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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 82 120
Rank change year-on-year +33 +38 +89
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 944 463 354
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.64% 3.44% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 3.71% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 332 251
10th Percentile £390 £413 £405
25th Percentile £450 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £666
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 18,072 12,468 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.58% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,839 8,220 9,409
10th Percentile £358 £325 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 243 178
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +8 103 £565 +2.26% 106
West London +5 35 £520 +0.29% 50
East London +4 6 £460 -54.00% 4
South London -4 4 £556 +27.14% 6
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 (14.19%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (11.65%) Apache Spark
3 86 (9.11%) Apache
4 15 (1.59%) Confluence
4 15 (1.59%) SAS
5 8 (0.85%) CMS
6 7 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) CICS
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 381 (40.36%) Azure
2 333 (35.28%) AWS
3 159 (16.84%) GCP
4 149 (15.78%) Snowflake
5 133 (14.09%) Power Platform
6 127 (13.45%) dbt
7 108 (11.44%) Amazon S3
7 108 (11.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 80 (8.47%) Serverless
9 78 (8.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 74 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (7.63%) GitHub
12 67 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (4.34%) Azure Databricks
15 25 (2.65%) SaaS
16 24 (2.54%) Amazon Bedrock
17 22 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
18 19 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Internet
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) SSH
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
2 118 (12.50%) Power BI
3 113 (11.97%) Data Lake
4 96 (10.17%) Metadata
5 87 (9.22%) BigQuery
6 78 (8.26%) Delta Lake
7 61 (6.46%) Big Data
8 53 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 45 (4.77%) Tableau
10 42 (4.45%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (4.34%) Relational Database
12 37 (3.92%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (3.28%) NoSQL
15 29 (3.07%) Snowflake Schema
16 26 (2.75%) Looker
17 20 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (2.01%) Flink
19 18 (1.91%) Parquet
19 18 (1.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 110 (11.65%) Git
2 45 (4.77%) GitLab
3 25 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.54%) JIRA
5 10 (1.06%) MLflow
6 9 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.74%) ERwin
7 7 (0.74%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.64%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.53%) JUnit
9 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.42%) Gradle
10 4 (0.42%) Maven
10 4 (0.42%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
12 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 302 (31.99%) Finance
2 204 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 172 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (10.91%) Banking
5 66 (6.99%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.07%) Front Office
7 27 (2.86%) Retail
8 21 (2.22%) Marketing
9 18 (1.91%) Back Office
10 17 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.17%) Legal
13 10 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.06%) Publishing
14 8 (0.85%) Billing
14 8 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.85%) Law
14 8 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 391 (41.42%) Data Engineer
2 161 (17.06%) Senior
3 95 (10.06%) Senior Data Engineer
4 88 (9.32%) Lead
5 83 (8.79%) Architect
6 81 (8.58%) Developer
7 56 (5.93%) Analyst
8 54 (5.72%) Databricks Engineer
9 52 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (4.77%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 43 (4.56%) Python Engineer
12 40 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (4.03%) Azure Data Engineer
13 38 (4.03%) Snowflake Engineer
14 34 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 34 (3.60%) Data Architect
14 34 (3.60%) Data Scientist
15 33 (3.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 30 (3.18%) Data Analyst
16 30 (3.18%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (15.47%) PySpark
2 114 (12.08%) Terraform
3 96 (10.17%) Kafka
4 66 (6.99%) REST
5 43 (4.56%) Pandas
6 29 (3.07%) NumPy
7 28 (2.97%) .NET
8 25 (2.65%) FastAPI
8 25 (2.65%) React
9 23 (2.44%) PyTorch
10 20 (2.12%) RESTful
11 19 (2.01%) TensorFlow
12 18 (1.91%) Flask
13 15 (1.59%) JSON
14 14 (1.48%) Polars
15 13 (1.38%) scikit-learn
16 11 (1.17%) Apache Beam
16 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (1.17%) Spring
16 11 (1.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 137 (14.51%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 54 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (3.81%) Data Structures
6 30 (3.18%) Algorithms
6 30 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.75%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.91%) Reference Data
9 17 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
10 14 (1.48%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.48%) NHS
11 13 (1.38%) Derivative
12 12 (1.27%) Equities
12 12 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.17%) Hedge funds
13 11 (1.17%) Taxonomies
14 10 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.13%) Linux
2 28 (2.97%) Unix
3 14 (1.48%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (45.44%) Data Engineering
2 387 (41.00%) Analytics
3 362 (38.35%) CI/CD
4 344 (36.44%) Data Modelling
5 327 (34.64%) ETL
6 289 (30.61%) AI
7 227 (24.05%) Machine Learning
8 213 (22.56%) Agile
9 198 (20.97%) DevOps
10 186 (19.70%) Data Governance
11 160 (16.95%) Validation
12 157 (16.63%) Data Science
13 154 (16.31%) Business Intelligence
14 150 (15.89%) Data Transformation
15 139 (14.72%) Data Architecture
15 139 (14.72%) Decision-Making
16 126 (13.35%) Migration
17 125 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 121 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
19 108 (11.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 541 (57.31%) Python
2 501 (53.07%) SQL
3 75 (7.94%) Java
4 44 (4.66%) C#
5 36 (3.81%) Scala
6 30 (3.18%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.97%) Shell Script
8 27 (2.86%) JavaScript
9 23 (2.44%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (2.22%) Bash
11 21 (2.22%) R
12 10 (1.06%) Go
13 9 (0.95%) LookML
14 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.64%) C++
15 6 (0.64%) Korn
15 6 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 152 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 130 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.45%) Degree
4 21 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.42%) CISSP
13 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.32%) CISA
13 3 (0.32%) CISM
13 3 (0.32%) PhD
13 3 (0.32%) PMP
14 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (34.85%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.40%) QA
3 22 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.12%) GDPR
5 9 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) Basel III
6 5 (0.53%) EU AI Act
6 5 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 101 (10.70%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 97 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.38%) Ansible
3 9 (0.95%) Control-M
3 9 (0.95%) Grafana
4 5 (0.53%) Kibana
4 5 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.32%) Puppet
5 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) systemd
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.11%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 233 (24.68%) Databricks
2 128 (13.56%) Microsoft
3 60 (6.36%) Google
4 55 (5.83%) Oracle
5 31 (3.28%) Informatica
6 16 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.59%) Palantir
8 13 (1.38%) Foundry
9 9 (0.95%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.95%) SAP
9 9 (0.95%) Splunk
10 8 (0.85%) Cloudera
10 8 (0.85%) Teradata
10 8 (0.85%) Workday
11 7 (0.74%) Hitachi
11 7 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.64%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.53%) New Relic