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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 86 118
Rank change year-on-year +37 +32 +95
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 953 451 362
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.68% 3.35% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.27% 3.62% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 324 260
10th Percentile £400 £413 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
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 £56.75 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £73.69 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.24 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -44.42% - -

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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
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 £663 £673 £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 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 24 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 24 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 +11 107 £565 +1.80% 114
West London +1 30 £520 +0.29% 53
East London +1 6 £460 -54.00% 9
South London -7 5 £500 +14.29% 5
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
1 133 (13.96%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 89 (9.34%) Apache
4 16 (1.68%) SAS
5 15 (1.57%) Confluence
6 8 (0.84%) CMS
6 8 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.10%) Luigi
11 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 383 (40.19%) Azure
2 342 (35.89%) AWS
3 160 (16.79%) GCP
4 150 (15.74%) Snowflake
5 140 (14.69%) Power Platform
6 125 (13.12%) dbt
7 112 (11.75%) Amazon S3
8 110 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 81 (8.50%) Serverless
10 80 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
11 78 (8.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 76 (7.97%) GitHub
13 68 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (3.78%) Azure Databricks
16 24 (2.52%) Amazon Bedrock
17 22 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (2.31%) SaaS
18 20 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (2.10%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) Internet
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
3 1 (0.10%) SSH
3 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (18.57%) Data Warehouse
2 125 (13.12%) Power BI
3 113 (11.86%) Data Lake
4 98 (10.28%) Metadata
5 85 (8.92%) BigQuery
6 79 (8.29%) Delta Lake
7 58 (6.09%) Big Data
8 50 (5.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.83%) Tableau
10 45 (4.72%) Relational Database
11 42 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
12 39 (4.09%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
14 33 (3.46%) NoSQL
15 30 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 28 (2.94%) Looker
17 22 (2.31%) Flink
18 21 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
18 21 (2.20%) Parquet
19 19 (1.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 108 (11.33%) Git
2 46 (4.83%) GitLab
3 27 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.73%) JIRA
5 11 (1.15%) MLflow
6 9 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.73%) ERwin
8 7 (0.73%) Terragrunt
9 6 (0.63%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.52%) Gradle
10 5 (0.52%) JUnit
10 5 (0.52%) Maven
10 5 (0.52%) Selenium
10 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.31%) RStudio
12 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
General
1 300 (31.48%) Finance
2 204 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 178 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (10.81%) Banking
5 66 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 28 (2.94%) Front Office
6 28 (2.94%) Retail
7 24 (2.52%) Marketing
8 18 (1.89%) Back Office
9 17 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.15%) Legal
11 11 (1.15%) Publishing
12 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.84%) Billing
14 8 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.84%) Law
14 8 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 397 (41.66%) Data Engineer
2 169 (17.73%) Senior
3 97 (10.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 90 (9.44%) Lead
5 85 (8.92%) Developer
6 82 (8.60%) Architect
7 59 (6.19%) Analyst
8 53 (5.56%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (4.72%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 44 (4.62%) Python Engineer
12 40 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
13 39 (4.09%) Snowflake Engineer
14 38 (3.99%) Azure Data Engineer
15 35 (3.67%) Data Architect
16 34 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 33 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 33 (3.46%) Data Scientist
18 31 (3.25%) Data Analyst
19 30 (3.15%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (15.32%) PySpark
2 117 (12.28%) Terraform
3 101 (10.60%) Kafka
4 66 (6.93%) REST
5 45 (4.72%) Pandas
6 30 (3.15%) NumPy
7 28 (2.94%) .NET
8 26 (2.73%) FastAPI
8 26 (2.73%) React
9 22 (2.31%) RESTful
10 20 (2.10%) PyTorch
11 19 (1.99%) Flask
12 18 (1.89%) JSON
13 16 (1.68%) Polars
13 16 (1.68%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.47%) Apache Avro
14 14 (1.47%) Spring
14 14 (1.47%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.26%) Apache Beam
16 11 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 134 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 58 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 46 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (3.78%) Data Structures
6 31 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.62%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.89%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
11 15 (1.57%) NHS
12 13 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.36%) Hedge funds
12 13 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.26%) Equities
13 12 (1.26%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.15%) Derivative
14 11 (1.15%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.09%) Linux
2 28 (2.94%) Unix
3 14 (1.47%) 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
1 435 (45.65%) Data Engineering
2 396 (41.55%) Analytics
3 365 (38.30%) CI/CD
4 355 (37.25%) Data Modelling
5 330 (34.63%) ETL
6 286 (30.01%) AI
7 215 (22.56%) Agile
7 215 (22.56%) Machine Learning
8 209 (21.93%) DevOps
9 190 (19.94%) Data Governance
10 162 (17.00%) Validation
11 159 (16.68%) Data Science
12 158 (16.58%) Business Intelligence
13 149 (15.63%) Data Transformation
14 145 (15.22%) Decision-Making
15 141 (14.80%) Data Architecture
16 126 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
16 126 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 123 (12.91%) Migration
18 110 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 547 (57.40%) Python
2 510 (53.52%) SQL
3 85 (8.92%) Java
4 47 (4.93%) C#
5 37 (3.88%) Scala
6 30 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 27 (2.83%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.52%) R
9 24 (2.52%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (2.20%) Bash
12 10 (1.05%) Go
13 9 (0.94%) LookML
14 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.73%) SPARQL
15 7 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.63%) C++
16 6 (0.63%) Korn
17 5 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 155 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 134 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.20%) Degree
4 21 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.42%) CISSP
10 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.31%) CISA
11 3 (0.31%) CISM
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PhD
11 3 (0.31%) PMP
12 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (34.42%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.56%) QA
3 23 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.20%) GDPR
5 9 (0.94%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) Basel III
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (11.23%) Docker
2 3 (0.31%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 98 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.36%) Ansible
3 10 (1.05%) Grafana
4 9 (0.94%) Control-M
5 6 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.52%) Kibana
7 3 (0.31%) Puppet
7 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.21%) systemd
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.10%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 228 (23.92%) Databricks
2 130 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 57 (5.98%) Google
4 56 (5.88%) Oracle
5 31 (3.25%) Informatica
6 18 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.68%) Palantir
8 15 (1.57%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.47%) Foundry
10 10 (1.05%) Splunk
11 9 (0.94%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.94%) SAP
12 8 (0.84%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.84%) Teradata
13 7 (0.73%) Hitachi
13 7 (0.73%) Workday
14 6 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (0.63%) New Relic
14 6 (0.63%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.63%) SnapLogic