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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 109 194
Rank change year-on-year +29 +85 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 510 350 256
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.63% 2.24% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 2.51% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 246 179
10th Percentile £400 £403 £400
25th Percentile £466 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.68% -11.00%
75th Percentile £688 £660 £638
90th Percentile £800 £751 £721
England median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £44.13 - £35.00
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.25 £35.16
Median hourly rate £66.25 £57.50 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% +47.78% -25.89%
75th Percentile £77.06 £58.75 £59.88
90th Percentile £78.75 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £42.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +59.52% -35.38% +20.93%

All Process and 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 12,998 13,947 17,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.41% 89.16% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,554 8,992 12,876
10th Percentile £331 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 245
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% - -
75th Percentile £46.88 £55.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.50 £80.38 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -18.92% +27.14%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025. 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 +23 61 £575 +15.00% 279
East London +9 8 £1,000 - 4
South London 0 8 £487 -15.26% 3
West London -4 8 £525 - 8
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 83 (16.27%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (15.69%) Apache Spark
3 41 (8.04%) Apache
4 9 (1.76%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.78%) SAS
6 3 (0.59%) Luigi
7 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.18%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.39%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.39%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Aligne
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Endur
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 221 (43.33%) Azure
2 201 (39.41%) AWS
3 95 (18.63%) GCP
4 80 (15.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 80 (15.69%) Power Platform
5 66 (12.94%) GitHub
6 61 (11.96%) Snowflake
7 55 (10.78%) dbt
8 53 (10.39%) Amazon S3
9 49 (9.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 47 (9.22%) Serverless
11 44 (8.63%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (2.55%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (2.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.39%) DNS
2 2 (0.39%) VPN
3 1 (0.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (20.20%) Data Warehouse
2 85 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 75 (14.71%) Power BI
4 41 (8.04%) BigQuery
5 39 (7.65%) Big Data
6 37 (7.25%) Metadata
7 31 (6.08%) NoSQL
8 29 (5.69%) Delta Lake
8 29 (5.69%) Tableau
9 28 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (4.31%) SQL Server
11 20 (3.92%) Hadoop
11 20 (3.92%) Star Schema
12 14 (2.75%) Relational Database
13 13 (2.55%) Amazon QuickSight
13 13 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
13 13 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 65 (12.75%) Git
2 27 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.14%) JIRA
4 14 (2.75%) GitLab
5 12 (2.35%) MLflow
6 6 (1.18%) ERwin
7 3 (0.59%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.59%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.39%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.39%) Postman
8 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.39%) TestRail
8 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Gradle
9 1 (0.20%) JUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 148 (29.02%) Finance
2 147 (28.82%) Social Skills
3 75 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.41%) Banking
5 41 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.27%) Front Office
7 31 (6.08%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.94%) Retail
10 14 (2.75%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.96%) Marketing
14 8 (1.57%) Legal
15 7 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
15 7 (1.37%) Retail Banking
16 6 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.98%) Electronics
17 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (41.37%) Data Engineer
2 76 (14.90%) Senior
3 73 (14.31%) Developer
4 48 (9.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 44 (8.63%) Architect
5 44 (8.63%) Azure Engineer
6 37 (7.25%) Azure Data Engineer
6 37 (7.25%) Lead
6 37 (7.25%) Python Engineer
7 30 (5.88%) Analyst
8 23 (4.51%) Data Architect
9 22 (4.31%) Python Data Engineer
10 19 (3.73%) Python Developer
11 18 (3.53%) Data Analyst
12 17 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (3.33%) Consultant
12 17 (3.33%) Software Engineer
13 16 (3.14%) Lead Data Engineer
14 14 (2.75%) Senior Developer
14 14 (2.75%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (12.94%) PySpark
2 60 (11.76%) Kafka
3 19 (3.73%) React
3 19 (3.73%) TensorFlow
4 18 (3.53%) Pandas
4 18 (3.53%) PyTorch
4 18 (3.53%) REST
5 14 (2.75%) .NET
5 14 (2.75%) FastAPI
6 13 (2.55%) JSON
7 12 (2.35%) Node.js
8 11 (2.16%) RESTful
9 10 (1.96%) AngularJS
9 10 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (1.96%) LangChain
9 10 (1.96%) NumPy
9 10 (1.96%) pytest
9 10 (1.96%) scikit-learn
9 10 (1.96%) XML
10 9 (1.76%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.51%) Algorithms
3 23 (4.51%) Distributed Computing
4 22 (4.31%) Derivative
4 22 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.12%) Equities
6 18 (3.53%) Fixed Income
7 16 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (2.75%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.35%) Equity Derivative
11 10 (1.96%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.96%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.76%) Life Science
12 9 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.57%) Genomics
13 8 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.57%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.49%) Linux
2 7 (1.37%) Windows
3 3 (0.59%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Debian
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (37.25%) ETL
2 188 (36.86%) CI/CD
3 187 (36.67%) Data Engineering
4 173 (33.92%) Analytics
5 165 (32.35%) Data Modelling
6 129 (25.29%) Machine Learning
7 128 (25.10%) Data Science
8 126 (24.71%) Agile
9 123 (24.12%) AI
10 120 (23.53%) DevOps
11 109 (21.37%) Data Governance
12 103 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (18.04%) Business Intelligence
14 77 (15.10%) Infrastructure as Code
15 68 (13.33%) Data Integration
16 61 (11.96%) Data Architecture
16 61 (11.96%) Software Engineering
17 56 (10.98%) Decision-Making
18 53 (10.39%) Data Transformation
19 49 (9.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 352 (69.02%) Python
2 283 (55.49%) SQL
3 55 (10.78%) Java
4 37 (7.25%) Scala
5 31 (6.08%) C++
6 29 (5.69%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.94%) C#
7 15 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.35%) Bash
8 12 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.57%) Bicep
10 8 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.57%) R
10 8 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.98%) Korn
11 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.78%) C
12 4 (0.78%) Perl
13 3 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 73 (14.31%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.22%) Degree
4 17 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 15 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.37%) PhD
9 6 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) CISSP
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.39%) MCP
12 1 (0.20%) CBAP
12 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.20%) GIAC
12 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (21.57%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.49%) GDPR
3 25 (4.90%) QA
4 16 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.98%) PERC
6 3 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.59%) WCAG
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.39%) EMIR
7 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.39%) NIST
7 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.39%) SLA
7 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) GxP
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (13.14%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) zsh
3 4 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (14.12%) Terraform
2 51 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.16%) Kibana
4 10 (1.96%) logstash
5 9 (1.76%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.98%) Ansible
7 3 (0.59%) Grafana
8 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.20%) Graphite
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 147 (28.82%) Databricks
2 71 (13.92%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.06%) Google
4 18 (3.53%) Foundry
5 15 (2.94%) Palantir
6 11 (2.16%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.16%) Oracle
7 9 (1.76%) SAP
7 9 (1.76%) Solace
8 6 (1.18%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.18%) Informatica
9 5 (0.98%) Sophis
9 5 (0.98%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.78%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.59%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.59%) Splunk
11 3 (0.59%) Teradata
12 2 (0.39%) GoldenSource
12 2 (0.39%) Reuters