Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Data Pipelines
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.39% 2.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 2.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £206 -
Median % change year-on-year +142.35% - -
South Wales median daily rate £500 £206 £525
% change year-on-year +142.35% -60.70% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 204 160 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 80.00% 88.40% 78.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 132 154
10th Percentile £233 £200 £165
25th Percentile £293 £262 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £431 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £504 £550 £548
90th Percentile £650 £650 £614
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £444
% change year-on-year -2.94% -4.23% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £24.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +34.72% +23.71%
75th Percentile £19.08 £34.06 £35.88
90th Percentile £20.60 £45.88 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.27
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.96% +29.66%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks