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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 95 141
Rank change year-on-year +44 +46 +69
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 760 346 316
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.30% 2.80% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 3.03% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 251 241
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £665
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.60% -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 15,594 11,404 15,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,437 7,710 11,153
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 175 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.45
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +31 102 £513 -6.82% 63
West London -3 26 £520 +1.56% 5
East London -1 5 £450 - 9
South London -10 5 £500 +5.26% 3
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
1 104 (13.68%) Apache Spark
2 90 (11.84%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (6.18%) Apache
4 11 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.32%) Confluence
6 8 (1.05%) Appian
6 8 (1.05%) SAS
7 5 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.66%) 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 17 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.39%) Trello
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.39%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
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
5 1 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 364 (47.89%) Azure
2 275 (36.18%) AWS
3 143 (18.82%) Power Platform
4 124 (16.32%) GCP
5 121 (15.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 94 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
7 92 (12.11%) GitHub
8 87 (11.45%) Snowflake
9 84 (11.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 76 (10.00%) Amazon S3
11 70 (9.21%) Serverless
12 64 (8.42%) dbt
13 60 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (3.42%) Dagster
16 22 (2.89%) Azure AI
17 20 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
18 19 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
18 19 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.39%) 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%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
3 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (21.84%) Data Warehouse
2 121 (15.92%) Power BI
3 119 (15.66%) Data Lake
4 71 (9.34%) Metadata
5 66 (8.68%) Delta Lake
6 61 (8.03%) SQL Server
7 51 (6.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (6.58%) BigQuery
9 46 (6.05%) Big Data
10 42 (5.53%) Tableau
11 41 (5.39%) NoSQL
11 41 (5.39%) Relational Database
12 38 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
13 34 (4.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 27 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
15 23 (3.03%) Spark SQL
16 20 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
18 17 (2.24%) Star Schema
19 16 (2.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 109 (14.34%) Git
2 31 (4.08%) JIRA
2 31 (4.08%) MLflow
3 27 (3.55%) GitLab
3 27 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.05%) SonarQube
5 6 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.66%) Selenium
7 4 (0.53%) Gradle
7 4 (0.53%) Maven
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.13%) Mocha
9 1 (0.13%) NUnit
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 232 (30.53%) Finance
2 160 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 119 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (6.97%) Banking
5 46 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.11%) Retail
8 15 (1.97%) Marketing
9 14 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.71%) Legal
10 13 (1.71%) Publishing
11 12 (1.58%) Back Office
11 12 (1.58%) Front Office
12 10 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.05%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.66%) Electronics
17 4 (0.53%) Billing
17 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 358 (47.11%) Data Engineer
2 128 (16.84%) Senior
3 89 (11.71%) Developer
4 84 (11.05%) Senior Data Engineer
5 56 (7.37%) Architect
6 54 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
7 52 (6.84%) Lead
8 49 (6.45%) Azure Data Engineer
9 37 (4.87%) Data Scientist
10 34 (4.47%) Python Engineer
11 33 (4.34%) Analyst
12 29 (3.82%) Snowflake Engineer
13 27 (3.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 24 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 23 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (3.03%) Python Developer
15 23 (3.03%) Senior Developer
16 22 (2.89%) Data Architect
17 21 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
18 20 (2.63%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (16.97%) PySpark
2 82 (10.79%) Kafka
3 77 (10.13%) Pandas
4 51 (6.71%) NumPy
5 40 (5.26%) scikit-learn
6 39 (5.13%) REST
7 35 (4.61%) PyTorch
8 32 (4.21%) TensorFlow
9 29 (3.82%) FastAPI
10 28 (3.68%) Flask
11 26 (3.42%) RESTful
12 20 (2.63%) Polars
13 18 (2.37%) .NET
14 17 (2.24%) Apache Avro
15 16 (2.11%) Hugging Face
15 16 (2.11%) JSON
15 16 (2.11%) React
16 15 (1.97%) pytest
17 14 (1.84%) Spring Boot
17 14 (1.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.92%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 25 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
7 22 (2.89%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.50%) Hedge funds
9 17 (2.24%) Equities
9 17 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.11%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.32%) Derivative
14 10 (1.32%) Fixed Income
15 8 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.05%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.89%) Linux
2 17 (2.24%) Unix
3 5 (0.66%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (43.42%) Analytics
2 329 (43.29%) Data Engineering
3 300 (39.47%) ETL
4 295 (38.82%) Data Modelling
5 280 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 217 (28.55%) AI
7 210 (27.63%) DevOps
8 175 (23.03%) Agile
9 173 (22.76%) Machine Learning
10 171 (22.50%) Data Governance
11 155 (20.39%) Data Science
12 144 (18.95%) Business Intelligence
13 116 (15.26%) Decision-Making
14 113 (14.87%) Data Architecture
15 110 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
15 110 (14.47%) Validation
16 93 (12.24%) Use Case
17 88 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
18 80 (10.53%) Data Integration
19 78 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 464 (61.05%) Python
2 435 (57.24%) SQL
3 76 (10.00%) Java
4 66 (8.68%) Scala
5 41 (5.39%) C#
6 29 (3.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (2.76%) R
8 17 (2.24%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 14 (1.84%) JavaScript
11 13 (1.71%) Bicep
12 12 (1.58%) Bash
13 11 (1.45%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.45%) TypeScript
14 8 (1.05%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.66%) C++
16 4 (0.53%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.53%) X++
17 3 (0.39%) Ruby
18 2 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 157 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 140 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.66%) Degree
4 24 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.84%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.66%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.66%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.53%) PhD
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) CISSP
12 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.26%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (32.63%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.13%) QA
3 35 (4.61%) GDPR
4 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
4 6 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.53%) PERC
5 4 (0.53%) SLA
6 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.39%) NIST
6 3 (0.39%) 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
1 102 (13.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.26%) Ceph
2 2 (0.26%) Firmware
2 2 (0.26%) HDFS
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%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (12.24%) Terraform
2 89 (11.71%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.45%) Grafana
4 10 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.39%) Control-M
5 3 (0.39%) 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
1 202 (26.58%) Databricks
2 129 (16.97%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.74%) Informatica
4 31 (4.08%) Google
5 28 (3.68%) Oracle
6 25 (3.29%) OpenAI
7 16 (2.11%) Foundry
8 13 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.45%) Palantir
9 11 (1.45%) SAP
10 8 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.05%) UiPath
11 7 (0.92%) Workday
12 6 (0.79%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.79%) Splunk
13 5 (0.66%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.53%) Confluent
14 4 (0.53%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.53%) Tealium