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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 108 144
Rank change year-on-year +54 +36 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 756 328 314
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.32% 2.57% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 2.80% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 239 248
10th Percentile £394 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £682
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £518 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.50% -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 15,557 11,724 15,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.03% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,420 7,969 11,310
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £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 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 170 331
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £23.05 £19.96
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 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 24 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 24 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 +41 106 £513 -6.82% 68
West London - 24 £520 - 7
South London -7 8 £500 +3.90% 7
East London 0 4 £450 - 12
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
1 110 (14.55%) Apache Spark
2 101 (13.36%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (6.48%) Apache
4 11 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.06%) Appian
5 8 (1.06%) SAS
6 7 (0.93%) Confluence
7 5 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.26%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.13%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
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%) 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 (49.34%) Azure
2 280 (37.04%) AWS
3 149 (19.71%) Power Platform
4 130 (17.20%) GCP
5 129 (17.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 98 (12.96%) Snowflake
7 93 (12.30%) GitHub
8 89 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (11.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 76 (10.05%) Amazon S3
10 75 (9.92%) Serverless
11 67 (8.86%) dbt
12 63 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (3.84%) Dagster
15 26 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.44%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (3.04%) Amazon Kinesis
17 22 (2.91%) Azure AI
18 19 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) Network Security
3 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.26%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.26%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (23.02%) Data Warehouse
2 128 (16.93%) Power BI
3 120 (15.87%) Data Lake
4 71 (9.39%) Metadata
5 64 (8.47%) Delta Lake
6 58 (7.67%) SQL Server
7 55 (7.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (6.48%) BigQuery
9 48 (6.35%) Big Data
10 46 (6.08%) Tableau
11 45 (5.95%) NoSQL
12 43 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 38 (5.03%) Snowflake Schema
14 35 (4.63%) Relational Database
15 29 (3.84%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (3.04%) Spark SQL
17 21 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 20 (2.65%) Star Schema
19 18 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
20 15 (1.98%) Looker
Development Applications
1 112 (14.81%) Git
2 31 (4.10%) MLflow
3 28 (3.70%) JIRA
4 26 (3.44%) Jenkins
5 25 (3.31%) GitLab
6 6 (0.79%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.66%) Selenium
8 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.13%) ERwin
11 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.13%) Maven
11 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 223 (29.50%) Finance
2 172 (22.75%) Social Skills
3 119 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (7.01%) Banking
5 48 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.38%) Legal
8 15 (1.98%) Retail
9 14 (1.85%) Marketing
10 13 (1.72%) Front Office
10 13 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.59%) Back Office
11 12 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.32%) Publishing
14 9 (1.19%) Electronics
14 9 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 349 (46.16%) Data Engineer
2 117 (15.48%) Senior
3 83 (10.98%) Developer
4 79 (10.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 61 (8.07%) Architect
6 55 (7.28%) Lead
7 54 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 48 (6.35%) Azure Data Engineer
9 37 (4.89%) Data Scientist
10 34 (4.50%) Analyst
11 33 (4.37%) Python Engineer
12 31 (4.10%) Snowflake Engineer
13 28 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 27 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 24 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (3.17%) Data Architect
16 21 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
17 20 (2.65%) AWS Data Engineer
17 20 (2.65%) Consultant
17 20 (2.65%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (17.20%) PySpark
2 80 (10.58%) Kafka
3 74 (9.79%) Pandas
4 51 (6.75%) NumPy
5 44 (5.82%) scikit-learn
6 40 (5.29%) PyTorch
7 38 (5.03%) TensorFlow
8 33 (4.37%) REST
9 26 (3.44%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.31%) Flask
11 18 (2.38%) JSON
11 18 (2.38%) pytest
11 18 (2.38%) RESTful
12 17 (2.25%) .NET
12 17 (2.25%) React
13 16 (2.12%) Hugging Face
13 16 (2.12%) Polars
14 15 (1.98%) Web Services
15 13 (1.72%) Apache Avro
15 13 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.64%) Cloud Native
2 30 (3.97%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 27 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.04%) Algorithms
7 22 (2.91%) Distributed Computing
8 19 (2.51%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.38%) Equities
10 17 (2.25%) Hedge funds
11 14 (1.85%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.59%) Derivative
13 11 (1.46%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.46%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.06%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.51%) Linux
2 13 (1.72%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (44.58%) Analytics
2 335 (44.31%) Data Engineering
3 294 (38.89%) Data Modelling
3 294 (38.89%) ETL
4 283 (37.43%) CI/CD
5 210 (27.78%) AI
6 207 (27.38%) DevOps
7 185 (24.47%) Agile
8 180 (23.81%) Data Governance
9 175 (23.15%) Machine Learning
10 166 (21.96%) Data Science
11 153 (20.24%) Business Intelligence
12 116 (15.34%) Data Architecture
12 116 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
13 115 (15.21%) Decision-Making
14 109 (14.42%) Validation
15 95 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
16 86 (11.38%) Data Integration
16 86 (11.38%) Use Case
17 76 (10.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 468 (61.90%) Python
2 436 (57.67%) SQL
3 71 (9.39%) Scala
4 67 (8.86%) Java
5 37 (4.89%) C#
6 27 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.65%) R
8 18 (2.38%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.25%) Bicep
10 15 (1.98%) JavaScript
11 13 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.46%) Bash
12 11 (1.46%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.06%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.93%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.79%) C++
15 6 (0.79%) Korn
16 4 (0.53%) SAS Macro
17 3 (0.40%) Ruby
18 2 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 153 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 135 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.08%) Degree
4 24 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.93%) PhD
10 6 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.26%) CISA
13 2 (0.26%) CISSP
13 2 (0.26%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (33.07%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.95%) GDPR
3 35 (4.63%) QA
4 9 (1.19%) PERC
5 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
9 3 (0.40%) SLA
10 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.26%) PMO
10 2 (0.26%) WCAG
11 1 (0.13%) Basel III
11 1 (0.13%) GAAP
11 1 (0.13%) GxP
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 104 (13.76%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Ceph
3 2 (0.26%) Firmware
3 2 (0.26%) HDFS
3 2 (0.26%) Lustre
3 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.13%) etcd
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (13.36%) Terraform
2 86 (11.38%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.19%) Grafana
3 9 (1.19%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.40%) Istio
4 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.26%) Control-M
5 2 (0.26%) Fluentd
5 2 (0.26%) Kibana
5 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 217 (28.70%) Databricks
2 129 (17.06%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.37%) Google
4 32 (4.23%) Informatica
5 28 (3.70%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.57%) Oracle
7 16 (2.12%) Foundry
8 14 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.46%) Palantir
9 11 (1.46%) SAP
10 9 (1.19%) UiPath
11 8 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.06%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.93%) Workday
13 6 (0.79%) Splunk
14 5 (0.66%) Adobe
14 5 (0.66%) mParticle
14 5 (0.66%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.66%) Tealium