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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 108 202
Rank change year-on-year +36 +94 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 501 360 252
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.69% 2.30% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 2.58% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 252 171
10th Percentile £401 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.68% -11.00%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £751 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £44.13 - £35.00
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.25 £35.16
Median hourly rate £66.25 £57.50 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% +47.78% -25.89%
75th Percentile £77.06 £58.75 £59.88
90th Percentile £78.75 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £42.00 £53.60
% change year-on-year +59.52% -21.63% -0.29%

All Process and 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 12,561 13,945 18,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.18% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,256 8,980 13,172
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 168 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.42
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.17 £21.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £38.75 £39.09
Median % change year-on-year -21.29% -0.86% +4.23%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.23 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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 62 £555 +11.00% 166
West London +1 10 £525 - 6
East London +11 7 £1,000 - 5
South London -3 6 £463 -13.95% 4
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 79 (15.77%) Apache Airflow
2 72 (14.37%) Apache Spark
3 39 (7.78%) Apache
4 9 (1.80%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.60%) Luigi
6 3 (0.60%) SAS
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.40%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Aligne
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Endur
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 214 (42.71%) Azure
2 195 (38.92%) AWS
3 89 (17.76%) GCP
4 77 (15.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 75 (14.97%) Power Platform
6 61 (12.18%) GitHub
7 57 (11.38%) Snowflake
8 55 (10.98%) dbt
9 50 (9.98%) Amazon S3
10 48 (9.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 43 (8.58%) Serverless
12 41 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (2.40%) AWS Step Functions
17 11 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
18 10 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
18 10 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) DNS
2 1 (0.20%) HTTP
2 1 (0.20%) VPN
2 1 (0.20%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (20.16%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (16.17%) Data Lake
3 71 (14.17%) Power BI
4 40 (7.98%) BigQuery
5 39 (7.78%) Big Data
6 35 (6.99%) Metadata
7 30 (5.99%) NoSQL
8 26 (5.19%) SQL Server
8 26 (5.19%) Tableau
9 25 (4.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (4.99%) Delta Lake
10 22 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (3.99%) Star Schema
12 18 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (3.59%) Hadoop
13 14 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (2.59%) Relational Database
14 13 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
14 13 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (2.40%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 60 (11.98%) Git
2 26 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.19%) JIRA
4 14 (2.79%) GitLab
5 12 (2.40%) MLflow
6 6 (1.20%) ERwin
7 3 (0.60%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.60%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.40%) Postman
8 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.40%) TestRail
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Gradle
9 1 (0.20%) JUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 152 (30.34%) Finance
2 143 (28.54%) Social Skills
3 77 (15.37%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.58%) Banking
5 40 (7.98%) Public Sector
6 31 (6.19%) Front Office
6 31 (6.19%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.19%) Retail
8 14 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.80%) Marketing
11 7 (1.40%) Corporate Banking
11 7 (1.40%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.40%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Legal
14 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (41.92%) Data Engineer
2 74 (14.77%) Senior
3 73 (14.57%) Developer
4 48 (9.58%) Senior Data Engineer
5 44 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
6 41 (8.18%) Architect
7 37 (7.39%) Azure Data Engineer
7 37 (7.39%) Lead
8 36 (7.19%) Python Engineer
9 28 (5.59%) Analyst
10 23 (4.59%) Data Architect
11 21 (4.19%) Python Data Engineer
12 18 (3.59%) Python Developer
13 17 (3.39%) Data Analyst
13 17 (3.39%) Software Engineer
14 16 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.19%) Lead Data Engineer
15 15 (2.99%) GCP Engineer
16 14 (2.79%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.79%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (12.38%) PySpark
2 58 (11.58%) Kafka
3 18 (3.59%) REST
4 17 (3.39%) Pandas
5 16 (3.19%) React
5 16 (3.19%) TensorFlow
6 15 (2.99%) PyTorch
7 13 (2.59%) FastAPI
7 13 (2.59%) RESTful
8 12 (2.40%) .NET
9 11 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (2.20%) JSON
10 10 (2.00%) LangChain
10 10 (2.00%) Node.js
11 9 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (1.80%) Jinja
11 9 (1.80%) NumPy
11 9 (1.80%) scikit-learn
12 8 (1.60%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.60%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.98%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.79%) Derivative
4 23 (4.59%) Algorithms
5 22 (4.39%) Equities
6 21 (4.19%) Distributed Computing
7 18 (3.59%) Fixed Income
8 17 (3.39%) Product Ownership
9 16 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (2.79%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (2.79%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (2.00%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.00%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.60%) Life Science
14 7 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.40%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.40%) Reference Data
14 7 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.79%) Linux
2 7 (1.40%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Debian
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (38.92%) ETL
2 184 (36.73%) Data Engineering
3 179 (35.73%) CI/CD
4 173 (34.53%) Analytics
5 165 (32.93%) Data Modelling
6 126 (25.15%) Data Science
7 125 (24.95%) Machine Learning
8 118 (23.55%) AI
9 116 (23.15%) Agile
10 114 (22.75%) DevOps
11 103 (20.56%) Data Governance
11 103 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
12 90 (17.96%) Business Intelligence
13 76 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 71 (14.17%) Data Integration
15 58 (11.58%) Data Architecture
16 57 (11.38%) Decision-Making
17 56 (11.18%) Software Engineering
18 52 (10.38%) Data Transformation
19 48 (9.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 346 (69.06%) Python
2 271 (54.09%) SQL
3 54 (10.78%) Java
4 34 (6.79%) Scala
5 32 (6.39%) C++
6 26 (5.19%) JavaScript
7 14 (2.79%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.59%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.40%) Bash
9 12 (2.40%) C#
10 11 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.60%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.20%) Bicep
13 5 (1.00%) Go
13 5 (1.00%) Korn
13 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.80%) C
14 4 (0.80%) Perl
14 4 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.98%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.98%) Degree
4 15 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.60%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (1.20%) PhD
11 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.40%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.40%) MCP
13 1 (0.20%) CBAP
13 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) GIAC
13 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (22.16%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.99%) QA
3 24 (4.79%) GDPR
4 16 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.60%) WCAG
6 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.40%) EMIR
6 2 (0.40%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.40%) SLA
6 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) GxP
7 1 (0.20%) HL7
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 60 (11.98%) Docker
2 5 (1.00%) zsh
3 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (13.57%) Terraform
2 52 (10.38%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.79%) Kibana
4 11 (2.20%) logstash
5 10 (2.00%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (1.00%) Ansible
6 5 (1.00%) Grafana
7 4 (0.80%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.20%) Graphite
9 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 139 (27.74%) Databricks
2 68 (13.57%) Microsoft
3 34 (6.79%) Google
4 18 (3.59%) Foundry
5 16 (3.19%) Palantir
6 13 (2.59%) Oracle
7 10 (2.00%) Solace
8 9 (1.80%) SAP
9 8 (1.60%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.00%) Informatica
10 5 (1.00%) Sophis
10 5 (1.00%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.80%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.80%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.60%) Splunk
12 3 (0.60%) Teradata
13 2 (0.40%) GoldenSource
13 2 (0.40%) Reuters