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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 80 115
Rank change year-on-year +32 +35 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 934 460 361
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.62% 3.42% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 3.70% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 331 259
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £666
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - £39.69 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.84 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £73.69 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.24 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -44.42% - -

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 17,955 12,445 14,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.75% 92.54% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,216 9,548
10th Percentile £358 £330 £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 £669 £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 316 243 183
10th Percentile £16.18 £17.26 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%

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 27 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 27 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 +12 105 £565 +2.26% 104
West London 0 30 £520 +0.29% 49
East London +3 6 £460 -54.00% 6
South London -3 4 £556 +27.14% 6
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
1 133 (14.24%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (11.67%) Apache Spark
3 88 (9.42%) Apache
4 15 (1.61%) Confluence
4 15 (1.61%) SAS
5 8 (0.86%) CMS
5 8 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) CICS
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.86%) 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 (0.96%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.43%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 374 (40.04%) Azure
2 335 (35.87%) AWS
3 158 (16.92%) GCP
4 148 (15.85%) Snowflake
5 134 (14.35%) Power Platform
6 124 (13.28%) dbt
7 110 (11.78%) Amazon S3
8 107 (11.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 81 (8.67%) Serverless
10 76 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 75 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
12 74 (7.92%) GitHub
13 68 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (4.07%) Azure Databricks
16 23 (2.46%) Amazon Bedrock
16 23 (2.46%) SaaS
17 22 (2.36%) Amazon EMR
18 20 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Internet
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
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
1 178 (19.06%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (12.74%) Power BI
3 113 (12.10%) Data Lake
4 98 (10.49%) Metadata
5 85 (9.10%) BigQuery
6 79 (8.46%) Delta Lake
7 57 (6.10%) Big Data
8 51 (5.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.93%) Tableau
10 42 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (4.39%) Relational Database
12 38 (4.07%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (3.32%) NoSQL
15 29 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
16 27 (2.89%) Looker
17 20 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
17 20 (2.14%) Flink
18 19 (2.03%) Parquet
19 18 (1.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 108 (11.56%) Git
2 45 (4.82%) GitLab
3 26 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.57%) JIRA
5 11 (1.18%) MLflow
6 9 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.75%) ERwin
7 7 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.75%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.64%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.54%) Gradle
9 5 (0.54%) JUnit
9 5 (0.54%) Maven
9 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.43%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
12 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 295 (31.58%) Finance
2 202 (21.63%) Social Skills
3 175 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (10.81%) Banking
5 67 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.00%) Front Office
7 27 (2.89%) Retail
8 22 (2.36%) Marketing
9 18 (1.93%) Back Office
10 16 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.71%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.18%) Legal
12 10 (1.07%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.07%) Publishing
13 8 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.86%) Law
13 8 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.75%) Billing
15 6 (0.64%) Military
15 6 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 395 (42.29%) Data Engineer
2 165 (17.67%) Senior
3 96 (10.28%) Senior Data Engineer
4 89 (9.53%) Lead
5 83 (8.89%) Developer
6 81 (8.67%) Architect
7 57 (6.10%) Analyst
8 53 (5.67%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (4.82%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 43 (4.60%) Python Engineer
12 40 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
13 39 (4.18%) Snowflake Engineer
14 38 (4.07%) Azure Data Engineer
15 34 (3.64%) Data Architect
15 34 (3.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 33 (3.53%) Data Scientist
17 32 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 30 (3.21%) Data Analyst
18 30 (3.21%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (15.20%) PySpark
2 114 (12.21%) Terraform
3 95 (10.17%) Kafka
4 65 (6.96%) REST
5 43 (4.60%) Pandas
6 29 (3.10%) NumPy
7 28 (3.00%) .NET
8 25 (2.68%) FastAPI
8 25 (2.68%) React
9 22 (2.36%) RESTful
10 20 (2.14%) PyTorch
11 18 (1.93%) Flask
12 16 (1.71%) JSON
12 16 (1.71%) TensorFlow
13 15 (1.61%) Polars
14 14 (1.50%) Spring
14 14 (1.50%) Spring Boot
15 11 (1.18%) Apache Avro
15 11 (1.18%) Apache Beam
15 11 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 135 (14.45%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.53%) Onboarding
3 57 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 30 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.03%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.93%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.82%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
11 15 (1.61%) NHS
12 12 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.28%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.28%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.18%) Derivative
13 11 (1.18%) Equities
13 11 (1.18%) Taxonomies
14 9 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.18%) Linux
2 28 (3.00%) Unix
3 14 (1.50%) 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
1 426 (45.61%) Data Engineering
2 389 (41.65%) Analytics
3 360 (38.54%) CI/CD
4 347 (37.15%) Data Modelling
5 322 (34.48%) ETL
6 286 (30.62%) AI
7 214 (22.91%) Machine Learning
8 211 (22.59%) Agile
9 199 (21.31%) DevOps
10 187 (20.02%) Data Governance
11 159 (17.02%) Validation
12 158 (16.92%) Data Science
13 154 (16.49%) Business Intelligence
14 147 (15.74%) Data Transformation
15 140 (14.99%) Decision-Making
16 138 (14.78%) Data Architecture
17 125 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 124 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
19 122 (13.06%) Migration
20 107 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 538 (57.60%) Python
2 501 (53.64%) SQL
3 81 (8.67%) Java
4 47 (5.03%) C#
5 36 (3.85%) Scala
6 30 (3.21%) PowerShell
7 28 (3.00%) Shell Script
8 27 (2.89%) JavaScript
9 23 (2.46%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.36%) R
11 21 (2.25%) Bash
11 21 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (1.07%) Go
13 9 (0.96%) LookML
14 8 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.75%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.64%) C++
16 6 (0.64%) Korn
17 5 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.39%) Degree
4 20 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.43%) CISSP
11 4 (0.43%) 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%) PhD
12 3 (0.32%) PMP
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (34.58%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.46%) QA
3 23 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.14%) GDPR
5 9 (0.96%) SLA
6 5 (0.54%) Basel III
6 5 (0.54%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.43%) 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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (11.03%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 95 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.39%) Ansible
3 9 (0.96%) Control-M
3 9 (0.96%) Grafana
4 5 (0.54%) Kibana
4 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.32%) Puppet
5 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) systemd
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.11%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 229 (24.52%) Databricks
2 124 (13.28%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.32%) Google
4 56 (6.00%) Oracle
5 31 (3.32%) Informatica
6 16 (1.71%) Palantir
6 16 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.50%) Foundry
9 9 (0.96%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.96%) SAP
9 9 (0.96%) Splunk
10 8 (0.86%) Cloudera
10 8 (0.86%) Teradata
11 7 (0.75%) Hitachi
11 7 (0.75%) Workday
12 6 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.64%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.64%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.54%) Dynatrace