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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 113 151
Rank change year-on-year +55 +38 +82
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 715 315 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.23% 2.48% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 2.71% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 226 233
10th Percentile £394 £400 £401
25th Percentile £450 £448 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.44%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £61.63 £52.75 £40.54
25th Percentile £62.19 £55.00 £41.57
Median hourly rate £66.25 £61.25 £45.35
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +35.08% -37.46%
75th Percentile £72.19 £65.00 £48.82
90th Percentile £73.88 - £49.68
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -11.03%

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 15,132 11,625 15,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.60% 91.41% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,139 7,889 11,403
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £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 235 170 336
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.91 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.25 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%

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 29 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 29 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 +52 105 £513 -2.38% 115
West London - 22 £575 - 5
South London -8 11 £500 +2.56% 1
East London -1 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
1 113 (15.80%) Apache Spark
2 100 (13.99%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (6.71%) Apache
4 10 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.12%) Appian
5 8 (1.12%) SAS
6 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.70%) Confluence
8 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.42%) Trello
4 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) BambooHR
1 3 (0.42%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 357 (49.93%) Azure
2 271 (37.90%) AWS
3 139 (19.44%) Power Platform
4 130 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 124 (17.34%) GCP
6 92 (12.87%) GitHub
7 91 (12.73%) Snowflake
8 86 (12.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 81 (11.33%) Azure DevOps
10 71 (9.93%) Serverless
11 70 (9.79%) Amazon S3
12 64 (8.95%) dbt
13 60 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (3.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 25 (3.50%) Dagster
16 23 (3.22%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (2.80%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (2.66%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.56%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
2 3 (0.42%) Network Security
2 3 (0.42%) VPN
3 2 (0.28%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (23.22%) Data Warehouse
2 124 (17.34%) Power BI
3 116 (16.22%) Data Lake
4 67 (9.37%) Metadata
5 59 (8.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 57 (7.97%) SQL Server
7 55 (7.69%) Delta Lake
8 48 (6.71%) NoSQL
9 45 (6.29%) Big Data
10 41 (5.73%) BigQuery
11 39 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 39 (5.45%) Tableau
12 35 (4.90%) Snowflake Schema
13 33 (4.62%) Relational Database
14 23 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (2.94%) Spark SQL
16 20 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.52%) Star Schema
19 15 (2.10%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 110 (15.38%) Git
2 32 (4.48%) MLflow
3 26 (3.64%) GitLab
4 25 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.50%) JIRA
5 6 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.56%) Selenium
7 3 (0.42%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.28%) Gradle
8 2 (0.28%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 206 (28.81%) Finance
2 166 (23.22%) Social Skills
3 108 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (7.13%) Banking
5 43 (6.01%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.66%) Front Office
8 15 (2.10%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.10%) Legal
9 13 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.54%) Back Office
11 11 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.54%) Marketing
12 10 (1.40%) Retail
13 8 (1.12%) Electronics
14 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.84%) Publishing
16 5 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 343 (47.97%) Data Engineer
2 102 (14.27%) Senior
3 73 (10.21%) Developer
4 70 (9.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 57 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
6 54 (7.55%) Architect
7 51 (7.13%) Azure Data Engineer
7 51 (7.13%) Lead
8 36 (5.03%) Data Scientist
8 36 (5.03%) Python Engineer
9 32 (4.48%) Snowflake Engineer
10 29 (4.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 28 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 27 (3.78%) Analyst
13 24 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
14 22 (3.08%) Data Architect
14 22 (3.08%) Lead Data Engineer
15 21 (2.94%) Consultant
15 21 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
15 21 (2.94%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (18.88%) PySpark
2 76 (10.63%) Kafka
3 61 (8.53%) Pandas
4 44 (6.15%) scikit-learn
5 42 (5.87%) NumPy
6 41 (5.73%) PyTorch
7 39 (5.45%) TensorFlow
8 29 (4.06%) REST
9 23 (3.22%) FastAPI
10 20 (2.80%) JSON
10 20 (2.80%) pytest
11 19 (2.66%) Flask
11 19 (2.66%) React
12 16 (2.24%) Hugging Face
13 13 (1.82%) .NET
13 13 (1.82%) Web Services
13 13 (1.82%) YAML
14 12 (1.68%) Django
14 12 (1.68%) LangChain
14 12 (1.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 89 (12.45%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.06%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.78%) Algorithms
4 27 (3.78%) Distributed Computing
5 23 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.80%) Equities
7 19 (2.66%) Product Ownership
8 18 (2.52%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.38%) Derivative
10 16 (2.24%) Fixed Income
11 15 (2.10%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.40%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.12%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.66%) Linux
2 9 (1.26%) Unix
3 4 (0.56%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (46.57%) Data Engineering
2 316 (44.20%) Analytics
3 284 (39.72%) ETL
4 282 (39.44%) Data Modelling
5 269 (37.62%) CI/CD
6 210 (29.37%) AI
7 195 (27.27%) DevOps
8 184 (25.73%) Machine Learning
9 176 (24.62%) Agile
10 172 (24.06%) Data Governance
11 167 (23.36%) Data Science
12 148 (20.70%) Business Intelligence
13 112 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (14.13%) Data Architecture
15 94 (13.15%) Data Integration
16 92 (12.87%) Decision-Making
16 92 (12.87%) Validation
17 87 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 79 (11.05%) Use Case
19 77 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 474 (66.29%) Python
2 421 (58.88%) SQL
3 73 (10.21%) Scala
4 58 (8.11%) Java
5 28 (3.92%) C#
6 25 (3.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (2.66%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.52%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.38%) Bicep
9 17 (2.38%) R
10 12 (1.68%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.40%) C++
11 10 (1.40%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.26%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.98%) Bash
13 7 (0.98%) Korn
13 7 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.56%) SAS Macro
15 2 (0.28%) Ruby
15 2 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 142 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 124 (17.34%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.41%) Degree
4 22 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.54%) PhD
8 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.14%) HP APS
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (33.15%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.87%) GDPR
3 30 (4.20%) QA
4 9 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.26%) PERC
5 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) NIST
8 2 (0.28%) PMO
8 2 (0.28%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) Basel III
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 96 (13.43%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Ceph
3 2 (0.28%) Firmware
3 2 (0.28%) HDFS
3 2 (0.28%) Lustre
3 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.14%) etcd
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (13.15%) Terraform
2 82 (11.47%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.56%) Grafana
5 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.42%) Kibana
5 3 (0.42%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.28%) Control-M
6 2 (0.28%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.28%) Istio
6 2 (0.28%) logstash
7 1 (0.14%) Ansible
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 217 (30.35%) Databricks
2 118 (16.50%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.90%) Google
4 31 (4.34%) Informatica
5 29 (4.06%) OpenAI
6 23 (3.22%) Oracle
7 15 (2.10%) Foundry
8 13 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.40%) Palantir
10 9 (1.26%) SAP
10 9 (1.26%) UiPath
11 8 (1.12%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (0.98%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.84%) Splunk
14 5 (0.70%) Adobe
14 5 (0.70%) mParticle
14 5 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.70%) NVIDIA
14 5 (0.70%) Tealium