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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 112 165
Rank change year-on-year +42 +53 +64
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 601 325 270
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 2.37% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 2.62% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 218 218
10th Percentile £375 £400 £404
25th Percentile £450 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year - +4.27% -8.26%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £638
90th Percentile £763 £762 £729
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £45.65 £58.00 £35.19
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.63 £35.47
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +67.05% -40.14%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £45.96
90th Percentile - - £48.54
England median hourly rate £64.75 £61.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% +26.29% -25.38%

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 13,562 12,418 16,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.85% 90.52% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,022 7,884 11,754
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 154 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.48 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.65 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +22.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.25 £79.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +44 85 £500 -4.76% 75
West London -6 15 £625 - 8
South London -3 12 £500 +1.22% 3
East London +7 7 £1,000 - 3
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 97 (16.14%) Apache Spark
2 84 (13.98%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (5.82%) Apache
4 10 (1.66%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (1.16%) Appian
6 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.67%) SAS
8 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.33%) Confluence
9 2 (0.33%) Luigi
9 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.17%) Camunda
10 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.33%) Eagle PACE
2 2 (0.33%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.17%) Actimize
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 288 (47.92%) Azure
2 236 (39.27%) AWS
3 113 (18.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 100 (16.64%) Power Platform
5 91 (15.14%) GCP
6 74 (12.31%) GitHub
7 73 (12.15%) Serverless
7 73 (12.15%) Snowflake
8 66 (10.98%) Amazon S3
9 60 (9.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 58 (9.65%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
11 57 (9.48%) dbt
12 48 (7.99%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (3.83%) AWS Step Functions
14 22 (3.66%) Amazon Kinesis
15 18 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
17 14 (2.33%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.67%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.50%) VPN
3 2 (0.33%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.33%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) HTTP
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (20.80%) Data Warehouse
2 94 (15.64%) Power BI
3 89 (14.81%) Data Lake
4 50 (8.32%) Metadata
5 47 (7.82%) NoSQL
6 45 (7.49%) Delta Lake
7 43 (7.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 43 (7.15%) SQL Server
8 34 (5.66%) Big Data
8 34 (5.66%) Tableau
9 29 (4.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (4.49%) BigQuery
11 25 (4.16%) Relational Database
12 24 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (3.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 21 (3.49%) Star Schema
14 14 (2.33%) Hadoop
15 13 (2.16%) Data Vault
15 13 (2.16%) Spark SQL
15 13 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 92 (15.31%) Git
2 29 (4.83%) Jenkins
3 27 (4.49%) MLflow
4 22 (3.66%) GitLab
5 16 (2.66%) JIRA
6 3 (0.50%) Selenium
6 3 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.50%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.33%) ERwin
7 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.33%) TestRail
8 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.17%) Gradle
8 1 (0.17%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.17%) NUnit
8 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 175 (29.12%) Finance
2 152 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 77 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.32%) Banking
5 33 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.16%) Front Office
7 19 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.83%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.16%) Marketing
9 13 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (2.00%) Retail
11 11 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.83%) Legal
12 9 (1.50%) Back Office
12 9 (1.50%) Electronics
13 7 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Military
15 3 (0.50%) Law
15 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 272 (45.26%) Data Engineer
2 83 (13.81%) Senior
3 73 (12.15%) Developer
4 59 (9.82%) Senior Data Engineer
5 56 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
6 50 (8.32%) Architect
7 47 (7.82%) Azure Data Engineer
8 45 (7.49%) Lead
9 35 (5.82%) Python Engineer
10 28 (4.66%) Data Scientist
10 28 (4.66%) Snowflake Engineer
11 26 (4.33%) Analyst
12 23 (3.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 21 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 20 (3.33%) Data Architect
14 20 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
15 19 (3.16%) Consultant
16 18 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (3.00%) Data Analyst
16 18 (3.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (17.80%) PySpark
2 73 (12.15%) Kafka
3 45 (7.49%) Pandas
4 39 (6.49%) PyTorch
5 36 (5.99%) TensorFlow
6 32 (5.32%) scikit-learn
7 31 (5.16%) NumPy
8 28 (4.66%) REST
9 20 (3.33%) FastAPI
9 20 (3.33%) React
10 19 (3.16%) .NET
11 17 (2.83%) Hugging Face
11 17 (2.83%) pytest
12 16 (2.66%) Flask
12 16 (2.66%) RESTful
13 14 (2.33%) LangChain
13 14 (2.33%) Node.js
14 13 (2.16%) JSON
15 12 (2.00%) AngularJS
16 11 (1.83%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.65%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.49%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.16%) Distributed Computing
5 23 (3.83%) Derivative
6 22 (3.66%) Equities
7 20 (3.33%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.66%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (2.33%) Fixed Income
11 13 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (2.00%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.83%) Reinsurance
14 10 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.66%) Hedge funds
15 9 (1.50%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.50%) Replication
16 8 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
17 7 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.33%) Linux
2 9 (1.50%) Windows
3 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.33%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.17%) CentOS
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (44.76%) Data Engineering
2 238 (39.60%) ETL
3 231 (38.44%) Analytics
4 223 (37.10%) CI/CD
5 215 (35.77%) Data Modelling
6 174 (28.95%) AI
7 159 (26.46%) Agile
8 157 (26.12%) Machine Learning
9 144 (23.96%) Data Science
10 139 (23.13%) Data Governance
10 139 (23.13%) DevOps
11 115 (19.13%) Business Intelligence
12 108 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
13 87 (14.48%) Data Integration
14 86 (14.31%) Data Architecture
15 81 (13.48%) Validation
16 78 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 64 (10.65%) Visualisation
18 60 (9.98%) Use Case
19 59 (9.82%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 411 (68.39%) Python
2 341 (56.74%) SQL
3 68 (11.31%) Scala
4 60 (9.98%) Java
5 29 (4.83%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.83%) C++
7 20 (3.33%) C#
8 17 (2.83%) Bicep
9 16 (2.66%) TypeScript
10 13 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (2.00%) R
12 11 (1.83%) Bash
13 10 (1.66%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.50%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.33%) Korn
16 7 (1.16%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.17%) ABAP
18 1 (0.17%) C
18 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 93 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.15%) Degree
4 23 (3.83%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.66%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.83%) PhD
8 8 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.17%) GIAC
12 1 (0.17%) HP APS
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (30.95%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.16%) GDPR
3 16 (2.66%) QA
4 11 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.50%) PERC
6 8 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.50%) NIST
8 3 (0.50%) WCAG
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.33%) EMIR
9 2 (0.33%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.33%) MiFID
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) Basel III
10 1 (0.17%) GAAP
10 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 91 (15.14%) Docker
2 5 (0.83%) zsh
3 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.33%) Ceph
4 2 (0.33%) Firmware
4 2 (0.33%) Lustre
4 2 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (12.31%) Kubernetes
1 74 (12.31%) Terraform
2 6 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (1.00%) Kibana
3 5 (0.83%) logstash
4 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Control-M
5 2 (0.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.33%) Istio
5 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 198 (32.95%) Databricks
2 85 (14.14%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.16%) OpenAI
4 23 (3.83%) Google
5 20 (3.33%) Oracle
6 16 (2.66%) Informatica
7 15 (2.50%) Foundry
8 10 (1.66%) Palantir
9 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.50%) SAP
10 8 (1.33%) UiPath
11 7 (1.16%) Automation Anywhere
12 6 (1.00%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.83%) Adobe
13 5 (0.83%) mParticle
13 5 (0.83%) NVIDIA
13 5 (0.83%) Sophis
13 5 (0.83%) Splunk
13 5 (0.83%) Tealium
13 5 (0.83%) TIBCO