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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 117 151
Rank change year-on-year +50 +34 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 621 307 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 2.29% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 2.53% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 201 226
10th Percentile £379 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £744
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £43.05 £58.00 £35.19
25th Percentile £54.75 £60.63 £35.47
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +67.05% -40.14%
75th Percentile £75.94 - £45.96
90th Percentile £77.63 - £48.54
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year +2.04% +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 13,941 12,133 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.57% 90.64% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,301 7,761 11,691
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 151 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.88 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +46 90 £513 +2.76% 71
West London -5 16 £600 - 12
South London -7 11 £500 +1.27% 9
East London +4 7 £1,000 - 7
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 97 (15.62%) Apache Spark
2 78 (12.56%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (5.31%) Apache
4 11 (1.77%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.29%) Appian
6 5 (0.81%) Confluence
6 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.64%) SAS
8 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) Camunda
10 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.16%) Luigi
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Actimize
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Eagle PACE
2 1 (0.16%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 307 (49.44%) Azure
2 242 (38.97%) AWS
3 120 (19.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 105 (16.91%) Power Platform
5 98 (15.78%) GCP
6 77 (12.40%) Snowflake
7 76 (12.24%) Serverless
8 70 (11.27%) GitHub
9 67 (10.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 60 (9.66%) AWS Lambda
10 60 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (9.50%) Amazon S3
12 53 (8.53%) dbt
13 40 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
15 22 (3.54%) Amazon Kinesis
16 20 (3.22%) Amazon SageMaker
17 19 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
18 18 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 17 (2.74%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.48%) VPN
3 2 (0.32%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.32%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) Firewall
4 1 (0.16%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (22.38%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (15.62%) Power BI
3 96 (15.46%) Data Lake
4 53 (8.53%) Metadata
5 51 (8.21%) Delta Lake
6 47 (7.57%) NoSQL
7 46 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (7.41%) SQL Server
8 34 (5.48%) Big Data
9 33 (5.31%) Tableau
10 29 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (4.67%) BigQuery
11 25 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (3.86%) Relational Database
12 24 (3.86%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (2.58%) Spark SQL
15 14 (2.25%) Hadoop
16 13 (2.09%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 96 (15.46%) Git
2 31 (4.99%) MLflow
3 26 (4.19%) Jenkins
4 25 (4.03%) GitLab
5 17 (2.74%) JIRA
6 3 (0.48%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.48%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.32%) ERwin
7 2 (0.32%) Selenium
7 2 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.16%) Gradle
8 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.16%) NUnit
8 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.16%) TestRail
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 179 (28.82%) Finance
2 159 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 89 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (7.89%) Banking
5 38 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 28 (4.51%) Front Office
7 19 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 15 (2.42%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.09%) Marketing
11 12 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.93%) Retail
12 11 (1.77%) Legal
13 10 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.45%) Back Office
14 9 (1.45%) Electronics
15 7 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.64%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.48%) Law
17 3 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 285 (45.89%) Data Engineer
2 86 (13.85%) Senior
3 76 (12.24%) Developer
4 61 (9.82%) Senior Data Engineer
5 57 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
6 55 (8.86%) Architect
7 48 (7.73%) Azure Data Engineer
8 44 (7.09%) Lead
9 34 (5.48%) Python Engineer
10 33 (5.31%) Data Scientist
11 29 (4.67%) Snowflake Engineer
12 24 (3.86%) Analyst
12 24 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 24 (3.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 21 (3.38%) Data Architect
14 20 (3.22%) Lead Data Engineer
15 19 (3.06%) Consultant
15 19 (3.06%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.90%) Data Analyst
17 17 (2.74%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (18.20%) PySpark
2 74 (11.92%) Kafka
3 52 (8.37%) Pandas
4 41 (6.60%) PyTorch
5 38 (6.12%) scikit-learn
5 38 (6.12%) TensorFlow
6 37 (5.96%) NumPy
7 26 (4.19%) REST
8 22 (3.54%) FastAPI
9 20 (3.22%) .NET
9 20 (3.22%) React
10 18 (2.90%) Hugging Face
11 17 (2.74%) Flask
11 17 (2.74%) pytest
11 17 (2.74%) RESTful
12 14 (2.25%) LangChain
13 13 (2.09%) JSON
13 13 (2.09%) Node.js
14 12 (1.93%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.93%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.03%) Distributed Computing
5 22 (3.54%) Derivative
6 21 (3.38%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.38%) Equities
7 16 (2.58%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.25%) Equity Derivative
8 14 (2.25%) Fixed Income
9 13 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (2.09%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.77%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.61%) Hedge funds
11 10 (1.61%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.29%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.86%) Linux
2 8 (1.29%) Windows
3 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.32%) 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
1 282 (45.41%) Data Engineering
2 251 (40.42%) ETL
3 247 (39.77%) Analytics
4 226 (36.39%) CI/CD
5 225 (36.23%) Data Modelling
6 180 (28.99%) AI
7 168 (27.05%) Machine Learning
8 164 (26.41%) Agile
9 157 (25.28%) Data Science
10 146 (23.51%) DevOps
11 144 (23.19%) Data Governance
12 122 (19.65%) Business Intelligence
13 114 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (14.01%) Data Architecture
14 87 (14.01%) Data Integration
15 85 (13.69%) Infrastructure as Code
16 81 (13.04%) Validation
17 69 (11.11%) Visualisation
18 68 (10.95%) Use Case
19 67 (10.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 427 (68.76%) Python
2 352 (56.68%) SQL
3 70 (11.27%) Scala
4 57 (9.18%) Java
5 29 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.70%) C#
7 22 (3.54%) C++
8 19 (3.06%) Bicep
9 16 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (2.58%) TypeScript
10 14 (2.25%) T-SQL
11 13 (2.09%) R
12 12 (1.93%) Bash
13 9 (1.45%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.29%) Korn
15 7 (1.13%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.64%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.16%) ABAP
17 1 (0.16%) C
17 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 114 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 95 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.89%) Degree
4 24 (3.86%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.77%) PhD
8 8 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.48%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.32%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.16%) GIAC
13 1 (0.16%) HP APS
13 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (31.56%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.48%) GDPR
3 18 (2.90%) QA
4 12 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.45%) PERC
6 8 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.64%) NIST
8 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.48%) WCAG
9 2 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.32%) EMIR
9 2 (0.32%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) MiFID
9 2 (0.32%) SLA
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 92 (14.81%) Docker
2 5 (0.81%) zsh
3 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.32%) Ceph
4 2 (0.32%) Firmware
4 2 (0.32%) HDFS
4 2 (0.32%) Lustre
4 2 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (13.69%) Terraform
2 74 (11.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.64%) Kibana
3 4 (0.64%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.48%) logstash
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Control-M
5 2 (0.32%) Grafana
5 2 (0.32%) Istio
5 2 (0.32%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 206 (33.17%) Databricks
2 92 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.67%) OpenAI
4 24 (3.86%) Google
5 19 (3.06%) Oracle
6 16 (2.58%) Foundry
6 16 (2.58%) Informatica
7 11 (1.77%) Palantir
8 10 (1.61%) SAP
9 9 (1.45%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.45%) UiPath
10 8 (1.29%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.97%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.81%) Adobe
12 5 (0.81%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.81%) mParticle
12 5 (0.81%) NVIDIA
12 5 (0.81%) Sophis
12 5 (0.81%) Splunk
12 5 (0.81%) Tealium