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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 104 142
Rank change year-on-year +48 +38 +81
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 747 323 312
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.31% 2.55% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 2.79% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 231 248
10th Percentile £394 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £682
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 3 3 2
10th Percentile £57.65 £54.00 £40.54
25th Percentile £59.00 £58.13 £41.57
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £45.35
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +43.35% -37.46%
75th Percentile £69.38 - £48.82
90th Percentile £72.75 - £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 15,438 11,597 15,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.12% 91.69% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,339 7,865 11,332
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 334
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £66.68
England median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +51 111 £513 -4.65% 115
West London - 25 £548 - 5
South London -7 11 £500 +3.90% 1
East London -1 4 £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
1 114 (15.26%) Apache Spark
2 100 (13.39%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (6.43%) Apache
4 12 (1.61%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.07%) Appian
5 8 (1.07%) SAS
6 5 (0.67%) Confluence
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.27%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.13%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.40%) Trello
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 368 (49.26%) Azure
2 278 (37.22%) AWS
3 150 (20.08%) Power Platform
4 133 (17.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 124 (16.60%) GCP
6 95 (12.72%) Snowflake
7 94 (12.58%) GitHub
8 87 (11.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 86 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (9.91%) Amazon S3
11 73 (9.77%) Serverless
12 68 (9.10%) dbt
13 61 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (3.88%) Dagster
16 25 (3.35%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
18 22 (2.95%) Azure AI
19 19 (2.54%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) Network Security
3 2 (0.27%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (23.43%) Data Warehouse
2 132 (17.67%) Power BI
3 118 (15.80%) Data Lake
4 72 (9.64%) Metadata
5 61 (8.17%) Delta Lake
6 58 (7.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (7.63%) SQL Server
8 50 (6.69%) NoSQL
9 47 (6.29%) Big Data
10 45 (6.02%) Tableau
11 44 (5.89%) BigQuery
12 40 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 37 (4.95%) Snowflake Schema
14 33 (4.42%) Relational Database
15 28 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (2.95%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.41%) Star Schema
19 17 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
20 15 (2.01%) Looker
Development Applications
1 111 (14.86%) Git
2 31 (4.15%) MLflow
3 25 (3.35%) GitLab
3 25 (3.35%) JIRA
4 24 (3.21%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.54%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.13%) ERwin
9 1 (0.13%) Gradle
9 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 213 (28.51%) Finance
2 171 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 118 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.96%) Banking
5 50 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.41%) Legal
8 15 (2.01%) Front Office
9 13 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.74%) Marketing
9 13 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.61%) Retail
11 11 (1.47%) Back Office
12 10 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.20%) Electronics
14 8 (1.07%) Publishing
15 5 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 358 (47.93%) Data Engineer
2 113 (15.13%) Senior
3 80 (10.71%) Developer
4 77 (10.31%) Senior Data Engineer
5 59 (7.90%) Azure Engineer
6 58 (7.76%) Architect
7 53 (7.10%) Lead
8 52 (6.96%) Azure Data Engineer
9 39 (5.22%) Python Engineer
10 37 (4.95%) Data Scientist
11 35 (4.69%) Snowflake Engineer
12 32 (4.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 29 (3.88%) Analyst
14 27 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 25 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (3.21%) Data Architect
16 24 (3.21%) Python Data Engineer
17 23 (3.08%) GCP Engineer
18 21 (2.81%) Lead Data Engineer
19 20 (2.68%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (18.07%) PySpark
2 82 (10.98%) Kafka
3 70 (9.37%) Pandas
4 47 (6.29%) NumPy
5 45 (6.02%) scikit-learn
6 39 (5.22%) PyTorch
7 37 (4.95%) TensorFlow
8 31 (4.15%) REST
9 25 (3.35%) FastAPI
10 22 (2.95%) Flask
11 19 (2.54%) pytest
12 18 (2.41%) JSON
12 18 (2.41%) React
13 16 (2.14%) .NET
13 16 (2.14%) Hugging Face
14 15 (2.01%) RESTful
14 15 (2.01%) Web Services
15 13 (1.74%) YAML
16 12 (1.61%) Django
17 11 (1.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.78%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.88%) Data Structures
3 27 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (3.48%) Distributed Computing
4 26 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.35%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.68%) Equities
8 19 (2.54%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.28%) Hedge funds
10 16 (2.14%) Onboarding
11 15 (2.01%) Derivative
12 13 (1.74%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.20%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.54%) Linux
2 12 (1.61%) Unix
3 4 (0.54%) Windows
4 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Debian
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (45.52%) Data Engineering
2 336 (44.98%) Analytics
3 298 (39.89%) ETL
4 297 (39.76%) Data Modelling
5 275 (36.81%) CI/CD
6 207 (27.71%) AI
7 200 (26.77%) DevOps
8 183 (24.50%) Data Governance
9 181 (24.23%) Agile
10 175 (23.43%) Machine Learning
11 173 (23.16%) Data Science
12 154 (20.62%) Business Intelligence
13 117 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
14 111 (14.86%) Data Architecture
15 108 (14.46%) Decision-Making
16 104 (13.92%) Validation
17 94 (12.58%) Data Integration
18 91 (12.18%) Infrastructure as Code
19 82 (10.98%) Use Case
20 76 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 482 (64.52%) Python
2 435 (58.23%) SQL
3 76 (10.17%) Scala
4 67 (8.97%) Java
5 33 (4.42%) C#
6 27 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (2.41%) R
7 18 (2.41%) T-SQL
8 17 (2.28%) Bicep
9 15 (2.01%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.47%) Bash
10 11 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.34%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.07%) C++
12 8 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.94%) Korn
13 7 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.54%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.40%) Ruby
16 2 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 149 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 131 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.56%) Degree
4 24 (3.21%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.20%) PhD
8 8 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.54%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.54%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.13%) CISSP
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.13%) PMP
12 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (33.73%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.89%) GDPR
3 31 (4.15%) QA
4 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.20%) PERC
5 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.40%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.27%) PMO
8 2 (0.27%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
9 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 99 (13.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Ceph
3 2 (0.27%) Firmware
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
3 2 (0.27%) Lustre
3 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.13%) etcd
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (12.99%) Terraform
2 84 (11.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.20%) Grafana
3 9 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.40%) Istio
4 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.27%) Ansible
5 2 (0.27%) Control-M
5 2 (0.27%) Fluentd
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 223 (29.85%) Databricks
2 126 (16.87%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.42%) Google
4 31 (4.15%) Informatica
5 28 (3.75%) OpenAI
6 26 (3.48%) Oracle
7 17 (2.28%) Foundry
8 14 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.61%) Palantir
10 10 (1.34%) SAP
11 9 (1.20%) UiPath
12 8 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (0.94%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.94%) Workday
14 6 (0.80%) Splunk
15 5 (0.67%) Adobe
15 5 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 5 (0.67%) NVIDIA
15 5 (0.67%) Tealium