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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 100 143
Rank change year-on-year +51 +43 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 782 334 316
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.32% 2.73% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 2.96% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 246 242
10th Percentile £375 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £568
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -6.61% +0.44%
75th Percentile £636 £650 £672
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £45.46 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £64.75 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% +8.25% -33.10%
75th Percentile £73.50 £65.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.40 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -11.03%

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 15,989 11,284 15,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.22% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,602 11,075
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 184 305
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +23.16% -25.52%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.90
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 £513 -6.82% 48
West London -1 27 £520 +1.56% 12
East London 0 6 £450 - 10
South London -17 4 £500 +5.26% 8
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
1 104 (13.30%) Apache Spark
2 92 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (6.27%) Apache
4 10 (1.28%) Confluence
5 8 (1.02%) Appian
5 8 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.02%) SAS
6 5 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.26%) OpenROAD
7 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) Luigi
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.38%) Trello
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.64%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 373 (47.70%) Azure
2 280 (35.81%) AWS
3 148 (18.93%) Power Platform
4 125 (15.98%) GCP
5 123 (15.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 97 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (11.51%) GitHub
8 86 (11.00%) Snowflake
9 83 (10.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 78 (9.97%) Amazon S3
11 67 (8.57%) dbt
11 67 (8.57%) Serverless
12 57 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (3.45%) Dagster
15 22 (2.81%) Azure AI
16 19 (2.43%) Amazon Kinesis
16 19 (2.43%) Amazon SageMaker
16 19 (2.43%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (2.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.38%) Firewall
2 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
2 2 (0.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) HTTP
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (20.72%) Data Warehouse
2 126 (16.11%) Power BI
3 121 (15.47%) Data Lake
4 73 (9.34%) Metadata
5 70 (8.95%) Delta Lake
6 64 (8.18%) SQL Server
7 50 (6.39%) BigQuery
8 46 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 46 (5.88%) Big Data
9 44 (5.63%) Tableau
10 43 (5.50%) Relational Database
11 39 (4.99%) Snowflake Schema
12 38 (4.86%) NoSQL
13 31 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 28 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (3.20%) Spark SQL
16 20 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
18 18 (2.30%) Star Schema
19 16 (2.05%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 112 (14.32%) Git
2 31 (3.96%) JIRA
3 29 (3.71%) MLflow
4 27 (3.45%) GitLab
5 24 (3.07%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.77%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.64%) Selenium
9 4 (0.51%) Gradle
9 4 (0.51%) Maven
10 3 (0.38%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.26%) Postman
11 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
12 1 (0.13%) Poetry
12 1 (0.13%) Snyk
12 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 247 (31.59%) Finance
2 158 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 125 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.42%) Banking
5 46 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.17%) Retail
8 15 (1.92%) Marketing
9 14 (1.79%) Front Office
9 14 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.66%) Back Office
10 13 (1.66%) Legal
10 13 (1.66%) Publishing
11 11 (1.41%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.64%) Billing
15 4 (0.51%) Electronics
15 4 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 367 (46.93%) Data Engineer
2 129 (16.50%) Senior
3 89 (11.38%) Developer
4 85 (10.87%) Senior Data Engineer
5 57 (7.29%) Architect
6 56 (7.16%) Azure Engineer
7 52 (6.65%) Lead
8 49 (6.27%) Azure Data Engineer
9 38 (4.86%) Data Scientist
10 35 (4.48%) Python Engineer
11 34 (4.35%) Analyst
12 29 (3.71%) Snowflake Engineer
13 27 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 24 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 24 (3.07%) Python Developer
15 23 (2.94%) Data Architect
15 23 (2.94%) Senior Developer
16 22 (2.81%) AWS Data Engineer
16 22 (2.81%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (16.62%) PySpark
2 84 (10.74%) Kafka
3 77 (9.85%) Pandas
4 49 (6.27%) NumPy
5 40 (5.12%) REST
6 38 (4.86%) scikit-learn
7 33 (4.22%) PyTorch
8 30 (3.84%) TensorFlow
9 29 (3.71%) FastAPI
10 28 (3.58%) Flask
11 26 (3.32%) RESTful
12 20 (2.56%) Polars
13 18 (2.30%) .NET
14 17 (2.17%) Apache Avro
15 16 (2.05%) Hugging Face
16 15 (1.92%) JSON
16 15 (1.92%) pytest
16 15 (1.92%) React
17 14 (1.79%) Web Services
18 13 (1.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 85 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.84%) Data Structures
5 28 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.94%) Algorithms
7 22 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
8 20 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.43%) Hedge funds
10 18 (2.30%) Equities
11 15 (1.92%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.92%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.53%) Derivative
13 11 (1.41%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.02%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.02%) Reinsurance
16 7 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.69%) Linux
2 17 (2.17%) Unix
3 5 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (43.22%) Analytics
2 332 (42.46%) Data Engineering
3 309 (39.51%) ETL
4 303 (38.75%) Data Modelling
5 288 (36.83%) CI/CD
6 220 (28.13%) AI
7 216 (27.62%) DevOps
8 178 (22.76%) Agile
9 173 (22.12%) Data Governance
10 167 (21.36%) Machine Learning
11 152 (19.44%) Data Science
12 149 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
13 119 (15.22%) Decision-Making
14 115 (14.71%) Data Architecture
15 113 (14.45%) Validation
16 111 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
17 93 (11.89%) Use Case
18 88 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
19 86 (11.00%) Migration
20 80 (10.23%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 469 (59.97%) Python
2 442 (56.52%) SQL
3 78 (9.97%) Java
4 66 (8.44%) Scala
5 42 (5.37%) C#
6 29 (3.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.56%) R
8 18 (2.30%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.66%) Bash
11 11 (1.41%) Bicep
11 11 (1.41%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.28%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.90%) C++
15 4 (0.51%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.51%) X++
16 3 (0.38%) Korn
16 3 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 153 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 138 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.63%) Degree
4 25 (3.20%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.64%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.64%) PhD
10 5 (0.64%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.26%) CISA
13 2 (0.26%) CISSP
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (32.86%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.37%) QA
3 33 (4.22%) GDPR
4 6 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.38%) NIST
7 3 (0.38%) PERC
7 3 (0.38%) PMO
8 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.26%) IFRS
8 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) Basel III
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 98 (12.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.26%) Ceph
2 2 (0.26%) Firmware
2 2 (0.26%) Lustre
2 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) etcd
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (11.89%) Terraform
2 87 (11.13%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.41%) Grafana
4 10 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.38%) Control-M
5 3 (0.38%) Istio
6 2 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.26%) Kibana
6 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 204 (26.09%) Databricks
2 132 (16.88%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.86%) Informatica
4 30 (3.84%) Google
5 29 (3.71%) Oracle
6 24 (3.07%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.66%) Foundry
7 13 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.41%) SAP
9 8 (1.02%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.02%) Palantir
9 8 (1.02%) UiPath
10 7 (0.90%) Workday
11 6 (0.77%) Splunk
11 6 (0.77%) Talend
12 5 (0.64%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.64%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.64%) Teradata
13 4 (0.51%) Confluent