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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 104 140
Rank change year-on-year +55 +36 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 813 328 321
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.40% 2.70% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 2.92% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 244 245
10th Percentile £379 £407 £389
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
75th Percentile £638 £666 £680
90th Percentile £750 £800 £764
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.65% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £57.60 £43.53 -
25th Percentile £58.88 £46.42 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £74.00 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.60 - -
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 16,373 11,226 15,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.27% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,935 7,534 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £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 £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 192 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +14.29% -28.97%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £62.90 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +25 109 £516 -6.14% 14
West London -4 25 £520 +1.56% 4
East London -2 6 £450 - 6
South London -11 4 £500 +5.26% 2
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
1 100 (12.30%) Apache Airflow
1 100 (12.30%) Apache Spark
2 52 (6.40%) Apache
3 11 (1.35%) Confluence
4 8 (0.98%) Appian
4 8 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (0.86%) SAS
6 5 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.25%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) CICS
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.62%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 382 (46.99%) Azure
2 293 (36.04%) AWS
3 150 (18.45%) Power Platform
4 132 (16.24%) GCP
5 119 (14.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 102 (12.55%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (12.55%) Snowflake
7 92 (11.32%) GitHub
8 80 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 80 (9.84%) dbt
9 78 (9.59%) Amazon S3
10 66 (8.12%) Serverless
11 57 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (3.32%) Dagster
14 21 (2.58%) Azure AI
15 19 (2.34%) Power Automate
16 18 (2.21%) Amazon SageMaker
16 18 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.37%) Firewall
2 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
2 2 (0.25%) Network Security
3 1 (0.12%) 4G
3 1 (0.12%) 5G
3 1 (0.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.12%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (19.31%) Data Warehouse
2 129 (15.87%) Power BI
3 121 (14.88%) Data Lake
4 71 (8.73%) Metadata
5 70 (8.61%) Delta Lake
6 64 (7.87%) SQL Server
7 54 (6.64%) BigQuery
8 49 (6.03%) Tableau
9 45 (5.54%) Big Data
10 43 (5.29%) Snowflake Schema
11 42 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 41 (5.04%) Relational Database
13 38 (4.67%) NoSQL
14 33 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 28 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (3.08%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (2.21%) Data Vault
19 17 (2.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 109 (13.41%) Git
2 31 (3.81%) JIRA
3 28 (3.44%) GitLab
3 28 (3.44%) MLflow
4 23 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.98%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.49%) Gradle
7 4 (0.49%) Maven
7 4 (0.49%) Selenium
8 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) CMake
10 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
General
1 270 (33.21%) Finance
2 164 (20.17%) Social Skills
3 133 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.38%) Banking
5 44 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (2.46%) Retail
7 18 (2.21%) Front Office
8 17 (2.09%) Marketing
9 15 (1.85%) Back Office
10 14 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.60%) Publishing
12 12 (1.48%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.48%) Legal
13 8 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.62%) Billing
16 4 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 384 (47.23%) Data Engineer
2 134 (16.48%) Senior
3 89 (10.95%) Developer
3 89 (10.95%) Senior Data Engineer
4 60 (7.38%) Architect
5 55 (6.77%) Lead
6 49 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
7 44 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
8 40 (4.92%) Data Scientist
8 40 (4.92%) Python Engineer
9 35 (4.31%) Analyst
10 33 (4.06%) Snowflake Engineer
11 32 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (3.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 27 (3.32%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 25 (3.08%) Python Developer
15 23 (2.83%) Data Analyst
15 23 (2.83%) Data Architect
15 23 (2.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (15.74%) PySpark
2 81 (9.96%) Kafka
3 77 (9.47%) Pandas
4 50 (6.15%) NumPy
5 43 (5.29%) REST
6 40 (4.92%) scikit-learn
7 35 (4.31%) PyTorch
8 32 (3.94%) TensorFlow
9 30 (3.69%) FastAPI
10 27 (3.32%) Flask
11 26 (3.20%) RESTful
12 20 (2.46%) Polars
13 17 (2.09%) .NET
13 17 (2.09%) Apache Avro
14 16 (1.97%) Hugging Face
15 15 (1.85%) React
16 14 (1.72%) pytest
16 14 (1.72%) Spring
16 14 (1.72%) Spring Boot
16 14 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 39 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 23 (2.83%) Algorithms
6 23 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
7 20 (2.46%) Equities
8 19 (2.34%) Hedge funds
9 16 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.85%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.60%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.48%) Derivative
13 11 (1.35%) Reinsurance
13 11 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.71%) Linux
2 18 (2.21%) Unix
3 5 (0.62%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (42.80%) Analytics
2 347 (42.68%) Data Engineering
3 316 (38.87%) Data Modelling
4 308 (37.88%) ETL
5 296 (36.41%) CI/CD
6 235 (28.91%) AI
7 220 (27.06%) DevOps
8 180 (22.14%) Machine Learning
9 178 (21.89%) Agile
10 164 (20.17%) Data Governance
11 158 (19.43%) Data Science
12 149 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
13 124 (15.25%) Decision-Making
14 121 (14.88%) Data Architecture
15 115 (14.15%) Validation
16 110 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
17 99 (12.18%) Use Case
18 89 (10.95%) Infrastructure as Code
19 87 (10.70%) Migration
20 83 (10.21%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 489 (60.15%) Python
2 457 (56.21%) SQL
3 81 (9.96%) Java
4 62 (7.63%) Scala
5 40 (4.92%) C#
6 28 (3.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (2.46%) R
8 17 (2.09%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.48%) Bash
10 12 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.35%) Bicep
12 10 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.11%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.86%) C++
14 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.49%) Korn
15 4 (0.49%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.49%) X++
16 3 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 157 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 139 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.41%) Degree
4 23 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.62%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.49%) PhD
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.25%) CISA
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.12%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (32.96%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.78%) QA
3 33 (4.06%) GDPR
4 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.49%) IFRS
6 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.49%) SLA
7 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.37%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 3 (0.37%) PMO
8 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.25%) PERC
8 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.12%) Basel III
9 1 (0.12%) MiFID
9 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (12.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Ceph
2 2 (0.25%) Firmware
2 2 (0.25%) Lustre
2 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) etcd
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) RACF
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (11.69%) Terraform
2 85 (10.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.35%) Grafana
4 10 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.37%) Control-M
5 3 (0.37%) Istio
6 2 (0.25%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.25%) Kibana
6 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Ansible
7 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 200 (24.60%) Databricks
2 141 (17.34%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.67%) Informatica
4 30 (3.69%) Google
5 28 (3.44%) Oracle
6 25 (3.08%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.60%) Foundry
8 12 (1.48%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.35%) SAP
10 8 (0.98%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (0.98%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.98%) Palantir
10 8 (0.98%) UiPath
11 7 (0.86%) Workday
12 6 (0.74%) Splunk
12 6 (0.74%) Talend
13 5 (0.62%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.62%) Teradata
14 4 (0.49%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.49%) MicroStrategy