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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 99 130
Rank change year-on-year +53 +31 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 870 354 352
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.55% 2.81% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 3.04% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 258 268
10th Percentile £390 £408 £394
25th Percentile £450 £451 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £43.53 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £46.42 £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 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +12.97% -4.40% -17.22%

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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +21 101 £525 -4.55% 24
West London -7 24 £520 +4.00% 5
East London +4 6 £450 - 4
South London -9 3 £500 +5.26%
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
1 101 (11.61%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (11.15%) Apache Spark
3 53 (6.09%) Apache
4 15 (1.72%) Confluence
5 11 (1.26%) SAS
6 9 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.80%) Appian
8 6 (0.69%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.57%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Luigi
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 392 (45.06%) Azure
2 323 (37.13%) AWS
3 162 (18.62%) Power Platform
4 138 (15.86%) GCP
5 113 (12.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 112 (12.87%) Snowflake
7 101 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (10.57%) GitHub
9 91 (10.46%) Amazon S3
10 87 (10.00%) dbt
11 84 (9.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 72 (8.28%) Serverless
13 64 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.10%) Dagster
16 22 (2.53%) Amazon SageMaker
16 22 (2.53%) Azure AI
17 20 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
18 18 (2.07%) Amazon Bedrock
18 18 (2.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Firewall
1 2 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.11%) 4G
2 1 (0.11%) 5G
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (19.31%) Data Warehouse
2 141 (16.21%) Power BI
3 129 (14.83%) Data Lake
4 72 (8.28%) Metadata
5 71 (8.16%) Delta Lake
6 61 (7.01%) SQL Server
7 55 (6.32%) BigQuery
7 55 (6.32%) Tableau
8 51 (5.86%) Big Data
9 46 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 45 (5.17%) Relational Database
11 42 (4.83%) Snowflake Schema
12 35 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
13 33 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (3.68%) NoSQL
15 26 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (2.76%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.30%) Data Vault
18 18 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.07%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 103 (11.84%) Git
2 36 (4.14%) JIRA
3 31 (3.56%) GitLab
4 27 (3.10%) MLflow
5 23 (2.64%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.57%) Gradle
7 5 (0.57%) Maven
7 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.46%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 287 (32.99%) Finance
2 180 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 147 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (7.59%) Banking
5 63 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 26 (2.99%) Retail
7 21 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.18%) Front Office
9 17 (1.95%) Back Office
10 16 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.72%) Marketing
12 12 (1.38%) Publishing
13 11 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.26%) Legal
14 10 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.69%) Billing
17 6 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 386 (44.37%) Data Engineer
2 141 (16.21%) Senior
3 92 (10.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 91 (10.46%) Developer
5 77 (8.85%) Architect
6 74 (8.51%) Lead
7 47 (5.40%) Data Scientist
8 44 (5.06%) Python Engineer
9 42 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (4.48%) Analyst
11 38 (4.37%) Azure Data Engineer
12 35 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 34 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (3.68%) Snowflake Engineer
15 31 (3.56%) Data Architect
15 31 (3.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 26 (2.99%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (2.99%) Python Developer
17 24 (2.76%) Data Analyst
18 23 (2.64%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (15.29%) PySpark
2 86 (9.89%) Kafka
3 71 (8.16%) Pandas
4 46 (5.29%) NumPy
4 46 (5.29%) REST
5 37 (4.25%) scikit-learn
6 34 (3.91%) PyTorch
7 32 (3.68%) FastAPI
8 30 (3.45%) TensorFlow
9 26 (2.99%) Flask
10 25 (2.87%) RESTful
11 20 (2.30%) .NET
11 20 (2.30%) Polars
12 18 (2.07%) React
13 17 (1.95%) Apache Avro
13 17 (1.95%) JSON
14 14 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (1.61%) pytest
14 14 (1.61%) Spring
14 14 (1.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 107 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.87%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
9 18 (2.07%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.95%) Equities
10 17 (1.95%) Hedge funds
11 15 (1.72%) NHS
12 13 (1.49%) Reinsurance
13 12 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.38%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.87%) Linux
2 18 (2.07%) Unix
3 5 (0.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Debian
4 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (43.79%) Analytics
2 374 (42.99%) Data Engineering
3 327 (37.59%) Data Modelling
4 321 (36.90%) ETL
5 320 (36.78%) CI/CD
6 266 (30.57%) AI
7 230 (26.44%) DevOps
8 204 (23.45%) Machine Learning
9 195 (22.41%) Agile
10 182 (20.92%) Data Science
11 168 (19.31%) Business Intelligence
12 161 (18.51%) Data Governance
13 149 (17.13%) Decision-Making
14 127 (14.60%) Data Architecture
15 124 (14.25%) Validation
16 118 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
17 111 (12.76%) Use Case
18 103 (11.84%) Generative AI
19 100 (11.49%) Migration
20 94 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 528 (60.69%) Python
2 477 (54.83%) SQL
3 81 (9.31%) Java
4 46 (5.29%) Scala
5 43 (4.94%) C#
6 25 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.64%) R
8 18 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.95%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.84%) Bash
11 14 (1.61%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.38%) JavaScript
13 10 (1.15%) Bicep
14 7 (0.80%) C++
15 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.46%) Korn
16 4 (0.46%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.46%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 154 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 136 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.06%) Degree
4 23 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.57%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.34%) CISA
12 3 (0.34%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) CISM
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.23%) PhD
13 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (31.61%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.52%) QA
3 34 (3.91%) GDPR
4 6 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.69%) IFRS
4 6 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.57%) IFRS 17
5 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.46%) NIST
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
6 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.34%) PMO
8 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.11%) Basel III
9 1 (0.11%) GxP
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
9 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (11.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) 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
1 105 (12.07%) Terraform
2 86 (9.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.26%) Grafana
4 10 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.57%) Control-M
6 3 (0.34%) Kibana
6 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.23%) Ansible
7 2 (0.23%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.23%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 198 (22.76%) Databricks
2 149 (17.13%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.06%) Informatica
4 32 (3.68%) Oracle
5 29 (3.33%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.10%) Google
7 16 (1.84%) Palantir
8 15 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.61%) Foundry
10 10 (1.15%) SAP
11 7 (0.80%) Automation Anywhere
11 7 (0.80%) UiPath
11 7 (0.80%) Workday
12 6 (0.69%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.69%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.69%) Splunk
12 6 (0.69%) Talend
13 4 (0.46%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.46%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.46%) Teradata