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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 115 152
Rank change year-on-year +52 +37 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 634 313 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 2.32% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 2.55% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 206 234
10th Percentile £375 £400 £408
25th Percentile £450 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.66% -5.53%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £746
England median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £62.00 £58.00 £35.19
25th Percentile £63.13 £60.63 £35.47
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +67.05% -40.14%
75th Percentile £76.88 - £45.96
90th Percentile £78.00 - £48.54
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year +9.39% +26.29% -25.38%

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 14,060 12,254 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.32% 90.76% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,407 7,894 11,682
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.82%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 348
10th Percentile £17.85 £21.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.13 £19.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £55.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.61 £72.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +44 89 £513 +7.89% 58
West London -7 15 £625 - 9
South London -9 11 £500 +1.27% 3
East London +8 5 £1,000 - 3
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
1 100 (15.77%) Apache Spark
2 82 (12.93%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (5.52%) Apache
4 10 (1.58%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.26%) Appian
6 6 (0.95%) Confluence
6 6 (0.95%) SAS
7 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) Camunda
10 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.16%) Luigi
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.47%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.16%) Actimize
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 317 (50.00%) Azure
2 251 (39.59%) AWS
3 123 (19.40%) Azure Data Factory
4 110 (17.35%) Power Platform
5 107 (16.88%) GCP
6 79 (12.46%) Snowflake
7 75 (11.83%) Serverless
8 74 (11.67%) GitHub
9 72 (11.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 62 (9.78%) Amazon S3
11 61 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (8.36%) dbt
14 42 (6.62%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (3.79%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (3.79%) AWS Step Functions
16 20 (3.15%) Amazon SageMaker
16 20 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (2.68%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.63%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.47%) VPN
3 2 (0.32%) Firewall
3 2 (0.32%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.32%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.32%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (22.40%) Data Warehouse
2 99 (15.62%) Power BI
3 97 (15.30%) Data Lake
4 52 (8.20%) Delta Lake
4 52 (8.20%) Metadata
5 48 (7.57%) NoSQL
5 48 (7.57%) SQL Server
6 47 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (5.36%) Big Data
8 33 (5.21%) Tableau
9 32 (5.05%) BigQuery
10 31 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (4.10%) Snowflake Schema
12 24 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (3.79%) Relational Database
13 18 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (2.52%) Spark SQL
16 13 (2.05%) Data Vault
16 13 (2.05%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 101 (15.93%) Git
2 32 (5.05%) MLflow
3 26 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.94%) GitLab
5 17 (2.68%) JIRA
6 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.63%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.47%) Selenium
7 3 (0.47%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.32%) ERwin
8 2 (0.32%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.16%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.16%) Gradle
9 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.16%) NUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Postman
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 178 (28.08%) Finance
2 158 (24.92%) Social Skills
3 93 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.89%) Banking
5 40 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.94%) Front Office
7 19 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.68%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.05%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.89%) Marketing
10 12 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.89%) Retail
11 11 (1.74%) Legal
12 10 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.42%) Back Office
13 9 (1.42%) Electronics
14 8 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.47%) Law
16 3 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 295 (46.53%) Data Engineer
2 88 (13.88%) Senior
3 74 (11.67%) Developer
4 62 (9.78%) Senior Data Engineer
5 58 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
6 55 (8.68%) Architect
7 49 (7.73%) Azure Data Engineer
7 49 (7.73%) Lead
8 33 (5.21%) Data Scientist
9 32 (5.05%) Python Engineer
10 30 (4.73%) Snowflake Engineer
11 25 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 25 (3.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 24 (3.79%) Analyst
13 23 (3.63%) Lead Data Engineer
14 21 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (3.31%) Data Architect
15 20 (3.15%) Consultant
16 18 (2.84%) Data Analyst
16 18 (2.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (18.30%) PySpark
2 71 (11.20%) Kafka
3 51 (8.04%) Pandas
4 43 (6.78%) PyTorch
5 39 (6.15%) TensorFlow
6 38 (5.99%) scikit-learn
7 37 (5.84%) NumPy
8 27 (4.26%) REST
9 23 (3.63%) FastAPI
10 20 (3.15%) React
11 19 (3.00%) .NET
11 19 (3.00%) pytest
12 18 (2.84%) Flask
12 18 (2.84%) Hugging Face
12 18 (2.84%) RESTful
13 14 (2.21%) LangChain
14 13 (2.05%) Django
14 13 (2.05%) JSON
15 12 (1.89%) Node.js
16 11 (1.74%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 79 (12.46%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 25 (3.94%) Distributed Computing
5 22 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 20 (3.15%) Derivative
7 19 (3.00%) Equities
8 17 (2.68%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.21%) Fixed Income
9 14 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.21%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.89%) Equity Derivative
11 11 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.74%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.58%) Reinsurance
13 9 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.26%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.26%) Onboarding
15 7 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.31%) Linux
2 6 (0.95%) Windows
3 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.32%) Unix
4 1 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.16%) CentOS
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (45.90%) Data Engineering
2 260 (41.01%) Analytics
3 253 (39.91%) ETL
4 234 (36.91%) CI/CD
5 231 (36.44%) Data Modelling
6 185 (29.18%) AI
7 169 (26.66%) Machine Learning
8 167 (26.34%) Agile
9 159 (25.08%) Data Science
10 151 (23.82%) Data Governance
11 149 (23.50%) DevOps
12 125 (19.72%) Business Intelligence
13 113 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (13.72%) Data Integration
15 86 (13.56%) Data Architecture
15 86 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
16 80 (12.62%) Validation
17 69 (10.88%) Decision-Making
17 69 (10.88%) Visualisation
18 67 (10.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 426 (67.19%) Python
2 356 (56.15%) SQL
3 71 (11.20%) Scala
4 57 (8.99%) Java
5 28 (4.42%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.63%) C#
7 19 (3.00%) Bicep
8 18 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (2.68%) C++
10 15 (2.37%) T-SQL
10 15 (2.37%) TypeScript
11 14 (2.21%) R
12 11 (1.74%) Bash
13 9 (1.42%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.26%) Korn
15 6 (0.95%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.32%) Ruby
17 2 (0.32%) SAS Macro
18 1 (0.16%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 115 (18.14%) Security Cleared
2 97 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 51 (8.04%) Degree
4 24 (3.79%) Master's Degree
5 23 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.74%) PhD
9 10 (1.58%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.32%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.16%) GIAC
15 1 (0.16%) HP APS
15 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (30.91%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.05%) GDPR
3 20 (3.15%) QA
4 12 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.42%) PERC
6 8 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.63%) NIST
8 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.47%) WCAG
9 2 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.32%) EMIR
9 2 (0.32%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) MiFID
9 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.32%) SLA
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 95 (14.98%) Docker
2 4 (0.63%) zsh
3 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.32%) Ceph
4 2 (0.32%) Firmware
4 2 (0.32%) HDFS
4 2 (0.32%) Lustre
4 2 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (13.88%) Terraform
2 76 (11.99%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.63%) Kibana
3 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.47%) logstash
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Control-M
5 2 (0.32%) Grafana
5 2 (0.32%) Istio
5 2 (0.32%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 211 (33.28%) Databricks
2 93 (14.67%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.73%) OpenAI
4 27 (4.26%) Google
5 18 (2.84%) Oracle
6 16 (2.52%) Informatica
7 15 (2.37%) Foundry
8 12 (1.89%) SAP
9 10 (1.58%) Palantir
9 10 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.42%) UiPath
11 8 (1.26%) Automation Anywhere
12 6 (0.95%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.95%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.79%) Adobe
13 5 (0.79%) mParticle
13 5 (0.79%) NVIDIA
13 5 (0.79%) Splunk
13 5 (0.79%) Tealium
14 4 (0.63%) Bloomberg