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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 113 168
Rank change year-on-year +44 +55 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 556 343 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.85% 2.31% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 2.56% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 229 199
10th Percentile £375 £404 £413
25th Percentile £450 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £671 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £752 £721
England median daily rate £525 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -0.85% -0.84% -6.32%
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 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 13,190 13,384 16,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.13% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 8,584 11,883
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 164 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.03 £17.85
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%
75th Percentile £53.44 £55.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +31 72 £525 -8.70% 255
West London -7 11 £550 - 12
South London +4 10 £487 -2.55% 20
East London +6 7 £1,000 - 11
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 91 (16.37%) Apache Spark
2 81 (14.57%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (6.47%) Apache
4 6 (1.08%) SAS
5 5 (0.90%) Confluence
6 3 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.54%) 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%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.54%) 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 (1.08%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.54%) 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%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 255 (45.86%) Azure
2 205 (36.87%) AWS
3 103 (18.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 91 (16.37%) Power Platform
5 83 (14.93%) GCP
6 73 (13.13%) GitHub
7 65 (11.69%) Snowflake
8 64 (11.51%) Serverless
9 63 (11.33%) Amazon S3
10 61 (10.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 53 (9.53%) dbt
12 52 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
13 51 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
14 48 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (3.78%) AWS Step Functions
16 17 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (3.06%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (2.52%) Azure Functions
19 12 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.54%) 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
1 119 (21.40%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (15.83%) Data Lake
3 86 (15.47%) Power BI
4 44 (7.91%) Metadata
4 44 (7.91%) NoSQL
5 40 (7.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (6.83%) Big Data
7 36 (6.47%) Delta Lake
8 32 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (5.76%) BigQuery
9 28 (5.04%) Tableau
10 26 (4.68%) SQL Server
11 23 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (3.78%) Star Schema
13 19 (3.42%) Relational Database
14 16 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (2.52%) Amazon QuickSight
15 14 (2.52%) Hadoop
16 13 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 83 (14.93%) Git
2 33 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.78%) GitLab
4 19 (3.42%) MLflow
5 11 (1.98%) JIRA
6 4 (0.72%) Selenium
7 3 (0.54%) ERwin
7 3 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
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%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 156 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 153 (27.52%) Finance
3 76 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.45%) Banking
5 38 (6.83%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.76%) Front Office
7 24 (4.32%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (2.52%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.34%) Marketing
12 12 (2.16%) Legal
13 11 (1.98%) Retail
14 10 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.62%) Electronics
16 5 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.90%) Retail Banking
17 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 233 (41.91%) Data Engineer
2 77 (13.85%) Developer
3 69 (12.41%) Senior
4 56 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (8.27%) Azure Data Engineer
6 42 (7.55%) Architect
7 41 (7.37%) Senior Data Engineer
8 39 (7.01%) Lead
9 31 (5.58%) Python Engineer
10 30 (5.40%) Analyst
11 21 (3.78%) Data Analyst
12 20 (3.60%) Consultant
12 20 (3.60%) Data Scientist
12 20 (3.60%) Snowflake Engineer
13 19 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.24%) Senior Developer
15 17 (3.06%) Data Architect
15 17 (3.06%) Lead Data Engineer
15 17 (3.06%) Software Engineer
16 16 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (17.81%) PySpark
2 69 (12.41%) Kafka
3 30 (5.40%) Pandas
4 28 (5.04%) TensorFlow
5 27 (4.86%) PyTorch
6 24 (4.32%) REST
7 20 (3.60%) scikit-learn
8 19 (3.42%) React
9 18 (3.24%) NumPy
10 17 (3.06%) .NET
11 15 (2.70%) FastAPI
11 15 (2.70%) JSON
12 13 (2.34%) RESTful
13 12 (2.16%) LangChain
13 12 (2.16%) Node.js
13 12 (2.16%) pytest
14 10 (1.80%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.80%) Flask
14 10 (1.80%) Hugging Face
14 10 (1.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.14%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.96%) Derivative
4 22 (3.96%) Distributed Computing
5 21 (3.78%) Equities
6 18 (3.24%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.70%) Fixed Income
8 15 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (2.34%) Equity Derivative
10 11 (1.98%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.80%) Hedge funds
12 9 (1.62%) Replication
13 8 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.44%) Genomics
13 8 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.44%) Life Science
13 8 (1.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.04%) Linux
2 7 (1.26%) Windows
3 3 (0.54%) 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
1 227 (40.83%) Data Engineering
2 212 (38.13%) ETL
3 204 (36.69%) CI/CD
4 199 (35.79%) Analytics
5 184 (33.09%) Data Modelling
6 141 (25.36%) Agile
7 138 (24.82%) Machine Learning
8 135 (24.28%) AI
9 134 (24.10%) Data Science
10 132 (23.74%) Data Governance
10 132 (23.74%) DevOps
11 107 (19.24%) Business Intelligence
11 107 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
12 85 (15.29%) Data Integration
13 78 (14.03%) Data Architecture
14 73 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
15 66 (11.87%) Validation
16 63 (11.33%) Software Engineering
17 55 (9.89%) Decision-Making
18 53 (9.53%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 373 (67.09%) Python
2 302 (54.32%) SQL
3 57 (10.25%) Java
4 56 (10.07%) Scala
5 31 (5.58%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.68%) C++
7 18 (3.24%) C#
8 16 (2.88%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.52%) Bicep
10 13 (2.34%) Bash
11 11 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.98%) R
12 10 (1.80%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.62%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.44%) Korn
15 7 (1.26%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.54%) Go
17 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
18 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 105 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 83 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.63%) Degree
4 21 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 19 (3.42%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.98%) PhD
8 8 (1.44%) MCP
9 7 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.36%) CISSP
12 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.18%) CBAP
13 1 (0.18%) GIAC
13 1 (0.18%) HP APS
13 1 (0.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (25.90%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.29%) GDPR
3 17 (3.06%) QA
4 15 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.62%) PERC
6 6 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.54%) 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%) MiFID
8 2 (0.36%) NIST
8 2 (0.36%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 80 (14.39%) Docker
2 5 (0.90%) zsh
3 4 (0.72%) 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 (12.77%) Terraform
2 61 (10.97%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.62%) Kibana
4 8 (1.44%) logstash
5 7 (1.26%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.90%) Ansible
7 3 (0.54%) Grafana
7 3 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.18%) Graphite
9 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.18%) Istio
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.18%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) SCCM
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 187 (33.63%) Databricks
2 74 (13.31%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.58%) Google
4 16 (2.88%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.70%) Foundry
5 15 (2.70%) Oracle
6 12 (2.16%) Palantir
7 11 (1.98%) SAP
8 7 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.26%) Solace
9 6 (1.08%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.08%) Informatica
10 5 (0.90%) Adobe
10 5 (0.90%) mParticle
10 5 (0.90%) Sophis
10 5 (0.90%) Tealium
10 5 (0.90%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.72%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.72%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.72%) ServiceNow