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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 77 122
Rank change year-on-year +30 +45 +96
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 954 453 347
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.73% 3.37% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 3.64% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 327 251
10th Percentile £400 £413 £405
25th Percentile £455 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.80%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 0
10th Percentile - £40.33 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £72.00 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -17.91% - -

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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 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 16 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 +8 104 £565 +2.26% 116
West London +2 30 £520 +0.29% 39
East London +2 6 £460 -54.00% 15
South London -4 5 £500 +14.29% 7
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
1 128 (13.42%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (11.22%) Apache Spark
3 87 (9.12%) Apache
4 16 (1.68%) SAS
5 15 (1.57%) Confluence
6 9 (0.94%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.84%) CMS
8 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) Luigi
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.84%) 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 8 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 383 (40.15%) Azure
2 343 (35.95%) AWS
3 160 (16.77%) GCP
4 147 (15.41%) Power Platform
4 147 (15.41%) Snowflake
5 121 (12.68%) dbt
6 111 (11.64%) Amazon S3
7 110 (11.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 81 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
9 80 (8.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 79 (8.28%) GitHub
10 79 (8.28%) Serverless
11 69 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (3.56%) Azure Databricks
14 23 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
15 21 (2.20%) SaaS
16 20 (2.10%) Amazon Bedrock
16 20 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (2.10%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Internet
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
1 178 (18.66%) Data Warehouse
2 133 (13.94%) Power BI
3 115 (12.05%) Data Lake
4 101 (10.59%) Metadata
5 86 (9.01%) BigQuery
6 78 (8.18%) Delta Lake
7 56 (5.87%) Big Data
8 49 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.82%) Relational Database
10 45 (4.72%) Tableau
11 42 (4.40%) SQL Server
12 40 (4.19%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
14 32 (3.35%) NoSQL
14 32 (3.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (3.14%) Looker
16 22 (2.31%) Flink
17 21 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
18 20 (2.10%) Parquet
18 20 (2.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 103 (10.80%) Git
2 45 (4.72%) GitLab
3 27 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.83%) JIRA
4 11 (1.15%) MLflow
5 8 (0.84%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.73%) ERwin
6 7 (0.73%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.63%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.52%) Gradle
8 5 (0.52%) JUnit
8 5 (0.52%) Maven
8 5 (0.52%) Selenium
8 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.31%) RStudio
General
1 302 (31.66%) Finance
2 198 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 177 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (10.27%) Banking
5 66 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.83%) Front Office
6 27 (2.83%) Retail
7 24 (2.52%) Marketing
8 18 (1.89%) Back Office
9 17 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.57%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.26%) Publishing
12 11 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.15%) Legal
13 9 (0.94%) Billing
13 9 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.84%) Law
15 7 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 400 (41.93%) Data Engineer
2 166 (17.40%) Senior
3 97 (10.17%) Senior Data Engineer
4 91 (9.54%) Lead
5 89 (9.33%) Developer
6 80 (8.39%) Architect
7 58 (6.08%) Analyst
8 52 (5.45%) Databricks Engineer
9 50 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (4.72%) Python Engineer
11 44 (4.61%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 40 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (3.98%) Azure Data Engineer
14 36 (3.77%) Snowflake Engineer
15 34 (3.56%) Data Scientist
16 33 (3.46%) Data Analyst
16 33 (3.46%) Data Architect
17 31 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 31 (3.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 29 (3.04%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (15.83%) PySpark
2 113 (11.84%) Terraform
3 100 (10.48%) Kafka
4 65 (6.81%) REST
5 48 (5.03%) Pandas
6 30 (3.14%) NumPy
7 27 (2.83%) .NET
7 27 (2.83%) FastAPI
8 26 (2.73%) React
9 23 (2.41%) RESTful
10 20 (2.10%) Flask
11 19 (1.99%) JSON
11 19 (1.99%) PyTorch
12 18 (1.89%) Polars
13 15 (1.57%) Apache Avro
13 15 (1.57%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.47%) Spring
14 14 (1.47%) Spring Boot
15 13 (1.36%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (1.26%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 128 (13.42%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.29%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.88%) Data Structures
5 33 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.41%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.78%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
9 16 (1.68%) Reference Data
10 15 (1.57%) Hedge funds
10 15 (1.57%) NHS
11 13 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.26%) Equities
13 11 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.05%) Derivative
14 10 (1.05%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.98%) Linux
2 27 (2.83%) Unix
3 15 (1.57%) 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
1 435 (45.60%) Data Engineering
2 401 (42.03%) Analytics
3 364 (38.16%) CI/CD
4 355 (37.21%) Data Modelling
5 332 (34.80%) ETL
6 286 (29.98%) AI
7 217 (22.75%) DevOps
7 217 (22.75%) Machine Learning
8 213 (22.33%) Agile
9 191 (20.02%) Data Governance
10 165 (17.30%) Business Intelligence
11 164 (17.19%) Data Science
12 160 (16.77%) Validation
13 149 (15.62%) Data Transformation
14 145 (15.20%) Decision-Making
15 143 (14.99%) Data Architecture
16 128 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
17 120 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
18 118 (12.37%) Migration
19 112 (11.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 545 (57.13%) Python
2 507 (53.14%) SQL
3 87 (9.12%) Java
4 48 (5.03%) C#
5 36 (3.77%) Scala
6 31 (3.25%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.83%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.62%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 24 (2.52%) R
10 21 (2.20%) TypeScript
11 20 (2.10%) Bash
12 10 (1.05%) Go
13 9 (0.94%) LookML
13 9 (0.94%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.73%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.63%) C++
15 6 (0.63%) Korn
16 5 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 159 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 137 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 37 (3.88%) Degree
4 20 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.42%) CISSP
11 3 (0.31%) CISA
11 3 (0.31%) CISM
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.31%) PhD
11 3 (0.31%) PMP
11 3 (0.31%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (33.65%) Data Quality
2 55 (5.77%) QA
3 23 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.31%) GDPR
5 9 (0.94%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.31%) Basel III
8 3 (0.31%) EU AI Act
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%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (11.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) etcd
3 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 98 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.15%) Ansible
2 11 (1.15%) Grafana
3 9 (0.94%) Control-M
4 8 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.52%) Kibana
6 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.10%) Istio
8 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.10%) logstash
8 1 (0.10%) systemd
Vendors
1 224 (23.48%) Databricks
2 135 (14.15%) Microsoft
3 57 (5.97%) Oracle
4 55 (5.77%) Google
5 35 (3.67%) Informatica
6 19 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.78%) Palantir
8 14 (1.47%) Foundry
9 12 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.15%) Splunk
11 9 (0.94%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.94%) SAP
12 8 (0.84%) Teradata
13 7 (0.73%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.73%) Hitachi
14 6 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (0.63%) New Relic
14 6 (0.63%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.63%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.52%) Bloomberg