Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Data Pipelines
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 3.24% - 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.15%
75th Percentile £361 - -
90th Percentile £381 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% -15.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 94 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 70.37% 95.92% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 64 98
10th Percentile £350 £201 £175
25th Percentile £383 £341 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £475 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -6.17% -1.22%
75th Percentile £588 £552 £633
90th Percentile £703 £593 £734
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 33
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.70 £11.87
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £63.14 £15.50 £14.81
Median % change year-on-year +307.32% +4.66% -73.69%
75th Percentile £72.54 £23.34 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.68 £67.50 £61.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £32.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +79.69% -41.82% -4.35%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Dorset

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
Bournemouth - 6 £350 - 3
Dorchester - 1 - -
Data Pipeline
South West

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (85.71%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (85.71%) Datadog
1 6 (85.71%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Flink
1 6 (85.71%) Relational Database
2 5 (71.43%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Java Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Backend Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) RESTful
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) Java Concurrency
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Analytics
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Code Quality
1 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
1 6 (85.71%) Data Engineering
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
1 6 (85.71%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) Concurrent Programming
2 5 (71.43%) Multithreading
3 1 (14.29%) API Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (85.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP