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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 112 167
Rank change year-on-year +43 +55 +82
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 561 344 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.90% 2.33% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 2.59% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 228 202
10th Percentile £375 £402 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.68% -11.00%
75th Percentile £668 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £751 £736
England median daily rate £525 £525 £528
% change year-on-year - -0.47% -7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £44.13 £58.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.06 £60.63 £35.16
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +67.05% -39.91%
75th Percentile £77.06 - £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% -17.23%

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 13,174 13,286 16,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.14% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,522 11,607
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 164 241
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.15 £17.75
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.58 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.06 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +30 73 £519 -9.78% 210
South London -2 11 £500 -0.10% 35
West London -6 11 £550 - 7
East London +6 7 £1,000 - 8
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 92 (16.40%) Apache Spark
2 80 (14.26%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (6.24%) Apache
4 6 (1.07%) SAS
5 5 (0.89%) Confluence
6 3 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.53%) Luigi
7 2 (0.36%) Appian
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.36%) Trello
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.36%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 257 (45.81%) Azure
2 208 (37.08%) AWS
3 103 (18.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 92 (16.40%) Power Platform
5 84 (14.97%) GCP
6 70 (12.48%) GitHub
7 66 (11.76%) Serverless
7 66 (11.76%) Snowflake
8 65 (11.59%) Amazon S3
9 62 (11.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 53 (9.45%) dbt
11 52 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
12 50 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (3.21%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (2.50%) Azure Functions
18 12 (2.14%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.71%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.53%) VPN
3 2 (0.36%) DNS
3 2 (0.36%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.18%) Firewall
4 1 (0.18%) HTTP
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (21.57%) Data Warehouse
2 89 (15.86%) Data Lake
3 87 (15.51%) Power BI
4 46 (8.20%) Metadata
5 45 (8.02%) NoSQL
6 40 (7.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (6.77%) Big Data
8 36 (6.42%) Delta Lake
9 33 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 33 (5.88%) BigQuery
10 28 (4.99%) Tableau
11 27 (4.81%) SQL Server
12 23 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (3.74%) Relational Database
13 21 (3.74%) Star Schema
14 17 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
15 14 (2.50%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 83 (14.80%) Git
2 33 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.92%) GitLab
4 20 (3.57%) MLflow
5 12 (2.14%) JIRA
6 4 (0.71%) Selenium
7 3 (0.53%) ERwin
7 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.36%) TestRail
9 1 (0.18%) GoCD
9 1 (0.18%) Gradle
9 1 (0.18%) Mockito
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 159 (28.34%) Finance
2 157 (27.99%) Social Skills
3 76 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.56%) Banking
5 38 (6.77%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.70%) Front Office
7 24 (4.28%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (2.50%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.32%) Marketing
12 12 (2.14%) Retail
13 11 (1.96%) Legal
14 10 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.60%) Electronics
16 5 (0.89%) Back Office
16 5 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.89%) Retail Banking
17 3 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 232 (41.35%) Data Engineer
2 77 (13.73%) Developer
3 67 (11.94%) Senior
4 56 (9.98%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (8.20%) Azure Data Engineer
6 42 (7.49%) Architect
7 40 (7.13%) Lead
8 39 (6.95%) Senior Data Engineer
9 32 (5.70%) Python Engineer
10 30 (5.35%) Analyst
11 21 (3.74%) Data Analyst
12 20 (3.57%) Consultant
12 20 (3.57%) Data Scientist
12 20 (3.57%) Snowflake Engineer
13 18 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.21%) Senior Developer
14 17 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 17 (3.03%) Data Architect
14 17 (3.03%) Lead Data Engineer
14 17 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (17.65%) PySpark
2 69 (12.30%) Kafka
3 31 (5.53%) Pandas
4 28 (4.99%) PyTorch
4 28 (4.99%) TensorFlow
5 24 (4.28%) REST
6 21 (3.74%) scikit-learn
7 19 (3.39%) NumPy
7 19 (3.39%) React
8 17 (3.03%) .NET
9 15 (2.67%) FastAPI
9 15 (2.67%) JSON
10 13 (2.32%) RESTful
11 12 (2.14%) LangChain
11 12 (2.14%) Node.js
11 12 (2.14%) pytest
12 11 (1.96%) XML
13 10 (1.78%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.78%) Flask
13 10 (1.78%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.59%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.10%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.92%) Derivative
4 22 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
5 21 (3.74%) Equities
6 18 (3.21%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.67%) Fixed Income
7 15 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.32%) Equity Derivative
9 11 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.78%) Hedge funds
11 9 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.60%) Replication
12 8 (1.43%) Genomics
12 8 (1.43%) Life Science
12 8 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.17%) Linux
2 8 (1.43%) Windows
3 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Debian
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (40.82%) Data Engineering
2 216 (38.50%) ETL
3 204 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 202 (36.01%) Analytics
5 186 (33.16%) Data Modelling
6 143 (25.49%) Agile
7 141 (25.13%) Machine Learning
8 140 (24.96%) AI
9 137 (24.42%) Data Governance
9 137 (24.42%) Data Science
10 134 (23.89%) DevOps
11 110 (19.61%) Business Intelligence
12 109 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
13 86 (15.33%) Data Integration
14 80 (14.26%) Data Architecture
15 73 (13.01%) Infrastructure as Code
16 68 (12.12%) Validation
17 63 (11.23%) Software Engineering
18 57 (10.16%) Decision-Making
19 55 (9.80%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 381 (67.91%) Python
2 308 (54.90%) SQL
3 58 (10.34%) Scala
4 57 (10.16%) Java
5 31 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.63%) C++
7 18 (3.21%) C#
8 16 (2.85%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.50%) Bicep
10 13 (2.32%) Bash
11 11 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.96%) R
12 10 (1.78%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.60%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.43%) Korn
15 7 (1.25%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.53%) Go
17 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
18 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 105 (18.72%) Security Cleared
2 83 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.73%) Degree
4 21 (3.74%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.96%) PhD
9 9 (1.60%) MCP
10 7 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.36%) CISSP
13 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.18%) CBAP
14 1 (0.18%) HP APS
14 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (26.38%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.42%) GDPR
3 18 (3.21%) QA
4 15 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.60%) PERC
6 7 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.53%) WCAG
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.36%) EMIR
8 2 (0.36%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.36%) MiFID
8 2 (0.36%) NIST
8 2 (0.36%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) GAAP
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (14.44%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) zsh
3 4 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.36%) Ceph
4 2 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.36%) Lustre
4 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 71 (12.66%) Terraform
2 62 (11.05%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.60%) Kibana
4 8 (1.43%) logstash
5 7 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.89%) Ansible
7 4 (0.71%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.53%) Grafana
9 2 (0.36%) Istio
9 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.18%) Control-M
10 1 (0.18%) Graphite
10 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.18%) Puppet
10 1 (0.18%) SCCM
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 188 (33.51%) Databricks
2 76 (13.55%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.53%) Google
4 16 (2.85%) OpenAI
4 16 (2.85%) Oracle
5 15 (2.67%) Foundry
6 12 (2.14%) Palantir
6 12 (2.14%) SAP
7 7 (1.25%) Informatica
7 7 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.25%) Solace
8 6 (1.07%) Cloudera
9 5 (0.89%) Adobe
9 5 (0.89%) mParticle
9 5 (0.89%) Sophis
9 5 (0.89%) Tealium
9 5 (0.89%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.71%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.71%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.71%) ServiceNow