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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 83 111
Rank change year-on-year +37 +28 +106
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 961 451 359
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.72% 3.37% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.31% 3.65% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 324 259
10th Percentile £400 £413 £404
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £671
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 £46.12 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -31.16% - -

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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £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 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +17 106 £575 +3.60% 121
West London 0 30 £520 +0.29% 52
East London +3 6 £460 -54.00% 9
South London -4 5 £500 +14.29% 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
1 131 (13.63%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (11.55%) Apache Spark
3 89 (9.26%) Apache
4 16 (1.66%) SAS
5 15 (1.56%) Confluence
6 8 (0.83%) CMS
6 8 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.10%) Luigi
11 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 386 (40.17%) Azure
2 344 (35.80%) AWS
3 160 (16.65%) GCP
4 149 (15.50%) Snowflake
5 140 (14.57%) Power Platform
6 122 (12.70%) dbt
7 114 (11.86%) Amazon S3
8 111 (11.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 83 (8.64%) Serverless
10 82 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
11 81 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 80 (8.32%) GitHub
13 70 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (3.75%) Azure Databricks
16 24 (2.50%) Amazon Bedrock
17 23 (2.39%) Amazon EMR
18 21 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
18 21 (2.19%) SaaS
19 20 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) Internet
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
3 1 (0.10%) SSH
3 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (18.63%) Data Warehouse
2 125 (13.01%) Power BI
3 115 (11.97%) Data Lake
4 100 (10.41%) Metadata
5 86 (8.95%) BigQuery
6 79 (8.22%) Delta Lake
7 59 (6.14%) Big Data
8 49 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.79%) Tableau
10 45 (4.68%) Relational Database
11 42 (4.37%) Amazon Athena
12 40 (4.16%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
14 33 (3.43%) NoSQL
15 30 (3.12%) Snowflake Schema
16 29 (3.02%) Looker
17 22 (2.29%) Flink
18 21 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
18 21 (2.19%) Parquet
19 19 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 108 (11.24%) Git
2 47 (4.89%) GitLab
3 28 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.71%) JIRA
5 11 (1.14%) MLflow
6 9 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.73%) ERwin
8 7 (0.73%) Terragrunt
9 6 (0.62%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.62%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.62%) Selenium
10 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.52%) Gradle
10 5 (0.52%) JUnit
10 5 (0.52%) Maven
10 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.31%) RStudio
General
1 303 (31.53%) Finance
2 206 (21.44%) Social Skills
3 179 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (10.82%) Banking
5 66 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 28 (2.91%) Front Office
6 28 (2.91%) Retail
7 25 (2.60%) Marketing
8 18 (1.87%) Back Office
9 17 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.66%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.14%) Legal
11 11 (1.14%) Publishing
12 10 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.83%) Billing
14 8 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.83%) Law
14 8 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 398 (41.42%) Data Engineer
2 170 (17.69%) Senior
3 98 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
4 90 (9.37%) Lead
5 87 (9.05%) Developer
6 82 (8.53%) Architect
7 59 (6.14%) Analyst
8 52 (5.41%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (4.58%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 44 (4.58%) Python Engineer
11 41 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (3.95%) Azure Data Engineer
12 38 (3.95%) Snowflake Engineer
13 35 (3.64%) Data Architect
14 33 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 33 (3.43%) Data Scientist
14 33 (3.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 31 (3.23%) Data Analyst
16 30 (3.12%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (15.30%) PySpark
2 116 (12.07%) Terraform
3 101 (10.51%) Kafka
4 67 (6.97%) REST
5 47 (4.89%) Pandas
6 30 (3.12%) NumPy
7 29 (3.02%) .NET
8 27 (2.81%) FastAPI
9 26 (2.71%) React
10 23 (2.39%) RESTful
11 20 (2.08%) Flask
11 20 (2.08%) PyTorch
12 18 (1.87%) JSON
13 17 (1.77%) Polars
14 16 (1.66%) TensorFlow
15 14 (1.46%) Apache Avro
15 14 (1.46%) Spring
15 14 (1.46%) Spring Boot
16 12 (1.25%) Apache Beam
16 12 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 136 (14.15%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.35%) Onboarding
3 60 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 46 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 31 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.60%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.87%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
11 15 (1.56%) NHS
12 14 (1.46%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.25%) Equities
14 12 (1.25%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.14%) Derivative
15 11 (1.14%) Taxonomies
16 9 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.16%) Linux
2 29 (3.02%) Unix
3 14 (1.46%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Debian
5 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (45.37%) Data Engineering
2 398 (41.42%) Analytics
3 368 (38.29%) CI/CD
4 355 (36.94%) Data Modelling
5 333 (34.65%) ETL
6 289 (30.07%) AI
7 218 (22.68%) Machine Learning
8 216 (22.48%) Agile
9 214 (22.27%) DevOps
10 192 (19.98%) Data Governance
11 164 (17.07%) Validation
12 161 (16.75%) Data Science
13 158 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
14 149 (15.50%) Data Transformation
15 146 (15.19%) Decision-Making
16 144 (14.98%) Data Architecture
17 129 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
18 126 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
19 121 (12.59%) Migration
20 109 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 549 (57.13%) Python
2 512 (53.28%) SQL
3 86 (8.95%) Java
4 49 (5.10%) C#
5 37 (3.85%) Scala
6 30 (3.12%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.02%) Shell Script
8 27 (2.81%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.50%) R
9 24 (2.50%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (2.19%) Bash
12 10 (1.04%) Go
13 9 (0.94%) LookML
14 8 (0.83%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.73%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.62%) C++
16 6 (0.62%) Korn
17 5 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 159 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 137 (14.26%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.16%) Degree
4 21 (2.19%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.42%) CISSP
10 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.31%) CISA
11 3 (0.31%) CISM
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PhD
11 3 (0.31%) PMP
12 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (34.24%) Data Quality
2 55 (5.72%) QA
3 23 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.19%) GDPR
5 9 (0.94%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) Basel III
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (11.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.31%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 99 (10.30%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.35%) Ansible
3 10 (1.04%) Grafana
4 9 (0.94%) Control-M
5 7 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.52%) Kibana
7 3 (0.31%) Puppet
7 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.21%) systemd
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.10%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 229 (23.83%) Databricks
2 133 (13.84%) Microsoft
3 58 (6.04%) Google
4 56 (5.83%) Oracle
5 34 (3.54%) Informatica
6 19 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.66%) Palantir
8 15 (1.56%) Foundry
8 15 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.04%) Splunk
10 9 (0.94%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.94%) SAP
11 8 (0.83%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.83%) Teradata
12 7 (0.73%) Hitachi
12 7 (0.73%) Workday
13 6 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (0.62%) New Relic
13 6 (0.62%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.62%) SnapLogic