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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 98 147
Rank change year-on-year +47 +49 +84
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 769 333 315
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.31% 2.65% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 2.88% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 244 245
10th Percentile £388 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.60% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £45.46 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £64.75 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% +8.25% -33.10%
75th Percentile £73.50 £65.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.40 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £58.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.89% -6.00% -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 15,783 11,565 15,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.39% 92.20% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,545 7,839 11,342
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 324
10th Percentile £18.37 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +19.13% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.95
90th Percentile £74.75 £63.75 £65.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.34
% change year-on-year +50.00% -17.43% -2.19%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +40 106 £513 -6.82% 98
West London 0 26 £520 +1.56% 6
South London -12 7 £500 +3.90% 2
East London +2 6 £450 - 9
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
1 108 (14.04%) Apache Spark
2 91 (11.83%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (6.11%) Apache
4 11 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (1.30%) Confluence
6 9 (1.17%) SAS
7 8 (1.04%) Appian
8 5 (0.65%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.39%) Trello
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.39%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 373 (48.50%) Azure
2 281 (36.54%) AWS
3 151 (19.64%) Power Platform
4 128 (16.64%) GCP
5 126 (16.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 97 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (12.48%) GitHub
8 89 (11.57%) Snowflake
9 87 (11.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 77 (10.01%) Amazon S3
11 74 (9.62%) Serverless
12 64 (8.32%) dbt
13 62 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
14 57 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (3.38%) Dagster
16 22 (2.86%) Azure AI
17 21 (2.73%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (2.60%) Power Automate
19 19 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.39%) Firewall
1 3 (0.39%) Network Security
2 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) HTTP
3 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.13%) MIMO
3 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (21.98%) Data Warehouse
2 130 (16.91%) Power BI
3 124 (16.12%) Data Lake
4 74 (9.62%) Metadata
5 69 (8.97%) Delta Lake
6 60 (7.80%) SQL Server
7 54 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (6.50%) BigQuery
9 47 (6.11%) Big Data
10 43 (5.59%) Tableau
11 42 (5.46%) NoSQL
12 40 (5.20%) Relational Database
13 38 (4.94%) Snowflake Schema
14 36 (4.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 27 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (3.25%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
18 19 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 17 (2.21%) Star Schema
20 16 (2.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 112 (14.56%) Git
2 31 (4.03%) JIRA
2 31 (4.03%) MLflow
3 29 (3.77%) GitLab
4 28 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.78%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.65%) Selenium
7 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.26%) Gradle
8 2 (0.26%) Maven
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.13%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Snyk
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 232 (30.17%) Finance
2 167 (21.72%) Social Skills
3 118 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (7.02%) Banking
5 46 (5.98%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.08%) Legal
7 16 (2.08%) Marketing
8 15 (1.95%) Retail
9 14 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.69%) Front Office
10 13 (1.69%) Publishing
11 12 (1.56%) Back Office
12 11 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.91%) Electronics
16 5 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 361 (46.94%) Data Engineer
2 128 (16.64%) Senior
3 88 (11.44%) Developer
4 84 (10.92%) Senior Data Engineer
5 58 (7.54%) Architect
6 53 (6.89%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (6.89%) Lead
7 48 (6.24%) Azure Data Engineer
8 38 (4.94%) Data Scientist
9 34 (4.42%) Analyst
10 33 (4.29%) Python Engineer
11 32 (4.16%) Snowflake Engineer
12 29 (3.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 24 (3.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 24 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (2.99%) Python Developer
15 22 (2.86%) Data Architect
16 20 (2.60%) AWS Data Engineer
16 20 (2.60%) Data Analyst
16 20 (2.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (17.17%) PySpark
2 85 (11.05%) Kafka
3 77 (10.01%) Pandas
4 51 (6.63%) NumPy
5 42 (5.46%) scikit-learn
6 38 (4.94%) PyTorch
6 38 (4.94%) REST
7 36 (4.68%) TensorFlow
8 30 (3.90%) FastAPI
9 29 (3.77%) Flask
10 25 (3.25%) RESTful
11 20 (2.60%) .NET
11 20 (2.60%) Polars
12 19 (2.47%) React
13 17 (2.21%) Apache Avro
13 17 (2.21%) JSON
14 16 (2.08%) Hugging Face
14 16 (2.08%) pytest
15 14 (1.82%) Web Services
16 12 (1.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.44%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 25 (3.25%) Distributed Computing
5 25 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 20 (2.60%) Hedge funds
8 19 (2.47%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.34%) Equities
10 17 (2.21%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.82%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.30%) Derivative
14 10 (1.30%) Fixed Income
15 8 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.91%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.73%) Linux
2 15 (1.95%) Unix
3 4 (0.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (44.08%) Analytics
2 334 (43.43%) Data Engineering
3 304 (39.53%) ETL
4 302 (39.27%) Data Modelling
5 289 (37.58%) CI/CD
6 215 (27.96%) AI
6 215 (27.96%) DevOps
7 185 (24.06%) Agile
8 180 (23.41%) Data Governance
9 176 (22.89%) Machine Learning
10 160 (20.81%) Data Science
11 153 (19.90%) Business Intelligence
12 119 (15.47%) Decision-Making
13 113 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
13 113 (14.69%) Validation
14 112 (14.56%) Data Architecture
15 94 (12.22%) Use Case
16 90 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
17 81 (10.53%) Data Integration
18 79 (10.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 471 (61.25%) Python
2 443 (57.61%) SQL
3 74 (9.62%) Java
4 69 (8.97%) Scala
5 43 (5.59%) C#
6 29 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 22 (2.86%) R
8 17 (2.21%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.08%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.95%) Bicep
10 15 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.56%) Bash
11 12 (1.56%) TypeScript
12 11 (1.43%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.65%) C++
15 4 (0.52%) Korn
15 4 (0.52%) SAS Macro
16 3 (0.39%) Ruby
16 3 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 156 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 139 (18.08%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.46%) Degree
4 26 (3.38%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.91%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.65%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.65%) PhD
11 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.52%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.26%) CISA
13 2 (0.26%) CISSP
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (32.51%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.20%) GDPR
2 40 (5.20%) QA
3 7 (0.91%) PERC
3 7 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.52%) SLA
6 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.39%) NIST
6 3 (0.39%) PMO
7 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.26%) IFRS
7 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) Basel III
8 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (13.52%) Docker
2 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.26%) Ceph
2 2 (0.26%) Firmware
2 2 (0.26%) HDFS
2 2 (0.26%) Lustre
2 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) etcd
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (12.61%) Terraform
2 90 (11.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.43%) Grafana
4 10 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.39%) Control-M
5 3 (0.39%) Istio
6 2 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.26%) Kibana
6 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 208 (27.05%) Databricks
2 133 (17.30%) Microsoft
3 37 (4.81%) Informatica
4 32 (4.16%) Google
5 28 (3.64%) OpenAI
5 28 (3.64%) Oracle
6 16 (2.08%) Foundry
7 14 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.43%) Palantir
8 11 (1.43%) SAP
9 9 (1.17%) UiPath
10 8 (1.04%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.04%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.91%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.91%) Workday
12 6 (0.78%) Splunk
13 5 (0.65%) Adobe
13 5 (0.65%) mParticle
13 5 (0.65%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.65%) Tealium