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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 109 143
Rank change year-on-year +51 +34 +86
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 707 311 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.23% 2.46% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 2.69% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 223 229
10th Percentile £393 £400 £411
25th Percentile £450 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £61.63 £52.75 £40.54
25th Percentile £62.19 £55.00 £41.57
Median hourly rate £66.25 £61.25 £45.35
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +35.08% -37.46%
75th Percentile £72.19 £65.00 £48.82
90th Percentile £73.88 - £49.68
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -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 14,995 11,556 15,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.68% 91.45% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,050 7,835 11,420
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 169 333
10th Percentile £18.11 £19.16 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £69.90
England median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +52 103 £513 -2.38% 115
West London - 22 £575 - 5
South London -9 11 £500 +2.56% 1
East London -2 3 £450 - 6
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 (15.56%) Apache Spark
2 99 (14.00%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (6.22%) Apache
4 10 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.13%) Appian
5 8 (1.13%) SAS
6 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.71%) Confluence
8 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.28%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.14%) Camunda
9 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.42%) Trello
4 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) BambooHR
1 3 (0.42%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 355 (50.21%) Azure
2 269 (38.05%) AWS
3 138 (19.52%) Power Platform
4 130 (18.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (17.26%) GCP
6 93 (13.15%) GitHub
7 91 (12.87%) Snowflake
8 86 (12.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 81 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (10.18%) Serverless
11 69 (9.76%) Amazon S3
12 64 (9.05%) dbt
13 61 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (3.54%) AWS Step Functions
16 24 (3.39%) Dagster
17 23 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (2.83%) Amazon SageMaker
19 19 (2.69%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
2 3 (0.42%) Network Security
2 3 (0.42%) VPN
3 2 (0.28%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (23.34%) Data Warehouse
2 123 (17.40%) Power BI
3 116 (16.41%) Data Lake
4 67 (9.48%) Metadata
5 59 (8.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 56 (7.92%) SQL Server
7 55 (7.78%) Delta Lake
8 48 (6.79%) NoSQL
9 44 (6.22%) Big Data
10 41 (5.80%) BigQuery
11 39 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 39 (5.52%) Tableau
12 35 (4.95%) Snowflake Schema
13 33 (4.67%) Relational Database
14 23 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (2.97%) Spark SQL
16 20 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.55%) Star Schema
19 15 (2.12%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 110 (15.56%) Git
2 32 (4.53%) MLflow
3 27 (3.82%) GitLab
4 25 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.54%) JIRA
5 5 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.57%) Selenium
7 3 (0.42%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.28%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 206 (29.14%) Finance
2 164 (23.20%) Social Skills
3 105 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (7.21%) Banking
5 43 (6.08%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.69%) Front Office
8 15 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.12%) Legal
9 13 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.56%) Back Office
11 11 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.56%) Marketing
11 11 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.41%) Retail
13 8 (1.13%) Electronics
14 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.85%) Publishing
16 5 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 337 (47.67%) Data Engineer
2 99 (14.00%) Senior
3 71 (10.04%) Developer
4 70 (9.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 57 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
6 54 (7.64%) Architect
7 51 (7.21%) Azure Data Engineer
8 50 (7.07%) Lead
9 36 (5.09%) Data Scientist
10 35 (4.95%) Python Engineer
11 31 (4.38%) Snowflake Engineer
12 28 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 27 (3.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 26 (3.68%) Analyst
15 24 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (3.11%) Data Architect
17 21 (2.97%) Consultant
17 21 (2.97%) GCP Engineer
17 21 (2.97%) Lead Data Engineer
18 20 (2.83%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (19.09%) PySpark
2 76 (10.75%) Kafka
3 60 (8.49%) Pandas
4 44 (6.22%) scikit-learn
5 41 (5.80%) NumPy
5 41 (5.80%) PyTorch
6 39 (5.52%) TensorFlow
7 29 (4.10%) REST
8 23 (3.25%) FastAPI
9 20 (2.83%) pytest
10 19 (2.69%) Flask
10 19 (2.69%) JSON
10 19 (2.69%) React
11 16 (2.26%) Hugging Face
12 13 (1.84%) .NET
12 13 (1.84%) Web Services
12 13 (1.84%) YAML
13 12 (1.70%) Django
13 12 (1.70%) LangChain
13 12 (1.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 89 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.10%) Data Structures
3 27 (3.82%) Algorithms
3 27 (3.82%) Distributed Computing
3 27 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.83%) Equities
6 18 (2.55%) AI Agents
6 18 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.40%) Derivative
8 16 (2.26%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.12%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
11 9 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.13%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.69%) Linux
2 9 (1.27%) Unix
3 4 (0.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (46.82%) Data Engineering
2 312 (44.13%) Analytics
3 281 (39.75%) ETL
4 279 (39.46%) Data Modelling
5 268 (37.91%) CI/CD
6 208 (29.42%) AI
7 195 (27.58%) DevOps
8 182 (25.74%) Machine Learning
9 176 (24.89%) Agile
10 171 (24.19%) Data Governance
11 165 (23.34%) Data Science
12 147 (20.79%) Business Intelligence
13 110 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
14 100 (14.14%) Data Architecture
15 92 (13.01%) Data Integration
16 91 (12.87%) Decision-Making
16 91 (12.87%) Validation
17 86 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
18 79 (11.17%) Use Case
19 76 (10.75%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 469 (66.34%) Python
2 416 (58.84%) SQL
3 73 (10.33%) Scala
4 54 (7.64%) Java
5 26 (3.68%) C#
6 25 (3.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (2.69%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.55%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.40%) Bicep
10 15 (2.12%) R
11 12 (1.70%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.41%) C++
12 10 (1.41%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.27%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.13%) Korn
15 7 (0.99%) Bash
15 7 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.57%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.28%) Ruby
17 2 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 139 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 121 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.36%) Degree
4 22 (3.11%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.97%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.56%) PhD
7 10 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
9 8 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) HP APS
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (33.24%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.94%) GDPR
3 30 (4.24%) QA
4 9 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.27%) PERC
5 7 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) NIST
8 2 (0.28%) PMO
8 2 (0.28%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) GAAP
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 93 (13.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Ceph
3 2 (0.28%) Firmware
3 2 (0.28%) HDFS
3 2 (0.28%) Lustre
3 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.14%) etcd
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (13.15%) Terraform
2 80 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.57%) Grafana
5 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.42%) Kibana
5 3 (0.42%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.28%) Control-M
6 2 (0.28%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.28%) Istio
6 2 (0.28%) logstash
7 1 (0.14%) Ansible
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 217 (30.69%) Databricks
2 118 (16.69%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.95%) Google
4 31 (4.38%) Informatica
5 29 (4.10%) OpenAI
6 23 (3.25%) Oracle
7 15 (2.12%) Foundry
8 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.41%) Palantir
10 9 (1.27%) SAP
10 9 (1.27%) UiPath
11 8 (1.13%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (0.99%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.85%) Splunk
14 5 (0.71%) Adobe
14 5 (0.71%) mParticle
14 5 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.71%) NVIDIA
14 5 (0.71%) Tealium