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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 97 130
Rank change year-on-year +50 +33 +100
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 865 352 352
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.53% 2.81% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 3.04% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 257 268
10th Percentile £390 £408 £394
25th Percentile £450 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £43.53 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £46.42 £46.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +28.57% -16.00% -17.22%

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 16,970 11,588 15,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,314 7,764 11,086
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 214 312
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +14.34% -26.88%
75th Percentile £59.85 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +25 102 £525 -4.55% 22
West London -6 24 £520 +4.00% 5
East London +4 6 £450 - 5
South London -3 3 £500 +3.90%
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
1 101 (11.68%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (11.21%) Apache Spark
3 53 (6.13%) Apache
4 15 (1.73%) Confluence
5 11 (1.27%) SAS
6 8 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.81%) Appian
8 6 (0.69%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.58%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) CICS
12 1 (0.12%) Luigi
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.58%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.12%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 387 (44.74%) Azure
2 321 (37.11%) AWS
3 162 (18.73%) Power Platform
4 137 (15.84%) GCP
5 112 (12.95%) Snowflake
6 111 (12.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 101 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (10.64%) GitHub
9 91 (10.52%) Amazon S3
10 87 (10.06%) dbt
11 81 (9.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 73 (8.44%) Serverless
13 65 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.12%) Dagster
16 22 (2.54%) Amazon SageMaker
17 21 (2.43%) Azure AI
18 20 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
19 18 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
19 18 (2.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Firewall
1 2 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.12%) 4G
2 1 (0.12%) 5G
2 1 (0.12%) HTTP
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (19.31%) Data Warehouse
2 141 (16.30%) Power BI
3 129 (14.91%) Data Lake
4 73 (8.44%) Metadata
5 70 (8.09%) Delta Lake
6 61 (7.05%) SQL Server
7 56 (6.47%) BigQuery
8 55 (6.36%) Tableau
9 51 (5.90%) Big Data
10 46 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 45 (5.20%) Relational Database
12 42 (4.86%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
14 33 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (3.82%) NoSQL
15 26 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (2.77%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.31%) Data Vault
18 18 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 104 (12.02%) Git
2 36 (4.16%) JIRA
3 31 (3.58%) GitLab
4 27 (3.12%) MLflow
5 23 (2.66%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.58%) Gradle
7 5 (0.58%) Maven
7 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.46%) Selenium
9 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) Mocha
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 286 (33.06%) Finance
2 180 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 147 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (7.63%) Banking
5 62 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.01%) Retail
7 19 (2.20%) Front Office
7 19 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.97%) Back Office
9 16 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.73%) Marketing
11 12 (1.39%) Publishing
12 11 (1.27%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.16%) Legal
14 8 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.69%) Billing
16 6 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 381 (44.05%) Data Engineer
2 140 (16.18%) Senior
3 91 (10.52%) Developer
3 91 (10.52%) Senior Data Engineer
4 77 (8.90%) Architect
5 74 (8.55%) Lead
6 47 (5.43%) Data Scientist
7 43 (4.97%) Python Engineer
8 40 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
9 39 (4.51%) Analyst
10 36 (4.16%) Azure Data Engineer
11 35 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 34 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
14 31 (3.58%) Data Architect
14 31 (3.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 26 (3.01%) AWS Data Engineer
15 26 (3.01%) Python Developer
16 24 (2.77%) Data Analyst
17 23 (2.66%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (14.91%) PySpark
2 86 (9.94%) Kafka
3 71 (8.21%) Pandas
4 46 (5.32%) NumPy
4 46 (5.32%) REST
5 37 (4.28%) scikit-learn
6 34 (3.93%) PyTorch
7 32 (3.70%) FastAPI
8 30 (3.47%) TensorFlow
9 26 (3.01%) Flask
10 25 (2.89%) RESTful
11 20 (2.31%) .NET
11 20 (2.31%) Polars
12 18 (2.08%) React
13 17 (1.97%) Apache Avro
13 17 (1.97%) JSON
14 14 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (1.62%) pytest
14 14 (1.62%) Spring
14 14 (1.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 108 (12.49%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.01%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.89%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.43%) Distributed Computing
9 19 (2.20%) AI Agents
10 18 (2.08%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.97%) Equities
11 17 (1.97%) Hedge funds
12 14 (1.62%) NHS
13 13 (1.50%) Reinsurance
14 12 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.39%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.27%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.89%) Linux
2 18 (2.08%) Unix
3 5 (0.58%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (43.82%) Analytics
2 370 (42.77%) Data Engineering
3 325 (37.57%) Data Modelling
4 320 (36.99%) CI/CD
4 320 (36.99%) ETL
5 266 (30.75%) AI
6 230 (26.59%) DevOps
7 203 (23.47%) Machine Learning
8 194 (22.43%) Agile
9 181 (20.92%) Data Science
10 169 (19.54%) Business Intelligence
11 161 (18.61%) Data Governance
12 149 (17.23%) Decision-Making
13 125 (14.45%) Data Architecture
14 123 (14.22%) Validation
15 116 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
16 109 (12.60%) Use Case
17 103 (11.91%) Generative AI
18 99 (11.45%) Migration
19 93 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 524 (60.58%) Python
2 473 (54.68%) SQL
3 81 (9.36%) Java
4 46 (5.32%) Scala
5 43 (4.97%) C#
6 25 (2.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.66%) R
8 18 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.85%) Bash
11 14 (1.62%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.39%) JavaScript
13 10 (1.16%) Bicep
14 7 (0.81%) C++
15 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.46%) Korn
16 4 (0.46%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.46%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 153 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 135 (15.61%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.09%) Degree
4 23 (2.66%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.81%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.58%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.35%) CISA
11 3 (0.35%) CISSP
12 2 (0.23%) CISM
12 2 (0.23%) PhD
12 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (31.68%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.55%) QA
3 34 (3.93%) GDPR
4 6 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.69%) IFRS
4 6 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.58%) IFRS 17
5 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.46%) NIST
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
6 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.35%) PMO
8 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.12%) Basel III
9 1 (0.12%) GAAP
9 1 (0.12%) GxP
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (12.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) etcd
3 1 (0.12%) RACF
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (12.02%) Terraform
2 87 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.27%) Grafana
3 11 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.58%) Control-M
5 3 (0.35%) Istio
5 3 (0.35%) Kibana
5 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.23%) Ansible
6 2 (0.23%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) logstash
7 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 195 (22.54%) Databricks
2 149 (17.23%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.97%) Informatica
4 32 (3.70%) Oracle
5 28 (3.24%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.12%) Google
7 15 (1.73%) Palantir
7 15 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.50%) Foundry
9 10 (1.16%) SAP
10 7 (0.81%) Automation Anywhere
10 7 (0.81%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.81%) UiPath
10 7 (0.81%) Workday
11 6 (0.69%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.69%) Splunk
11 6 (0.69%) Talend
12 4 (0.46%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.46%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.46%) MuleSoft