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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 110 146
Rank change year-on-year +56 +36 +73
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 737 315 305
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.31% 2.48% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 2.71% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 227 241
10th Percentile £394 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £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 3 4 2
10th Percentile £57.65 £52.75 £40.54
25th Percentile £59.00 £55.00 £41.57
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £45.35
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +35.08% -37.46%
75th Percentile £69.38 £65.00 £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 15,277 11,605 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.33% 91.50% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,260 7,873 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 169 332
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%

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 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 6 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 6 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 +49 111 £516 -3.95% 115
West London - 24 £575 - 5
South London -9 11 £500 +3.90% 1
East London +2 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
1 116 (15.74%) Apache Spark
2 104 (14.11%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (6.78%) Apache
4 12 (1.63%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.09%) Appian
5 8 (1.09%) SAS
6 5 (0.68%) Confluence
6 5 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) OpenROAD
7 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.41%) Trello
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 364 (49.39%) Azure
2 278 (37.72%) AWS
3 149 (20.22%) Power Platform
4 132 (17.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 121 (16.42%) GCP
6 96 (13.03%) Snowflake
7 94 (12.75%) GitHub
8 88 (11.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 85 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (9.91%) Amazon S3
11 72 (9.77%) Serverless
12 70 (9.50%) dbt
13 60 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (3.80%) Dagster
16 25 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (3.12%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (2.85%) Azure AI
19 19 (2.58%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) Network Security
3 2 (0.27%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (23.61%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (17.77%) Power BI
3 118 (16.01%) Data Lake
4 69 (9.36%) Metadata
5 60 (8.14%) Delta Lake
6 59 (8.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (7.73%) SQL Server
8 49 (6.65%) NoSQL
9 47 (6.38%) Big Data
10 43 (5.83%) Tableau
11 40 (5.43%) BigQuery
12 39 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 37 (5.02%) Snowflake Schema
14 31 (4.21%) Relational Database
15 28 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (2.99%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (2.58%) Star Schema
19 16 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
20 15 (2.04%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 110 (14.93%) Git
2 31 (4.21%) MLflow
3 26 (3.53%) GitLab
4 25 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.39%) JIRA
5 6 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.54%) Selenium
7 3 (0.41%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
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
9 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 206 (27.95%) Finance
2 168 (22.80%) Social Skills
3 114 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.06%) Banking
5 47 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.58%) Front Office
8 16 (2.17%) Legal
9 15 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.76%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.63%) Marketing
12 11 (1.49%) Back Office
12 11 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.49%) Retail
13 9 (1.22%) Electronics
14 8 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.95%) Publishing
16 5 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 355 (48.17%) Data Engineer
2 112 (15.20%) Senior
3 80 (10.85%) Developer
4 76 (10.31%) Senior Data Engineer
5 57 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
6 56 (7.60%) Architect
7 53 (7.19%) Lead
8 50 (6.78%) Azure Data Engineer
9 37 (5.02%) Data Scientist
9 37 (5.02%) Python Engineer
10 34 (4.61%) Snowflake Engineer
11 31 (4.21%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 28 (3.80%) Analyst
13 25 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 25 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (3.12%) Data Architect
15 22 (2.99%) GCP Engineer
15 22 (2.99%) Lead Data Engineer
15 22 (2.99%) Python Data Engineer
16 20 (2.71%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (18.45%) PySpark
2 81 (10.99%) Kafka
3 67 (9.09%) Pandas
4 46 (6.24%) NumPy
5 44 (5.97%) scikit-learn
6 38 (5.16%) PyTorch
7 36 (4.88%) TensorFlow
8 30 (4.07%) REST
9 23 (3.12%) FastAPI
10 20 (2.71%) Flask
11 19 (2.58%) pytest
12 18 (2.44%) JSON
13 17 (2.31%) React
14 15 (2.04%) Hugging Face
14 15 (2.04%) Web Services
15 14 (1.90%) .NET
15 14 (1.90%) RESTful
16 12 (1.63%) Django
16 12 (1.63%) YAML
17 11 (1.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.07%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
5 26 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.12%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.85%) Equities
8 18 (2.44%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.31%) Derivative
9 17 (2.31%) Hedge funds
10 14 (1.90%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.63%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.22%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.09%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.09%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.44%) Linux
2 11 (1.49%) Unix
3 4 (0.54%) Windows
4 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Debian
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (46.00%) Data Engineering
2 329 (44.64%) Analytics
3 295 (40.03%) ETL
4 291 (39.48%) Data Modelling
5 276 (37.45%) CI/CD
6 205 (27.82%) AI
7 197 (26.73%) DevOps
8 177 (24.02%) Machine Learning
9 176 (23.88%) Data Governance
10 175 (23.74%) Agile
11 173 (23.47%) Data Science
12 152 (20.62%) Business Intelligence
13 113 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
14 105 (14.25%) Data Architecture
15 100 (13.57%) Decision-Making
16 98 (13.30%) Validation
17 93 (12.62%) Data Integration
18 88 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
19 82 (11.13%) Use Case
20 77 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 480 (65.13%) Python
2 432 (58.62%) SQL
3 73 (9.91%) Scala
4 64 (8.68%) Java
5 30 (4.07%) C#
6 26 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (2.44%) T-SQL
8 17 (2.31%) Bicep
8 17 (2.31%) R
9 16 (2.17%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.49%) Bash
11 10 (1.36%) C++
11 10 (1.36%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.22%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.95%) Korn
13 7 (0.95%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.54%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.41%) Ruby
16 2 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 148 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 130 (17.64%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.06%) Degree
4 23 (3.12%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.49%) PhD
8 10 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.54%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.14%) CISA
13 1 (0.14%) CISSP
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (33.65%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.83%) GDPR
3 28 (3.80%) QA
4 9 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.22%) PERC
5 7 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.68%) SLA
7 3 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.27%) EMIR
8 2 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.27%) PMO
8 2 (0.27%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) Basel III
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 95 (12.89%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) etcd
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) RACF
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (13.03%) Terraform
2 82 (11.13%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.22%) Grafana
4 8 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.27%) Ansible
6 2 (0.27%) Control-M
6 2 (0.27%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.27%) Istio
6 2 (0.27%) Kibana
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 223 (30.26%) Databricks
2 124 (16.82%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.34%) Google
4 31 (4.21%) Informatica
5 28 (3.80%) OpenAI
6 25 (3.39%) Oracle
7 17 (2.31%) Foundry
8 14 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.63%) Palantir
10 9 (1.22%) SAP
10 9 (1.22%) UiPath
11 8 (1.09%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (0.95%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.81%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.81%) Splunk
13 6 (0.81%) Workday
14 5 (0.68%) mParticle
14 5 (0.68%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.68%) NVIDIA
14 5 (0.68%) Tealium