETL
6 256 (27.59%) AI
7 226 (24.35%) DevOps
8 205 (22.09%) Machine Learning
9 201 (21.66%) Agile
10 179 (19.29%) Data Science
11 178 (19.18%) Data Governance
12 169 (18.21%) Business Intelligence
13 166 (17.89%) Decision-Making
14 136 (14.66%) Data Architecture
15 135 (14.55%) Validation
16 119 (12.82%) Use Case
17 117 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
18 110 (11.85%) Data Transformation
19 109 (11.75%) Migration
20 99 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 542 (58.41%) Python
2 496 (53.45%) SQL
3 85 (9.16%) Java
4 43 (4.63%) C#
5 41 (4.42%) Scala
6 28 (3.02%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (2.69%) Shell Script
9 22 (2.37%) R
10 19 (2.05%) Bash
11 17 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.83%) TypeScript
12 16 (1.72%) JavaScript
13 9 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.75%) Go
14 7 (0.75%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.65%) Bicep
15 6 (0.65%) C++
16 4 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.43%) X++
Qualifications
1 160 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 138 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.74%) Degree
4 20 (2.16%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.65%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.43%) CISSP
10 4 (0.43%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.32%) CISA
11 3 (0.32%) CISM
11 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.32%) PhD
12 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (30.60%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.71%) QA
3 32 (3.45%) GDPR
4 20 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.65%) SLA
6 5 (0.54%) IFRS
6 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.43%) NIST
7 4 (0.43%) PMO
7 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.22%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
9 2 (0.22%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (11.53%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (11.31%) Terraform
2 90 (9.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.19%) Grafana
4 9 (0.97%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.65%) Control-M
6 5 (0.54%) Ansible
7 3 (0.32%) Kibana
7 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 196 (21.12%) Databricks
2 147 (15.84%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.20%) Google
3 39 (4.20%) Oracle
4 38 (4.09%) Informatica
5 18 (1.94%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.94%) Palantir
6 16 (1.72%) Foundry
7 15 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.19%) SAP
8 11 (1.19%) Splunk
9 9 (0.97%) Cloudera
10 7 (0.75%) Amplitude
10 7 (0.75%) Workday
11 6 (0.65%) Confluent
11 6 (0.65%) Talend
12 5 (0.54%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.54%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.43%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.43%) New Relic