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 citing Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	51	75	109
Rank change year-on-year	+24	+34	+84
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline	934	502	356
As % of all contract jobs in London	4.61%	3.64%	2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	5.13%	3.94%	2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	652	355	248
10^th Percentile	£400	£402	£400
25^th Percentile	£450	£463	£475
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£562	£560	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+0.31%	-2.61%	+7.68%
75^th Percentile	£688	£688	£652
90^th Percentile	£775	£800	£751
England median daily rate	£525	£525	£525
Number of hourly rates quoted	7	6	1
10^th Percentile	£45.27	£44.13	-
25^th Percentile	£55.00	£55.38	£56.25
Median hourly rate	£57.00	£66.25	£57.50
Median % change year-on-year	-13.96%	+15.22%	+47.78%
75^th Percentile	-	£77.06	£58.75
90^th Percentile	-	£78.75	-
England median hourly rate	£48.00	£67.00	£42.00
% change year-on-year	-28.36%	+59.52%	-21.63%

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 citing process or methodology skills in London.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	18,204	12,742	13,918
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	89.86%	92.47%	89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	11,981	8,388	8,956
10^th Percentile	£358	£331	£350
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£538	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+2.33%	-2.27%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£663	£663	£675
90^th Percentile	£775	£775	£798
England median daily rate	£525	£508	£525
% change year-on-year	+3.45%	-3.33%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	391	255	165
10^th Percentile	£15.58	£17.98	£17.35
25^th Percentile	£18.83	£25.01	£25.00
Median hourly rate	£33.00	£30.00	£38.07
Median % change year-on-year	+10.00%	-21.20%	+0.18%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£46.88	£58.75
90^th Percentile	£81.25	£64.90	£80.45
England median hourly rate	£35.00	£25.15	£37.50
% change year-on-year	+39.17%	-32.93%	-15.73%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 5 November 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.

Data Pipeline Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in London over the 6 months to 5 November 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 5 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	+8	107	£588	+3.98%	23
West London	+7	34	£529	+0.71%	16
South London	-4	10	£590	+27.57%	2
East London	-4	2	£523	-47.75%	7
Data Pipeline England

Data Pipeline Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 5 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Pipeline also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Data Pipeline.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	59.1%	552
2	SQL	53.6%	501
3	Data Engineering	49.6%	463
4	Analytics	42.8%	400
5	Azure	40.5%	378
6	CI/CD	40.4%	377
7	Data Quality	38.3%	358
8	ETL	36.2%	338
9	Data Modelling	36.1%	337
10	AWS	35.3%	330
11	AI	31.6%	295
12	Databricks	27.8%	260
13	Machine Learning	25.1%	234
14	Agile	22.6%	211
15	Data Governance	20.3%	190
16	DevOps	19.1%	178
17	Data Warehouse	18.3%	171
18	PySpark	17.3%	162
19	GCP	16.8%	157
20	Validation	16.6%	155
21	Security Cleared	16.5%	154
22	Business Intelligence	16.4%	153
23	Data Science	16.3%	152
24	Snowflake	16.2%	151
25	Data Transformation	16.1%	150
26	Apache Airflow	15.5%	145
27	Problem-Solving	14.9%	139
28	Decision-Making	14.3%	134
29	Migration	14.0%	131
30	dbt	13.9%	130

Data Pipeline Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Engineering	49.6%	463
2	Analytics	42.8%	400
3	CI/CD	40.4%	377
4	ETL	36.2%	338
5	Data Modelling	36.1%	337
6	AI	31.6%	295
7	Machine Learning	25.1%	234
8	Agile	22.6%	211
9	Data Governance	20.3%	190
10	DevOps	19.1%	178
11	Validation	16.6%	155
12	Business Intelligence	16.4%	153
13	Data Science	16.3%	152
14	Data Transformation	16.1%	150
15	Problem-Solving	14.9%	139
16	Decision-Making	14.3%	134
17	Migration	14.0%	131
18	Stakeholder Management	13.3%	124
19	Software Engineering	13.0%	121
20	Data Architecture	12.8%	120