Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Pipelines
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 65 62
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 16 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.22% 0.58% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 0.67% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile £361 £319 -
25th Percentile £441 £347 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £313
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +48.00% -43.18%
75th Percentile £515 £584 £319
90th Percentile £600 £646 -
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -3.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 644 601 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.44% 87.10% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 404 406
10th Percentile £221 £197 £286
25th Percentile £370 £381 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.75 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +233.33%
75th Percentile £20.38 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Pipeline relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Birmingham

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 6 (37.50%) Apache
1 6 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SSH
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Hadoop
2 4 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (25.00%) HBase
3 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (12.50%) Big Data
4 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (12.50%) Power BI
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (6.25%) DataStage
5 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.25%) OLTP
5 1 (6.25%) Parquet
5 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) MLflow
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Local Government
4 1 (6.25%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Hadoop Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (12.50%) Flask
2 2 (12.50%) PySpark
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Avro
3 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) NumPy
3 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (6.25%) Pandas
3 1 (6.25%) pytest
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Analytics
2 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
3 8 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 6 (37.50%) ETL
6 5 (31.25%) Data Analytics
6 5 (31.25%) Use Case
7 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (25.00%) Data Security
8 3 (18.75%) Agile
8 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
8 3 (18.75%) DevOps
8 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
8 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 2 (12.50%) Data Collection
9 2 (12.50%) Data Science
9 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Scala
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) HDFS
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Puppet
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Argo
4 1 (6.25%) Istio
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.25%) Google