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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 108 143
Rank change year-on-year +54 +35 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 758 322 311
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.28% 2.57% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 2.78% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 236 243
10th Percentile £389 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £670
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £514 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -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 15,684 11,567 15,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.64% 92.16% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,506 7,851 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £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 £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +42 105 £513 -6.82% 70
West London - 24 £520 - 3
South London -11 7 £500 +3.90% 1
East London -1 4 £450 - 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
1 112 (14.78%) Apache Spark
2 95 (12.53%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (6.20%) Apache
4 11 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.32%) Confluence
6 9 (1.19%) SAS
7 8 (1.06%) Appian
8 5 (0.66%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
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 (2.37%) 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 (0.26%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.26%) 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
1 371 (48.94%) Azure
2 274 (36.15%) AWS
3 152 (20.05%) Power Platform
4 128 (16.89%) GCP
5 127 (16.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 93 (12.27%) GitHub
6 93 (12.27%) Snowflake
7 89 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
8 87 (11.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 76 (10.03%) Amazon S3
10 73 (9.63%) Serverless
11 66 (8.71%) dbt
12 61 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (6.99%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (3.43%) Dagster
15 23 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
15 23 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
16 22 (2.90%) Azure AI
17 21 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (2.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) Network Security
3 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.26%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.26%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (22.56%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (17.28%) Power BI
3 124 (16.36%) Data Lake
4 70 (9.23%) Metadata
5 66 (8.71%) Delta Lake
6 60 (7.92%) SQL Server
7 54 (7.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (6.46%) Big Data
8 49 (6.46%) BigQuery
9 45 (5.94%) Tableau
10 43 (5.67%) NoSQL
11 38 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 37 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (4.75%) Relational Database
14 27 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (3.30%) Spark SQL
16 20 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
17 18 (2.37%) Star Schema
18 15 (1.98%) Looker
Development Applications
1 112 (14.78%) Git
2 31 (4.09%) JIRA
2 31 (4.09%) MLflow
3 27 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.43%) GitLab
5 6 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.66%) Selenium
7 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) Gradle
9 2 (0.26%) Maven
9 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.13%) NUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 223 (29.42%) Finance
2 170 (22.43%) Social Skills
3 115 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (7.12%) Banking
5 47 (6.20%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.37%) Legal
8 15 (1.98%) Marketing
8 15 (1.98%) Retail
9 13 (1.72%) Front Office
9 13 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.58%) Back Office
10 12 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.58%) Publishing
11 11 (1.45%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.19%) Electronics
12 9 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 355 (46.83%) Data Engineer
2 120 (15.83%) Senior
3 84 (11.08%) Developer
4 81 (10.69%) Senior Data Engineer
5 59 (7.78%) Architect
6 54 (7.12%) Lead
7 53 (6.99%) Azure Engineer
8 48 (6.33%) Azure Data Engineer
9 37 (4.88%) Data Scientist
10 35 (4.62%) Analyst
11 33 (4.35%) Python Engineer
12 31 (4.09%) Snowflake Engineer
13 28 (3.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 25 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 25 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (2.90%) AWS Data Engineer
15 22 (2.90%) Data Architect
16 21 (2.77%) Data Analyst
16 21 (2.77%) Python Developer
17 20 (2.64%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (17.28%) PySpark
2 81 (10.69%) Kafka
3 76 (10.03%) Pandas
4 52 (6.86%) NumPy
5 43 (5.67%) scikit-learn
6 39 (5.15%) PyTorch
7 37 (4.88%) TensorFlow
8 35 (4.62%) REST
9 28 (3.69%) FastAPI
10 27 (3.56%) Flask
11 20 (2.64%) RESTful
12 18 (2.37%) JSON
12 18 (2.37%) Polars
13 17 (2.24%) .NET
13 17 (2.24%) pytest
13 17 (2.24%) React
14 16 (2.11%) Hugging Face
15 15 (1.98%) Apache Avro
15 15 (1.98%) Web Services
16 13 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (3.69%) Data Structures
5 25 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.03%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
7 19 (2.51%) Hedge funds
8 18 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.37%) Equities
9 16 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.45%) Derivative
11 11 (1.45%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.06%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.64%) Linux
2 14 (1.85%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (44.85%) Analytics
2 331 (43.67%) Data Engineering
3 297 (39.18%) Data Modelling
4 296 (39.05%) ETL
5 284 (37.47%) CI/CD
6 211 (27.84%) AI
7 207 (27.31%) DevOps
8 183 (24.14%) Agile
9 180 (23.75%) Data Governance
10 176 (23.22%) Machine Learning
11 163 (21.50%) Data Science
12 155 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
13 115 (15.17%) Decision-Making
14 114 (15.04%) Data Architecture
15 111 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (14.64%) Validation
16 91 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
17 90 (11.87%) Use Case
18 83 (10.95%) Data Integration
19 76 (10.03%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 466 (61.48%) Python
2 439 (57.92%) SQL
3 71 (9.37%) Java
4 70 (9.23%) Scala
5 38 (5.01%) C#
6 28 (3.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (2.77%) R
8 17 (2.24%) T-SQL
9 16 (2.11%) Bicep
10 15 (1.98%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.85%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.58%) Bash
13 11 (1.45%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.19%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.92%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.66%) C++
16 5 (0.66%) Korn
17 4 (0.53%) SAS Macro
18 3 (0.40%) Ruby
19 2 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 155 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 137 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.07%) Degree
4 25 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.24%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.79%) PhD
10 5 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.26%) CISA
13 2 (0.26%) CISSP
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (32.59%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.94%) GDPR
3 36 (4.75%) QA
4 9 (1.19%) PERC
5 7 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.53%) SLA
8 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.40%) NIST
9 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.26%) MiFID
9 2 (0.26%) PMO
9 2 (0.26%) WCAG
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%) Solvency II
System Software
1 104 (13.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.26%) Ceph
2 2 (0.26%) Firmware
2 2 (0.26%) HDFS
2 2 (0.26%) Lustre
2 2 (0.26%) 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 98 (12.93%) Terraform
2 87 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.45%) Grafana
4 10 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.40%) Istio
5 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.26%) Control-M
6 2 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.26%) Kibana
6 2 (0.26%) 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
1 213 (28.10%) Databricks
2 130 (17.15%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.49%) Informatica
4 33 (4.35%) Google
5 28 (3.69%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.56%) Oracle
7 16 (2.11%) Foundry
8 14 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.45%) Palantir
9 11 (1.45%) SAP
10 9 (1.19%) UiPath
11 8 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.06%) Cloudera
11 8 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.92%) Workday
13 6 (0.79%) Splunk
14 5 (0.66%) Adobe
14 5 (0.66%) mParticle
14 5 (0.66%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.66%) Tealium