Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Data Pipelines
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 29 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 3.85% 0.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £383 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £409 £525 -
90th Percentile £415 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £400 £513 -
% change year-on-year -21.95% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 163 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.21% 89.56% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 114
10th Percentile £357 £287 £213
25th Percentile £438 £340 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £647 £555 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £584
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £520 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +15.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 21
10th Percentile £17.95 £19.80 £16.77
25th Percentile £44.91 £24.40 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.50 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Cambridge

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Copilot
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Pentaho
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
1 2 (28.57%) PyTorch
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Semantic Kernel
1 2 (28.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) CRISPR
2 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
1 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) API Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Deep Learning
3 2 (28.57%) LLM
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) R
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) EU AI Act
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) IFRS
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Foundry
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Vertica