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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 82 125
Rank change year-on-year +37 +43 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 967 436 337
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.82% 3.30% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 3.57% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 321 237
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £457 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 0
10th Percentile - £40.33 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £72.00 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £67.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -9.70% -0.74% -12.90%

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 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +6 98 £555 +0.45% 51
West London +5 32 £520 +0.29% 34
East London +3 5 £450 -55.00% 4
South London -6 5 £500 +11.11% 6
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
1 134 (13.86%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (11.58%) Apache Spark
3 92 (9.51%) Apache
4 17 (1.76%) SAS
5 15 (1.55%) Confluence
6 10 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.83%) CMS
8 7 (0.72%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) Luigi
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 396 (40.95%) Azure
2 352 (36.40%) AWS
3 159 (16.44%) GCP
4 152 (15.72%) Power Platform
5 148 (15.31%) Snowflake
6 118 (12.20%) dbt
7 117 (12.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 110 (11.38%) Amazon S3
9 94 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (9.31%) GitHub
11 85 (8.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 78 (8.07%) Serverless
13 68 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
14 56 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (3.83%) Azure Databricks
16 21 (2.17%) SaaS
17 20 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
18 19 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
18 19 (1.96%) Dagster
19 18 (1.86%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) Network Security
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
3 1 (0.10%) SSH
3 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (19.34%) Data Warehouse
2 139 (14.37%) Power BI
3 128 (13.24%) Data Lake
4 106 (10.96%) Metadata
5 81 (8.38%) BigQuery
6 78 (8.07%) Delta Lake
7 61 (6.31%) Big Data
8 52 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (4.96%) Tableau
10 46 (4.76%) Relational Database
11 45 (4.65%) SQL Server
12 40 (4.14%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (3.52%) Snowflake Schema
14 33 (3.41%) NoSQL
14 33 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
15 29 (3.00%) Looker
16 27 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (2.59%) Flink
18 24 (2.48%) Star Schema
19 20 (2.07%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 97 (10.03%) Git
2 43 (4.45%) GitLab
3 30 (3.10%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.10%) JIRA
4 12 (1.24%) MLflow
5 8 (0.83%) ERwin
5 8 (0.83%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.72%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.62%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.62%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.52%) Gradle
8 5 (0.52%) Maven
8 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.41%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.41%) JUnit
9 4 (0.41%) Selenium
10 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.31%) RStudio
General
1 299 (30.92%) Finance
2 203 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 176 (18.20%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (9.41%) Banking
5 70 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.79%) Retail
7 26 (2.69%) Front Office
8 23 (2.38%) Marketing
9 18 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.65%) Back Office
10 16 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.34%) Publishing
12 12 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.24%) Legal
13 9 (0.93%) Billing
13 9 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.83%) Law
15 7 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 409 (42.30%) Data Engineer
2 163 (16.86%) Senior
3 94 (9.72%) Senior Data Engineer
4 93 (9.62%) Lead
5 92 (9.51%) Developer
6 80 (8.27%) Architect
7 59 (6.10%) Analyst
8 52 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
9 51 (5.27%) Databricks Engineer
10 46 (4.76%) Python Engineer
11 43 (4.45%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 40 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
12 40 (4.14%) Azure Data Engineer
13 36 (3.72%) Data Scientist
13 36 (3.72%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (3.62%) Data Analyst
15 32 (3.31%) Data Architect
15 32 (3.31%) Python Developer
16 31 (3.21%) Python Data Engineer
16 31 (3.21%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (16.13%) PySpark
2 109 (11.27%) Terraform
3 107 (11.07%) Kafka
4 69 (7.14%) REST
5 52 (5.38%) Pandas
6 33 (3.41%) NumPy
7 28 (2.90%) .NET
7 28 (2.90%) FastAPI
8 27 (2.79%) React
9 23 (2.38%) JSON
10 22 (2.28%) RESTful
11 21 (2.17%) Flask
12 20 (2.07%) Polars
13 18 (1.86%) Apache Avro
13 18 (1.86%) PyTorch
14 14 (1.45%) scikit-learn
14 14 (1.45%) Spring
14 14 (1.45%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.45%) TensorFlow
15 12 (1.24%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 130 (13.44%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 58 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (3.72%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.76%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
9 17 (1.76%) Hedge funds
10 16 (1.65%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.55%) NHS
11 15 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.45%) Equities
13 13 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.24%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.14%) Linux
2 30 (3.10%) Unix
3 15 (1.55%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Debian
5 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (45.09%) Data Engineering
2 407 (42.09%) Analytics
3 363 (37.54%) CI/CD
4 357 (36.92%) Data Modelling
5 336 (34.75%) ETL
6 281 (29.06%) AI
7 234 (24.20%) DevOps
8 222 (22.96%) Agile
9 214 (22.13%) Machine Learning
10 193 (19.96%) Data Governance
11 171 (17.68%) Business Intelligence
12 167 (17.27%) Data Science
13 157 (16.24%) Validation
14 149 (15.41%) Data Architecture
15 148 (15.31%) Decision-Making
16 146 (15.10%) Data Transformation
17 128 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
18 125 (12.93%) Migration
19 115 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
20 106 (10.96%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 555 (57.39%) Python
2 519 (53.67%) SQL
3 90 (9.31%) Java
4 48 (4.96%) C#
5 38 (3.93%) Scala
6 31 (3.21%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.10%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.59%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.59%) R
9 24 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (2.17%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.96%) Bash
12 10 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.93%) Go
13 9 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.72%) LookML
14 7 (0.72%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.62%) C++
16 4 (0.41%) Korn
16 4 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 167 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 147 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 37 (3.83%) Degree
4 18 (1.86%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.72%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.52%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.41%) CISSP
13 3 (0.31%) CISA
13 3 (0.31%) CISM
13 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.31%) PhD
13 3 (0.31%) PMP
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (32.89%) Data Quality
2 60 (6.20%) QA
3 25 (2.59%) GDPR
4 22 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.93%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
7 4 (0.41%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 112 (11.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) etcd
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 100 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.24%) Grafana
3 9 (0.93%) Ansible
3 9 (0.93%) Control-M
3 9 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.52%) Kibana
5 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.21%) Puppet
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.10%) Istio
7 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 225 (23.27%) Databricks
2 142 (14.68%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.69%) Oracle
4 51 (5.27%) Google
5 42 (4.34%) Informatica
6 18 (1.86%) Palantir
7 17 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.45%) Foundry
9 12 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.24%) Splunk
10 11 (1.14%) Cloudera
11 9 (0.93%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.83%) Confluent
12 8 (0.83%) SAP
12 8 (0.83%) Teradata
13 7 (0.72%) Hitachi
14 6 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (0.62%) New Relic
14 6 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.62%) SnapLogic