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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 80 113
Rank change year-on-year +31 +33 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 946 461 359
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.68% 3.44% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.27% 3.72% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 327 255
10th Percentile £389 £411 £406
25th Percentile £450 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £658
90th Percentile £775 £775 £744
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - £39.69 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.84 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% - -
75th Percentile £61.00 £73.69 -
90th Percentile £68.20 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £46.12 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -31.16% - -

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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £664 £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 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 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 8 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 +19 103 £588 +6.82% 103
West London +11 36 £520 +0.29% 27
South London -4 6 £556 +27.14% 9
East London +2 4 £523 -47.75% 6
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
1 138 (14.59%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (12.05%) Apache Spark
3 89 (9.41%) Apache
4 15 (1.59%) Confluence
4 15 (1.59%) SAS
5 8 (0.85%) 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 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
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 11 (1.16%) 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 10 (1.06%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.11%) BambooHR
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
1 381 (40.27%) Azure
2 330 (34.88%) AWS
3 162 (17.12%) GCP
4 152 (16.07%) Snowflake
5 128 (13.53%) Power Platform
6 124 (13.11%) dbt
7 105 (11.10%) Amazon S3
7 105 (11.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 77 (8.14%) Serverless
9 76 (8.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 73 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (7.40%) GitHub
12 65 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (4.33%) Azure Databricks
15 26 (2.75%) SaaS
16 24 (2.54%) Amazon Bedrock
17 23 (2.43%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
19 17 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Internet
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) SSH
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (18.71%) Data Warehouse
2 116 (12.26%) Power BI
3 112 (11.84%) Data Lake
4 102 (10.78%) Metadata
5 87 (9.20%) BigQuery
6 79 (8.35%) Delta Lake
7 60 (6.34%) Big Data
8 57 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 44 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 42 (4.44%) Tableau
11 38 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
11 38 (4.02%) SQL Server
12 34 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (3.49%) NoSQL
14 28 (2.96%) Snowflake Schema
15 26 (2.75%) Looker
16 20 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
17 19 (2.01%) Data Vault
18 18 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
18 18 (1.90%) Flink
Development Applications
1 112 (11.84%) Git
2 48 (5.07%) GitLab
3 25 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.64%) JIRA
4 10 (1.06%) MLflow
5 9 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.74%) ERwin
6 7 (0.74%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.63%) Claude Code
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 (32.35%) Finance
2 206 (21.78%) Social Skills
3 178 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (11.21%) Banking
5 66 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 28 (2.96%) Front Office
7 26 (2.75%) Retail
8 21 (2.22%) Marketing
9 19 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.90%) Back Office
11 15 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.06%) Legal
14 9 (0.95%) Billing
14 9 (0.95%) Publishing
15 8 (0.85%) Law
15 8 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 391 (41.33%) Data Engineer
2 161 (17.02%) Senior
3 95 (10.04%) Senior Data Engineer
4 90 (9.51%) Lead
5 83 (8.77%) Architect
6 80 (8.46%) Developer
7 56 (5.92%) Analyst
8 54 (5.71%) Databricks Engineer
9 52 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (4.65%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 44 (4.65%) Python Engineer
11 40 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (4.02%) Azure Data Engineer
13 37 (3.91%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (3.70%) Data Architect
15 34 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 34 (3.59%) Data Scientist
16 32 (3.38%) Data Analyst
16 32 (3.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 31 (3.28%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (15.86%) PySpark
2 113 (11.95%) Terraform
3 97 (10.25%) Kafka
4 69 (7.29%) REST
5 41 (4.33%) Pandas
6 28 (2.96%) NumPy
7 27 (2.85%) .NET
8 26 (2.75%) FastAPI
9 23 (2.43%) PyTorch
9 23 (2.43%) React
10 19 (2.01%) Flask
10 19 (2.01%) RESTful
10 19 (2.01%) TensorFlow
11 14 (1.48%) JSON
12 13 (1.37%) scikit-learn
13 12 (1.27%) Django
13 12 (1.27%) Middleware
13 12 (1.27%) Polars
14 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (1.06%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 137 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 52 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (4.33%) Data Structures
6 35 (3.70%) Algorithms
7 34 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.75%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.90%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.59%) Derivative
11 15 (1.59%) Fixed Income
12 14 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (1.27%) NHS
14 11 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.16%) Equities
14 11 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.16%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (0.95%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.33%) Linux
2 28 (2.96%) Unix
3 15 (1.59%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (46.30%) Data Engineering
2 391 (41.33%) Analytics
3 369 (39.01%) CI/CD
4 349 (36.89%) Data Modelling
5 327 (34.57%) ETL
6 292 (30.87%) AI
7 233 (24.63%) Machine Learning
8 218 (23.04%) Agile
9 200 (21.14%) DevOps
10 189 (19.98%) Data Governance
11 160 (16.91%) Validation
12 155 (16.38%) Business Intelligence
13 151 (15.96%) Data Science
14 146 (15.43%) Data Transformation
15 138 (14.59%) Decision-Making
16 137 (14.48%) Data Architecture
17 131 (13.85%) Migration
18 128 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
19 125 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
20 112 (11.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 542 (57.29%) Python
2 502 (53.07%) SQL
3 73 (7.72%) Java
4 41 (4.33%) C#
5 33 (3.49%) Scala
6 30 (3.17%) Shell Script
7 28 (2.96%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.85%) JavaScript
9 23 (2.43%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (2.01%) R
12 18 (1.90%) Bash
13 11 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.95%) Go
14 9 (0.95%) LookML
15 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
15 7 (0.74%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.63%) C++
16 6 (0.63%) Korn
16 6 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 155 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 132 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.65%) Degree
4 20 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.32%) CISSP
12 3 (0.32%) PhD
12 3 (0.32%) PMP
13 2 (0.21%) CISA
13 2 (0.21%) CISM
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 339 (35.84%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.29%) QA
3 23 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.01%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 98 (10.36%) Docker
2 4 (0.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 99 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.37%) Ansible
3 10 (1.06%) Control-M
4 5 (0.53%) Grafana
5 4 (0.42%) Kibana
5 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.42%) Puppet
6 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.21%) systemd
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 234 (24.74%) Databricks
2 128 (13.53%) Microsoft
3 62 (6.55%) Google
4 60 (6.34%) Oracle
5 32 (3.38%) Informatica
6 17 (1.80%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.37%) Palantir
9 10 (1.06%) Foundry
10 9 (0.95%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.95%) Cloudera
10 9 (0.95%) Splunk
11 8 (0.85%) SAP
11 8 (0.85%) Teradata
12 7 (0.74%) Hitachi
12 7 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.74%) SnapLogic
13 6 (0.63%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.63%) Talend
13 6 (0.63%) Workday