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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 82 126
Rank change year-on-year +38 +44 +82
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 971 445 339
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.81% 3.35% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.40% 3.62% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 326 241
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £456 £465 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +8.60%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £794 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 0
10th Percentile - £40.33 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £72.00 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.70% - -

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 17,974 12,284 14,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.47% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,755 8,122 9,734
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.19% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £681
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 289 253 181
10th Percentile £17.21 £17.02 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £25.01 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.40 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 +1 100 £555 +0.45% 41
West London +10 32 £520 +0.29% 33
East London +2 5 £450 -55.00% 5
South London -4 5 £500 +11.11% 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
1 134 (13.80%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (11.53%) Apache Spark
3 92 (9.47%) Apache
4 17 (1.75%) SAS
5 15 (1.54%) Confluence
6 10 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.82%) CMS
8 7 (0.72%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.51%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) Luigi
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 398 (40.99%) Azure
2 353 (36.35%) AWS
3 159 (16.37%) GCP
4 153 (15.76%) Power Platform
5 148 (15.24%) Snowflake
6 118 (12.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 118 (12.15%) dbt
7 111 (11.43%) Amazon S3
8 94 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
9 90 (9.27%) GitHub
10 86 (8.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 79 (8.14%) Serverless
12 69 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
13 57 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (3.81%) Azure Databricks
15 22 (2.27%) SaaS
16 20 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (1.96%) Dagster
18 18 (1.85%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) Network Security
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
3 1 (0.10%) SSH
3 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (19.36%) Data Warehouse
2 140 (14.42%) Power BI
3 129 (13.29%) Data Lake
4 107 (11.02%) Metadata
5 81 (8.34%) BigQuery
6 77 (7.93%) Delta Lake
7 61 (6.28%) Big Data
8 52 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (4.94%) Tableau
10 46 (4.74%) Relational Database
11 45 (4.63%) SQL Server
12 41 (4.22%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (3.50%) NoSQL
13 34 (3.50%) Snowflake Schema
14 33 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
15 29 (2.99%) Looker
16 27 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (2.57%) Flink
17 25 (2.57%) Star Schema
18 21 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 96 (9.89%) Git
2 44 (4.53%) GitLab
3 30 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.09%) JIRA
4 12 (1.24%) MLflow
5 8 (0.82%) ERwin
5 8 (0.82%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.72%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.62%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.51%) Gradle
8 5 (0.51%) Maven
8 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.41%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.41%) JUnit
9 4 (0.41%) Selenium
10 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.31%) RStudio
General
1 300 (30.90%) Finance
2 203 (20.91%) Social Skills
3 178 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (9.47%) Banking
5 70 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.78%) Front Office
6 27 (2.78%) Retail
7 23 (2.37%) Marketing
8 18 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.75%) Back Office
10 16 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.34%) Publishing
12 12 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.24%) Legal
13 9 (0.93%) Billing
13 9 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.82%) Law
14 8 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 411 (42.33%) Data Engineer
2 164 (16.89%) Senior
3 95 (9.78%) Senior Data Engineer
4 93 (9.58%) Lead
5 92 (9.47%) Developer
6 81 (8.34%) Architect
7 59 (6.08%) Analyst
8 52 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
9 51 (5.25%) Databricks Engineer
10 46 (4.74%) Python Engineer
11 43 (4.43%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 41 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
13 40 (4.12%) Azure Data Engineer
14 36 (3.71%) Data Scientist
14 36 (3.71%) Snowflake Engineer
15 35 (3.60%) Data Analyst
16 33 (3.40%) Data Architect
17 32 (3.30%) Python Developer
18 31 (3.19%) Python Data Engineer
18 31 (3.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (16.07%) PySpark
2 109 (11.23%) Terraform
3 108 (11.12%) Kafka
4 69 (7.11%) REST
5 52 (5.36%) Pandas
6 33 (3.40%) NumPy
7 28 (2.88%) .NET
7 28 (2.88%) FastAPI
8 27 (2.78%) React
9 23 (2.37%) JSON
10 22 (2.27%) RESTful
11 21 (2.16%) Flask
12 20 (2.06%) Polars
13 18 (1.85%) Apache Avro
13 18 (1.85%) PyTorch
14 14 (1.44%) scikit-learn
14 14 (1.44%) Spring
14 14 (1.44%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.44%) TensorFlow
15 12 (1.24%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 131 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (3.71%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
9 17 (1.75%) Hedge funds
10 16 (1.65%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.54%) NHS
11 15 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.44%) Equities
13 13 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.24%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.03%) Derivative
16 10 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.12%) Linux
2 30 (3.09%) Unix
3 15 (1.54%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Debian
5 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (45.21%) Data Engineering
2 408 (42.02%) Analytics
3 366 (37.69%) CI/CD
4 360 (37.08%) Data Modelling
5 337 (34.71%) ETL
6 282 (29.04%) AI
7 236 (24.30%) DevOps
8 222 (22.86%) Agile
9 214 (22.04%) Machine Learning
10 195 (20.08%) Data Governance
11 172 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
12 166 (17.10%) Data Science
13 157 (16.17%) Validation
14 149 (15.35%) Data Architecture
15 148 (15.24%) Data Transformation
15 148 (15.24%) Decision-Making
16 128 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
17 126 (12.98%) Migration
18 115 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
19 107 (11.02%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 558 (57.47%) Python
2 522 (53.76%) SQL
3 90 (9.27%) Java
4 48 (4.94%) C#
5 37 (3.81%) Scala
6 31 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.09%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (2.57%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.57%) R
9 21 (2.16%) TypeScript
10 19 (1.96%) Bash
11 10 (1.03%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.93%) Go
12 9 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.72%) LookML
13 7 (0.72%) SPARQL
14 6 (0.62%) C++
15 4 (0.41%) Korn
15 4 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 169 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 148 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 37 (3.81%) Degree
4 19 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.13%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.82%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.72%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.51%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.41%) CISSP
13 3 (0.31%) CISA
13 3 (0.31%) CISM
13 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.31%) PhD
13 3 (0.31%) PMP
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (33.06%) Data Quality
2 61 (6.28%) QA
3 25 (2.57%) GDPR
4 22 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.93%) SLA
6 5 (0.51%) IFRS
7 4 (0.41%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) Basel III
10 1 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 112 (11.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) etcd
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 100 (10.30%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.24%) Grafana
3 9 (0.93%) Ansible
3 9 (0.93%) Control-M
3 9 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.51%) Kibana
5 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.21%) Puppet
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.10%) Istio
7 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 225 (23.17%) Databricks
2 144 (14.83%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.77%) Oracle
4 51 (5.25%) Google
5 42 (4.33%) Informatica
6 18 (1.85%) Palantir
7 17 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.44%) Foundry
9 12 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.24%) Splunk
10 11 (1.13%) Cloudera
11 9 (0.93%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.82%) Confluent
12 8 (0.82%) SAP
12 8 (0.82%) Teradata
13 7 (0.72%) Hitachi
14 6 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (0.62%) New Relic
14 6 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.62%) SnapLogic