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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 102 119
Rank change year-on-year +54 +17 +124
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 907 380 361
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.59% 2.81% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 3.05% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 278 271
10th Percentile £398 £411 £400
25th Percentile £456 £457 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £765
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile - £45.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +8.25% -39.38%
75th Percentile £73.00 £59.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.20 £61.10 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.92% -5.20% -19.35%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +20 100 £550 - 28
West London +5 24 £520 +2.77% 13
East London +7 6 £450 - 4
South London -11 2 £575 +21.05%
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
1 109 (12.02%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (10.58%) Apache Spark
3 65 (7.17%) Apache
4 15 (1.65%) Confluence
5 14 (1.54%) SAS
6 10 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.66%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.44%) Appian
8 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.22%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.55%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
4 1 (0.11%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 396 (43.66%) Azure
2 332 (36.60%) AWS
3 158 (17.42%) Power Platform
4 145 (15.99%) GCP
5 121 (13.34%) Snowflake
6 108 (11.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 95 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (10.47%) dbt
8 94 (10.36%) Amazon S3
9 90 (9.92%) GitHub
10 85 (9.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 71 (7.83%) Serverless
12 63 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (2.98%) Dagster
15 20 (2.21%) Amazon EMR
15 20 (2.21%) Azure AI
16 19 (2.09%) Amazon SageMaker
17 18 (1.98%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.87%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.22%) Firewall
1 2 (0.22%) Network Security
2 1 (0.11%) 4G
2 1 (0.11%) 5G
2 1 (0.11%) Broadband
2 1 (0.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.11%) MIMO
2 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (18.63%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (15.21%) Power BI
3 122 (13.45%) Data Lake
4 86 (9.48%) Metadata
5 65 (7.17%) Delta Lake
6 62 (6.84%) BigQuery
7 59 (6.50%) Big Data
8 57 (6.28%) Tableau
9 52 (5.73%) SQL Server
10 45 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (4.63%) Snowflake Schema
12 39 (4.30%) Relational Database
13 36 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (3.31%) NoSQL
15 29 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
16 28 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
17 21 (2.32%) Looker
17 21 (2.32%) Star Schema
18 19 (2.09%) Spark SQL
19 17 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 95 (10.47%) Git
2 34 (3.75%) JIRA
3 33 (3.64%) GitLab
4 25 (2.76%) Jenkins
5 20 (2.21%) MLflow
6 8 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.55%) Gradle
7 5 (0.55%) Maven
7 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.44%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.11%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 284 (31.31%) Finance
2 176 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 165 (18.19%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.16%) Banking
5 70 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.09%) Retail
7 21 (2.32%) Front Office
8 18 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.76%) Marketing
11 14 (1.54%) Back Office
12 12 (1.32%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.32%) Publishing
13 11 (1.21%) Legal
14 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.66%) Billing
19 4 (0.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 396 (43.66%) Data Engineer
2 147 (16.21%) Senior
3 95 (10.47%) Developer
4 91 (10.03%) Senior Data Engineer
5 84 (9.26%) Lead
6 79 (8.71%) Architect
7 49 (5.40%) Data Scientist
8 46 (5.07%) Analyst
9 42 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
9 42 (4.63%) Python Engineer
10 39 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
11 38 (4.19%) Azure Data Engineer
12 36 (3.97%) Snowflake Engineer
13 34 (3.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 33 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 32 (3.53%) Data Architect
16 29 (3.20%) Data Analyst
17 28 (3.09%) AWS Data Engineer
17 28 (3.09%) Python Developer
18 26 (2.87%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (13.89%) PySpark
2 91 (10.03%) Kafka
3 65 (7.17%) Pandas
4 48 (5.29%) REST
5 42 (4.63%) NumPy
6 30 (3.31%) FastAPI
7 27 (2.98%) scikit-learn
8 26 (2.87%) PyTorch
9 24 (2.65%) Flask
10 23 (2.54%) TensorFlow
11 22 (2.43%) JSON
11 22 (2.43%) RESTful
12 20 (2.21%) .NET
12 20 (2.21%) Polars
13 18 (1.98%) React
14 17 (1.87%) Apache Avro
15 16 (1.76%) Spring
15 16 (1.76%) Spring Boot
16 15 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
17 11 (1.21%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 115 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 34 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.54%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
9 19 (2.09%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.87%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.76%) Equities
12 15 (1.65%) NHS
13 14 (1.54%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.10%) Reference Data
16 9 (0.99%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.31%) Linux
2 20 (2.21%) Unix
3 7 (0.77%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (43.11%) Analytics
2 382 (42.12%) Data Engineering
3 337 (37.16%) Data Modelling
4 335 (36.93%) CI/CD
5 317 (34.95%) ETL
6 255 (28.11%) AI
7 227 (25.03%) DevOps
8 206 (22.71%) Machine Learning
9 196 (21.61%) Agile
10 180 (19.85%) Data Science
11 173 (19.07%) Data Governance
12 165 (18.19%) Business Intelligence
13 162 (17.86%) Decision-Making
14 132 (14.55%) Data Architecture
15 130 (14.33%) Validation
16 117 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
17 115 (12.68%) Use Case
18 103 (11.36%) Migration
19 100 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
20 99 (10.92%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 538 (59.32%) Python
2 487 (53.69%) SQL
3 89 (9.81%) Java
4 46 (5.07%) C#
5 43 (4.74%) Scala
6 28 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 24 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.54%) R
9 21 (2.32%) Shell Script
10 18 (1.98%) Bash
10 18 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.76%) JavaScript
12 15 (1.65%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.66%) Bicep
14 6 (0.66%) Go
14 6 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.55%) C++
16 4 (0.44%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 155 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 135 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.85%) Degree
4 21 (2.32%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.55%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.33%) CISA
10 3 (0.33%) CISSP
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.33%) PhD
11 2 (0.22%) CISM
11 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (30.32%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.62%) QA
3 33 (3.64%) GDPR
4 18 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.55%) IFRS
5 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.55%) SLA
6 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.44%) NIST
6 4 (0.44%) PMO
6 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.22%) NCSC
8 2 (0.22%) WCAG
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 107 (11.80%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) etcd
3 1 (0.11%) RACF
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (11.36%) Terraform
2 90 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.21%) Grafana
4 9 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.55%) Control-M
6 4 (0.44%) Ansible
7 3 (0.33%) Kibana
7 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 186 (20.51%) Databricks
2 146 (16.10%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.85%) Informatica
4 35 (3.86%) Google
5 34 (3.75%) Oracle
6 22 (2.43%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.87%) Foundry
7 17 (1.87%) Palantir
8 15 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.99%) SAP
9 9 (0.99%) Splunk
10 8 (0.88%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.77%) Talend
12 6 (0.66%) Amplitude
12 6 (0.66%) Workday
13 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.55%) Confluent
13 5 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.44%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft