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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 77 116
Rank change year-on-year +27 +39 +97
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 949 474 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.63% 3.54% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 3.83% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 339 249
10th Percentile £389 £411 £404
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £778 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile - £39.69 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.84 £56.25
Median hourly rate £56.00 £59.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% +3.04% +47.78%
75th Percentile £57.00 £73.69 £58.75
90th Percentile - £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.24 £67.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -44.42% +16.52% +7.29%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +10 102 £600 +9.09% 36
West London +9 36 £520 +0.29% 23
South London -8 6 £556 +23.61% 5
East London +1 4 £523 -47.75% 7
North London - 1 £178 -
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
1 138 (14.54%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (12.22%) Apache Spark
3 90 (9.48%) Apache
4 15 (1.58%) Confluence
4 15 (1.58%) SAS
5 8 (0.84%) CMS
6 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.11%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.16%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 387 (40.78%) Azure
2 336 (35.41%) AWS
3 161 (16.97%) GCP
4 151 (15.91%) Snowflake
5 126 (13.28%) Power Platform
6 122 (12.86%) dbt
7 108 (11.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 106 (11.17%) Amazon S3
9 80 (8.43%) Serverless
10 78 (8.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 74 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
12 71 (7.48%) GitHub
13 66 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (4.64%) Azure Databricks
16 28 (2.95%) SaaS
17 24 (2.53%) Amazon Bedrock
18 23 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
19 17 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
19 17 (1.79%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Internet
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.21%) HTTP
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) SSH
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (18.55%) Data Warehouse
2 114 (12.01%) Power BI
3 113 (11.91%) Data Lake
4 102 (10.75%) Metadata
5 84 (8.85%) BigQuery
6 82 (8.64%) Delta Lake
7 60 (6.32%) Big Data
8 57 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 44 (4.64%) Relational Database
10 40 (4.21%) Tableau
11 39 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (4.00%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
14 32 (3.37%) NoSQL
15 27 (2.85%) Snowflake Schema
16 24 (2.53%) Looker
17 20 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (2.00%) Hadoop
19 18 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
19 18 (1.90%) Flink
Development Applications
1 111 (11.70%) Git
2 49 (5.16%) GitLab
3 24 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.53%) JIRA
4 11 (1.16%) MLflow
5 9 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 7 (0.74%) ERwin
6 7 (0.74%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
7 6 (0.63%) JUnit
7 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.42%) Gradle
9 4 (0.42%) Maven
9 4 (0.42%) Selenium
10 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.32%) RStudio
11 2 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 306 (32.24%) Finance
2 209 (22.02%) Social Skills
3 177 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (11.49%) Banking
5 67 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 28 (2.95%) Front Office
7 23 (2.42%) Retail
8 22 (2.32%) Marketing
9 20 (2.11%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.90%) Back Office
11 13 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.05%) Billing
14 9 (0.95%) Legal
14 9 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.84%) Law
15 8 (0.84%) Publishing
16 7 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.63%) Military
17 6 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 394 (41.52%) Data Engineer
2 160 (16.86%) Senior
3 96 (10.12%) Senior Data Engineer
4 89 (9.38%) Lead
5 80 (8.43%) Architect
5 80 (8.43%) Developer
6 57 (6.01%) Databricks Engineer
7 54 (5.69%) Analyst
8 52 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
9 45 (4.74%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 44 (4.64%) Python Engineer
11 42 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (3.90%) Snowflake Engineer
13 36 (3.79%) Azure Data Engineer
14 34 (3.58%) Data Scientist
15 33 (3.48%) Data Analyst
16 32 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 32 (3.37%) Data Architect
16 32 (3.37%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 31 (3.27%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (16.44%) PySpark
2 112 (11.80%) Terraform
3 98 (10.33%) Kafka
4 69 (7.27%) REST
5 42 (4.43%) Pandas
6 29 (3.06%) NumPy
7 27 (2.85%) FastAPI
8 26 (2.74%) .NET
9 24 (2.53%) React
10 23 (2.42%) PyTorch
11 19 (2.00%) Flask
11 19 (2.00%) RESTful
11 19 (2.00%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.48%) JSON
13 13 (1.37%) Django
14 12 (1.26%) Middleware
14 12 (1.26%) scikit-learn
15 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (1.16%) Polars
16 10 (1.05%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 138 (14.54%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.01%) Onboarding
3 50 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
5 43 (4.53%) Data Structures
6 36 (3.79%) Algorithms
7 35 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.85%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.90%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.69%) Fixed Income
12 15 (1.58%) Derivative
12 15 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (1.26%) NHS
14 11 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.16%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.05%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.43%) Linux
2 30 (3.16%) Unix
3 15 (1.58%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (46.79%) Data Engineering
2 396 (41.73%) Analytics
3 373 (39.30%) CI/CD
4 348 (36.67%) Data Modelling
5 333 (35.09%) ETL
6 295 (31.09%) AI
7 237 (24.97%) Machine Learning
8 213 (22.44%) Agile
9 202 (21.29%) DevOps
10 191 (20.13%) Data Governance
11 162 (17.07%) Validation
12 152 (16.02%) Business Intelligence
13 150 (15.81%) Data Science
14 146 (15.38%) Data Transformation
15 137 (14.44%) Migration
16 133 (14.01%) Decision-Making
17 132 (13.91%) Data Architecture
18 126 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
18 126 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
19 115 (12.12%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 545 (57.43%) Python
2 505 (53.21%) SQL
3 70 (7.38%) Java
4 40 (4.21%) C#
5 31 (3.27%) Shell Script
6 29 (3.06%) PowerShell
6 29 (3.06%) Scala
7 26 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 24 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 24 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.00%) R
10 18 (1.90%) Bash
11 11 (1.16%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.95%) Go
12 9 (0.95%) LookML
13 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
13 7 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.63%) C++
14 6 (0.63%) Korn
14 6 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 155 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 133 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.64%) Degree
4 22 (2.32%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.32%) CISSP
11 3 (0.32%) PhD
11 3 (0.32%) PMP
12 2 (0.21%) CISA
12 2 (0.21%) CISM
12 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (35.93%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.16%) QA
3 23 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.90%) GDPR
5 6 (0.63%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) Basel III
6 5 (0.53%) EU AI Act
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.32%) GRC
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (10.01%) Docker
2 4 (0.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 100 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.37%) Ansible
3 10 (1.05%) Control-M
4 4 (0.42%) Grafana
4 4 (0.42%) Puppet
5 3 (0.32%) Kibana
5 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) systemd
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 241 (25.40%) Databricks
2 129 (13.59%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.64%) Oracle
4 61 (6.43%) Google
5 33 (3.48%) Informatica
6 17 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 17 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.48%) Palantir
8 10 (1.05%) Foundry
9 9 (0.95%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.95%) Cloudera
9 9 (0.95%) Splunk
10 8 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.84%) Teradata
11 7 (0.74%) Hitachi
11 7 (0.74%) SAP
11 7 (0.74%) SnapLogic
12 6 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.63%) Talend
12 6 (0.63%) Workday