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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 80 124
Rank change year-on-year +33 +44 +86
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 967 456 343
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.76% 3.38% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.35% 3.65% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 332 244
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £471 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £799 £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 £55.00 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -17.91% - -

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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
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 £675
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 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 12 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 12 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 +12 104 £565 +1.80% 66
West London +1 31 £520 +0.29% 38
East London +2 6 £460 -54.00% 9
South London -4 5 £500 +11.11% 5
North London - 1 £178 - 1
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 (13.75%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (11.27%) Apache Spark
3 91 (9.41%) Apache
4 16 (1.65%) SAS
5 15 (1.55%) Confluence
6 9 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.83%) CMS
8 7 (0.72%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
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 3 (0.31%) 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 Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (40.85%) Azure
2 350 (36.19%) AWS
3 159 (16.44%) GCP
4 150 (15.51%) Power Platform
5 148 (15.31%) Snowflake
6 122 (12.62%) dbt
7 114 (11.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 112 (11.58%) Amazon S3
9 91 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (9.41%) GitHub
10 86 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 81 (8.38%) Serverless
12 70 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
13 59 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (3.72%) Azure Databricks
15 23 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
16 21 (2.17%) SaaS
17 20 (2.07%) Amazon Bedrock
17 20 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (1.96%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Internet
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
3 1 (0.10%) SSH
3 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (18.92%) Data Warehouse
2 135 (13.96%) Power BI
3 126 (13.03%) Data Lake
4 104 (10.75%) Metadata
5 84 (8.69%) BigQuery
6 80 (8.27%) Delta Lake
7 59 (6.10%) Big Data
8 50 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.76%) Relational Database
9 46 (4.76%) Tableau
10 43 (4.45%) SQL Server
11 40 (4.14%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (3.52%) NoSQL
12 34 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
12 34 (3.52%) Snowflake Schema
13 30 (3.10%) Looker
14 26 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (2.59%) Flink
16 24 (2.48%) Star Schema
17 21 (2.17%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 103 (10.65%) Git
2 43 (4.45%) GitLab
3 29 (3.00%) JIRA
4 28 (2.90%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.34%) MLflow
6 8 (0.83%) ERwin
6 8 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.72%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.62%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.52%) Gradle
9 5 (0.52%) JUnit
9 5 (0.52%) Maven
9 5 (0.52%) Selenium
9 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.31%) RStudio
General
1 309 (31.95%) Finance
2 199 (20.58%) Social Skills
3 177 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (9.82%) Banking
5 67 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.79%) Front Office
6 27 (2.79%) Retail
7 24 (2.48%) Marketing
8 17 (1.76%) Back Office
8 17 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.65%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.24%) Legal
10 12 (1.24%) Publishing
11 11 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 9 (0.93%) Billing
12 9 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.83%) Law
13 8 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 404 (41.78%) Data Engineer
2 167 (17.27%) Senior
3 98 (10.13%) Senior Data Engineer
4 92 (9.51%) Lead
5 90 (9.31%) Developer
6 82 (8.48%) Architect
7 58 (6.00%) Analyst
8 51 (5.27%) Databricks Engineer
9 50 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (4.65%) Python Engineer
11 43 (4.45%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 40 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (3.93%) Azure Data Engineer
14 36 (3.72%) Snowflake Engineer
15 35 (3.62%) Data Scientist
16 33 (3.41%) Data Analyst
16 33 (3.41%) Data Architect
17 31 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 31 (3.21%) Python Developer
17 31 (3.21%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (16.13%) PySpark
2 115 (11.89%) Terraform
3 104 (10.75%) Kafka
4 67 (6.93%) REST
5 51 (5.27%) Pandas
6 32 (3.31%) NumPy
7 29 (3.00%) FastAPI
8 28 (2.90%) .NET
9 27 (2.79%) React
10 24 (2.48%) RESTful
11 21 (2.17%) Flask
11 21 (2.17%) JSON
12 19 (1.96%) Polars
12 19 (1.96%) PyTorch
13 17 (1.76%) Apache Avro
14 15 (1.55%) TensorFlow
15 14 (1.45%) Spring
15 14 (1.45%) Spring Boot
16 13 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
16 13 (1.34%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 131 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.93%) Data Structures
6 35 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.76%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
10 16 (1.65%) Hedge funds
10 16 (1.65%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.55%) NHS
12 13 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.34%) Equities
12 13 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.14%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.03%) Derivative
14 10 (1.03%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.14%) Linux
2 28 (2.90%) 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
1 441 (45.60%) Data Engineering
2 404 (41.78%) Analytics
3 370 (38.26%) CI/CD
4 359 (37.13%) Data Modelling
5 337 (34.85%) ETL
6 290 (29.99%) AI
7 231 (23.89%) DevOps
8 219 (22.65%) Machine Learning
9 218 (22.54%) Agile
10 192 (19.86%) Data Governance
11 169 (17.48%) Business Intelligence
12 165 (17.06%) Data Science
13 159 (16.44%) Validation
14 149 (15.41%) Data Architecture
14 149 (15.41%) Data Transformation
14 149 (15.41%) Decision-Making
15 130 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
16 122 (12.62%) Migration
17 121 (12.51%) Stakeholder Management
18 113 (11.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 548 (56.67%) Python
2 520 (53.77%) SQL
3 89 (9.20%) Java
4 49 (5.07%) C#
5 37 (3.83%) Scala
6 31 (3.21%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.00%) Shell Script
8 26 (2.69%) JavaScript
9 25 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 24 (2.48%) R
11 22 (2.28%) TypeScript
12 19 (1.96%) Bash
13 10 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.93%) Go
14 9 (0.93%) LookML
14 9 (0.93%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.72%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.62%) C++
16 6 (0.62%) Korn
17 4 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 167 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 145 (14.99%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.03%) Degree
4 21 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.41%) CISSP
9 4 (0.41%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.31%) CISA
10 3 (0.31%) CISM
10 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.31%) PhD
10 3 (0.31%) PMP
11 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (32.99%) Data Quality
2 60 (6.20%) QA
3 23 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.38%) GDPR
4 9 (0.93%) SLA
5 5 (0.52%) IFRS
6 4 (0.41%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.31%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.21%) GRC
8 2 (0.21%) NCSC
8 2 (0.21%) NIST
8 2 (0.21%) PMO
8 2 (0.21%) WCAG
9 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.10%) COPPA
9 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (11.69%) 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 10 (1.03%) Ansible
4 9 (0.93%) Control-M
4 9 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.52%) Kibana
6 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.10%) Istio
8 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.10%) logstash
8 1 (0.10%) systemd
Vendors
1 227 (23.47%) Databricks
2 141 (14.58%) Microsoft
3 57 (5.89%) Oracle
4 55 (5.69%) Google
5 41 (4.24%) Informatica
6 18 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.76%) Palantir
8 14 (1.45%) Foundry
9 12 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.24%) Splunk
10 10 (1.03%) Cloudera
11 9 (0.93%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.93%) SAP
12 8 (0.83%) Confluent
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