Data Pipeline Contracts in Scotland

Data Pipelines
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Pipeline skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 153 129
Rank change year-on-year +35 -24 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 12 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.54% 0.53% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.57% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 21
10th Percentile £433 £336 £325
25th Percentile £440 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £457 £488 £598
90th Percentile £460 £568 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Pipeline is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,642 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.76% 92.64% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,900 2,313
10th Percentile £225 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 56 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £12.04 £18.35
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.47 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% -56.33% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Glasgow +7 10 £453 +6.59% 5
Edinburgh +32 2 £638 +59.38% 4
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (83.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
1 11 (91.67%) Snowflake
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Flink
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Java Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Python Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 10 (83.33%) Data Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) DataOps
2 10 (83.33%) GitOps
2 10 (83.33%) MLOps
3 9 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
5 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) ETL
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) Secure Coding
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (83.33%) Java
2 10 (83.33%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google