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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 106 167
Rank change year-on-year +40 +61 +74
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 577 332 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.02% 2.36% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 2.62% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 221 194
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £671 £650 £638
90th Percentile £782 £775 £715
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £45.65 £58.00 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +84.06% -45.46%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £37.86
90th Percentile - - £41.86
England median hourly rate £64.75 £61.25 £42.19
% change year-on-year +5.71% +45.18% -34.84%

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 13,119 12,681 15,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.32% 90.30% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,100 11,299
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 154 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.77 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.90 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.65 £80.53 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 76 £513 -10.87% 58
South London +5 12 £500 -0.05% 13
West London -5 12 £575 - 10
East London +5 7 £1,000 - 3
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 95 (16.46%) Apache Spark
2 80 (13.86%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (5.72%) Apache
4 6 (1.04%) SAS
5 4 (0.69%) Appian
5 4 (0.69%) Confluence
5 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.69%) Luigi
5 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.52%) Trello
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.17%) Actimize
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 268 (46.45%) Azure
2 218 (37.78%) AWS
3 106 (18.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 96 (16.64%) Power Platform
5 84 (14.56%) GCP
6 73 (12.65%) GitHub
7 70 (12.13%) Serverless
8 67 (11.61%) Amazon S3
9 64 (11.09%) Snowflake
10 62 (10.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 56 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (9.01%) dbt
14 50 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (3.99%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (3.29%) Amazon Kinesis
17 18 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (2.43%) Azure Functions
19 12 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.52%) VPN
3 2 (0.35%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) HTTP
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (20.80%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (16.46%) Data Lake
3 90 (15.60%) Power BI
4 49 (8.49%) Metadata
5 47 (8.15%) NoSQL
6 42 (7.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (6.93%) Delta Lake
8 35 (6.07%) Big Data
8 35 (6.07%) SQL Server
9 33 (5.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 28 (4.85%) BigQuery
10 28 (4.85%) Tableau
11 25 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (4.16%) Relational Database
13 21 (3.64%) Star Schema
14 17 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (2.43%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (2.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 86 (14.90%) Git
2 31 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.16%) MLflow
4 22 (3.81%) GitLab
5 14 (2.43%) JIRA
6 3 (0.52%) ERwin
6 3 (0.52%) Selenium
6 3 (0.52%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.35%) TestRail
8 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.17%) GoCD
8 1 (0.17%) Gradle
8 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.17%) Postman
8 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 170 (29.46%) Finance
2 158 (27.38%) Social Skills
3 75 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.63%) Banking
5 37 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.37%) Front Office
7 20 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.29%) Investment Banking
9 15 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (2.25%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.25%) Marketing
11 12 (2.08%) Retail
12 11 (1.91%) Legal
13 10 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.56%) Electronics
15 8 (1.39%) Back Office
16 5 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.87%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 249 (43.15%) Data Engineer
2 76 (13.17%) Developer
3 73 (12.65%) Senior
4 58 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
5 49 (8.49%) Azure Data Engineer
6 48 (8.32%) Architect
7 47 (8.15%) Senior Data Engineer
8 42 (7.28%) Lead
9 34 (5.89%) Python Engineer
10 27 (4.68%) Analyst
11 21 (3.64%) Consultant
11 21 (3.64%) Data Scientist
12 20 (3.47%) Data Analyst
12 20 (3.47%) Data Architect
12 20 (3.47%) Snowflake Engineer
13 19 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 19 (3.29%) Lead Data Engineer
14 18 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.12%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (18.37%) PySpark
2 71 (12.31%) Kafka
3 35 (6.07%) Pandas
4 34 (5.89%) PyTorch
5 33 (5.72%) TensorFlow
6 27 (4.68%) REST
7 26 (4.51%) scikit-learn
8 22 (3.81%) NumPy
9 20 (3.47%) React
10 18 (3.12%) .NET
11 16 (2.77%) FastAPI
12 15 (2.60%) JSON
13 14 (2.43%) pytest
13 14 (2.43%) RESTful
14 13 (2.25%) Hugging Face
15 12 (2.08%) Flask
15 12 (2.08%) LangChain
15 12 (2.08%) Node.js
16 11 (1.91%) AngularJS
17 10 (1.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.96%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.16%) Algorithms
4 23 (3.99%) Distributed Computing
5 22 (3.81%) Derivative
6 21 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.64%) Equities
7 15 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 14 (2.43%) Equity Derivative
9 13 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (2.08%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.08%) Fixed Income
10 12 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.73%) Hedge funds
11 10 (1.73%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.56%) Replication
13 8 (1.39%) Genomics
13 8 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.51%) Linux
2 8 (1.39%) Windows
3 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) CentOS
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (42.98%) Data Engineering
2 227 (39.34%) ETL
3 216 (37.44%) Analytics
4 209 (36.22%) CI/CD
5 200 (34.66%) Data Modelling
6 155 (26.86%) AI
7 147 (25.48%) Agile
8 142 (24.61%) Machine Learning
9 139 (24.09%) Data Governance
10 137 (23.74%) Data Science
10 137 (23.74%) DevOps
11 113 (19.58%) Business Intelligence
12 108 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
13 87 (15.08%) Data Integration
14 85 (14.73%) Data Architecture
15 75 (13.00%) Validation
16 73 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
17 61 (10.57%) Software Engineering
18 58 (10.05%) Decision-Making
19 55 (9.53%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 395 (68.46%) Python
2 318 (55.11%) SQL
3 62 (10.75%) Scala
4 56 (9.71%) Java
5 30 (5.20%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.51%) C++
7 18 (3.12%) C#
8 17 (2.95%) Bicep
9 15 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.08%) Bash
10 12 (2.08%) R
11 11 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.56%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.39%) Korn
13 8 (1.39%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.21%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.35%) Go
15 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.35%) SPARQL
16 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 112 (19.41%) Security Cleared
2 89 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.67%) Degree
4 22 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.47%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.91%) PhD
9 10 (1.73%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.56%) MCP
11 8 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.17%) CBAP
14 1 (0.17%) GIAC
14 1 (0.17%) HP APS
14 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (28.77%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.59%) GDPR
3 16 (2.77%) QA
4 14 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.56%) PERC
6 8 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.52%) WCAG
9 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.35%) EMIR
9 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.35%) MiFID
9 2 (0.35%) NIST
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (14.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.87%) zsh
3 4 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Ceph
4 2 (0.35%) Firmware
4 2 (0.35%) Lustre
4 2 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (12.82%) Terraform
2 67 (11.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.04%) Kibana
4 5 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (0.87%) logstash
5 3 (0.52%) Ansible
5 3 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.35%) Grafana
6 2 (0.35%) Istio
6 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (33.97%) Databricks
2 84 (14.56%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.51%) Google
4 20 (3.47%) OpenAI
5 19 (3.29%) Oracle
6 15 (2.60%) Foundry
7 12 (2.08%) Palantir
7 12 (2.08%) SAP
8 11 (1.91%) Informatica
9 8 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.04%) Cloudera
11 5 (0.87%) Adobe
11 5 (0.87%) mParticle
11 5 (0.87%) NVIDIA
11 5 (0.87%) Solace
11 5 (0.87%) Sophis
11 5 (0.87%) Tealium
11 5 (0.87%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.87%) UiPath
12 4 (0.69%) Dynatrace