Data Pipeline Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Pipelines
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Pipeline skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 75 95
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 15 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.37% 0.24% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 0.28% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £427 - £365
25th Percentile £456 £631 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £638 £438
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +45.71% -20.45%
75th Percentile £488 £644 £503
90th Percentile £538 - £531
Scotland median daily rate £475 £453 £428
% change year-on-year +4.86% +5.96% -21.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 606 724 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.89% 85.99% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 432 787
10th Percentile £241 £219 £234
25th Percentile £402 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% - -0.63%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £538
90th Percentile £600 £656 £610
Scotland median daily rate £463 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% -1.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 6
10th Percentile - £13.30 £11.83
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £14.30
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -1.64% -33.93%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £21.57
90th Percentile £50.06 - £37.71
Scotland median hourly rate £20.38 £19.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +4.53% +34.48% -61.26%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Edinburgh

Data Pipeline
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (6.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (40.00%) Serverless
3 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 5 (33.33%) GCP
5 4 (26.67%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (13.33%) Big Data
4 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
4 2 (13.33%) Looker
4 2 (13.33%) Metadata
4 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (13.33%) PowerCenter
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) ER Studio
2 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modeller
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Open Source Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
1 2 (13.33%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) Great Expectations
2 1 (6.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (6.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) ETL
2 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
3 7 (46.67%) Data Transformation
4 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (33.33%) Analytics
5 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 5 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 5 (33.33%) Migration
5 5 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (26.67%) Workflow
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (20.00%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) SQL
2 12 (80.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Informatica
2 3 (20.00%) Teradata
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Pega
3 1 (6.67%) TSYS