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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 116 196
Rank change year-on-year +39 +80 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 498 350 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.62% 2.26% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 2.53% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 244 180
10th Percentile £400 £402 £400
25th Percentile £464 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £532
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +8.08% -11.33%
75th Percentile £688 £657 £638
90th Percentile £805 £751 £721
England median daily rate £525 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.01% +2.05% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £44.13 - £35.00
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.25 £35.16
Median hourly rate £66.25 £57.50 £38.91
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% +47.78% -25.89%
75th Percentile £77.06 £58.75 £59.88
90th Percentile £78.75 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £42.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +59.52% -35.38% +20.93%

All Process and 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 12,709 13,828 18,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.13% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,364 8,905 13,142
10th Percentile £331 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.50% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 162 248
10th Percentile £17.74 £17.28 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.94 £24.63 £21.44
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £46.81 £55.94 £60.44
90th Percentile £64.88 £80.68 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +27.14%

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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 2025. 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 +14 59 £575 +15.00% 501
West London -3 8 £525 - 10
East London +8 7 £1,000 - 6
South London -2 6 £463 -19.57% 3
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 82 (16.47%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (15.66%) Apache Spark
3 40 (8.03%) Apache
4 9 (1.81%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.60%) Luigi
6 3 (0.60%) SAS
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.40%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Aligne
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Endur
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 213 (42.77%) Azure
2 195 (39.16%) AWS
3 90 (18.07%) GCP
4 77 (15.46%) Azure Data Factory
4 77 (15.46%) Power Platform
5 64 (12.85%) GitHub
6 60 (12.05%) Snowflake
7 55 (11.04%) dbt
8 53 (10.64%) Amazon S3
9 47 (9.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 46 (9.24%) Serverless
11 42 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
17 10 (2.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.40%) DNS
2 2 (0.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.20%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (20.48%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 72 (14.46%) Power BI
4 41 (8.23%) BigQuery
5 37 (7.43%) Big Data
6 34 (6.83%) Metadata
7 30 (6.02%) NoSQL
8 28 (5.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 27 (5.42%) Delta Lake
9 27 (5.42%) Tableau
10 23 (4.62%) SQL Server
11 22 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (4.02%) Star Schema
13 19 (3.82%) Hadoop
14 13 (2.61%) Amazon QuickSight
14 13 (2.61%) Relational Database
14 13 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
14 13 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 64 (12.85%) Git
2 26 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.21%) JIRA
4 14 (2.81%) GitLab
5 12 (2.41%) MLflow
6 6 (1.20%) ERwin
7 3 (0.60%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.60%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.40%) Postman
8 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.40%) TestRail
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Gradle
9 1 (0.20%) JUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 147 (29.52%) Finance
2 143 (28.71%) Social Skills
3 74 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.44%) Banking
5 40 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.43%) Front Office
7 31 (6.22%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (3.01%) Retail
9 14 (2.81%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.81%) Marketing
13 7 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (1.41%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Legal
14 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (41.97%) Data Engineer
2 75 (15.06%) Senior
3 71 (14.26%) Developer
4 48 (9.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 44 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
6 42 (8.43%) Architect
7 37 (7.43%) Azure Data Engineer
7 37 (7.43%) Lead
7 37 (7.43%) Python Engineer
8 27 (5.42%) Analyst
9 23 (4.62%) Data Architect
10 22 (4.42%) Python Data Engineer
11 18 (3.61%) Python Developer
12 17 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (3.41%) Software Engineer
13 16 (3.21%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.21%) Lead Data Engineer
14 15 (3.01%) Consultant
15 14 (2.81%) Senior Developer
15 14 (2.81%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (13.05%) PySpark
2 58 (11.65%) Kafka
3 18 (3.61%) Pandas
3 18 (3.61%) REST
4 17 (3.41%) React
4 17 (3.41%) TensorFlow
5 16 (3.21%) PyTorch
6 13 (2.61%) FastAPI
7 12 (2.41%) .NET
7 12 (2.41%) JSON
8 11 (2.21%) RESTful
9 10 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (2.01%) LangChain
9 10 (2.01%) Node.js
9 10 (2.01%) NumPy
9 10 (2.01%) pytest
9 10 (2.01%) scikit-learn
10 9 (1.81%) Jinja
11 8 (1.61%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.61%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.62%) Algorithms
3 23 (4.62%) Derivative
4 22 (4.42%) Distributed Computing
4 22 (4.42%) Equities
5 21 (4.22%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.61%) Fixed Income
7 16 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (2.81%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.61%) Equity Derivative
10 12 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.01%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.81%) Life Science
12 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.61%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.61%) Genomics
13 8 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.61%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.62%) Linux
2 7 (1.41%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Debian
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (37.95%) ETL
2 185 (37.15%) Data Engineering
3 184 (36.95%) CI/CD
4 168 (33.73%) Analytics
5 162 (32.53%) Data Modelling
6 124 (24.90%) Machine Learning
7 123 (24.70%) Data Science
8 120 (24.10%) Agile
9 119 (23.90%) AI
10 117 (23.49%) DevOps
11 104 (20.88%) Data Governance
12 100 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (17.87%) Business Intelligence
14 77 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
15 68 (13.65%) Data Integration
16 60 (12.05%) Data Architecture
17 59 (11.85%) Software Engineering
18 55 (11.04%) Decision-Making
19 52 (10.44%) Data Transformation
20 47 (9.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 347 (69.68%) Python
2 276 (55.42%) SQL
3 55 (11.04%) Java
4 36 (7.23%) Scala
5 31 (6.22%) C++
6 26 (5.22%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.01%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.61%) C#
9 12 (2.41%) Bash
9 12 (2.41%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.20%) Bicep
13 5 (1.00%) Korn
13 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.80%) C
14 4 (0.80%) Perl
14 4 (0.80%) R
15 3 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 70 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 51 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.44%) Degree
4 16 (3.21%) Master's Degree
5 14 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.21%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (1.41%) PhD
9 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.40%) CISSP
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.40%) MCP
11 1 (0.20%) CBAP
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) GIAC
11 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.02%) GDPR
2 25 (5.02%) QA
3 16 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.60%) PERC
4 3 (0.60%) WCAG
5 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
5 2 (0.40%) EMIR
5 2 (0.40%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.40%) NIST
5 2 (0.40%) SLA
5 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) GxP
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (12.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.00%) zsh
3 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (14.06%) Terraform
2 48 (9.64%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.21%) Kibana
4 10 (2.01%) logstash
5 9 (1.81%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (1.00%) Ansible
7 3 (0.60%) Grafana
8 2 (0.40%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.20%) Graphite
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (28.31%) Databricks
2 69 (13.86%) Microsoft
3 35 (7.03%) Google
4 18 (3.61%) Foundry
5 15 (3.01%) Palantir
6 11 (2.21%) Oracle
7 9 (1.81%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.81%) SAP
7 9 (1.81%) Solace
8 5 (1.00%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.00%) Informatica
8 5 (1.00%) Sophis
8 5 (1.00%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.80%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.60%) Splunk
10 3 (0.60%) Teradata
11 2 (0.40%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.40%) Talend