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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 111 143
Rank change year-on-year +56 +32 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 742 324 314
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.28% 2.56% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 2.78% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 232 249
10th Percentile £394 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -0.88%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £680
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £54.00 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £58.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £64.75 £65.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +34.02% -33.10%
75th Percentile £73.50 - £50.25
90th Percentile £74.40 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -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 15,428 11,636 15,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 91.87% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,331 7,886 11,336
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £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 £755 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 168 334
10th Percentile £18.37 £16.48 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.75 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.00 £50.56 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £63.40 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +46 109 £513 -6.82% 86
West London - 26 £575 - 2
South London -9 10 £500 +3.90% 1
East London -1 4 £450 - 7
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
1 115 (15.50%) Apache Spark
2 101 (13.61%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (6.47%) Apache
4 12 (1.62%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.08%) Appian
5 8 (1.08%) SAS
6 5 (0.67%) Confluence
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.27%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.40%) Trello
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) 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
1 364 (49.06%) Azure
2 276 (37.20%) AWS
3 148 (19.95%) Power Platform
4 131 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (16.44%) GCP
6 93 (12.53%) Snowflake
7 91 (12.26%) GitHub
8 87 (11.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 86 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
10 76 (10.24%) Amazon S3
11 75 (10.11%) Serverless
12 69 (9.30%) dbt
13 63 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.64%) Dagster
16 26 (3.50%) AWS Step Functions
17 24 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
18 23 (3.10%) Amazon Kinesis
19 22 (2.96%) Azure AI
20 19 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) 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
1 176 (23.72%) Data Warehouse
2 130 (17.52%) Power BI
3 117 (15.77%) Data Lake
4 74 (9.97%) Metadata
5 60 (8.09%) Delta Lake
6 58 (7.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 58 (7.82%) SQL Server
7 49 (6.60%) NoSQL
8 48 (6.47%) Big Data
9 45 (6.06%) BigQuery
9 45 (6.06%) Tableau
10 41 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 37 (4.99%) Snowflake Schema
12 35 (4.72%) Relational Database
13 29 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
14 23 (3.10%) Spark SQL
15 20 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (2.56%) Star Schema
17 15 (2.02%) Looker
Development Applications
1 112 (15.09%) Git
2 31 (4.18%) MLflow
3 26 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 26 (3.50%) JIRA
4 24 (3.23%) GitLab
5 6 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.67%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) ERwin
9 1 (0.13%) Gradle
9 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.13%) Maven
9 1 (0.13%) NUnit
9 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 215 (28.98%) Finance
2 166 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 116 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.87%) Banking
5 50 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.43%) Legal
8 14 (1.89%) Front Office
9 13 (1.75%) Marketing
9 13 (1.75%) Retail
9 13 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.62%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.35%) Back Office
11 10 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.21%) Electronics
12 9 (1.21%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.21%) Publishing
13 4 (0.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 353 (47.57%) Data Engineer
2 115 (15.50%) Senior
3 79 (10.65%) Developer
4 78 (10.51%) Senior Data Engineer
5 59 (7.95%) Architect
6 57 (7.68%) Azure Engineer
7 54 (7.28%) Lead
8 51 (6.87%) Azure Data Engineer
9 37 (4.99%) Data Scientist
10 35 (4.72%) Python Engineer
11 32 (4.31%) Analyst
12 31 (4.18%) Snowflake Engineer
13 28 (3.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 27 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 25 (3.37%) Data Architect
16 24 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
17 23 (3.10%) GCP Engineer
18 21 (2.83%) Lead Data Engineer
18 21 (2.83%) Python Data Engineer
19 19 (2.56%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (18.06%) PySpark
2 81 (10.92%) Kafka
3 72 (9.70%) Pandas
4 50 (6.74%) NumPy
5 45 (6.06%) scikit-learn
6 40 (5.39%) PyTorch
7 38 (5.12%) TensorFlow
8 31 (4.18%) REST
9 26 (3.50%) FastAPI
10 23 (3.10%) Flask
11 19 (2.56%) pytest
12 18 (2.43%) JSON
13 17 (2.29%) React
14 16 (2.16%) .NET
14 16 (2.16%) Hugging Face
15 15 (2.02%) RESTful
15 15 (2.02%) Web Services
16 14 (1.89%) Polars
17 13 (1.75%) YAML
18 12 (1.62%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 26 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.37%) Distributed Computing
4 25 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 24 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 19 (2.56%) Equities
7 16 (2.16%) Hedge funds
8 14 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.75%) Derivative
10 12 (1.62%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.94%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.29%) Linux
2 11 (1.48%) Unix
3 4 (0.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (45.28%) Data Engineering
2 332 (44.74%) Analytics
3 297 (40.03%) Data Modelling
4 296 (39.89%) ETL
5 276 (37.20%) CI/CD
6 205 (27.63%) AI
7 200 (26.95%) DevOps
8 186 (25.07%) Data Governance
9 185 (24.93%) Agile
10 173 (23.32%) Machine Learning
11 170 (22.91%) Data Science
12 153 (20.62%) Business Intelligence
13 115 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (15.09%) Data Architecture
15 111 (14.96%) Decision-Making
16 103 (13.88%) Validation
17 94 (12.67%) Data Integration
18 92 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
19 82 (11.05%) Use Case
20 75 (10.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 475 (64.02%) Python
2 435 (58.63%) SQL
3 78 (10.51%) Scala
4 68 (9.16%) Java
5 33 (4.45%) C#
6 26 (3.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (2.43%) R
7 18 (2.43%) T-SQL
8 17 (2.29%) Bicep
9 15 (2.02%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.35%) Bash
12 9 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.08%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.94%) C++
14 7 (0.94%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.81%) Korn
16 4 (0.54%) SAS Macro
17 3 (0.40%) Ruby
18 2 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 150 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 131 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.33%) Degree
4 24 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.08%) PhD
10 7 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.54%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.54%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.13%) CISSP
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.13%) PMP
13 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (33.96%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.93%) GDPR
3 32 (4.31%) QA
4 9 (1.21%) PERC
5 8 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.40%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.27%) NIST
9 2 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.13%) Basel III
10 1 (0.13%) GAAP
10 1 (0.13%) GxP
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (13.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Ceph
3 2 (0.27%) Firmware
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
3 2 (0.27%) Lustre
3 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.13%) etcd
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 98 (13.21%) Terraform
2 82 (11.05%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.21%) Grafana
3 9 (1.21%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.40%) Istio
4 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.27%) Control-M
5 2 (0.27%) Fluentd
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 221 (29.78%) Databricks
2 125 (16.85%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.45%) Google
4 31 (4.18%) Informatica
5 28 (3.77%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.64%) Oracle
7 17 (2.29%) Foundry
8 14 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.62%) Palantir
10 11 (1.48%) SAP
11 9 (1.21%) UiPath
12 8 (1.08%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (0.94%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.94%) Workday
14 5 (0.67%) Adobe
14 5 (0.67%) mParticle
14 5 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.67%) Splunk
14 5 (0.67%) Tealium