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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 98 129
Rank change year-on-year +52 +31 +104
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 894 380 357
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.58% 2.86% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 3.10% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 278 271
10th Percentile £392 £413 £381
25th Percentile £456 £462 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £666 £675
90th Percentile £750 £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% -33.10%
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 17,355 12,260 15,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.20% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,526 8,183 11,073
10th Percentile £359 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 229 295
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.80 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +19 100 £545 -0.91% 53
West London -1 23 £520 +2.77% 15
East London +4 6 £450 - 4
South London -5 2 £500 +5.26% 3
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
1 106 (11.86%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (10.85%) Apache Spark
3 58 (6.49%) Apache
4 15 (1.68%) Confluence
5 13 (1.45%) SAS
6 10 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.56%) Appian
8 5 (0.56%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.22%) Luigi
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%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.45%) 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 7 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.56%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.56%) 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
1 401 (44.85%) Azure
2 333 (37.25%) AWS
3 160 (17.90%) Power Platform
4 142 (15.88%) GCP
5 118 (13.20%) Snowflake
6 108 (12.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 99 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (10.51%) Amazon S3
9 92 (10.29%) GitHub
10 90 (10.07%) dbt
11 84 (9.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 72 (8.05%) Serverless
13 64 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.02%) Dagster
16 21 (2.35%) Azure AI
17 20 (2.24%) Amazon EMR
17 20 (2.24%) Amazon SageMaker
18 17 (1.90%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
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%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
2 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (18.68%) Data Warehouse
2 139 (15.55%) Power BI
3 123 (13.76%) Data Lake
4 79 (8.84%) Metadata
5 70 (7.83%) Delta Lake
6 58 (6.49%) BigQuery
6 58 (6.49%) SQL Server
7 57 (6.38%) Tableau
8 55 (6.15%) Big Data
9 47 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (4.70%) Relational Database
10 42 (4.70%) Snowflake Schema
11 35 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
12 31 (3.47%) NoSQL
12 31 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
13 30 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (2.24%) Looker
14 20 (2.24%) Spark SQL
14 20 (2.24%) Star Schema
15 19 (2.13%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 97 (10.85%) Git
2 34 (3.80%) JIRA
3 32 (3.58%) GitLab
4 24 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.68%) MLflow
5 8 (0.89%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.56%) Gradle
6 5 (0.56%) Maven
6 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.45%) Selenium
8 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.22%) Postman
9 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 293 (32.77%) Finance
2 176 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 154 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 70 (7.83%) Banking
6 28 (3.13%) Retail
7 21 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.24%) Front Office
9 17 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.68%) Marketing
11 14 (1.57%) Back Office
12 12 (1.34%) Legal
12 12 (1.34%) Publishing
13 11 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.67%) Billing
17 6 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 399 (44.63%) Data Engineer
2 149 (16.67%) Senior
3 95 (10.63%) Senior Data Engineer
4 94 (10.51%) Developer
5 80 (8.95%) Architect
5 80 (8.95%) Lead
6 47 (5.26%) Data Scientist
7 44 (4.92%) Python Engineer
8 43 (4.81%) Analyst
9 41 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (4.14%) Azure Data Engineer
11 35 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 35 (3.91%) Snowflake Engineer
12 34 (3.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 33 (3.69%) Data Architect
14 27 (3.02%) AWS Data Engineer
14 27 (3.02%) Data Analyst
14 27 (3.02%) Python Developer
15 25 (2.80%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (14.54%) PySpark
2 92 (10.29%) Kafka
3 67 (7.49%) Pandas
4 46 (5.15%) REST
5 43 (4.81%) NumPy
6 32 (3.58%) scikit-learn
7 30 (3.36%) FastAPI
7 30 (3.36%) PyTorch
8 27 (3.02%) TensorFlow
9 24 (2.68%) Flask
10 23 (2.57%) RESTful
11 20 (2.24%) JSON
11 20 (2.24%) Polars
12 19 (2.13%) .NET
13 18 (2.01%) React
14 17 (1.90%) Apache Avro
14 17 (1.90%) Spring
14 17 (1.90%) Spring Boot
15 15 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (1.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 111 (12.42%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.68%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
8 20 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.13%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.90%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.79%) Equities
11 16 (1.79%) NHS
12 13 (1.45%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.23%) Reinsurance
15 10 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.12%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.80%) Linux
2 18 (2.01%) Unix
3 5 (0.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Debian
4 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (43.40%) Analytics
2 379 (42.39%) Data Engineering
3 333 (37.25%) Data Modelling
4 330 (36.91%) CI/CD
5 322 (36.02%) ETL
6 263 (29.42%) AI
7 229 (25.62%) DevOps
8 205 (22.93%) Machine Learning
9 194 (21.70%) Agile
10 179 (20.02%) Data Science
11 167 (18.68%) Data Governance
12 166 (18.57%) Business Intelligence
13 159 (17.79%) Decision-Making
14 126 (14.09%) Data Architecture
14 126 (14.09%) Validation
15 120 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
16 113 (12.64%) Use Case
17 102 (11.41%) Migration
18 100 (11.19%) Generative AI
19 98 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 536 (59.96%) Python
2 486 (54.36%) SQL
3 88 (9.84%) Java
4 47 (5.26%) Scala
5 45 (5.03%) C#
6 28 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 24 (2.68%) R
8 20 (2.24%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.01%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.01%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.90%) Bash
11 16 (1.79%) JavaScript
12 15 (1.68%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.78%) Bicep
14 6 (0.67%) Go
14 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.67%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.56%) C++
16 4 (0.45%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.45%) X++
Qualifications
1 159 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 138 (15.44%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.81%) Degree
4 22 (2.46%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.56%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.34%) CISA
11 3 (0.34%) CISSP
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.22%) CISM
12 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.22%) PhD
12 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.48%) QA
3 34 (3.80%) GDPR
4 17 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.56%) IFRS
5 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.45%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.45%) NIST
6 4 (0.45%) PMO
6 4 (0.45%) SLA
6 4 (0.45%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.22%) NCSC
8 2 (0.22%) WCAG
9 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 105 (11.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) 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 (11.86%) Terraform
2 89 (9.96%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.23%) Grafana
4 9 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.45%) Control-M
6 3 (0.34%) Kibana
6 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.22%) Ansible
7 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 195 (21.81%) Databricks
2 147 (16.44%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.15%) Informatica
4 34 (3.80%) Oracle
5 29 (3.24%) Google
6 25 (2.80%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.90%) Palantir
8 16 (1.79%) Foundry
8 16 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.01%) SAP
10 7 (0.78%) Splunk
11 6 (0.67%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.67%) Talend
11 6 (0.67%) Workday
12 5 (0.56%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.56%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
12 5 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.56%) UiPath
13 4 (0.45%) Denodo