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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 81 117
Rank change year-on-year +32 +36 +101
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 949 455 361
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.69% 3.38% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 3.65% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 327 261
10th Percentile £400 £413 £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 £650 £684 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £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 17,985 12,452 14,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.52% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,227 9,667
10th Percentile £360 £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 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 252 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.94 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -10.01% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -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 20 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 20 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 +10 106 £575 +3.60% 128
West London 0 30 £520 +0.29% 35
East London +2 6 £460 -54.00% 19
South London -6 5 £500 +14.29% 7
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
1 128 (13.49%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (11.49%) Apache Spark
3 88 (9.27%) Apache
4 16 (1.69%) SAS
5 15 (1.58%) Confluence
6 8 (0.84%) CMS
6 8 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.74%) 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 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 380 (40.04%) Azure
2 342 (36.04%) AWS
3 159 (16.75%) GCP
4 145 (15.28%) Snowflake
5 137 (14.44%) Power Platform
6 121 (12.75%) dbt
7 112 (11.80%) Amazon S3
8 110 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 82 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
9 82 (8.64%) Serverless
10 81 (8.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 79 (8.32%) GitHub
12 69 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (3.79%) Azure Databricks
15 24 (2.53%) Amazon Bedrock
16 23 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (2.21%) SaaS
18 20 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Internet
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
1 177 (18.65%) Data Warehouse
2 123 (12.96%) Power BI
3 114 (12.01%) Data Lake
4 101 (10.64%) Metadata
5 86 (9.06%) BigQuery
6 79 (8.32%) Delta Lake
7 58 (6.11%) Big Data
8 49 (5.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 44 (4.64%) Relational Database
9 44 (4.64%) Tableau
10 41 (4.32%) Amazon Athena
10 41 (4.32%) SQL Server
11 35 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
12 32 (3.37%) NoSQL
13 31 (3.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 29 (3.06%) Looker
15 22 (2.32%) Flink
16 21 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
17 20 (2.11%) Parquet
18 19 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 106 (11.17%) Git
2 46 (4.85%) GitLab
3 27 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.63%) JIRA
5 11 (1.16%) MLflow
6 9 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.74%) ERwin
8 7 (0.74%) Terragrunt
9 6 (0.63%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.63%) Selenium
10 5 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.53%) Gradle
10 5 (0.53%) JUnit
10 5 (0.53%) Maven
10 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
General
1 299 (31.51%) Finance
2 202 (21.29%) Social Skills
3 178 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (10.43%) Banking
5 67 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.85%) Front Office
6 27 (2.85%) Retail
7 25 (2.63%) Marketing
8 18 (1.90%) Back Office
9 17 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.16%) Legal
11 11 (1.16%) Publishing
12 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.84%) Billing
14 8 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.84%) Law
14 8 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 394 (41.52%) Data Engineer
2 169 (17.81%) Senior
3 99 (10.43%) Senior Data Engineer
4 91 (9.59%) Lead
5 86 (9.06%) Developer
6 81 (8.54%) Architect
7 56 (5.90%) Analyst
8 52 (5.48%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (4.64%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 44 (4.64%) Python Engineer
11 41 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
13 37 (3.90%) Snowflake Engineer
14 34 (3.58%) Data Architect
15 33 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 33 (3.48%) Data Scientist
16 32 (3.37%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 31 (3.27%) Data Analyst
18 30 (3.16%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (15.38%) PySpark
2 115 (12.12%) Terraform
3 99 (10.43%) Kafka
4 66 (6.95%) REST
5 47 (4.95%) Pandas
6 30 (3.16%) NumPy
7 29 (3.06%) .NET
8 26 (2.74%) FastAPI
9 25 (2.63%) React
10 23 (2.42%) RESTful
11 20 (2.11%) PyTorch
12 19 (2.00%) Flask
13 18 (1.90%) JSON
14 17 (1.79%) Polars
15 16 (1.69%) TensorFlow
16 14 (1.48%) Apache Avro
16 14 (1.48%) Spring
16 14 (1.48%) Spring Boot
17 13 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
18 12 (1.26%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 134 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 60 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 46 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.90%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.63%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
10 16 (1.69%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.58%) NHS
12 14 (1.48%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.16%) Equities
14 11 (1.16%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.16%) Taxonomies
15 10 (1.05%) Derivative
16 9 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.00%) Linux
2 28 (2.95%) Unix
3 15 (1.58%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (45.52%) Data Engineering
2 391 (41.20%) Analytics
3 364 (38.36%) CI/CD
4 350 (36.88%) Data Modelling
5 327 (34.46%) ETL
6 286 (30.14%) AI
7 217 (22.87%) Agile
8 215 (22.66%) DevOps
8 215 (22.66%) Machine Learning
9 189 (19.92%) Data Governance
10 159 (16.75%) Data Science
10 159 (16.75%) Validation
11 155 (16.33%) Business Intelligence
12 146 (15.38%) Data Transformation
13 144 (15.17%) Data Architecture
14 141 (14.86%) Decision-Making
15 130 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
16 124 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 118 (12.43%) Migration
18 109 (11.49%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 541 (57.01%) Python
2 504 (53.11%) SQL
3 86 (9.06%) Java
4 50 (5.27%) C#
5 37 (3.90%) Scala
6 30 (3.16%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.95%) Shell Script
8 27 (2.85%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.53%) R
10 23 (2.42%) TypeScript
11 22 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 20 (2.11%) Bash
13 10 (1.05%) Go
14 9 (0.95%) LookML
14 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.63%) C++
17 6 (0.63%) Korn
18 5 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 158 (16.65%) Security Cleared
2 136 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.21%) Degree
4 21 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.84%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.42%) CISSP
11 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.32%) CISA
12 3 (0.32%) CISM
12 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.32%) PhD
12 3 (0.32%) PMP
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (34.04%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.69%) QA
3 23 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.11%) GDPR
5 9 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) Basel III
7 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.42%) 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%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (11.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 98 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.16%) Ansible
3 10 (1.05%) Grafana
4 9 (0.95%) Control-M
5 8 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.53%) Kibana
7 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
9 1 (0.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 226 (23.81%) Databricks
2 130 (13.70%) Microsoft
3 58 (6.11%) Google
4 57 (6.01%) Oracle
5 35 (3.69%) Informatica
6 19 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.69%) Palantir
8 15 (1.58%) Foundry
8 15 (1.58%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.16%) Splunk
10 9 (0.95%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.95%) SAP
11 8 (0.84%) Teradata
12 7 (0.74%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.74%) Hitachi
13 6 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (0.63%) New Relic
13 6 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.63%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.53%) Bloomberg