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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 101 118
Rank change year-on-year +56 +17 +120
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 913 379 363
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.62% 2.79% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 3.03% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 278 270
10th Percentile £400 £411 £400
25th Percentile £459 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -5.88% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £675
90th Percentile £764 £800 £766
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile - £45.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £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 £59.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 £61.10 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.92% -5.20% -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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -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 16 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 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 +13 99 £550 - 28
West London +6 25 £520 +2.77% 9
East London +6 6 £450 - 4
South London - 2 £575 - 1
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
1 108 (11.83%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (10.51%) Apache Spark
3 65 (7.12%) Apache
4 15 (1.64%) Confluence
4 15 (1.64%) SAS
5 10 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.44%) Appian
7 4 (0.44%) CMS
7 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.22%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.55%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
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
1 391 (42.83%) Azure
2 334 (36.58%) AWS
3 158 (17.31%) Power Platform
4 145 (15.88%) GCP
5 120 (13.14%) Snowflake
6 107 (11.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 95 (10.41%) Amazon S3
8 93 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (9.97%) dbt
9 91 (9.97%) GitHub
10 85 (9.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 71 (7.78%) Serverless
12 63 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (2.96%) Dagster
15 21 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (2.19%) Azure AI
17 19 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
18 18 (1.97%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (1.86%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.22%) Broadband
1 2 (0.22%) Firewall
1 2 (0.22%) HTTP
1 2 (0.22%) Network Security
1 2 (0.22%) SSL
2 1 (0.11%) 4G
2 1 (0.11%) 5G
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (18.40%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (15.12%) Power BI
3 124 (13.58%) Data Lake
4 86 (9.42%) Metadata
5 64 (7.01%) Delta Lake
6 60 (6.57%) Big Data
6 60 (6.57%) BigQuery
7 57 (6.24%) Tableau
8 51 (5.59%) SQL Server
9 45 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
11 40 (4.38%) Relational Database
12 36 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
13 29 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (3.18%) NoSQL
14 28 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
15 22 (2.41%) Star Schema
16 21 (2.30%) Looker
17 19 (2.08%) Spark SQL
18 17 (1.86%) Flink
Development Applications
1 96 (10.51%) Git
2 33 (3.61%) GitLab
3 32 (3.50%) JIRA
4 25 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 20 (2.19%) MLflow
6 8 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.55%) Gradle
7 5 (0.55%) Maven
7 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.44%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.22%) ERwin
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 287 (31.43%) Finance
2 179 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 168 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 73 (8.00%) Banking
6 26 (2.85%) Retail
7 21 (2.30%) Front Office
8 19 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.75%) Marketing
11 14 (1.53%) Back Office
12 12 (1.31%) Publishing
13 11 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.20%) Legal
14 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.66%) Billing
19 5 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 390 (42.72%) Data Engineer
2 146 (15.99%) Senior
3 97 (10.62%) Developer
4 88 (9.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 84 (9.20%) Lead
6 81 (8.87%) Architect
7 48 (5.26%) Data Scientist
8 47 (5.15%) Analyst
9 41 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
9 41 (4.49%) Python Engineer
10 39 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
11 37 (4.05%) Azure Data Engineer
12 34 (3.72%) Snowflake Engineer
13 33 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 33 (3.61%) Data Architect
14 32 (3.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 30 (3.29%) Python Developer
16 29 (3.18%) Data Analyst
17 28 (3.07%) AWS Data Engineer
18 26 (2.85%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (14.02%) PySpark
2 92 (10.08%) Kafka
3 64 (7.01%) Pandas
4 51 (5.59%) REST
5 41 (4.49%) NumPy
6 31 (3.40%) FastAPI
7 27 (2.96%) scikit-learn
8 26 (2.85%) PyTorch
9 25 (2.74%) Flask
10 23 (2.52%) TensorFlow
11 22 (2.41%) JSON
11 22 (2.41%) RESTful
12 20 (2.19%) .NET
12 20 (2.19%) Polars
13 18 (1.97%) React
14 17 (1.86%) Apache Avro
15 15 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
15 15 (1.64%) Spring
15 15 (1.64%) Spring Boot
16 12 (1.31%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 115 (12.60%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
9 19 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.86%) Hedge funds
11 15 (1.64%) Equities
11 15 (1.64%) NHS
12 13 (1.42%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.10%) Reference Data
15 9 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.99%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.61%) Linux
2 22 (2.41%) Unix
3 7 (0.77%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (42.50%) Analytics
2 381 (41.73%) Data Engineering
3 338 (37.02%) Data Modelling
4 334 (36.58%) CI/CD
5 317 (34.72%) ETL
6 257 (28.15%) AI
7 225 (24.64%) DevOps
8 207 (22.67%) Machine Learning
9 196 (21.47%) Agile
10 179 (19.61%) Data Science
11 173 (18.95%) Data Governance
12 166 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
13 163 (17.85%) Decision-Making
14 131 (14.35%) Data Architecture
14 131 (14.35%) Validation
15 118 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
16 117 (12.81%) Use Case
17 103 (11.28%) Migration
18 99 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
19 97 (10.62%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 538 (58.93%) Python
2 488 (53.45%) SQL
3 87 (9.53%) Java
4 46 (5.04%) C#
5 44 (4.82%) Scala
6 28 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 25 (2.74%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.52%) R
9 21 (2.30%) Shell Script
10 18 (1.97%) Bash
10 18 (1.97%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.97%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.86%) JavaScript
12 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.66%) Bicep
13 6 (0.66%) Go
13 6 (0.66%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.55%) C++
15 4 (0.44%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 160 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 139 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.82%) Degree
4 21 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.55%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.33%) CISA
11 3 (0.33%) CISSP
11 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.33%) PhD
12 2 (0.22%) CISM
12 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (29.90%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.59%) QA
3 34 (3.72%) GDPR
4 18 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.66%) SLA
6 5 (0.55%) IFRS
6 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.44%) NIST
7 4 (0.44%) PMO
7 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
9 2 (0.22%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 106 (11.61%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) 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 (11.39%) Terraform
2 89 (9.75%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.20%) Grafana
4 9 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.66%) Control-M
6 4 (0.44%) Ansible
7 3 (0.33%) Kibana
7 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.22%) 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
1 186 (20.37%) Databricks
2 146 (15.99%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.60%) Informatica
4 35 (3.83%) Google
5 34 (3.72%) Oracle
6 22 (2.41%) OpenAI
7 18 (1.97%) Foundry
7 18 (1.97%) Palantir
8 15 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.10%) SAP
10 9 (0.99%) Cloudera
10 9 (0.99%) Splunk
11 6 (0.66%) Amplitude
11 6 (0.66%) Workday
12 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.55%) Confluent
12 5 (0.55%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.55%) Talend
13 4 (0.44%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft