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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 79 120
Rank change year-on-year +31 +41 +99
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 946 457 364
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.65% 3.39% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 3.66% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 329 260
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - £39.69 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.84 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £73.69 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.24 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -44.42% - -

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 18,051 12,472 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.78% 92.51% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 8,235 9,567
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £671 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 247 185
10th Percentile £16.21 £17.62 £17.35
25th Percentile £19.27 £25.02 £24.15
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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 26 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 26 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 +7 106 £575 +4.07% 112
West London +1 31 £520 +0.29% 51
East London +2 6 £460 -54.00% 6
South London -5 4 £556 +27.14% 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
1 133 (14.06%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (11.84%) Apache Spark
3 89 (9.41%) Apache
4 16 (1.69%) SAS
5 15 (1.59%) Confluence
6 8 (0.85%) CMS
6 8 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.11%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 380 (40.17%) Azure
2 341 (36.05%) AWS
3 160 (16.91%) GCP
4 149 (15.75%) Snowflake
5 139 (14.69%) Power Platform
6 124 (13.11%) dbt
7 111 (11.73%) Amazon S3
8 110 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 82 (8.67%) Serverless
10 78 (8.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 77 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
12 76 (8.03%) GitHub
13 69 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (4.02%) Azure Databricks
16 23 (2.43%) Amazon Bedrock
16 23 (2.43%) Amazon EMR
16 23 (2.43%) SaaS
17 20 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Internet
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) SSH
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (19.03%) Data Warehouse
2 124 (13.11%) Power BI
3 115 (12.16%) Data Lake
4 99 (10.47%) Metadata
5 85 (8.99%) BigQuery
6 80 (8.46%) Delta Lake
7 59 (6.24%) Big Data
8 51 (5.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.86%) Tableau
10 43 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
10 43 (4.55%) Relational Database
11 39 (4.12%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
13 31 (3.28%) NoSQL
14 30 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
15 27 (2.85%) Looker
16 20 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (2.11%) Flink
16 20 (2.11%) Parquet
17 19 (2.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 110 (11.63%) Git
2 45 (4.76%) GitLab
3 26 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.64%) JIRA
5 12 (1.27%) MLflow
6 9 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.74%) ERwin
7 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.74%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.63%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.53%) Gradle
9 5 (0.53%) JUnit
9 5 (0.53%) Maven
9 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.42%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
12 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 299 (31.61%) Finance
2 204 (21.56%) Social Skills
3 179 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (10.89%) Banking
5 67 (7.08%) Public Sector
6 28 (2.96%) Front Office
7 27 (2.85%) Retail
8 22 (2.33%) Marketing
9 19 (2.01%) Back Office
10 16 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.16%) Legal
12 10 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.06%) Publishing
13 9 (0.95%) Billing
13 9 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.85%) Law
14 8 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 400 (42.28%) Data Engineer
2 166 (17.55%) Senior
3 96 (10.15%) Senior Data Engineer
4 90 (9.51%) Lead
5 84 (8.88%) Developer
6 82 (8.67%) Architect
7 57 (6.03%) Analyst
8 53 (5.60%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (4.76%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 44 (4.65%) Python Engineer
12 40 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
13 39 (4.12%) Snowflake Engineer
14 38 (4.02%) Azure Data Engineer
15 35 (3.70%) Data Architect
16 34 (3.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 33 (3.49%) Data Scientist
18 32 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 30 (3.17%) Data Analyst
19 30 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (15.54%) PySpark
2 117 (12.37%) Terraform
3 97 (10.25%) Kafka
4 65 (6.87%) REST
5 44 (4.65%) Pandas
6 29 (3.07%) NumPy
7 28 (2.96%) .NET
8 25 (2.64%) FastAPI
8 25 (2.64%) React
9 22 (2.33%) RESTful
10 20 (2.11%) PyTorch
11 18 (1.90%) Flask
12 16 (1.69%) JSON
12 16 (1.69%) TensorFlow
13 15 (1.59%) Polars
14 14 (1.48%) Spring
14 14 (1.48%) Spring Boot
15 11 (1.16%) Apache Avro
15 11 (1.16%) Apache Beam
15 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 137 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.55%) Onboarding
3 58 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 46 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.91%) Data Structures
6 31 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.64%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.90%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
10 17 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.59%) NHS
12 13 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.27%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.27%) Hedge funds
13 12 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.16%) Derivative
14 11 (1.16%) Equities
14 11 (1.16%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.12%) Linux
2 28 (2.96%) Unix
3 14 (1.48%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (45.77%) Data Engineering
2 397 (41.97%) Analytics
3 367 (38.79%) CI/CD
4 354 (37.42%) Data Modelling
5 330 (34.88%) ETL
6 289 (30.55%) AI
7 218 (23.04%) Machine Learning
8 213 (22.52%) Agile
9 204 (21.56%) DevOps
10 192 (20.30%) Data Governance
11 161 (17.02%) Validation
12 160 (16.91%) Data Science
13 159 (16.81%) Business Intelligence
14 149 (15.75%) Data Transformation
15 142 (15.01%) Decision-Making
16 140 (14.80%) Data Architecture
17 128 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
18 127 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
19 126 (13.32%) Migration
20 110 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 547 (57.82%) Python
2 511 (54.02%) SQL
3 82 (8.67%) Java
4 47 (4.97%) C#
5 36 (3.81%) Scala
6 30 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.96%) Shell Script
8 27 (2.85%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.54%) R
10 23 (2.43%) TypeScript
11 22 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 21 (2.22%) Bash
13 10 (1.06%) Go
14 9 (0.95%) LookML
15 8 (0.85%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
16 7 (0.74%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.63%) C++
17 6 (0.63%) Korn
18 5 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 154 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 133 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.33%) Degree
4 20 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.42%) CISSP
11 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.32%) CISA
12 3 (0.32%) CISM
12 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.32%) PhD
12 3 (0.32%) PMP
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.39%) QA
3 23 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.22%) GDPR
5 9 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) Basel III
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 104 (10.99%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 95 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.37%) Ansible
3 10 (1.06%) Grafana
4 9 (0.95%) Control-M
5 5 (0.53%) Kibana
5 5 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.32%) Puppet
6 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.21%) systemd
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 230 (24.31%) Databricks
2 129 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.24%) Google
4 56 (5.92%) Oracle
5 31 (3.28%) Informatica
6 16 (1.69%) Palantir
6 16 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.59%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.48%) Foundry
9 9 (0.95%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.95%) SAP
9 9 (0.95%) Splunk
10 8 (0.85%) Cloudera
10 8 (0.85%) Teradata
11 7 (0.74%) Hitachi
11 7 (0.74%) Workday
12 6 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.63%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.63%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.53%) Dynatrace