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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 112 149
Rank change year-on-year +45 +37 +89
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 653 311 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 2.40% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 2.64% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 220 233
10th Percentile £375 £399 £408
25th Percentile £450 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £758 £748
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £61.63 £58.00 £36.47
25th Percentile £62.19 £60.63 £37.74
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +54.06% -35.09%
75th Percentile £72.19 - £47.39
90th Percentile £73.88 - £49.11
England median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.20% -2.00% -3.85%

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 14,510 11,786 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.86% 91.05% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 7,831 11,538
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 158 353
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +45 98 £513 +2.76% 114
West London - 18 £575 - 9
South London -8 11 £500 +2.56%
East London +3 3 £450 - 6
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
1 107 (16.39%) Apache Spark
2 91 (13.94%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (5.82%) Apache
4 10 (1.53%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.23%) Appian
6 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.92%) SAS
7 5 (0.77%) Confluence
8 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.31%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) Camunda
10 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.15%) Luigi
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.61%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.46%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.46%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.15%) Actimize
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 327 (50.08%) Azure
2 255 (39.05%) AWS
3 123 (18.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 117 (17.92%) Power Platform
5 116 (17.76%) GCP
6 84 (12.86%) Snowflake
7 77 (11.79%) GitHub
8 73 (11.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 71 (10.87%) Serverless
10 64 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (9.49%) Amazon S3
11 62 (9.49%) dbt
12 58 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.68%) AWS Step Functions
15 22 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (3.22%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (2.91%) Azure AI
17 19 (2.91%) Dagster
18 18 (2.76%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.61%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.46%) VPN
3 2 (0.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.31%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.31%) Network Security
4 1 (0.15%) 4G
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (23.28%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (15.93%) Power BI
3 101 (15.47%) Data Lake
4 55 (8.42%) Metadata
5 54 (8.27%) SQL Server
6 52 (7.96%) Delta Lake
7 50 (7.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (7.66%) NoSQL
8 41 (6.28%) BigQuery
9 40 (6.13%) Big Data
10 37 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 37 (5.67%) Tableau
11 31 (4.75%) Snowflake Schema
12 24 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (3.68%) Relational Database
13 21 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (2.91%) Spark SQL
16 15 (2.30%) Data Vault
16 15 (2.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 104 (15.93%) Git
2 32 (4.90%) MLflow
3 25 (3.83%) GitLab
4 24 (3.68%) Jenkins
5 19 (2.91%) JIRA
6 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.46%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.31%) ERwin
8 2 (0.31%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.31%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.15%) Postman
9 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 179 (27.41%) Finance
2 160 (24.50%) Social Skills
3 93 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (7.50%) Banking
5 43 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.37%) Front Office
6 22 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.60%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.14%) Legal
9 13 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.68%) Retail
11 10 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.38%) Back Office
12 9 (1.38%) Electronics
12 9 (1.38%) Marketing
12 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.46%) Law
14 3 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 310 (47.47%) Data Engineer
2 92 (14.09%) Senior
3 70 (10.72%) Developer
4 64 (9.80%) Senior Data Engineer
5 58 (8.88%) Azure Engineer
6 57 (8.73%) Architect
7 51 (7.81%) Azure Data Engineer
8 48 (7.35%) Lead
9 36 (5.51%) Data Scientist
10 32 (4.90%) Python Engineer
11 31 (4.75%) Snowflake Engineer
12 28 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (3.98%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 23 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (3.52%) Data Architect
15 22 (3.37%) Lead Data Engineer
16 20 (3.06%) Analyst
16 20 (3.06%) Consultant
17 19 (2.91%) Python Data Engineer
18 18 (2.76%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (18.68%) PySpark
2 66 (10.11%) Kafka
3 53 (8.12%) Pandas
4 45 (6.89%) PyTorch
5 41 (6.28%) TensorFlow
6 40 (6.13%) scikit-learn
7 38 (5.82%) NumPy
8 26 (3.98%) REST
9 21 (3.22%) FastAPI
10 20 (3.06%) pytest
11 18 (2.76%) .NET
11 18 (2.76%) React
12 17 (2.60%) Hugging Face
12 17 (2.60%) RESTful
13 16 (2.45%) Flask
14 14 (2.14%) JSON
14 14 (2.14%) LangChain
15 13 (1.99%) YAML
16 12 (1.84%) Node.js
17 11 (1.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 85 (13.02%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.29%) Algorithms
2 28 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.83%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
4 19 (2.91%) AI Agents
5 18 (2.76%) Derivative
6 17 (2.60%) Equities
7 16 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.30%) Fixed Income
8 15 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.68%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.38%) Equity Derivative
10 9 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.38%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.23%) Life Science
11 8 (1.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.30%) Linux
2 3 (0.46%) Unix
2 3 (0.46%) Windows
3 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.15%) CentOS
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (45.94%) Data Engineering
2 281 (43.03%) Analytics
3 261 (39.97%) ETL
4 250 (38.28%) Data Modelling
5 242 (37.06%) CI/CD
6 195 (29.86%) AI
7 175 (26.80%) Machine Learning
8 169 (25.88%) Agile
9 162 (24.81%) Data Science
9 162 (24.81%) DevOps
10 161 (24.66%) Data Governance
11 128 (19.60%) Business Intelligence
12 107 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (13.63%) Data Architecture
14 87 (13.32%) Data Integration
14 87 (13.32%) Infrastructure as Code
15 86 (13.17%) Validation
16 75 (11.49%) Decision-Making
16 75 (11.49%) Use Case
17 68 (10.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 440 (67.38%) Python
2 376 (57.58%) SQL
3 72 (11.03%) Scala
4 53 (8.12%) Java
5 24 (3.68%) JavaScript
6 22 (3.37%) C#
7 19 (2.91%) Bicep
7 19 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.14%) R
8 14 (2.14%) T-SQL
9 13 (1.99%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.68%) Bash
10 11 (1.68%) C++
11 9 (1.38%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.23%) Korn
13 6 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.46%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
16 1 (0.15%) C
Qualifications
1 120 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 101 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.27%) Degree
4 24 (3.68%) Azure Certification
4 24 (3.68%) Master's Degree
5 12 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.84%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.68%) PhD
7 9 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.38%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.15%) GIAC
11 1 (0.15%) HP APS
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (32.16%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.67%) GDPR
3 21 (3.22%) QA
4 12 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.38%) PERC
6 7 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.61%) NIST
7 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.46%) WCAG
9 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.31%) EMIR
9 2 (0.31%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.31%) GRC
9 2 (0.31%) MiFID
9 2 (0.31%) PMO
9 2 (0.31%) SLA
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 89 (13.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) Ceph
3 2 (0.31%) Firmware
3 2 (0.31%) HDFS
3 2 (0.31%) Lustre
3 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (0.31%) zsh
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (14.09%) Terraform
2 76 (11.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (0.46%) Kibana
3 3 (0.46%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.31%) Ansible
4 2 (0.31%) Control-M
4 2 (0.31%) Istio
4 2 (0.31%) logstash
4 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
5 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 217 (33.23%) Databricks
2 96 (14.70%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.21%) Google
4 30 (4.59%) OpenAI
5 20 (3.06%) Informatica
6 19 (2.91%) Oracle
7 17 (2.60%) Foundry
8 10 (1.53%) Palantir
8 10 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.53%) SAP
9 9 (1.38%) UiPath
10 8 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.92%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.77%) Adobe
12 5 (0.77%) mParticle
12 5 (0.77%) NVIDIA
12 5 (0.77%) Tealium
13 4 (0.61%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.61%) Splunk
13 4 (0.61%) Talend