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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 108 140
Rank change year-on-year +56 +32 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 753 326 308
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.27% 2.57% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 2.79% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 239 241
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 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £514 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -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 15,626 11,665 15,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.10% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,463 7,932 11,228
10th Percentile £356 £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 £688 £675
90th Percentile £759 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 173 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.65 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +39 104 £513 -6.82% 87
West London - 25 £520 - 3
South London -11 7 £500 +3.90% 1
East London -2 4 £450 - 8
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
1 109 (14.48%) Apache Spark
2 97 (12.88%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (6.24%) Apache
4 11 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (1.20%) Confluence
6 8 (1.06%) Appian
6 8 (1.06%) SAS
7 5 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.27%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.27%) 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 18 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.40%) Trello
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) 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
1 369 (49.00%) Azure
2 274 (36.39%) AWS
3 148 (19.65%) Power Platform
4 129 (17.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 126 (16.73%) GCP
6 95 (12.62%) Snowflake
7 93 (12.35%) GitHub
8 90 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (11.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 74 (9.83%) Amazon S3
11 72 (9.56%) Serverless
12 64 (8.50%) dbt
13 60 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.59%) Dagster
16 24 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
18 22 (2.92%) Azure AI
19 19 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) Network Security
3 2 (0.27%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.13%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (22.71%) Data Warehouse
2 127 (16.87%) Power BI
3 119 (15.80%) Data Lake
4 73 (9.69%) Metadata
5 65 (8.63%) Delta Lake
6 58 (7.70%) SQL Server
7 55 (7.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (6.51%) BigQuery
9 48 (6.37%) Big Data
10 45 (5.98%) NoSQL
10 45 (5.98%) Tableau
11 41 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 37 (4.91%) Snowflake Schema
13 34 (4.52%) Relational Database
14 27 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
15 23 (3.05%) Spark SQL
16 21 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (2.52%) Star Schema
18 18 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
19 15 (1.99%) Looker
Development Applications
1 110 (14.61%) Git
2 31 (4.12%) MLflow
3 30 (3.98%) JIRA
4 26 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 25 (3.32%) GitLab
6 6 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.66%) Selenium
8 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.27%) 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
1 224 (29.75%) Finance
2 170 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 118 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (7.17%) Banking
5 47 (6.24%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (2.39%) Legal
7 15 (1.99%) Retail
8 14 (1.86%) Marketing
9 13 (1.73%) Front Office
9 13 (1.73%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.59%) Back Office
10 12 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.46%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.33%) Publishing
13 9 (1.20%) Electronics
14 8 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 346 (45.95%) Data Engineer
2 117 (15.54%) Senior
3 83 (11.02%) Developer
4 78 (10.36%) Senior Data Engineer
5 61 (8.10%) Architect
6 56 (7.44%) Lead
7 54 (7.17%) Azure Engineer
8 48 (6.37%) Azure Data Engineer
9 37 (4.91%) Data Scientist
10 35 (4.65%) Analyst
11 33 (4.38%) Python Engineer
12 31 (4.12%) Snowflake Engineer
13 28 (3.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 26 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 24 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (3.19%) Data Architect
16 21 (2.79%) Data Analyst
16 21 (2.79%) GCP Engineer
17 20 (2.66%) AWS Data Engineer
18 19 (2.52%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (17.40%) PySpark
2 81 (10.76%) Kafka
3 74 (9.83%) Pandas
4 51 (6.77%) NumPy
5 43 (5.71%) scikit-learn
6 39 (5.18%) PyTorch
7 37 (4.91%) TensorFlow
8 34 (4.52%) REST
9 26 (3.45%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.32%) Flask
11 19 (2.52%) RESTful
12 18 (2.39%) JSON
12 18 (2.39%) pytest
13 17 (2.26%) .NET
13 17 (2.26%) React
14 16 (2.12%) Hugging Face
14 16 (2.12%) Polars
15 15 (1.99%) Web Services
16 13 (1.73%) Apache Avro
16 13 (1.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.55%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (3.72%) Data Structures
5 25 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.05%) Distributed Computing
7 22 (2.92%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.52%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.39%) Equities
10 17 (2.26%) Hedge funds
11 16 (2.12%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.59%) Derivative
12 12 (1.59%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.46%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.20%) 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 (2.52%) Linux
2 13 (1.73%) 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 (44.75%) Analytics
2 332 (44.09%) Data Engineering
3 293 (38.91%) Data Modelling
4 292 (38.78%) ETL
5 281 (37.32%) CI/CD
6 209 (27.76%) AI
7 206 (27.36%) DevOps
8 186 (24.70%) Agile
9 180 (23.90%) Data Governance
10 174 (23.11%) Machine Learning
11 161 (21.38%) Data Science
12 151 (20.05%) Business Intelligence
13 117 (15.54%) Data Architecture
14 115 (15.27%) Decision-Making
15 114 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
16 109 (14.48%) Validation
17 92 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
18 86 (11.42%) Use Case
19 85 (11.29%) Data Integration
20 74 (9.83%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 464 (61.62%) Python
2 432 (57.37%) SQL
3 70 (9.30%) Scala
4 67 (8.90%) Java
5 37 (4.91%) C#
6 27 (3.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.66%) R
8 18 (2.39%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.26%) Bicep
10 15 (1.99%) JavaScript
11 13 (1.73%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.46%) Bash
12 11 (1.46%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.20%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.93%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.80%) C++
16 5 (0.66%) Korn
17 4 (0.53%) SAS Macro
18 3 (0.40%) Ruby
19 2 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 155 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 137 (18.19%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.98%) Degree
4 24 (3.19%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.39%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.46%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.93%) PhD
9 6 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) CISA
12 2 (0.27%) CISSP
12 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (32.93%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.98%) GDPR
3 36 (4.78%) QA
4 9 (1.20%) PERC
5 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.53%) SLA
8 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.40%) NIST
9 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.27%) PMO
9 2 (0.27%) WCAG
10 1 (0.13%) Basel III
10 1 (0.13%) GAAP
10 1 (0.13%) GxP
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 103 (13.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.27%) Ceph
2 2 (0.27%) Firmware
2 2 (0.27%) HDFS
2 2 (0.27%) Lustre
2 2 (0.27%) 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 98 (13.01%) Terraform
2 85 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.33%) Grafana
3 10 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.40%) Istio
4 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.27%) Control-M
5 2 (0.27%) Fluentd
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) 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
1 215 (28.55%) Databricks
2 129 (17.13%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.38%) Google
3 33 (4.38%) Informatica
4 28 (3.72%) OpenAI
5 26 (3.45%) Oracle
6 16 (2.12%) Foundry
7 14 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.59%) SAP
9 11 (1.46%) Palantir
10 9 (1.20%) UiPath
11 8 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.06%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.93%) Workday
13 6 (0.80%) Splunk
14 5 (0.66%) Adobe
14 5 (0.66%) mParticle
14 5 (0.66%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.66%) Tealium