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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 105 146
Rank change year-on-year +51 +41 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 754 326 309
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.25% 2.59% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 2.81% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 238 241
10th Percentile £390 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £675
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 15,708 11,595 15,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.55% 92.16% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,519 7,858 11,305
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 168 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.77
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +33 106 £520 -5.45% 95
West London - 25 £520 - 5
South London -13 7 £500 +3.90% 1
East London -1 4 £450 - 6
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
1 109 (14.46%) Apache Spark
2 91 (12.07%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (6.23%) Apache
4 11 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.33%) Confluence
6 9 (1.19%) SAS
7 8 (1.06%) Appian
8 5 (0.66%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.40%) Trello
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 370 (49.07%) Azure
2 272 (36.07%) AWS
3 152 (20.16%) Power Platform
4 130 (17.24%) GCP
5 125 (16.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 96 (12.73%) GitHub
7 93 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
8 88 (11.67%) Snowflake
9 87 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 73 (9.68%) Amazon S3
11 69 (9.15%) Serverless
12 64 (8.49%) dbt
13 57 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
14 56 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (3.45%) Dagster
16 22 (2.92%) Azure AI
17 21 (2.79%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (2.79%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (2.65%) Power Automate
19 19 (2.52%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) Network Security
3 2 (0.27%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (22.15%) Data Warehouse
2 130 (17.24%) Power BI
3 123 (16.31%) Data Lake
4 72 (9.55%) Metadata
5 66 (8.75%) Delta Lake
6 59 (7.82%) SQL Server
7 55 (7.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 51 (6.76%) BigQuery
9 48 (6.37%) Big Data
10 44 (5.84%) Tableau
11 43 (5.70%) NoSQL
12 38 (5.04%) Relational Database
13 36 (4.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (4.64%) Snowflake Schema
15 27 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (3.32%) Spark SQL
17 19 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
19 17 (2.25%) Star Schema
20 15 (1.99%) Looker
Development Applications
1 112 (14.85%) Git
2 31 (4.11%) JIRA
2 31 (4.11%) MLflow
3 28 (3.71%) GitLab
3 28 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.80%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.66%) Selenium
6 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.27%) Gradle
7 2 (0.27%) Maven
7 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.13%) Snyk
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 222 (29.44%) Finance
2 165 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 114 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.29%) Banking
5 46 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.39%) Legal
8 16 (2.12%) Marketing
9 14 (1.86%) Retail
10 13 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.59%) Back Office
11 12 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.59%) Front Office
11 12 (1.59%) Publishing
12 10 (1.33%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.19%) Electronics
13 9 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 354 (46.95%) Data Engineer
2 124 (16.45%) Senior
3 85 (11.27%) Developer
4 82 (10.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 58 (7.69%) Architect
6 52 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (6.90%) Lead
7 47 (6.23%) Azure Data Engineer
8 37 (4.91%) Data Scientist
9 35 (4.64%) Analyst
10 33 (4.38%) Python Engineer
11 30 (3.98%) Snowflake Engineer
12 27 (3.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 25 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 23 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (2.92%) Data Architect
16 21 (2.79%) Data Analyst
16 21 (2.79%) Python Developer
17 20 (2.65%) AWS Data Engineer
17 20 (2.65%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (17.24%) PySpark
2 81 (10.74%) Kafka
3 76 (10.08%) Pandas
4 51 (6.76%) NumPy
5 43 (5.70%) scikit-learn
6 39 (5.17%) PyTorch
7 37 (4.91%) TensorFlow
8 36 (4.77%) REST
9 28 (3.71%) FastAPI
10 27 (3.58%) Flask
11 23 (3.05%) RESTful
12 19 (2.52%) .NET
13 18 (2.39%) JSON
13 18 (2.39%) Polars
13 18 (2.39%) React
14 17 (2.25%) pytest
15 16 (2.12%) Apache Avro
15 16 (2.12%) Hugging Face
16 14 (1.86%) Web Services
17 13 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.58%) Data Structures
5 24 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.05%) Algorithms
7 22 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
8 18 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.39%) Hedge funds
9 17 (2.25%) Equities
10 16 (2.12%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.33%) Derivative
13 10 (1.33%) Fixed Income
14 8 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.06%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.06%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.65%) Linux
2 14 (1.86%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (44.30%) Analytics
2 332 (44.03%) Data Engineering
3 296 (39.26%) ETL
4 295 (39.12%) Data Modelling
5 283 (37.53%) CI/CD
6 211 (27.98%) AI
7 210 (27.85%) DevOps
8 184 (24.40%) Agile
9 177 (23.47%) Data Governance
10 175 (23.21%) Machine Learning
11 158 (20.95%) Data Science
12 153 (20.29%) Business Intelligence
13 115 (15.25%) Decision-Making
14 111 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
14 111 (14.72%) Validation
15 109 (14.46%) Data Architecture
16 92 (12.20%) Use Case
17 88 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
18 82 (10.88%) Data Integration
19 77 (10.21%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 461 (61.14%) Python
2 436 (57.82%) SQL
3 73 (9.68%) Java
4 69 (9.15%) Scala
5 41 (5.44%) C#
6 29 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 22 (2.92%) R
8 16 (2.12%) JavaScript
8 16 (2.12%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.99%) Bicep
10 14 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.59%) Bash
12 11 (1.46%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.46%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.66%) C++
15 4 (0.53%) Korn
15 4 (0.53%) SAS Macro
16 3 (0.40%) Ruby
16 3 (0.40%) X++
Qualifications
1 155 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 137 (18.17%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.84%) Degree
4 25 (3.32%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.12%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.66%) PhD
10 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) CISA
12 2 (0.27%) CISSP
12 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (32.63%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.57%) GDPR
3 38 (5.04%) QA
4 9 (1.19%) PERC
5 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.53%) SLA
8 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.40%) NIST
9 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.27%) IFRS
9 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.27%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.27%) MiFID
9 2 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.13%) Basel III
10 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (13.79%) Docker
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.27%) Ceph
2 2 (0.27%) Firmware
2 2 (0.27%) HDFS
2 2 (0.27%) Lustre
2 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
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 96 (12.73%) Terraform
2 87 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.46%) Grafana
4 10 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.40%) Istio
5 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.27%) Control-M
6 2 (0.27%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.27%) Kibana
6 2 (0.27%) 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
1 208 (27.59%) Databricks
2 132 (17.51%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.77%) Informatica
4 34 (4.51%) Google
5 28 (3.71%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.58%) Oracle
7 16 (2.12%) Foundry
8 14 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.46%) Palantir
9 11 (1.46%) SAP
10 9 (1.19%) UiPath
11 8 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.06%) Cloudera
11 8 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.93%) Workday
13 6 (0.80%) Splunk
14 5 (0.66%) Adobe
14 5 (0.66%) mParticle
14 5 (0.66%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.66%) Tealium