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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 108 145
Rank change year-on-year +42 +37 +89
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 638 311 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.05% 2.35% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 2.58% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 215 231
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £444 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +2.38% -7.53%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £661
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £62.00 £58.00 £35.19
25th Percentile £63.13 £60.63 £35.47
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +67.05% -40.14%
75th Percentile £76.88 - £45.96
90th Percentile £78.00 - £48.54
England median hourly rate £67.17 £61.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year +9.67% +26.29% -25.38%

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 14,221 12,041 16,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.23% 90.87% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,548 7,833 11,601
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 158 349
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.68 £19.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.10
England median hourly rate £28.91 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -17.40% +2.31% -3.42%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +50 92 £513 +7.89% 60
West London -5 18 £575 - 9
South London -13 11 £500 +1.27% 1
East London +6 5 £1,000 - 5
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
1 103 (16.14%) Apache Spark
2 86 (13.48%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (5.49%) Apache
4 9 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.25%) Appian
6 6 (0.94%) Confluence
6 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.94%) SAS
7 3 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) Camunda
9 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.16%) Luigi
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.47%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.16%) Actimize
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 322 (50.47%) Azure
2 246 (38.56%) AWS
3 125 (19.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 114 (17.87%) Power Platform
5 110 (17.24%) GCP
6 82 (12.85%) Snowflake
7 75 (11.76%) GitHub
8 74 (11.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 70 (10.97%) Serverless
10 65 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (9.09%) Amazon S3
12 55 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (8.62%) dbt
13 42 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.76%) AWS Step Functions
15 21 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (2.98%) Amazon SageMaker
17 19 (2.98%) Azure AI
18 16 (2.51%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.63%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.47%) VPN
3 2 (0.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.31%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.31%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (22.88%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (16.14%) Power BI
3 99 (15.52%) Data Lake
4 51 (7.99%) Delta Lake
4 51 (7.99%) Metadata
4 51 (7.99%) SQL Server
5 50 (7.84%) NoSQL
6 48 (7.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (5.96%) Big Data
8 36 (5.64%) BigQuery
9 34 (5.33%) Tableau
10 31 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (4.23%) Snowflake Schema
12 25 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (3.76%) Relational Database
14 20 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (2.82%) Spark SQL
16 14 (2.19%) Hadoop
17 13 (2.04%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 104 (16.30%) Git
2 32 (5.02%) MLflow
3 24 (3.76%) GitLab
4 23 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.82%) JIRA
6 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.47%) Selenium
7 3 (0.47%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.47%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.31%) ERwin
8 2 (0.31%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.16%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.16%) Gradle
9 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.16%) NUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Postman
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 181 (28.37%) Finance
2 161 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 92 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.15%) Banking
5 40 (6.27%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.76%) Front Office
7 19 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.66%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.88%) Marketing
9 12 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.72%) Retail
11 10 (1.57%) Legal
12 9 (1.41%) Back Office
12 9 (1.41%) Electronics
13 8 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.47%) Law
15 3 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 298 (46.71%) Data Engineer
2 88 (13.79%) Senior
3 76 (11.91%) Developer
4 62 (9.72%) Senior Data Engineer
5 58 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 51 (7.99%) Architect
7 50 (7.84%) Azure Data Engineer
8 48 (7.52%) Lead
9 34 (5.33%) Data Scientist
10 31 (4.86%) Python Engineer
11 30 (4.70%) Snowflake Engineer
12 26 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 25 (3.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 23 (3.61%) Analyst
14 23 (3.61%) Lead Data Engineer
15 21 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (3.29%) Data Architect
16 20 (3.13%) Consultant
17 19 (2.98%) Python Data Engineer
18 17 (2.66%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (18.34%) PySpark
2 64 (10.03%) Kafka
3 52 (8.15%) Pandas
4 43 (6.74%) PyTorch
5 39 (6.11%) scikit-learn
5 39 (6.11%) TensorFlow
6 38 (5.96%) NumPy
7 26 (4.08%) REST
8 22 (3.45%) FastAPI
9 19 (2.98%) .NET
9 19 (2.98%) pytest
9 19 (2.98%) React
10 17 (2.66%) Flask
10 17 (2.66%) Hugging Face
10 17 (2.66%) RESTful
11 14 (2.19%) LangChain
12 13 (2.04%) JSON
13 12 (1.88%) Django
13 12 (1.88%) Node.js
14 11 (1.72%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.85%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.39%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.76%) Data Structures
4 24 (3.76%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (2.98%) Derivative
6 18 (2.82%) Equities
7 17 (2.66%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.19%) Fixed Income
10 13 (2.04%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.72%) Equity Derivative
11 11 (1.72%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.57%) Reinsurance
13 9 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.41%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.25%) Low-Code
15 7 (1.10%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.98%) Linux
2 5 (0.78%) Windows
3 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.16%) CentOS
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (46.24%) Data Engineering
2 273 (42.79%) Analytics
3 252 (39.50%) ETL
4 239 (37.46%) Data Modelling
5 238 (37.30%) CI/CD
6 188 (29.47%) AI
7 171 (26.80%) Machine Learning
8 167 (26.18%) Agile
9 161 (25.24%) Data Science
10 156 (24.45%) Data Governance
11 153 (23.98%) DevOps
12 127 (19.91%) Business Intelligence
13 109 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
14 90 (14.11%) Data Integration
15 87 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 85 (13.32%) Data Architecture
17 84 (13.17%) Validation
18 72 (11.29%) Decision-Making
19 69 (10.82%) Use Case
19 69 (10.82%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 429 (67.24%) Python
2 364 (57.05%) SQL
3 73 (11.44%) Scala
4 54 (8.46%) Java
5 28 (4.39%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.61%) C#
7 19 (2.98%) Bicep
7 19 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (2.35%) T-SQL
9 14 (2.19%) C++
9 14 (2.19%) TypeScript
10 13 (2.04%) R
11 10 (1.57%) Bash
12 9 (1.41%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.25%) Korn
14 6 (0.94%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.47%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.31%) Ruby
18 1 (0.16%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 114 (17.87%) Security Cleared
2 96 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.46%) Degree
4 24 (3.76%) Azure Certification
4 24 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 12 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.72%) PhD
7 10 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.31%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.16%) GIAC
13 1 (0.16%) HP APS
13 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (31.82%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.02%) GDPR
3 21 (3.29%) QA
4 12 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.41%) PERC
6 8 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.63%) NIST
8 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.47%) WCAG
9 2 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.31%) EMIR
9 2 (0.31%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.31%) GRC
9 2 (0.31%) MiFID
9 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.31%) PMO
9 2 (0.31%) SLA
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 91 (14.26%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.47%) zsh
3 2 (0.31%) Ceph
3 2 (0.31%) Firmware
3 2 (0.31%) HDFS
3 2 (0.31%) Lustre
3 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (14.11%) Terraform
2 76 (11.91%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.63%) Kibana
4 3 (0.47%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.47%) logstash
4 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Ansible
5 2 (0.31%) Control-M
5 2 (0.31%) Istio
5 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 213 (33.39%) Databricks
2 93 (14.58%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.70%) Google
4 29 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.29%) Oracle
6 19 (2.98%) Informatica
7 16 (2.51%) Foundry
8 12 (1.88%) SAP
9 10 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.41%) Palantir
10 9 (1.41%) UiPath
11 8 (1.25%) Automation Anywhere
12 6 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.78%) Adobe
13 5 (0.78%) mParticle
13 5 (0.78%) NVIDIA
13 5 (0.78%) Tealium
14 4 (0.63%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.63%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.63%) Splunk