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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 107 188
Rank change year-on-year +31 +81 +66
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 505 356 266
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.61% 2.30% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 2.57% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 248 191
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £466 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +7.68% -11.00%
75th Percentile £688 £661 £638
90th Percentile £800 £759 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -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 12,903 13,835 18,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.34% 89.23% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,481 8,908 12,964
10th Percentile £333 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 165 248
10th Percentile £18.03 £17.35 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +3.21% -3.11%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.45 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +13 64 £565 +13.00% 279
East London +12 8 £1,000 - 6
South London -2 8 £487 -15.26%
West London -8 8 £525 - 9
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 84 (16.63%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (15.64%) Apache Spark
3 41 (8.12%) Apache
4 9 (1.78%) Confluence
5 4 (0.79%) SAS
6 3 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.59%) Luigi
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 19 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.59%) 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
1 219 (43.37%) Azure
2 202 (40.00%) AWS
3 91 (18.02%) GCP
4 82 (16.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 79 (15.64%) Power Platform
6 67 (13.27%) GitHub
7 66 (13.07%) Snowflake
8 57 (11.29%) dbt
9 55 (10.89%) Amazon S3
10 53 (10.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 50 (9.90%) Serverless
12 44 (8.71%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
14 37 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (2.77%) AWS Step Functions
18 13 (2.57%) Amazon EMR
19 12 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
20 11 (2.18%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.79%) 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%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (20.79%) Data Warehouse
2 84 (16.63%) Data Lake
3 74 (14.65%) Power BI
4 38 (7.52%) Big Data
5 37 (7.33%) Metadata
6 36 (7.13%) BigQuery
7 30 (5.94%) NoSQL
8 29 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 29 (5.74%) Delta Lake
8 29 (5.74%) Tableau
9 23 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (4.16%) SQL Server
11 20 (3.96%) Hadoop
12 19 (3.76%) Star Schema
13 13 (2.57%) Amazon QuickSight
13 13 (2.57%) Relational Database
14 12 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 12 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (12.67%) Git
2 28 (5.54%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.17%) JIRA
4 12 (2.38%) GitLab
5 11 (2.18%) MLflow
6 6 (1.19%) ERwin
7 3 (0.59%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Postman
8 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) TestRail
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) GoCD
9 1 (0.20%) JUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 147 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 146 (28.91%) Finance
3 76 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.70%) Banking
5 39 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.34%) Front Office
7 31 (6.14%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.97%) Retail
10 14 (2.77%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.58%) Legal
13 7 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (1.39%) Marketing
13 7 (1.39%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.99%) Electronics
15 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 211 (41.78%) Data Engineer
2 75 (14.85%) Senior
3 70 (13.86%) Developer
4 47 (9.31%) Senior Data Engineer
5 45 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
6 43 (8.51%) Architect
7 38 (7.52%) Azure Data Engineer
7 38 (7.52%) Lead
8 36 (7.13%) Python Engineer
9 29 (5.74%) Analyst
10 22 (4.36%) Data Architect
11 21 (4.16%) Python Data Engineer
12 18 (3.56%) Lead Data Engineer
12 18 (3.56%) Snowflake Engineer
13 17 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (3.37%) Data Analyst
13 17 (3.37%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.17%) Consultant
14 16 (3.17%) Software Engineer
15 14 (2.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (13.27%) PySpark
2 59 (11.68%) Kafka
3 20 (3.96%) TensorFlow
4 19 (3.76%) PyTorch
5 18 (3.56%) React
5 18 (3.56%) REST
6 16 (3.17%) Pandas
7 13 (2.57%) .NET
7 13 (2.57%) FastAPI
7 13 (2.57%) JSON
8 11 (2.18%) Node.js
8 11 (2.18%) RESTful
8 11 (2.18%) scikit-learn
9 10 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (1.98%) pytest
9 10 (1.98%) XML
10 9 (1.78%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.78%) Jinja
10 9 (1.78%) LangChain
11 8 (1.58%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.67%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 22 (4.36%) Derivative
5 21 (4.16%) Distributed Computing
5 21 (4.16%) Equities
6 19 (3.76%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.56%) Fixed Income
8 16 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (2.77%) Virtual Team
10 12 (2.38%) Equity Derivative
10 12 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.98%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.98%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.78%) Life Science
12 9 (1.78%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.58%) Genomics
13 8 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.58%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.39%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.35%) Linux
2 7 (1.39%) Windows
3 3 (0.59%) 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
1 194 (38.42%) ETL
2 189 (37.43%) CI/CD
3 188 (37.23%) Data Engineering
4 175 (34.65%) Analytics
5 164 (32.48%) Data Modelling
6 128 (25.35%) Data Science
6 128 (25.35%) Machine Learning
7 126 (24.95%) Agile
8 122 (24.16%) AI
8 122 (24.16%) DevOps
9 113 (22.38%) Data Governance
10 101 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (18.02%) Business Intelligence
12 75 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (13.07%) Data Integration
14 60 (11.88%) Software Engineering
15 58 (11.49%) Data Architecture
16 54 (10.69%) Decision-Making
17 52 (10.30%) Data Transformation
18 50 (9.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 351 (69.50%) Python
2 279 (55.25%) SQL
3 55 (10.89%) Java
4 37 (7.33%) Scala
5 30 (5.94%) C++
6 29 (5.74%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.97%) C#
7 15 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.38%) Bash
8 12 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.78%) Bicep
9 9 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.58%) R
10 8 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.39%) Korn
12 4 (0.79%) C
12 4 (0.79%) Perl
13 3 (0.59%) Go
13 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.31%) Degree
4 17 (3.37%) Master's Degree
5 15 (2.97%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.39%) PhD
9 6 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.40%) MCP
12 1 (0.20%) CBAP
12 1 (0.20%) GIAC
12 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (21.98%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.54%) GDPR
3 23 (4.55%) QA
4 16 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.99%) PERC
6 3 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.59%) WCAG
7 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.40%) EMIR
7 2 (0.40%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.40%) NIST
7 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.40%) SLA
7 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) HL7
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 64 (12.67%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) zsh
3 4 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (13.66%) Terraform
2 48 (9.50%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.18%) Kibana
4 10 (1.98%) logstash
5 9 (1.78%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.99%) Ansible
7 3 (0.59%) 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
1 146 (28.91%) Databricks
2 71 (14.06%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.34%) Google
4 18 (3.56%) Foundry
5 15 (2.97%) Palantir
6 11 (2.18%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.18%) Oracle
7 9 (1.78%) Solace
8 8 (1.58%) SAP
9 6 (1.19%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.19%) Informatica
10 5 (0.99%) Sophis
10 5 (0.99%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.79%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.79%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.59%) Splunk
12 3 (0.59%) Teradata
13 2 (0.40%) GoldenSource
13 2 (0.40%) Reuters
13 2 (0.40%) Salesforce