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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 96 125
Rank change year-on-year +50 +29 +108
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 917 385 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.63% 2.84% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 3.08% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 284 265
10th Percentile £400 £408 £402
25th Percentile £455 £456 £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 £774 £796 £775
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £45.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £56.75 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £63.44 £59.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £69.18 £61.10 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £55.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +12.61% -28.39%

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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 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 22 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 +11 99 £550 - 62
West London +11 27 £520 +2.77% 7
East London +6 6 £450 - 2
South London - 2 £575 - 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
1 109 (11.89%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (10.69%) Apache Spark
3 67 (7.31%) Apache
4 15 (1.64%) Confluence
4 15 (1.64%) SAS
5 10 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.65%) CMS
6 6 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.33%) Appian
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.22%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.33%) 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 9 (0.98%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.55%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.55%) 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
1 388 (42.31%) Azure
2 329 (35.88%) AWS
3 160 (17.45%) Power Platform
4 146 (15.92%) GCP
5 122 (13.30%) Snowflake
6 107 (11.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 96 (10.47%) Amazon S3
8 95 (10.36%) dbt
9 93 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (9.71%) GitHub
11 88 (9.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 70 (7.63%) Serverless
13 61 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (2.84%) Dagster
16 21 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (1.96%) Azure AI
18 17 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
19 16 (1.74%) Amazon Bedrock
19 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.33%) 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 (18.43%) Data Warehouse
2 141 (15.38%) Power BI
3 127 (13.85%) Data Lake
4 90 (9.81%) Metadata
5 65 (7.09%) Delta Lake
6 64 (6.98%) BigQuery
7 60 (6.54%) Big Data
8 57 (6.22%) Tableau
9 50 (5.45%) SQL Server
10 45 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (4.36%) Relational Database
11 40 (4.36%) Snowflake Schema
12 35 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (3.38%) NoSQL
14 30 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
15 29 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (2.51%) Looker
17 21 (2.29%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.07%) Spark SQL
19 18 (1.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 95 (10.36%) Git
2 32 (3.49%) GitLab
3 31 (3.38%) JIRA
4 25 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.96%) MLflow
6 8 (0.87%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.55%) Gradle
7 5 (0.55%) Maven
7 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.44%) ERwin
8 4 (0.44%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) 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%) TeamCity
General
1 289 (31.52%) Finance
2 183 (19.96%) Social Skills
3 169 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.29%) Banking
5 75 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 26 (2.84%) Retail
7 22 (2.40%) Front Office
8 19 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.85%) Marketing
9 17 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.53%) Back Office
11 12 (1.31%) Legal
11 12 (1.31%) Publishing
12 11 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.76%) Law
15 7 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 386 (42.09%) Data Engineer
2 146 (15.92%) Senior
3 97 (10.58%) Developer
4 87 (9.49%) Senior Data Engineer
5 85 (9.27%) Lead
6 83 (9.05%) Architect
7 50 (5.45%) Analyst
8 47 (5.13%) Data Scientist
9 44 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
10 40 (4.36%) Azure Data Engineer
10 40 (4.36%) Python Engineer
11 37 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (3.60%) Data Architect
13 32 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (3.49%) Data Analyst
13 32 (3.49%) Snowflake Engineer
14 31 (3.38%) Python Developer
15 30 (3.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 26 (2.84%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (2.84%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (14.18%) PySpark
2 93 (10.14%) Kafka
3 61 (6.65%) Pandas
4 52 (5.67%) REST
5 38 (4.14%) NumPy
6 29 (3.16%) FastAPI
7 24 (2.62%) JSON
7 24 (2.62%) PyTorch
8 23 (2.51%) Flask
8 23 (2.51%) scikit-learn
9 21 (2.29%) RESTful
9 21 (2.29%) TensorFlow
10 20 (2.18%) .NET
10 20 (2.18%) Polars
11 18 (1.96%) Apache Avro
11 18 (1.96%) React
12 15 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (1.64%) Spring
12 15 (1.64%) Spring Boot
13 13 (1.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.43%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 44 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.27%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 21 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
7 20 (2.18%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.96%) Hedge funds
9 15 (1.64%) Equities
9 15 (1.64%) NHS
10 13 (1.42%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.31%) Reference Data
12 9 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.98%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.71%) Linux
2 22 (2.40%) Unix
3 9 (0.98%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (42.64%) Analytics
2 389 (42.42%) Data Engineering
3 340 (37.08%) Data Modelling
4 336 (36.64%) CI/CD
5 316 (34.46%) ETL
6 258 (28.14%) AI
7 223 (24.32%) DevOps
8 203 (22.14%) Machine Learning
9 197 (21.48%) Agile
10 178 (19.41%) Data Science
11 177 (19.30%) Data Governance
12 168 (18.32%) Business Intelligence
13 161 (17.56%) Decision-Making
14 134 (14.61%) Data Architecture
14 134 (14.61%) Validation
15 118 (12.87%) Use Case
16 114 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
17 106 (11.56%) Migration
18 99 (10.80%) Data Transformation
19 97 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 535 (58.34%) Python
2 489 (53.33%) SQL
3 85 (9.27%) Java
4 42 (4.58%) C#
5 40 (4.36%) Scala
6 28 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 26 (2.84%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.51%) Shell Script
9 22 (2.40%) R
10 19 (2.07%) Bash
11 17 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 16 (1.74%) JavaScript
12 16 (1.74%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.76%) Go
14 7 (0.76%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.65%) Bicep
15 6 (0.65%) C++
16 4 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 159 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 137 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.91%) Degree
4 20 (2.18%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.44%) CISSP
13 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.33%) CISA
13 3 (0.33%) CISM
13 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.33%) PhD
14 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (30.21%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.67%) QA
3 33 (3.60%) GDPR
4 20 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.65%) SLA
6 5 (0.55%) IFRS
6 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.44%) NIST
7 4 (0.44%) PMO
7 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.33%) 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
1 104 (11.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) 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
1 104 (11.34%) Terraform
2 88 (9.60%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.20%) Grafana
4 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.65%) Control-M
6 5 (0.55%) Ansible
7 3 (0.33%) Kibana
7 3 (0.33%) 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
1 187 (20.39%) Databricks
2 147 (16.03%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.36%) Informatica
4 38 (4.14%) Google
5 36 (3.93%) Oracle
6 19 (2.07%) OpenAI
7 18 (1.96%) Palantir
8 16 (1.74%) Foundry
8 16 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.20%) SAP
10 10 (1.09%) Splunk
11 9 (0.98%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.76%) Amplitude
12 7 (0.76%) Workday
13 6 (0.65%) Confluent
14 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.55%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.55%) Talend
15 4 (0.44%) Hortonworks