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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 103 131
Rank change year-on-year +54 +28 +102
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 838 347 341
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 2.81% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 3.04% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 253 261
10th Percentile £390 £407 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 £52.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +28.57% -16.00% -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 16,795 11,414 15,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.28% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 7,654 11,105
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 205 313
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +24 106 £525 -4.55% 34
West London 0 23 £520 +4.00% 7
East London +3 6 £450 - 6
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 98 (11.69%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (10.98%) Apache Spark
3 50 (5.97%) Apache
4 13 (1.55%) Confluence
5 11 (1.31%) SAS
6 8 (0.95%) Appian
6 8 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.24%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.12%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 379 (45.23%) Azure
2 308 (36.75%) AWS
3 158 (18.85%) Power Platform
4 130 (15.51%) GCP
5 110 (13.13%) Snowflake
6 109 (13.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 101 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (10.98%) GitHub
9 88 (10.50%) Amazon S3
10 84 (10.02%) dbt
11 78 (9.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 72 (8.59%) Serverless
13 64 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.22%) Dagster
16 21 (2.51%) Azure AI
17 20 (2.39%) Amazon SageMaker
18 18 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
18 18 (2.15%) Power Automate
19 17 (2.03%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (19.33%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (16.35%) Power BI
3 125 (14.92%) Data Lake
4 71 (8.47%) Metadata
5 69 (8.23%) Delta Lake
6 63 (7.52%) SQL Server
7 55 (6.56%) BigQuery
8 54 (6.44%) Tableau
9 49 (5.85%) Big Data
10 44 (5.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 44 (5.25%) Relational Database
11 42 (5.01%) Snowflake Schema
12 34 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (3.94%) NoSQL
14 24 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
14 24 (2.86%) Spark SQL
15 19 (2.27%) Data Vault
16 18 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (2.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 104 (12.41%) Git
2 33 (3.94%) JIRA
3 29 (3.46%) GitLab
4 28 (3.34%) MLflow
5 23 (2.74%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.60%) Gradle
7 5 (0.60%) Maven
7 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.48%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.36%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.12%) Snyk
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 279 (33.29%) Finance
2 168 (20.05%) Social Skills
3 138 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.40%) Banking
5 55 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 24 (2.86%) Retail
7 19 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.15%) Front Office
9 16 (1.91%) Back Office
9 16 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.67%) Marketing
11 13 (1.55%) Publishing
12 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.19%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.19%) Legal
13 9 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.72%) Billing
15 6 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 375 (44.75%) Data Engineer
2 138 (16.47%) Senior
3 91 (10.86%) Developer
4 90 (10.74%) Senior Data Engineer
5 71 (8.47%) Architect
6 69 (8.23%) Lead
7 44 (5.25%) Data Scientist
8 41 (4.89%) Python Engineer
9 40 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
10 36 (4.30%) Azure Data Engineer
11 35 (4.18%) Analyst
12 34 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (3.82%) Snowflake Engineer
14 31 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 29 (3.46%) Data Architect
16 26 (3.10%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (3.10%) Python Developer
17 23 (2.74%) Senior Developer
18 22 (2.63%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (14.80%) PySpark
2 80 (9.55%) Kafka
3 73 (8.71%) Pandas
4 48 (5.73%) REST
5 47 (5.61%) NumPy
6 37 (4.42%) scikit-learn
7 33 (3.94%) PyTorch
8 32 (3.82%) FastAPI
9 30 (3.58%) TensorFlow
10 27 (3.22%) Flask
11 26 (3.10%) RESTful
12 20 (2.39%) Polars
13 18 (2.15%) .NET
14 17 (2.03%) Apache Avro
15 16 (1.91%) React
16 15 (1.79%) JSON
16 15 (1.79%) pytest
17 14 (1.67%) Hugging Face
17 14 (1.67%) Web Services
18 13 (1.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 102 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.22%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.39%) Distributed Computing
9 18 (2.15%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.15%) Equities
9 18 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 17 (2.03%) Hedge funds
11 12 (1.43%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.43%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.19%) Derivative
13 10 (1.19%) Reference Data
14 9 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.51%) Linux
2 19 (2.27%) Unix
3 5 (0.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (43.68%) Analytics
2 354 (42.24%) Data Engineering
3 321 (38.31%) Data Modelling
4 314 (37.47%) ETL
5 309 (36.87%) CI/CD
6 257 (30.67%) AI
7 220 (26.25%) DevOps
8 193 (23.03%) Machine Learning
9 182 (21.72%) Agile
10 169 (20.17%) Data Science
11 163 (19.45%) Business Intelligence
12 152 (18.14%) Data Governance
13 142 (16.95%) Decision-Making
14 121 (14.44%) Validation
15 120 (14.32%) Data Architecture
16 111 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
17 105 (12.53%) Use Case
18 98 (11.69%) Generative AI
19 93 (11.10%) Migration
20 91 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 509 (60.74%) Python
2 462 (55.13%) SQL
3 79 (9.43%) Java
4 49 (5.85%) Scala
5 41 (4.89%) C#
6 25 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.74%) R
8 17 (2.03%) Shell Script
8 17 (2.03%) T-SQL
9 14 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.55%) Bash
11 11 (1.31%) Bicep
11 11 (1.31%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.19%) JavaScript
13 6 (0.72%) C++
13 6 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.48%) Korn
14 4 (0.48%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.48%) X++
15 3 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 152 (18.14%) Security Cleared
2 134 (15.99%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.89%) Degree
4 24 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.60%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.36%) CISA
11 3 (0.36%) CISSP
12 2 (0.24%) CISM
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (31.86%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.73%) QA
3 32 (3.82%) GDPR
4 6 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.60%) IFRS
5 5 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.48%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.48%) NIST
6 4 (0.48%) SLA
7 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.36%) PMO
7 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.12%) Basel III
9 1 (0.12%) GxP
9 1 (0.12%) MiFID
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (11.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) etcd
2 1 (0.12%) HDFS
2 1 (0.12%) RACF
2 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (12.41%) Terraform
2 80 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.31%) Grafana
4 10 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.60%) Control-M
6 3 (0.36%) Istio
6 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.24%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.24%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Ansible
8 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 187 (22.32%) Databricks
2 146 (17.42%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.77%) Informatica
4 31 (3.70%) Oracle
5 27 (3.22%) Google
5 27 (3.22%) OpenAI
6 14 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.55%) Foundry
8 12 (1.43%) SAP
9 11 (1.31%) Palantir
10 8 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (0.95%) UiPath
11 7 (0.84%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.84%) Workday
12 6 (0.72%) Splunk
12 6 (0.72%) Talend
13 5 (0.60%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.48%) Confluent
14 4 (0.48%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.48%) MuleSoft