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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 115 155
Rank change year-on-year +47 +40 +70
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 634 311 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 2.30% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 2.53% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 204 225
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £457 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -2.27% -3.13%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £745
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £43.05 £58.00 £35.19
25th Percentile £54.75 £60.63 £35.47
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +67.05% -40.14%
75th Percentile £75.94 - £45.96
90th Percentile £77.63 - £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 14,107 12,276 16,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.50% 90.65% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,418 7,891 11,536
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% - -8.33%
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 221 153 342
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.49% - -

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 19 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 19 February 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 19 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 +42 91 £513 +2.76% 61
West London -8 15 £625 - 9
South London -8 11 £500 +1.27% 5
East London +4 7 £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 79 (12.46%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (5.52%) Apache
4 11 (1.74%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.26%) Appian
6 6 (0.95%) Confluence
7 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.79%) SAS
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 22 (3.47%) 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 5 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Actimize
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Eagle PACE
2 1 (0.16%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 313 (49.37%) Azure
2 249 (39.27%) AWS
3 122 (19.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 108 (17.03%) Power Platform
5 102 (16.09%) GCP
6 80 (12.62%) Snowflake
7 77 (12.15%) Serverless
8 71 (11.20%) GitHub
9 69 (10.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 62 (9.78%) Amazon S3
11 61 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
12 60 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (8.36%) dbt
14 40 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (3.79%) AWS Step Functions
16 22 (3.47%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (3.15%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
19 18 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 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 98 (15.46%) Data Lake
4 53 (8.36%) Metadata
5 52 (8.20%) Delta Lake
6 48 (7.57%) SQL Server
7 47 (7.41%) NoSQL
8 46 (7.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (5.36%) Big Data
10 33 (5.21%) Tableau
11 29 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (4.42%) BigQuery
13 25 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
14 24 (3.79%) Relational Database
14 24 (3.79%) Snowflake Schema
15 19 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (2.52%) Spark SQL
18 14 (2.21%) Hadoop
19 13 (2.05%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 98 (15.46%) Git
2 32 (5.05%) MLflow
3 26 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.94%) GitLab
5 18 (2.84%) JIRA
6 3 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.47%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.32%) ERwin
7 2 (0.32%) Selenium
7 2 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.16%) Gradle
8 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.16%) NUnit
8 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.16%) TestRail
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 180 (28.39%) Finance
2 161 (25.39%) Social Skills
3 91 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.89%) Banking
5 39 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 28 (4.42%) Front Office
7 19 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.68%) Investment Banking
9 15 (2.37%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.05%) Marketing
11 12 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.89%) Retail
12 11 (1.74%) Legal
13 10 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.42%) Back Office
14 9 (1.42%) Electronics
15 7 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.47%) Law
17 3 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 291 (45.90%) Data Engineer
2 88 (13.88%) Senior
3 76 (11.99%) Developer
4 62 (9.78%) Senior Data Engineer
5 57 (8.99%) Architect
5 57 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
6 48 (7.57%) Azure Data Engineer
7 47 (7.41%) Lead
8 34 (5.36%) Python Engineer
9 33 (5.21%) Data Scientist
10 29 (4.57%) Snowflake Engineer
11 25 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 24 (3.79%) Analyst
12 24 (3.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 23 (3.63%) Data Architect
14 22 (3.47%) Lead Data Engineer
15 20 (3.15%) Consultant
16 19 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
16 19 (3.00%) Senior Developer
17 18 (2.84%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (17.98%) PySpark
2 73 (11.51%) 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 21 (3.31%) React
11 20 (3.15%) .NET
12 18 (2.84%) Flask
12 18 (2.84%) Hugging Face
13 17 (2.68%) pytest
13 17 (2.68%) RESTful
14 14 (2.21%) LangChain
15 13 (2.05%) Django
15 13 (2.05%) JSON
15 13 (2.05%) Node.js
16 12 (1.89%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 25 (3.94%) Distributed Computing
5 22 (3.47%) Derivative
6 21 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.31%) Equities
7 17 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.21%) Equity Derivative
9 14 (2.21%) Fixed Income
10 13 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (2.05%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.74%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.58%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.58%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.26%) Low-Code
15 7 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.79%) Linux
2 8 (1.26%) 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
1 286 (45.11%) Data Engineering
2 255 (40.22%) ETL
3 251 (39.59%) Analytics
4 231 (36.44%) CI/CD
5 226 (35.65%) Data Modelling
6 186 (29.34%) AI
7 171 (26.97%) Machine Learning
8 166 (26.18%) Agile
9 158 (24.92%) Data Science
10 149 (23.50%) DevOps
11 146 (23.03%) Data Governance
12 125 (19.72%) Business Intelligence
13 117 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (13.72%) Data Architecture
14 87 (13.72%) Data Integration
14 87 (13.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 81 (12.78%) Validation
16 70 (11.04%) Visualisation
17 68 (10.73%) Decision-Making
17 68 (10.73%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 432 (68.14%) Python
2 356 (56.15%) SQL
3 70 (11.04%) Scala
4 58 (9.15%) Java
5 29 (4.57%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.63%) C#
7 21 (3.31%) C++
8 19 (3.00%) Bicep
9 17 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (2.68%) TypeScript
10 15 (2.37%) T-SQL
11 14 (2.21%) R
12 12 (1.89%) Bash
13 9 (1.42%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.26%) Korn
15 7 (1.10%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.16%) ABAP
17 1 (0.16%) C
17 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 115 (18.14%) Security Cleared
2 96 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.89%) Degree
4 24 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.63%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.74%) PhD
8 8 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.32%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.16%) GIAC
12 1 (0.16%) HP APS
12 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (31.23%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.52%) GDPR
3 19 (3.00%) QA
4 12 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.42%) PERC
6 8 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.63%) NIST
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 93 (14.67%) Docker
2 5 (0.79%) 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 85 (13.41%) 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
1 209 (32.97%) Databricks
2 94 (14.83%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.73%) OpenAI
4 24 (3.79%) Google
5 19 (3.00%) Oracle
6 16 (2.52%) Foundry
6 16 (2.52%) Informatica
7 11 (1.74%) Palantir
8 10 (1.58%) SAP
9 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.42%) UiPath
10 8 (1.26%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.95%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.79%) Adobe
12 5 (0.79%) mParticle
12 5 (0.79%) NVIDIA
12 5 (0.79%) Sophis
12 5 (0.79%) Splunk
12 5 (0.79%) Tealium