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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 100 132
Rank change year-on-year +51 +32 +95
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 846 350 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.47% 2.82% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.03% 3.05% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 257 266
10th Percentile £393 £407 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £756
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 16,816 11,468 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.31% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,190 7,694 11,171
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £436 £425 £445
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 £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 206 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +22 106 £525 -4.55% 33
West London -4 24 £520 +4.00% 7
East London +3 6 £450 - 7
South London -6 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 98 (11.58%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (10.76%) Apache Spark
3 49 (5.79%) Apache
4 14 (1.65%) Confluence
5 11 (1.30%) SAS
6 8 (0.95%) Appian
6 8 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.71%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.24%) 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 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.59%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.24%) 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
1 382 (45.15%) Azure
2 312 (36.88%) AWS
3 159 (18.79%) Power Platform
4 132 (15.60%) GCP
5 111 (13.12%) Snowflake
6 110 (13.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 101 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (10.87%) GitHub
9 91 (10.76%) Amazon S3
10 85 (10.05%) dbt
11 78 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 73 (8.63%) Serverless
13 65 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.19%) Dagster
16 22 (2.60%) Azure AI
17 20 (2.36%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
18 19 (2.25%) Power Automate
19 18 (2.13%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.35%) Firewall
2 2 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (19.15%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (16.31%) Power BI
3 125 (14.78%) Data Lake
4 73 (8.63%) Metadata
5 69 (8.16%) Delta Lake
6 63 (7.45%) SQL Server
7 56 (6.62%) BigQuery
8 53 (6.26%) Tableau
9 49 (5.79%) Big Data
10 45 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 44 (5.20%) Relational Database
12 42 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
13 34 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
14 33 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (3.90%) NoSQL
15 26 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (2.84%) Spark SQL
17 19 (2.25%) Data Vault
18 18 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 103 (12.17%) Git
2 34 (4.02%) JIRA
3 29 (3.43%) GitLab
4 28 (3.31%) MLflow
5 22 (2.60%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.59%) Gradle
7 5 (0.59%) Maven
7 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.47%) Selenium
9 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 282 (33.33%) Finance
2 172 (20.33%) Social Skills
3 142 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (7.45%) Banking
5 56 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 25 (2.96%) Retail
7 19 (2.25%) Front Office
7 19 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.89%) Back Office
8 16 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.65%) Marketing
10 13 (1.54%) Publishing
11 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.18%) Legal
12 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.71%) Billing
14 6 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 378 (44.68%) Data Engineer
2 138 (16.31%) Senior
3 91 (10.76%) Developer
3 91 (10.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 72 (8.51%) Architect
5 70 (8.27%) Lead
6 45 (5.32%) Data Scientist
7 42 (4.96%) Python Engineer
8 40 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
9 36 (4.26%) Analyst
9 36 (4.26%) Azure Data Engineer
10 35 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
11 34 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 32 (3.78%) Snowflake Engineer
13 31 (3.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 29 (3.43%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.19%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (3.07%) Python Developer
17 23 (2.72%) GCP Engineer
18 22 (2.60%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (14.66%) PySpark
2 80 (9.46%) Kafka
3 75 (8.87%) Pandas
4 50 (5.91%) REST
5 49 (5.79%) NumPy
6 38 (4.49%) scikit-learn
7 35 (4.14%) PyTorch
8 33 (3.90%) FastAPI
9 31 (3.66%) TensorFlow
10 27 (3.19%) Flask
11 26 (3.07%) RESTful
12 20 (2.36%) Polars
13 19 (2.25%) .NET
14 17 (2.01%) Apache Avro
14 17 (2.01%) React
15 16 (1.89%) JSON
16 15 (1.77%) pytest
17 14 (1.65%) Hugging Face
17 14 (1.65%) Web Services
18 13 (1.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 103 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.19%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.84%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
9 19 (2.25%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.25%) Management Information System
10 17 (2.01%) Equities
10 17 (2.01%) Hedge funds
11 12 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.42%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.42%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.18%) Reference Data
13 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.06%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.60%) Linux
2 19 (2.25%) Unix
3 5 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (43.62%) Analytics
2 359 (42.43%) Data Engineering
3 323 (38.18%) Data Modelling
4 314 (37.12%) ETL
5 312 (36.88%) CI/CD
6 262 (30.97%) AI
7 222 (26.24%) DevOps
8 198 (23.40%) Machine Learning
9 185 (21.87%) Agile
10 172 (20.33%) Data Science
11 165 (19.50%) Business Intelligence
12 154 (18.20%) Data Governance
13 147 (17.38%) Decision-Making
14 121 (14.30%) Validation
15 120 (14.18%) Data Architecture
16 113 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
17 107 (12.65%) Use Case
18 100 (11.82%) Generative AI
19 93 (10.99%) Migration
20 92 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 515 (60.87%) Python
2 464 (54.85%) SQL
3 79 (9.34%) Java
4 48 (5.67%) Scala
5 42 (4.96%) C#
6 25 (2.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.72%) R
8 17 (2.01%) Shell Script
8 17 (2.01%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.77%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.54%) Bash
10 13 (1.54%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.42%) Bicep
12 11 (1.30%) JavaScript
13 6 (0.71%) C++
13 6 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.47%) Korn
14 4 (0.47%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.47%) X++
15 3 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 151 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 133 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.73%) Degree
4 23 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.59%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.35%) CISA
12 3 (0.35%) CISSP
13 2 (0.24%) CISM
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (31.80%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.67%) QA
3 32 (3.78%) GDPR
4 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.59%) IFRS
5 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.47%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.47%) NIST
6 4 (0.47%) SLA
7 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.35%) PMO
7 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.12%) Basel III
9 1 (0.12%) GxP
9 1 (0.12%) MiFID
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (11.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) etcd
2 1 (0.12%) HDFS
2 1 (0.12%) RACF
2 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (12.29%) Terraform
2 81 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.30%) Grafana
4 10 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.59%) Control-M
6 3 (0.35%) Istio
6 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.24%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.24%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Ansible
8 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 190 (22.46%) Databricks
2 149 (17.61%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.73%) Informatica
4 31 (3.66%) Oracle
5 27 (3.19%) Google
5 27 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 15 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.54%) Foundry
8 12 (1.42%) Palantir
8 12 (1.42%) SAP
9 8 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (0.95%) UiPath
10 7 (0.83%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.83%) Workday
11 6 (0.71%) Splunk
11 6 (0.71%) Talend
12 5 (0.59%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.47%) Confluent
13 4 (0.47%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.47%) MuleSoft