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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 101 119
Rank change year-on-year +55 +18 +111
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 914 383 361
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.62% 2.81% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 3.05% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 280 271
10th Percentile £391 £412 £400
25th Percentile £457 £456 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -1.79%
75th Percentile £650 £668 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £765
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.24% -3.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile - £45.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £73.00 £59.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 £61.10 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.92% -5.20% -19.35%

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 17,596 12,550 15,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.20% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,685 8,395 10,963
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £441 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 234 284
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%

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 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +22 104 £550 - 96
West London +4 24 £520 +2.77% 64
East London +6 6 £450 - 4
South London -14 2 £500 +5.26% 1
North London - 1 £178 - 2
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
1 107 (11.71%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (10.83%) Apache Spark
3 61 (6.67%) Apache
4 15 (1.64%) Confluence
5 13 (1.42%) SAS
6 10 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.77%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.44%) Appian
8 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.55%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
4 1 (0.11%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 406 (44.42%) Azure
2 340 (37.20%) AWS
3 161 (17.61%) Power Platform
4 145 (15.86%) GCP
5 118 (12.91%) Snowflake
6 111 (12.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 99 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
8 96 (10.50%) Amazon S3
9 92 (10.07%) GitHub
10 91 (9.96%) dbt
11 89 (9.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 74 (8.10%) Serverless
13 66 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (2.95%) Dagster
16 20 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (2.19%) Amazon SageMaker
16 20 (2.19%) Azure AI
17 18 (1.97%) Amazon Bedrock
17 18 (1.97%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.22%) Firewall
1 2 (0.22%) Network Security
2 1 (0.11%) 4G
2 1 (0.11%) 5G
2 1 (0.11%) Broadband
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
2 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (18.38%) Data Warehouse
2 140 (15.32%) Power BI
3 124 (13.57%) Data Lake
4 81 (8.86%) Metadata
5 70 (7.66%) Delta Lake
6 59 (6.46%) Big Data
6 59 (6.46%) BigQuery
7 57 (6.24%) Tableau
8 55 (6.02%) SQL Server
9 47 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (4.60%) Snowflake Schema
11 41 (4.49%) Relational Database
12 37 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (3.39%) NoSQL
14 30 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 30 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
15 20 (2.19%) Looker
15 20 (2.19%) Spark SQL
15 20 (2.19%) Star Schema
16 19 (2.08%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 96 (10.50%) Git
2 36 (3.94%) JIRA
3 34 (3.72%) GitLab
4 25 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 22 (2.41%) MLflow
6 8 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.55%) Gradle
7 5 (0.55%) Maven
7 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.44%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.11%) Mocha
11 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 292 (31.95%) Finance
2 178 (19.47%) Social Skills
3 164 (17.94%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (7.99%) Banking
4 73 (7.99%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.06%) Retail
6 21 (2.30%) Front Office
6 21 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.86%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.64%) Back Office
8 15 (1.64%) Marketing
9 12 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.31%) Legal
9 12 (1.31%) Publishing
10 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 9 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.66%) Billing
12 6 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 406 (44.42%) Data Engineer
2 148 (16.19%) Senior
3 95 (10.39%) Developer
4 93 (10.18%) Senior Data Engineer
5 84 (9.19%) Lead
6 81 (8.86%) Architect
7 49 (5.36%) Data Scientist
8 45 (4.92%) Analyst
9 44 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
10 43 (4.70%) Python Engineer
11 40 (4.38%) Azure Data Engineer
12 39 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
13 35 (3.83%) Snowflake Engineer
14 34 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 34 (3.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 33 (3.61%) Data Architect
16 29 (3.17%) Data Analyst
17 28 (3.06%) AWS Data Engineer
17 28 (3.06%) Python Developer
18 26 (2.84%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (14.11%) PySpark
2 95 (10.39%) Kafka
3 65 (7.11%) Pandas
4 46 (5.03%) REST
5 42 (4.60%) NumPy
6 30 (3.28%) FastAPI
7 29 (3.17%) scikit-learn
8 28 (3.06%) PyTorch
9 25 (2.74%) TensorFlow
10 24 (2.63%) Flask
11 22 (2.41%) JSON
11 22 (2.41%) RESTful
12 20 (2.19%) Polars
13 19 (2.08%) .NET
14 18 (1.97%) React
15 17 (1.86%) Apache Avro
16 16 (1.75%) Spring
16 16 (1.75%) Spring Boot
17 15 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
18 11 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 118 (12.91%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.16%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.95%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
9 20 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.86%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.75%) Equities
11 16 (1.75%) NHS
12 14 (1.53%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.20%) Reinsurance
15 10 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.06%) Linux
2 19 (2.08%) Unix
3 6 (0.66%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (43.65%) Analytics
2 387 (42.34%) Data Engineering
3 340 (37.20%) Data Modelling
4 337 (36.87%) CI/CD
5 323 (35.34%) ETL
6 258 (28.23%) AI
7 233 (25.49%) DevOps
8 207 (22.65%) Machine Learning
9 197 (21.55%) Agile
10 183 (20.02%) Data Science
11 172 (18.82%) Data Governance
12 167 (18.27%) Business Intelligence
13 162 (17.72%) Decision-Making
14 132 (14.44%) Validation
15 130 (14.22%) Data Architecture
16 124 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
17 117 (12.80%) Use Case
18 103 (11.27%) Migration
19 102 (11.16%) Infrastructure as Code
20 99 (10.83%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 544 (59.52%) Python
2 494 (54.05%) SQL
3 88 (9.63%) Java
4 45 (4.92%) C#
4 45 (4.92%) Scala
5 28 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (2.63%) R
7 22 (2.41%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 18 (1.97%) Bash
9 18 (1.97%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.75%) JavaScript
11 15 (1.64%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.66%) Bicep
12 6 (0.66%) Go
12 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.66%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.55%) C++
14 4 (0.44%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 160 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 139 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.81%) Degree
4 22 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.55%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.33%) CISA
10 3 (0.33%) CISSP
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.33%) PhD
11 2 (0.22%) CISM
11 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (30.31%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.58%) QA
3 33 (3.61%) GDPR
4 18 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.55%) IFRS
5 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.55%) SLA
6 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.44%) NIST
6 4 (0.44%) PMO
6 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.33%) NCSC
7 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.22%) WCAG
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.11%) GxP
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 107 (11.71%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (11.60%) Terraform
2 90 (9.85%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.20%) Grafana
4 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.44%) Control-M
6 3 (0.33%) Ansible
6 3 (0.33%) Kibana
6 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.22%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 195 (21.33%) Databricks
2 148 (16.19%) Microsoft
3 45 (4.92%) Informatica
4 35 (3.83%) Oracle
5 31 (3.39%) Google
6 23 (2.52%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.86%) Foundry
7 17 (1.86%) Palantir
8 15 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.98%) SAP
10 8 (0.88%) Splunk
11 7 (0.77%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.77%) Talend
12 6 (0.66%) Workday
13 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.55%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.55%) Confluent
13 5 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.44%) Automation Anywhere
14 4 (0.44%) Denodo