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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 76 119
Rank change year-on-year +27 +43 +89
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 932 455 357
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.61% 3.43% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 3.70% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 328 253
10th Percentile £390 £413 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £657 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - £39.69 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.84 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £73.69 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.24 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -44.42% - -

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 17,952 12,291 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.58% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 8,116 9,426
10th Percentile £358 £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 £669 £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 321 240 179
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.01 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 29 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 29 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 +13 103 £565 +2.26% 112
West London +4 31 £520 +0.29% 49
East London +3 6 £460 -54.00% 6
South London -5 4 £556 +27.14% 6
North London - 1 £178 -
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
1 133 (14.27%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (11.37%) Apache Spark
3 84 (9.01%) Apache
4 15 (1.61%) Confluence
4 15 (1.61%) SAS
5 8 (0.86%) CMS
5 8 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.54%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) CICS
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.43%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.21%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 375 (40.24%) Azure
2 333 (35.73%) AWS
3 157 (16.85%) GCP
4 148 (15.88%) Snowflake
5 133 (14.27%) Power Platform
6 125 (13.41%) dbt
7 109 (11.70%) Amazon S3
8 107 (11.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 81 (8.69%) Serverless
10 76 (8.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 75 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
12 74 (7.94%) GitHub
13 68 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (4.18%) Azure Databricks
16 24 (2.58%) SaaS
17 23 (2.47%) Amazon Bedrock
18 22 (2.36%) Amazon EMR
19 20 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
20 19 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.32%) Internet
1 3 (0.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) MIMO
3 1 (0.11%) SSH
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (18.99%) Data Warehouse
2 118 (12.66%) Power BI
3 113 (12.12%) Data Lake
4 98 (10.52%) Metadata
5 86 (9.23%) BigQuery
6 79 (8.48%) Delta Lake
7 57 (6.12%) Big Data
8 52 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.94%) Tableau
10 42 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (4.40%) Relational Database
12 37 (3.97%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (3.33%) NoSQL
15 29 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
16 27 (2.90%) Looker
17 20 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (2.04%) Flink
18 19 (2.04%) Parquet
19 18 (1.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 109 (11.70%) Git
2 45 (4.83%) GitLab
3 26 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.58%) JIRA
5 11 (1.18%) MLflow
6 9 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.75%) ERwin
7 7 (0.75%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.64%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.54%) JUnit
9 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.43%) Gradle
10 4 (0.43%) Maven
10 4 (0.43%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
12 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 298 (31.97%) Finance
2 201 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 173 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (10.94%) Banking
5 67 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.00%) Front Office
7 27 (2.90%) Retail
8 22 (2.36%) Marketing
9 18 (1.93%) Back Office
10 17 (1.82%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.18%) Legal
13 10 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.07%) Publishing
14 8 (0.86%) Billing
14 8 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.86%) Law
14 8 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.64%) Military
15 6 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 390 (41.85%) Data Engineer
2 162 (17.38%) Senior
3 96 (10.30%) Senior Data Engineer
4 88 (9.44%) Lead
5 82 (8.80%) Developer
6 81 (8.69%) Architect
7 56 (6.01%) Analyst
8 53 (5.69%) Databricks Engineer
9 51 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (4.83%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 42 (4.51%) Python Engineer
12 40 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (4.08%) Azure Data Engineer
14 37 (3.97%) Snowflake Engineer
15 34 (3.65%) Data Architect
15 34 (3.65%) Data Scientist
16 32 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 32 (3.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 30 (3.22%) Data Analyst
18 29 (3.11%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (15.45%) PySpark
2 113 (12.12%) Terraform
3 95 (10.19%) Kafka
4 66 (7.08%) REST
5 44 (4.72%) Pandas
6 29 (3.11%) NumPy
7 28 (3.00%) .NET
8 26 (2.79%) FastAPI
9 25 (2.68%) React
10 22 (2.36%) RESTful
11 21 (2.25%) PyTorch
12 19 (2.04%) Flask
13 17 (1.82%) TensorFlow
14 15 (1.61%) JSON
14 15 (1.61%) Polars
15 11 (1.18%) Apache Avro
15 11 (1.18%) Middleware
15 11 (1.18%) scikit-learn
15 11 (1.18%) Spring
15 11 (1.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 135 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.44%) Onboarding
3 56 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.97%) Data Structures
6 30 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.25%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.93%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.82%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
11 15 (1.61%) NHS
12 13 (1.39%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.29%) Derivative
13 12 (1.29%) Hedge funds
13 12 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.18%) Equities
14 11 (1.18%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.29%) Linux
2 29 (3.11%) Unix
3 14 (1.50%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (45.82%) Data Engineering
2 387 (41.52%) Analytics
3 361 (38.73%) CI/CD
4 345 (37.02%) Data Modelling
5 322 (34.55%) ETL
6 285 (30.58%) AI
7 216 (23.18%) Machine Learning
8 211 (22.64%) Agile
9 199 (21.35%) DevOps
10 186 (19.96%) Data Governance
11 158 (16.95%) Validation
12 157 (16.85%) Data Science
13 154 (16.52%) Business Intelligence
14 147 (15.77%) Data Transformation
15 141 (15.13%) Decision-Making
16 137 (14.70%) Data Architecture
17 125 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
18 123 (13.20%) Migration
19 122 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
20 106 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 537 (57.62%) Python
2 497 (53.33%) SQL
3 77 (8.26%) Java
4 45 (4.83%) C#
5 36 (3.86%) Scala
6 30 (3.22%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.11%) Shell Script
8 27 (2.90%) JavaScript
9 23 (2.47%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (2.25%) Bash
12 20 (2.15%) R
13 10 (1.07%) Go
14 9 (0.97%) LookML
15 8 (0.86%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.75%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.64%) C++
17 6 (0.64%) Korn
18 5 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 129 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.29%) Degree
4 20 (2.15%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.43%) CISSP
9 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.32%) CISA
10 3 (0.32%) CISM
10 3 (0.32%) PhD
10 3 (0.32%) PMP
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (34.66%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.36%) QA
3 23 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.15%) GDPR
5 9 (0.97%) SLA
6 5 (0.54%) Basel III
6 5 (0.54%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) COPPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (10.73%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 94 (10.09%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.39%) Ansible
3 9 (0.97%) Control-M
3 9 (0.97%) Grafana
4 5 (0.54%) Kibana
4 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.32%) Puppet
5 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) systemd
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.11%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 231 (24.79%) Databricks
2 125 (13.41%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.33%) Google
4 56 (6.01%) Oracle
5 31 (3.33%) Informatica
6 16 (1.72%) Palantir
6 16 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.50%) Foundry
9 9 (0.97%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.97%) SAP
9 9 (0.97%) Splunk
10 8 (0.86%) Cloudera
10 8 (0.86%) Teradata
11 7 (0.75%) Hitachi
11 7 (0.75%) Workday
12 6 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.64%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.64%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.54%) Dynatrace