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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 88 130
Rank change year-on-year +43 +42 +79
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 962 437 337
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.80% 3.30% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 3.56% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 320 236
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £456 £471 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £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 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% - -
75th Percentile £63.44 £64.88 -
90th Percentile £69.18 £74.03 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £67.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -9.70% -0.74% -12.90%

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 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 3 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 3 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 +10 98 £555 +0.91% 48
West London +7 32 £520 +0.29% 36
East London +2 5 £450 -55.00% 4
South London -8 5 £500 +11.11% 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
1 131 (13.62%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (11.75%) Apache Spark
3 93 (9.67%) Apache
4 17 (1.77%) SAS
5 15 (1.56%) Confluence
6 10 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.83%) CMS
8 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.52%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) OpenROAD
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 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.94%) 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 S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (41.06%) Azure
2 355 (36.90%) AWS
3 159 (16.53%) GCP
4 150 (15.59%) Power Platform
5 146 (15.18%) Snowflake
6 115 (11.95%) dbt
7 112 (11.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 111 (11.54%) Amazon S3
9 93 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (9.25%) GitHub
11 84 (8.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 79 (8.21%) Serverless
13 69 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (3.74%) Azure Databricks
16 22 (2.29%) SaaS
17 20 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
18 19 (1.98%) AWS Step Functions
18 19 (1.98%) Dagster
19 18 (1.87%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) Network Security
1 3 (0.31%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) MIMO
3 1 (0.10%) SSH
3 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (19.33%) Data Warehouse
2 136 (14.14%) Power BI
3 130 (13.51%) Data Lake
4 107 (11.12%) Metadata
5 78 (8.11%) BigQuery
5 78 (8.11%) Delta Lake
6 61 (6.34%) Big Data
7 51 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (4.99%) Tableau
9 46 (4.78%) Relational Database
10 45 (4.68%) SQL Server
11 40 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (3.53%) Snowflake Schema
13 33 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
14 32 (3.33%) NoSQL
15 28 (2.91%) Looker
16 27 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (2.60%) Flink
18 24 (2.49%) Star Schema
19 21 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 93 (9.67%) Git
2 42 (4.37%) GitLab
3 31 (3.22%) JIRA
4 30 (3.12%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.25%) MLflow
6 8 (0.83%) ERwin
7 7 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.62%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.62%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.62%) Terragrunt
9 5 (0.52%) Gradle
9 5 (0.52%) Maven
9 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.42%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.42%) JUnit
10 4 (0.42%) Selenium
11 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.31%) RStudio
General
1 300 (31.19%) Finance
2 202 (21.00%) Social Skills
3 176 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (9.46%) Banking
5 71 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 27 (2.81%) Front Office
6 27 (2.81%) Retail
7 23 (2.39%) Marketing
8 18 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.77%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.66%) Back Office
11 13 (1.35%) Publishing
12 12 (1.25%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.94%) Billing
13 9 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.83%) Law
14 8 (0.83%) Legal
15 7 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 406 (42.20%) Data Engineer
2 161 (16.74%) Senior
3 92 (9.56%) Developer
3 92 (9.56%) Lead
3 92 (9.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 82 (8.52%) Architect
5 59 (6.13%) Analyst
6 51 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
6 51 (5.30%) Databricks Engineer
7 46 (4.78%) Python Engineer
8 44 (4.57%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 40 (4.16%) AWS Engineer
9 40 (4.16%) Azure Data Engineer
10 36 (3.74%) Data Scientist
11 35 (3.64%) Data Analyst
11 35 (3.64%) Snowflake Engineer
12 33 (3.43%) Data Architect
13 32 (3.33%) Python Developer
14 31 (3.22%) Python Data Engineer
15 30 (3.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (16.11%) PySpark
2 108 (11.23%) Terraform
3 107 (11.12%) Kafka
4 66 (6.86%) REST
5 52 (5.41%) Pandas
6 32 (3.33%) NumPy
7 28 (2.91%) .NET
8 27 (2.81%) FastAPI
8 27 (2.81%) React
9 23 (2.39%) JSON
10 22 (2.29%) RESTful
11 21 (2.18%) Flask
12 20 (2.08%) Polars
13 18 (1.87%) Apache Avro
13 18 (1.87%) PyTorch
14 14 (1.46%) scikit-learn
14 14 (1.46%) Spring
14 14 (1.46%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.46%) TensorFlow
15 12 (1.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 128 (13.31%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.44%) Product Ownership
3 58 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 46 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (3.64%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.18%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.77%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
9 17 (1.77%) Hedge funds
10 16 (1.66%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.56%) Equities
11 15 (1.56%) NHS
11 15 (1.56%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.35%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.14%) Derivative
13 11 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.16%) Linux
2 29 (3.01%) Unix
3 14 (1.46%) 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
1 430 (44.70%) Data Engineering
2 403 (41.89%) Analytics
3 360 (37.42%) CI/CD
4 354 (36.80%) Data Modelling
5 335 (34.82%) ETL
6 279 (29.00%) AI
7 233 (24.22%) DevOps
8 224 (23.28%) Agile
9 214 (22.25%) Machine Learning
10 191 (19.85%) Data Governance
11 167 (17.36%) Business Intelligence
11 167 (17.36%) Data Science
12 157 (16.32%) Validation
13 148 (15.38%) Decision-Making
14 146 (15.18%) Data Architecture
15 144 (14.97%) Data Transformation
16 124 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
17 122 (12.68%) Migration
18 113 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
19 105 (10.91%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 550 (57.17%) Python
2 513 (53.33%) SQL
3 90 (9.36%) Java
4 49 (5.09%) C#
5 37 (3.85%) Scala
6 32 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.12%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.60%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.60%) R
9 23 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (2.18%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.98%) Bash
12 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.94%) Go
13 9 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.73%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.62%) C++
15 6 (0.62%) LookML
16 4 (0.42%) Bicep
16 4 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 167 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 147 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 38 (3.95%) Degree
4 18 (1.87%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.52%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.42%) CISSP
12 3 (0.31%) CISA
12 3 (0.31%) CISM
12 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.31%) PhD
12 3 (0.31%) PMP
13 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (32.54%) Data Quality
2 59 (6.13%) QA
3 27 (2.81%) GDPR
4 22 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.94%) SLA
6 5 (0.52%) IFRS
7 4 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 110 (11.43%) 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 97 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.25%) Grafana
3 9 (0.94%) Ansible
3 9 (0.94%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.83%) Control-M
5 5 (0.52%) Kibana
6 4 (0.42%) 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
Vendors
1 223 (23.18%) Databricks
2 141 (14.66%) Microsoft
3 54 (5.61%) Oracle
4 50 (5.20%) Google
5 42 (4.37%) Informatica
6 18 (1.87%) Palantir
7 17 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.46%) Foundry
9 12 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.25%) Splunk
10 11 (1.14%) Cloudera
11 9 (0.94%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.83%) Confluent
12 8 (0.83%) SAP
12 8 (0.83%) Teradata
13 7 (0.73%) Hitachi
14 6 (0.62%) New Relic
14 6 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.62%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.52%) Alteryx