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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 116 213
Rank change year-on-year +39 +97 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 474 351 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.54% 2.18% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 2.45% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 249 162
10th Percentile £411 £404 £400
25th Percentile £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £778 £738 £742
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £39.69 - £35.00
25th Percentile £48.84 £56.25 £35.16
Median hourly rate £59.25 £57.50 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +47.78% -6.24%
75th Percentile £73.69 £58.75 £59.88
90th Percentile £78.75 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 £53.60
% change year-on-year +16.52% +7.29% +2.09%

All Process and 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 12,368 14,351 18,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.44% 89.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,171 9,324 13,516
10th Percentile £333 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 180 228
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.48 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.04 £24.18 £21.69
Median hourly rate £30.50 £37.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% -7.13% +4.25%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.81 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.75 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

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 15 October 2025.

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 15 October 2025.

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 15 October 2025. 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 +9 59 £550 +4.76% 60
East London +10 7 £1,000 - 6
West London +5 7 £519 - 7
South London 0 3 £450 -16.28% 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 72 (15.19%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (11.81%) Apache Spark
3 35 (7.38%) Apache
4 9 (1.90%) Confluence
5 6 (1.27%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.63%) Luigi
6 3 (0.63%) SAS
7 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.42%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.42%) Endur
3 2 (0.42%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.21%) Aligne
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 207 (43.67%) Azure
2 177 (37.34%) AWS
3 82 (17.30%) GCP
4 76 (16.03%) Power Platform
5 74 (15.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 61 (12.87%) GitHub
7 54 (11.39%) dbt
8 53 (11.18%) Snowflake
9 50 (10.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 43 (9.07%) Amazon S3
11 41 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (7.17%) Serverless
14 23 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 9 (1.90%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) DNS
2 1 (0.21%) HTTP
2 1 (0.21%) SSH
2 1 (0.21%) VPN
2 1 (0.21%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (18.78%) Data Warehouse
2 77 (16.24%) Data Lake
3 72 (15.19%) Power BI
4 39 (8.23%) BigQuery
5 35 (7.38%) Big Data
6 32 (6.75%) Metadata
7 29 (6.12%) SQL Server
8 27 (5.70%) Delta Lake
9 22 (4.64%) NoSQL
10 21 (4.43%) Tableau
11 20 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (4.01%) Star Schema
13 17 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (3.38%) Hadoop
14 16 (3.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (2.32%) Data Vault
17 11 (2.32%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 53 (11.18%) Git
2 24 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.59%) JIRA
4 14 (2.95%) GitLab
5 11 (2.32%) MLflow
6 6 (1.27%) ERwin
7 5 (1.05%) Terragrunt
8 4 (0.84%) Selenium
9 3 (0.63%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.63%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.63%) Postman
10 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.42%) TestRail
11 1 (0.21%) GoCD
11 1 (0.21%) Gradle
11 1 (0.21%) JMeter
11 1 (0.21%) Mockito
11 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.21%) Spinnaker
General
1 136 (28.69%) Finance
2 133 (28.06%) Social Skills
3 73 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.28%) Banking
5 35 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.70%) Investment Banking
7 26 (5.49%) Front Office
8 18 (3.80%) Retail
9 10 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.90%) Marketing
10 9 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
12 7 (1.48%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Legal
13 4 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (42.83%) Data Engineer
2 75 (15.82%) Senior
3 66 (13.92%) Developer
4 49 (10.34%) Senior Data Engineer
5 41 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
6 40 (8.44%) Architect
7 36 (7.59%) Azure Data Engineer
8 34 (7.17%) Python Engineer
9 33 (6.96%) Lead
10 27 (5.70%) Analyst
11 23 (4.85%) Data Architect
12 20 (4.22%) Python Data Engineer
13 16 (3.38%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.38%) Python Developer
14 15 (3.16%) Software Engineer
15 14 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (2.95%) Lead Data Engineer
16 12 (2.53%) AWS Data Engineer
16 12 (2.53%) Consultant
16 12 (2.53%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (12.03%) Kafka
2 54 (11.39%) PySpark
3 17 (3.59%) REST
4 16 (3.38%) TensorFlow
5 15 (3.16%) Pandas
5 15 (3.16%) PyTorch
6 14 (2.95%) React
7 13 (2.74%) RESTful
8 12 (2.53%) .NET
8 12 (2.53%) FastAPI
8 12 (2.53%) JSON
9 11 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (2.11%) Jinja
10 10 (2.11%) Node.js
11 9 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (1.90%) LangChain
12 8 (1.69%) Flask
12 8 (1.69%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.69%) pytest
12 8 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.97%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.43%) Algorithms
4 18 (3.80%) Derivative
5 17 (3.59%) Distributed Computing
6 16 (3.38%) Equities
7 15 (3.16%) Fixed Income
8 14 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.95%) Product Ownership
9 13 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (2.74%) Virtual Team
10 11 (2.32%) Equity Derivative
11 10 (2.11%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.69%) Life Science
12 8 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.69%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.48%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.54%) Linux
2 7 (1.48%) Windows
3 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) Debian
4 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (39.87%) ETL
2 174 (36.71%) Data Engineering
3 167 (35.23%) Analytics
4 164 (34.60%) CI/CD
5 150 (31.65%) Data Modelling
6 114 (24.05%) Data Science
7 113 (23.84%) Machine Learning
8 110 (23.21%) AI
9 103 (21.73%) Agile
10 101 (21.31%) DevOps
10 101 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
11 99 (20.89%) Data Governance
12 88 (18.57%) Business Intelligence
13 70 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 67 (14.14%) Data Integration
15 64 (13.50%) Decision-Making
16 51 (10.76%) Data Transformation
17 47 (9.92%) Data Architecture
17 47 (9.92%) Migration
17 47 (9.92%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 324 (68.35%) Python
2 251 (52.95%) SQL
3 51 (10.76%) Java
4 31 (6.54%) C++
5 25 (5.27%) Scala
6 24 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.16%) Bash
8 14 (2.95%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.74%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (2.32%) C#
12 8 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.27%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.05%) Go
15 5 (1.05%) R
16 4 (0.84%) Bicep
16 4 (0.84%) C
16 4 (0.84%) Perl
17 2 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 41 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.17%) Degree
4 12 (2.53%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.32%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.32%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.63%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.63%) PMP
11 2 (0.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) MCP
11 2 (0.42%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) CBAP
12 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.21%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (20.68%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.27%) QA
3 23 (4.85%) GDPR
4 11 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.42%) EMIR
6 2 (0.42%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.42%) NIST
6 2 (0.42%) SLA
6 2 (0.42%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) GxP
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (11.81%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) zsh
3 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (13.50%) Terraform
2 48 (10.13%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.74%) Kibana
4 11 (2.32%) logstash
5 10 (2.11%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.84%) Ansible
6 4 (0.84%) Grafana
6 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.21%) Graphite
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.21%) SCCM
8 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 127 (26.79%) Databricks
2 69 (14.56%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.75%) Google
4 17 (3.59%) Foundry
4 17 (3.59%) Palantir
5 13 (2.74%) Oracle
6 10 (2.11%) SAP
6 10 (2.11%) Solace
7 8 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.27%) Informatica
8 6 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.05%) Sophis
9 5 (1.05%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.84%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.84%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.84%) Splunk
10 4 (0.84%) Talend
11 3 (0.63%) DataRobot
11 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.63%) Teradata