Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Pipelines
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 74 80 98
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 34 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.15% 0.52% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 0.62% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 4
10th Percentile £355 £317 £448
25th Percentile £400 £318 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £319 £495
Median % change year-on-year +56.74% -35.56% -
75th Percentile £569 £421 £516
90th Percentile £616 £490 £528
England median daily rate £525 £525 £528
% change year-on-year - -0.47% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £49.41 - -
25th Percentile - - £64.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £66.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.25 £53.60
% change year-on-year +9.39% +14.28% -16.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,342 968 1,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.67% 83.66% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 410 812
10th Percentile £187 £239 £238
25th Percentile £363 £334 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £580 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 195 360
10th Percentile £14.23 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.42 £15.62 £14.61
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.29% -9.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the East of England

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the East of England

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +10 18 £400 -16.14% 4
Hertfordshire - 13 £588 - 8
Essex -5 2 - - 5
Bedfordshire - 1 £550 - 3
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.94%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) AWS
3 8 (23.53%) Azure AKS
3 8 (23.53%) GitHub
3 8 (23.53%) GitHub Copilot
3 8 (23.53%) Serverless
4 7 (20.59%) PaaS
4 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
5 5 (14.71%) Azure Functions
6 4 (11.76%) GCP
7 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (5.88%) dbt
9 1 (2.94%) Alation
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Power BI
2 6 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.76%) Tableau
4 3 (8.82%) Metadata
4 3 (8.82%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.88%) SAP BW
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.94%) Big Data
6 1 (2.94%) DataStage
6 1 (2.94%) DB2
6 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
General
1 6 (17.65%) Aerospace
1 6 (17.65%) Manufacturing
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Legal
4 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) C++ Software Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.88%) Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Snowflake Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Analytics Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Science Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Engagement Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Insight Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) PyTorch
1 12 (35.29%) TensorFlow
2 8 (23.53%) .NET
2 8 (23.53%) RESTful
2 8 (23.53%) Semantic Kernel
3 5 (14.71%) scikit-learn
4 3 (8.82%) pytest
5 2 (5.88%) Pandas
5 2 (5.88%) PySpark
6 1 (2.94%) Great Expectations
6 1 (2.94%) JSON
6 1 (2.94%) JSON-LD
6 1 (2.94%) Node.js
6 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Algorithms
1 9 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.65%) FPGA
2 6 (17.65%) PCIe
2 6 (17.65%) State Machine
3 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Linked Data
4 1 (2.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
1 6 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Test Automation
2 16 (47.06%) AI
2 16 (47.06%) Machine Learning
3 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (41.18%) Validation
4 13 (38.24%) Software Engineering
5 10 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 10 (29.41%) Data Privacy
5 10 (29.41%) LLM
5 10 (29.41%) Prompt Engineering
6 9 (26.47%) Agile
6 9 (26.47%) Data Modelling
6 9 (26.47%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 8 (23.53%) Analytics
7 8 (23.53%) API Management
7 8 (23.53%) Deep Learning
8 7 (20.59%) API Design
8 7 (20.59%) Data Science
9 6 (17.65%) Data Acquisition
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) C#
3 6 (17.65%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) MCP
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) EU AI Act
1 8 (23.53%) NIST
2 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.76%) QA
3 2 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.94%) GDPR
4 1 (2.94%) IFRS
4 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) Foundry
3 3 (8.82%) Databricks
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 2 (5.88%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.94%) Cognos
5 1 (2.94%) IBM
5 1 (2.94%) Informatica
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.94%) Vertica