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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 108 146
Rank change year-on-year +52 +38 +82
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 727 313 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.29% 2.48% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 2.72% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 225 236
10th Percentile £393 £400 £403
25th Percentile £450 £447 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £57.65 £52.75 £40.54
25th Percentile £59.00 £55.00 £41.57
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £45.35
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +35.08% -37.46%
75th Percentile £69.38 £65.00 £48.82
90th Percentile £72.75 - £49.68
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -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 15,153 11,521 15,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.47% 91.42% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,178 7,819 11,391
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 167 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.65 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.10 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £65.00 £67.90
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +54 107 £513 -2.38% 115
West London - 23 £548 - 5
South London -7 11 £500 +2.56% 1
East London +2 4 £450 - 6
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
1 117 (16.09%) Apache Spark
2 104 (14.31%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (7.02%) Apache
4 11 (1.51%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.10%) Appian
5 8 (1.10%) SAS
6 5 (0.69%) Confluence
6 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.28%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) Camunda
9 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.41%) Trello
4 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) BambooHR
1 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 359 (49.38%) Azure
2 275 (37.83%) AWS
3 145 (19.94%) Power Platform
4 131 (18.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (16.78%) GCP
6 95 (13.07%) GitHub
7 93 (12.79%) Snowflake
8 87 (11.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 84 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (10.04%) Amazon S3
11 70 (9.63%) Serverless
12 69 (9.49%) dbt
13 59 (8.12%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (7.15%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.71%) Dagster
16 25 (3.44%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (2.75%) Amazon SageMaker
19 19 (2.61%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) Network Security
2 3 (0.41%) VPN
3 2 (0.28%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (23.25%) Data Warehouse
2 128 (17.61%) Power BI
3 116 (15.96%) Data Lake
4 69 (9.49%) Metadata
5 60 (8.25%) Delta Lake
6 59 (8.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (7.84%) SQL Server
8 48 (6.60%) NoSQL
9 47 (6.46%) Big Data
10 42 (5.78%) BigQuery
11 40 (5.50%) Tableau
12 39 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (4.81%) Snowflake Schema
14 31 (4.26%) Relational Database
15 27 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (3.03%) Spark SQL
17 19 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.48%) Star Schema
19 17 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
20 15 (2.06%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 112 (15.41%) Git
2 31 (4.26%) MLflow
3 26 (3.58%) GitLab
4 25 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.44%) JIRA
5 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.55%) Selenium
7 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.28%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 205 (28.20%) Finance
2 164 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 111 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.15%) Banking
5 46 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.48%) Front Office
8 15 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.06%) Legal
9 13 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.65%) Marketing
10 12 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.65%) Retail
10 12 (1.65%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.51%) Back Office
11 11 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.24%) Electronics
13 7 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.96%) Publishing
14 5 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 350 (48.14%) Data Engineer
2 107 (14.72%) Senior
3 78 (10.73%) Developer
4 73 (10.04%) Senior Data Engineer
5 57 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
6 55 (7.57%) Architect
7 53 (7.29%) Lead
8 50 (6.88%) Azure Data Engineer
9 37 (5.09%) Data Scientist
9 37 (5.09%) Python Engineer
10 32 (4.40%) Snowflake Engineer
11 29 (3.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 26 (3.58%) Analyst
13 25 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 24 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (3.16%) Data Architect
16 22 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
16 22 (3.03%) Lead Data Engineer
16 22 (3.03%) Python Data Engineer
17 20 (2.75%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (18.71%) PySpark
2 81 (11.14%) Kafka
3 65 (8.94%) Pandas
4 44 (6.05%) NumPy
4 44 (6.05%) scikit-learn
5 38 (5.23%) PyTorch
6 36 (4.95%) TensorFlow
7 29 (3.99%) REST
8 24 (3.30%) FastAPI
9 20 (2.75%) Flask
9 20 (2.75%) pytest
10 19 (2.61%) JSON
11 18 (2.48%) React
12 15 (2.06%) Hugging Face
12 15 (2.06%) Web Services
13 14 (1.93%) RESTful
14 13 (1.79%) .NET
15 12 (1.65%) Django
15 12 (1.65%) YAML
16 11 (1.51%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.97%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.13%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.71%) Distributed Computing
5 26 (3.58%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.89%) Equities
7 21 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.34%) Derivative
8 17 (2.34%) Hedge funds
9 14 (1.93%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.24%) Equity Derivative
12 8 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.10%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.61%) Linux
2 11 (1.51%) Unix
3 4 (0.55%) Windows
4 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Debian
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (46.49%) Data Engineering
2 322 (44.29%) Analytics
3 290 (39.89%) ETL
4 286 (39.34%) Data Modelling
5 274 (37.69%) CI/CD
6 204 (28.06%) AI
7 199 (27.37%) DevOps
8 177 (24.35%) Agile
9 176 (24.21%) Machine Learning
10 175 (24.07%) Data Governance
11 167 (22.97%) Data Science
12 148 (20.36%) Business Intelligence
13 112 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
14 103 (14.17%) Data Architecture
15 95 (13.07%) Decision-Making
15 95 (13.07%) Validation
16 92 (12.65%) Data Integration
17 88 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (10.73%) Use Case
19 76 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 479 (65.89%) Python
2 431 (59.28%) SQL
3 73 (10.04%) Scala
4 64 (8.80%) Java
5 29 (3.99%) C#
6 25 (3.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.48%) T-SQL
8 17 (2.34%) Bicep
9 16 (2.20%) R
10 11 (1.51%) Bash
10 11 (1.51%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.38%) C++
11 10 (1.38%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.96%) Korn
14 4 (0.55%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.41%) Ruby
16 2 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 146 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 128 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.15%) Degree
4 23 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.51%) PhD
8 10 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.55%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.14%) CISA
13 1 (0.14%) CISSP
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (33.43%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.78%) GDPR
3 28 (3.85%) QA
4 9 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.24%) PERC
5 7 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.69%) SLA
7 3 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) NIST
8 2 (0.28%) PMO
8 2 (0.28%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) Basel III
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 99 (13.62%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Ceph
3 2 (0.28%) Firmware
3 2 (0.28%) HDFS
3 2 (0.28%) Lustre
3 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.14%) etcd
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) RACF
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (13.34%) Terraform
2 84 (11.55%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.24%) Grafana
4 8 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.28%) Ansible
6 2 (0.28%) Control-M
6 2 (0.28%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.28%) Istio
6 2 (0.28%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 221 (30.40%) Databricks
2 119 (16.37%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.81%) Google
4 31 (4.26%) Informatica
5 28 (3.85%) OpenAI
6 26 (3.58%) Oracle
7 16 (2.20%) Foundry
8 14 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.51%) Palantir
10 9 (1.24%) SAP
10 9 (1.24%) UiPath
11 8 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (0.96%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.83%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.83%) Splunk
14 5 (0.69%) Adobe
14 5 (0.69%) mParticle
14 5 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.69%) NVIDIA
14 5 (0.69%) Tealium