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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 84 114
Rank change year-on-year +34 +30 +100
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 941 466 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.62% 3.45% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 3.73% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 332 255
10th Percentile £392 £412 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £666
90th Percentile £775 £773 £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 £56.00 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% - -
75th Percentile £61.00 £73.69 -
90th Percentile £68.20 £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 18,082 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
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 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +15 103 £575 +4.55% 106
West London +5 37 £520 +0.29% 46
East London +3 5 £470 -53.00% 5
South London -6 4 £556 +27.14% 5
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
1 135 (14.35%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (11.69%) Apache Spark
3 86 (9.14%) Apache
4 15 (1.59%) Confluence
4 15 (1.59%) SAS
5 8 (0.85%) CMS
6 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.53%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
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 10 (1.06%) 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 (0.96%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.43%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.21%) Cloudability
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%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 380 (40.38%) Azure
2 329 (34.96%) AWS
3 163 (17.32%) GCP
4 150 (15.94%) Snowflake
5 129 (13.71%) Power Platform
6 123 (13.07%) dbt
7 105 (11.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 103 (10.95%) Amazon S3
9 78 (8.29%) Serverless
10 75 (7.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 72 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
12 71 (7.55%) GitHub
13 65 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (4.25%) Azure Databricks
16 26 (2.76%) SaaS
17 24 (2.55%) Amazon Bedrock
18 22 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
19 19 (2.02%) Azure AI
20 18 (1.91%) 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
1 176 (18.70%) Data Warehouse
2 116 (12.33%) Power BI
3 111 (11.80%) Data Lake
4 97 (10.31%) Metadata
5 89 (9.46%) BigQuery
6 78 (8.29%) Delta Lake
7 59 (6.27%) Big Data
8 55 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 44 (4.68%) Tableau
10 42 (4.46%) Relational Database
11 38 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (3.83%) SQL Server
13 34 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (3.29%) NoSQL
15 30 (3.19%) Snowflake Schema
16 26 (2.76%) Looker
17 20 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (2.02%) Flink
19 18 (1.91%) Parquet
19 18 (1.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 112 (11.90%) Git
2 47 (4.99%) GitLab
3 25 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.55%) JIRA
5 10 (1.06%) MLflow
6 9 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.74%) ERwin
7 7 (0.74%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.64%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.64%) JUnit
8 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.43%) Gradle
10 4 (0.43%) Maven
10 4 (0.43%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
12 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 304 (32.31%) Finance
2 206 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 177 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (11.05%) Banking
5 65 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.08%) Front Office
7 26 (2.76%) Retail
8 21 (2.23%) Marketing
9 18 (1.91%) Back Office
9 18 (1.91%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.17%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.17%) Legal
12 9 (0.96%) Billing
12 9 (0.96%) Publishing
13 8 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.85%) Law
13 8 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 387 (41.13%) Data Engineer
2 162 (17.22%) Senior
3 96 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
4 88 (9.35%) Lead
5 83 (8.82%) Architect
6 81 (8.61%) Developer
7 56 (5.95%) Analyst
8 53 (5.63%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.42%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (4.68%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 43 (4.57%) Python Engineer
12 39 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (4.04%) Snowflake Engineer
14 37 (3.93%) Azure Data Engineer
15 34 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 34 (3.61%) Data Architect
15 34 (3.61%) Data Scientist
16 33 (3.51%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 30 (3.19%) Lead Data Engineer
17 30 (3.19%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (15.41%) PySpark
2 111 (11.80%) Terraform
3 96 (10.20%) Kafka
4 66 (7.01%) REST
5 43 (4.57%) Pandas
6 29 (3.08%) NumPy
7 28 (2.98%) .NET
8 26 (2.76%) FastAPI
9 25 (2.66%) React
10 23 (2.44%) PyTorch
11 20 (2.13%) RESTful
12 19 (2.02%) Flask
12 19 (2.02%) TensorFlow
13 14 (1.49%) JSON
14 13 (1.38%) Polars
14 13 (1.38%) scikit-learn
15 11 (1.17%) Apache Beam
15 11 (1.17%) Django
15 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (1.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 138 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.27%) Onboarding
3 55 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 44 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (4.04%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.40%) Algorithms
7 31 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.87%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.70%) Reference Data
10 15 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
11 14 (1.49%) Derivative
11 14 (1.49%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.49%) NHS
12 11 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.17%) Equities
12 11 (1.17%) Taxonomies
12 11 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.06%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.14%) Linux
2 28 (2.98%) Unix
3 14 (1.49%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (45.70%) Data Engineering
2 388 (41.23%) Analytics
3 365 (38.79%) CI/CD
4 347 (36.88%) Data Modelling
5 328 (34.86%) ETL
6 289 (30.71%) AI
7 230 (24.44%) Machine Learning
8 214 (22.74%) Agile
9 199 (21.15%) DevOps
10 184 (19.55%) Data Governance
11 159 (16.90%) Validation
12 156 (16.58%) Data Science
13 154 (16.37%) Business Intelligence
14 149 (15.83%) Data Transformation
15 144 (15.30%) Decision-Making
16 138 (14.67%) Data Architecture
17 128 (13.60%) Migration
18 126 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
19 122 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
20 109 (11.58%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 536 (56.96%) Python
2 494 (52.50%) SQL
3 74 (7.86%) Java
4 44 (4.68%) C#
5 35 (3.72%) Scala
6 29 (3.08%) Shell Script
7 28 (2.98%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.87%) JavaScript
9 23 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 23 (2.44%) TypeScript
10 21 (2.23%) R
11 17 (1.81%) Bash
12 9 (0.96%) Go
12 9 (0.96%) LookML
13 8 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.64%) C++
15 6 (0.64%) Korn
15 6 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 127 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.46%) Degree
4 19 (2.02%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.32%) CISSP
13 3 (0.32%) PhD
13 3 (0.32%) PMP
14 2 (0.21%) CISA
14 2 (0.21%) CISM
14 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (35.28%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.42%) QA
3 22 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.13%) GDPR
5 6 (0.64%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) Basel III
6 5 (0.53%) EU AI Act
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) 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 99 (10.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 96 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.28%) Ansible
3 10 (1.06%) Control-M
4 4 (0.43%) Grafana
4 4 (0.43%) Kibana
4 4 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.32%) Puppet
5 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) systemd
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.11%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 232 (24.65%) Databricks
2 126 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.48%) Google
4 55 (5.84%) Oracle
5 32 (3.40%) Informatica
6 16 (1.70%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.49%) Palantir
8 12 (1.28%) Foundry
9 9 (0.96%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.96%) SAP
9 9 (0.96%) Splunk
10 8 (0.85%) Cloudera
10 8 (0.85%) Teradata
10 8 (0.85%) Workday
11 7 (0.74%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.64%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.64%) SnapLogic
12 6 (0.64%) Talend