Data Pipeline Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Pipelines
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 243 217
Rank change year-on-year +61 -26 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 172 251 557
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 1.00% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.11% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 175 382
10th Percentile £396 £413 £457
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £713
90th Percentile £770 £730 £811
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £48.70 £78.75 £30.95
25th Percentile £51.63 £80.63 £38.91
Median hourly rate £58.00 £85.00 £52.51
Median % change year-on-year -31.76% +61.87% +18.00%
75th Percentile £64.13 £88.13 £65.79
90th Percentile £66.90 £89.25 £73.57
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.25 £32.00
% change year-on-year -11.03% +119.53% -21.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Data Pipeline
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Pipeline trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline.

Data Pipeline daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Data Pipeline daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline.

Data Pipeline hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Data Pipeline hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (14.53%) Apache Spark
2 16 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (5.23%) Apache
4 4 (2.33%) Luigi
5 3 (1.74%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (52.33%) Azure
2 64 (37.21%) AWS
3 27 (15.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (12.79%) Serverless
5 21 (12.21%) GCP
6 19 (11.05%) dbt
6 19 (11.05%) Snowflake
7 17 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (8.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (8.14%) Power Platform
10 12 (6.98%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.81%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (4.65%) GitHub
13 7 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (3.49%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (3.49%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (2.91%) Fivetran
15 5 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) HTTP
1 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (33.14%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (22.09%) Data Lake
3 30 (17.44%) Big Data
4 19 (11.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (8.14%) Power BI
6 12 (6.98%) BigQuery
6 12 (6.98%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (4.07%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.49%) Tableau
11 5 (2.91%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.33%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.74%) Flink
13 3 (1.74%) Metadata
14 2 (1.16%) Data Hub
14 2 (1.16%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (11.05%) Git
2 12 (6.98%) JIRA
3 6 (3.49%) MLflow
4 5 (2.91%) JMeter
4 5 (2.91%) TestRail
5 4 (2.33%) GitLab
5 4 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.74%) Postman
7 2 (1.16%) Bugzilla
7 2 (1.16%) JUnit
7 2 (1.16%) Selenium
7 2 (1.16%) TestNG
8 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.58%) Deequ
General
1 49 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.12%) Finance
3 15 (8.72%) Banking
4 14 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.07%) Front Office
6 7 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.74%) Marketing
9 2 (1.16%) Czech Language
9 2 (1.16%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) Law
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
10 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (60.47%) Data Engineer
2 28 (16.28%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (14.53%) Azure Data Engineer
4 23 (13.37%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (12.21%) Lead
6 17 (9.88%) Architect
7 16 (9.30%) Senior
8 15 (8.72%) AWS Data Engineer
8 15 (8.72%) Lead Data Engineer
9 10 (5.81%) Analyst
9 10 (5.81%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.81%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Developer
11 8 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) Data Scientist
13 6 (3.49%) Python Data Engineer
13 6 (3.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.35%) PySpark
2 12 (6.98%) Kafka
3 8 (4.65%) Pandas
4 4 (2.33%) REST
5 3 (1.74%) .NET
5 3 (1.74%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (1.74%) Web Services
6 2 (1.16%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.16%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.16%) JSON
6 2 (1.16%) JSON Schema
6 2 (1.16%) NumPy
6 2 (1.16%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.16%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.58%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.58%) Flask
7 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.58%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.58%) pytest
7 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.81%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.23%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.07%) Derivative
4 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.74%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.74%) NHS
5 3 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.74%) Social Media
6 2 (1.16%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.58%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.65%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (43.02%) Analytics
1 74 (43.02%) ETL
2 61 (35.47%) Data Engineering
3 57 (33.14%) Data Modelling
4 44 (25.58%) Agile
5 40 (23.26%) DevOps
6 37 (21.51%) CI/CD
7 32 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (18.02%) Data Science
9 30 (17.44%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (14.53%) Data Integration
11 20 (11.63%) Computer Science
12 19 (11.05%) Machine Learning
13 17 (9.88%) Data Ingestion
13 17 (9.88%) Test Automation
14 15 (8.72%) Visualisation
15 13 (7.56%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (7.56%) Data Architecture
15 13 (7.56%) Data Transformation
15 13 (7.56%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 110 (63.95%) Python
2 82 (47.67%) SQL
3 29 (16.86%) Scala
4 26 (15.12%) Java
5 8 (4.65%) C#
6 5 (2.91%) Bicep
6 5 (2.91%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.33%) C++
8 3 (1.74%) Bash
9 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.16%) R
9 2 (1.16%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.58%) Go
10 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.58%) Perl
10 1 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.72%) Degree
4 14 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.49%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.53%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.91%) QA
3 4 (2.33%) NCSC
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (12.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (11.63%) Terraform
2 13 (7.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 53 (30.81%) Databricks
2 20 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.49%) Ab Initio
3 6 (3.49%) Google
4 5 (2.91%) Informatica
5 4 (2.33%) Facebook
5 4 (2.33%) Oracle
5 4 (2.33%) Twitter
6 3 (1.74%) Instagram
6 3 (1.74%) YouTube
7 2 (1.16%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.16%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.16%) Foundry
7 2 (1.16%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.16%) Palantir
7 2 (1.16%) QAD
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.58%) Workday