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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 106 141
Rank change year-on-year +56 +35 +84
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 812 321 323
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 2.66% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 2.88% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 238 248
10th Percentile £376 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £682
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £57.60 £43.53 -
25th Percentile £58.88 £46.42 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £74.00 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.60 - -
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 16,241 11,146 15,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 92.25% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,846 7,494 11,093
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 187 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.60 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% +10.33% -29.54%
75th Percentile £58.84 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £63.10 £66.98
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +32 109 £516 -6.14% 24
West London -1 26 £520 +1.56% 4
East London -1 6 £450 - 7
South London -12 4 £500 +5.26% 2
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
1 101 (12.44%) Apache Spark
2 99 (12.19%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (6.28%) Apache
4 10 (1.23%) Confluence
5 8 (0.99%) Appian
5 8 (0.99%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (0.99%) SAS
6 5 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.25%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) CICS
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.37%) Trello
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.62%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.37%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 383 (47.17%) Azure
2 290 (35.71%) AWS
3 153 (18.84%) Power Platform
4 130 (16.01%) GCP
5 123 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 103 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (12.32%) Snowflake
8 92 (11.33%) GitHub
9 83 (10.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 77 (9.48%) Amazon S3
11 76 (9.36%) dbt
12 66 (8.13%) Serverless
13 56 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.33%) Dagster
16 21 (2.59%) Azure AI
17 19 (2.34%) Power Automate
18 18 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
18 18 (2.22%) Amazon SageMaker
18 18 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.37%) Firewall
2 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
2 2 (0.25%) 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
1 161 (19.83%) Data Warehouse
2 132 (16.26%) Power BI
3 122 (15.02%) Data Lake
4 72 (8.87%) Metadata
5 70 (8.62%) Delta Lake
6 64 (7.88%) SQL Server
7 52 (6.40%) BigQuery
8 50 (6.16%) Tableau
9 45 (5.54%) Big Data
10 44 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 43 (5.30%) Snowflake Schema
12 41 (5.05%) Relational Database
13 39 (4.80%) NoSQL
14 33 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 28 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (3.08%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
19 18 (2.22%) Data Vault
19 18 (2.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 110 (13.55%) Git
2 31 (3.82%) JIRA
3 29 (3.57%) MLflow
4 28 (3.45%) GitLab
5 24 (2.96%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.11%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.49%) Gradle
8 4 (0.49%) Maven
8 4 (0.49%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.25%) Postman
10 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.25%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.12%) Snyk
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 268 (33.00%) Finance
2 166 (20.44%) Social Skills
3 133 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.39%) Banking
5 43 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (2.46%) Retail
7 18 (2.22%) Marketing
8 16 (1.97%) Front Office
9 14 (1.72%) Back Office
9 14 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.60%) Publishing
11 12 (1.48%) Legal
12 11 (1.35%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.86%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.62%) Billing
15 5 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 382 (47.04%) Data Engineer
2 132 (16.26%) Senior
3 88 (10.84%) Developer
4 87 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 60 (7.39%) Architect
6 55 (6.77%) Lead
7 51 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
8 45 (5.54%) Azure Data Engineer
9 39 (4.80%) Data Scientist
9 39 (4.80%) Python Engineer
10 35 (4.31%) Analyst
11 31 (3.82%) Snowflake Engineer
12 29 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 25 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 24 (2.96%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (2.96%) Python Developer
15 23 (2.83%) Data Analyst
15 23 (2.83%) Data Architect
15 23 (2.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (16.13%) PySpark
2 82 (10.10%) Kafka
3 76 (9.36%) Pandas
4 49 (6.03%) NumPy
5 42 (5.17%) REST
6 40 (4.93%) scikit-learn
7 35 (4.31%) PyTorch
8 32 (3.94%) TensorFlow
9 29 (3.57%) FastAPI
10 27 (3.33%) Flask
11 26 (3.20%) RESTful
12 20 (2.46%) Polars
13 17 (2.09%) .NET
13 17 (2.09%) Apache Avro
14 16 (1.97%) Hugging Face
15 15 (1.85%) pytest
15 15 (1.85%) React
16 14 (1.72%) Spring
16 14 (1.72%) Spring Boot
16 14 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.69%) Data Structures
4 30 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 23 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
7 19 (2.34%) Equities
7 19 (2.34%) Hedge funds
8 16 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.85%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.48%) Derivative
11 12 (1.48%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.35%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.71%) Linux
2 18 (2.22%) Unix
3 5 (0.62%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (43.10%) Analytics
2 347 (42.73%) Data Engineering
3 317 (39.04%) Data Modelling
4 311 (38.30%) ETL
5 293 (36.08%) CI/CD
6 233 (28.69%) AI
7 222 (27.34%) DevOps
8 178 (21.92%) Machine Learning
9 177 (21.80%) Agile
10 169 (20.81%) Data Governance
11 158 (19.46%) Data Science
12 153 (18.84%) Business Intelligence
13 124 (15.27%) Decision-Making
14 119 (14.66%) Data Architecture
15 116 (14.29%) Validation
16 113 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
17 98 (12.07%) Use Case
18 87 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
19 86 (10.59%) Migration
20 83 (10.22%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 486 (59.85%) Python
2 457 (56.28%) SQL
3 81 (9.98%) Java
4 65 (8.00%) Scala
5 40 (4.93%) C#
6 29 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.46%) R
8 17 (2.09%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.48%) Bash
10 12 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.35%) Bicep
12 10 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.11%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.86%) C++
14 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.49%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.49%) X++
16 3 (0.37%) Korn
16 3 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 157 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 139 (17.12%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.30%) Degree
4 25 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.62%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.49%) PhD
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.25%) CISA
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (33.62%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.79%) QA
3 33 (4.06%) GDPR
4 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.49%) IFRS
6 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.49%) SLA
7 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.37%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 3 (0.37%) PMO
8 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.25%) PERC
8 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.12%) Basel III
9 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 97 (11.95%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Ceph
2 2 (0.25%) Firmware
2 2 (0.25%) Lustre
2 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) etcd
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) RACF
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (11.45%) Terraform
2 84 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.35%) Grafana
4 10 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.37%) Control-M
5 3 (0.37%) Istio
6 2 (0.25%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.25%) Kibana
6 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Ansible
7 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 204 (25.12%) Databricks
2 140 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.80%) Informatica
4 29 (3.57%) Google
5 28 (3.45%) Oracle
6 25 (3.08%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.60%) Foundry
8 12 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.48%) SAP
9 8 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.99%) Palantir
9 8 (0.99%) UiPath
10 7 (0.86%) Workday
11 6 (0.74%) Splunk
11 6 (0.74%) Talend
11 6 (0.74%) Teradata
12 5 (0.62%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.49%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.49%) NVIDIA