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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 94 124
Rank change year-on-year +49 +30 +101
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 931 396 348
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.67% 2.92% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 3.16% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 292 256
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £454 £462 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £799 £775
England median daily rate £525 £516 £550
% change year-on-year +1.72% -6.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £45.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £61.10 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.25% +3.60% -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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 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
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 28 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 +17 95 £555 +0.91% 51
West London +5 29 £520 +1.56% 15
East London +8 6 £450 - 1
South London - 3 £500 - 5
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
1 112 (12.03%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (10.74%) Apache Spark
3 74 (7.95%) Apache
4 15 (1.61%) Confluence
4 15 (1.61%) SAS
5 10 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.75%) CMS
7 6 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.21%) Appian
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.07%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.54%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
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
1 392 (42.11%) Azure
2 331 (35.55%) AWS
3 163 (17.51%) Power Platform
4 148 (15.90%) GCP
5 124 (13.32%) Snowflake
6 107 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 99 (10.63%) Amazon S3
8 98 (10.53%) dbt
9 94 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (9.45%) GitHub
11 87 (9.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 71 (7.63%) Serverless
13 62 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (2.90%) Dagster
16 22 (2.36%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (1.83%) Azure AI
18 16 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
18 16 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
18 16 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Network Security
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Firewall
2 2 (0.21%) SSL
3 1 (0.11%) 4G
3 1 (0.11%) 5G
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (18.37%) Data Warehouse
2 145 (15.57%) Power BI
3 129 (13.86%) Data Lake
4 94 (10.10%) Metadata
5 68 (7.30%) Delta Lake
6 67 (7.20%) BigQuery
7 60 (6.44%) Big Data
8 56 (6.02%) Tableau
9 53 (5.69%) SQL Server
10 46 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (4.51%) Relational Database
12 39 (4.19%) Snowflake Schema
13 37 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (3.33%) NoSQL
15 30 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
16 29 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (2.58%) Looker
18 21 (2.26%) Star Schema
19 19 (2.04%) Flink
19 19 (2.04%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 92 (9.88%) Git
2 32 (3.44%) GitLab
3 31 (3.33%) JIRA
4 25 (2.69%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.72%) MLflow
6 8 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.54%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.54%) ERwin
7 5 (0.54%) Gradle
7 5 (0.54%) Maven
7 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.43%) Selenium
9 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.21%) Postman
10 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Snyk
11 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 296 (31.79%) Finance
2 185 (19.87%) Social Skills
3 171 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (8.70%) Banking
5 76 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 26 (2.79%) Retail
7 25 (2.69%) Front Office
8 19 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.93%) Marketing
10 17 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.50%) Back Office
12 12 (1.29%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.29%) Legal
12 12 (1.29%) Publishing
13 11 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.75%) Law
16 6 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 393 (42.21%) Data Engineer
2 147 (15.79%) Senior
3 97 (10.42%) Developer
4 86 (9.24%) Lead
4 86 (9.24%) Senior Data Engineer
5 82 (8.81%) Architect
6 50 (5.37%) Analyst
7 45 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
7 45 (4.83%) Data Scientist
8 43 (4.62%) Python Engineer
9 41 (4.40%) Azure Data Engineer
10 40 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
11 34 (3.65%) Data Architect
12 33 (3.54%) Snowflake Engineer
13 32 (3.44%) Data Analyst
13 32 (3.44%) Python Developer
14 31 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 31 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 29 (3.11%) AWS Data Engineer
16 28 (3.01%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (14.39%) PySpark
2 93 (9.99%) Kafka
3 58 (6.23%) Pandas
4 52 (5.59%) REST
5 36 (3.87%) NumPy
6 29 (3.11%) FastAPI
7 24 (2.58%) JSON
8 23 (2.47%) Flask
8 23 (2.47%) PyTorch
9 21 (2.26%) .NET
10 20 (2.15%) Polars
10 20 (2.15%) RESTful
10 20 (2.15%) scikit-learn
11 19 (2.04%) React
11 19 (2.04%) TensorFlow
12 18 (1.93%) Apache Avro
13 15 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (1.50%) Spring
14 14 (1.50%) Spring Boot
15 13 (1.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.44%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
8 21 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.04%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.93%) Hedge funds
12 15 (1.61%) Equities
12 15 (1.61%) NHS
13 14 (1.50%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.50%) Reference Data
14 13 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (1.07%) Derivative
17 9 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.65%) Linux
2 23 (2.47%) Unix
3 11 (1.18%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (43.18%) Analytics
2 396 (42.53%) Data Engineering
3 342 (36.73%) Data Modelling
4 337 (36.20%) CI/CD
5 319 (34.26%) ETL
6 253 (27.18%) AI
7 226 (24.27%) DevOps
8 204 (21.91%) Agile
9 203 (21.80%) Machine Learning
10 181 (19.44%) Data Governance
11 179 (19.23%) Data Science
12 173 (18.58%) Business Intelligence
13 166 (17.83%) Decision-Making
14 137 (14.72%) Data Architecture
14 137 (14.72%) Validation
15 118 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (12.67%) Use Case
16 111 (11.92%) Data Transformation
16 111 (11.92%) Migration
17 98 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 540 (58.00%) Python
2 496 (53.28%) SQL
3 85 (9.13%) Java
4 43 (4.62%) C#
5 40 (4.30%) Scala
6 28 (3.01%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (2.69%) Shell Script
9 22 (2.36%) R
10 19 (2.04%) Bash
11 17 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.83%) TypeScript
12 16 (1.72%) JavaScript
13 9 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.75%) Go
14 7 (0.75%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.64%) Bicep
15 6 (0.64%) C++
16 4 (0.43%) Rust
16 4 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 161 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 139 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.83%) Degree
4 20 (2.15%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.64%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.43%) CISSP
11 4 (0.43%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.32%) CISA
12 3 (0.32%) CISM
12 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.32%) PhD
13 2 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (30.72%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.80%) QA
3 32 (3.44%) GDPR
4 20 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.64%) SLA
6 5 (0.54%) IFRS
6 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.43%) NIST
7 4 (0.43%) PMO
7 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (11.28%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) 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
1 104 (11.17%) Terraform
2 89 (9.56%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.18%) Grafana
4 9 (0.97%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.64%) Control-M
6 5 (0.54%) Ansible
7 3 (0.32%) Kibana
7 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 198 (21.27%) Databricks
2 147 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.30%) Google
3 40 (4.30%) Oracle
4 38 (4.08%) Informatica
5 18 (1.93%) Palantir
6 17 (1.83%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.72%) Foundry
8 15 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.29%) SAP
10 11 (1.18%) Splunk
11 9 (0.97%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.86%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.86%) Workday
13 6 (0.64%) Confluent
13 6 (0.64%) Talend
14 5 (0.54%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.54%) Dynatrace
15 4 (0.43%) Denodo
15 4 (0.43%) New Relic