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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 99 126
Rank change year-on-year +49 +27 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 847 351 355
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.46% 2.81% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.03% 3.05% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 258 271
10th Percentile £393 £407 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -2.50% -1.79%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £43.53 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £46.42 £46.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +28.57% -16.00% -17.22%

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 16,854 11,524 15,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.35% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,217 7,730 11,175
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 209 315
10th Percentile £18.04 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +15.40% -28.60%
75th Percentile £59.18 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +22 106 £525 -4.55% 21
West London -4 24 £520 +4.00% 6
East London +3 6 £450 - 6
South London -6 3 £500 +3.90%
North London - 1 £178 - 1
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 99 (11.69%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (10.86%) Apache Spark
3 49 (5.79%) Apache
4 15 (1.77%) Confluence
5 11 (1.30%) SAS
6 8 (0.94%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.83%) Appian
8 6 (0.71%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.59%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) CICS
12 1 (0.12%) Luigi
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.59%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.12%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 380 (44.86%) Azure
2 314 (37.07%) AWS
3 158 (18.65%) Power Platform
4 133 (15.70%) GCP
5 111 (13.11%) Snowflake
6 108 (12.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 100 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (10.86%) Amazon S3
9 91 (10.74%) GitHub
10 85 (10.04%) dbt
11 77 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 74 (8.74%) Serverless
13 66 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.19%) Dagster
16 21 (2.48%) Azure AI
17 20 (2.36%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
19 18 (2.13%) Amazon Bedrock
19 18 (2.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) Firewall
1 2 (0.24%) Network Security
2 1 (0.12%) 4G
2 1 (0.12%) 5G
2 1 (0.12%) HTTP
2 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (19.01%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (16.17%) Power BI
3 126 (14.88%) Data Lake
4 73 (8.62%) Metadata
5 68 (8.03%) Delta Lake
6 60 (7.08%) SQL Server
7 56 (6.61%) BigQuery
8 53 (6.26%) Tableau
9 50 (5.90%) Big Data
10 46 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 43 (5.08%) Relational Database
12 42 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
13 34 (4.01%) Amazon Athena
14 33 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (3.90%) NoSQL
15 26 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (2.83%) Spark SQL
17 19 (2.24%) Data Vault
18 18 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 103 (12.16%) Git
2 35 (4.13%) JIRA
3 30 (3.54%) GitLab
4 27 (3.19%) MLflow
5 23 (2.72%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.59%) Gradle
7 5 (0.59%) Maven
7 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.47%) Selenium
9 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 281 (33.18%) Finance
2 172 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 142 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.32%) Banking
5 58 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 25 (2.95%) Retail
7 19 (2.24%) Front Office
7 19 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.01%) Back Office
9 16 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.65%) Marketing
11 12 (1.42%) Publishing
12 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.18%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.18%) Legal
13 8 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.71%) Billing
15 6 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 379 (44.75%) Data Engineer
2 137 (16.17%) Senior
3 90 (10.63%) Developer
3 90 (10.63%) Senior Data Engineer
4 73 (8.62%) Architect
5 70 (8.26%) Lead
6 46 (5.43%) Data Scientist
7 42 (4.96%) Python Engineer
8 40 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
9 36 (4.25%) Analyst
9 36 (4.25%) Azure Data Engineer
10 35 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
11 33 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 32 (3.78%) Snowflake Engineer
13 31 (3.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 29 (3.42%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.19%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (3.07%) Python Developer
17 23 (2.72%) GCP Engineer
18 22 (2.60%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (14.76%) PySpark
2 80 (9.45%) Kafka
3 73 (8.62%) Pandas
4 48 (5.67%) NumPy
4 48 (5.67%) REST
5 37 (4.37%) scikit-learn
6 34 (4.01%) PyTorch
7 32 (3.78%) FastAPI
8 30 (3.54%) TensorFlow
9 26 (3.07%) Flask
10 25 (2.95%) RESTful
11 20 (2.36%) Polars
12 19 (2.24%) .NET
13 17 (2.01%) Apache Avro
13 17 (2.01%) React
14 16 (1.89%) JSON
15 14 (1.65%) pytest
16 13 (1.53%) Hugging Face
16 13 (1.53%) Spring
16 13 (1.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 103 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.19%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.83%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
9 19 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.24%) Management Information System
10 17 (2.01%) Equities
10 17 (2.01%) Hedge funds
11 12 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.42%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.42%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.18%) Reference Data
13 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.06%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.83%) Linux
2 18 (2.13%) Unix
3 5 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (43.45%) Analytics
2 358 (42.27%) Data Engineering
3 320 (37.78%) Data Modelling
4 313 (36.95%) CI/CD
5 312 (36.84%) ETL
6 261 (30.81%) AI
7 221 (26.09%) DevOps
8 198 (23.38%) Machine Learning
9 187 (22.08%) Agile
10 174 (20.54%) Data Science
11 165 (19.48%) Business Intelligence
12 156 (18.42%) Data Governance
13 146 (17.24%) Decision-Making
14 120 (14.17%) Data Architecture
14 120 (14.17%) Validation
15 112 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
16 107 (12.63%) Use Case
17 99 (11.69%) Generative AI
18 93 (10.98%) Migration
19 92 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 516 (60.92%) Python
2 464 (54.78%) SQL
3 79 (9.33%) Java
4 48 (5.67%) Scala
5 42 (4.96%) C#
6 25 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.72%) R
8 17 (2.01%) Shell Script
8 17 (2.01%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.65%) Bash
11 13 (1.53%) TypeScript
12 11 (1.30%) Bicep
12 11 (1.30%) JavaScript
13 6 (0.71%) C++
13 6 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.47%) Korn
14 4 (0.47%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.47%) X++
15 3 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 152 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 134 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.84%) Degree
4 23 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.59%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.35%) CISA
12 3 (0.35%) CISSP
13 2 (0.24%) CISM
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (31.64%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.67%) QA
3 32 (3.78%) GDPR
4 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.59%) IFRS
5 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.47%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.47%) NIST
6 4 (0.47%) SLA
7 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.35%) PMO
7 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.12%) COPPA
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 101 (11.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.24%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) etcd
3 1 (0.12%) RACF
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (12.16%) Terraform
2 81 (9.56%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.30%) Grafana
4 10 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.59%) Control-M
6 3 (0.35%) Istio
6 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.24%) Ansible
7 2 (0.24%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.24%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) logstash
8 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 190 (22.43%) Databricks
2 149 (17.59%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.84%) Informatica
4 30 (3.54%) Oracle
5 27 (3.19%) Google
6 26 (3.07%) OpenAI
7 15 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.53%) Foundry
8 13 (1.53%) Palantir
9 12 (1.42%) SAP
10 7 (0.83%) Automation Anywhere
10 7 (0.83%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.83%) UiPath
10 7 (0.83%) Workday
11 6 (0.71%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.71%) Splunk
11 6 (0.71%) Talend
12 4 (0.47%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.47%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.47%) Teradata