Data Pipeline Contracts in England

Data Pipelines
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Pipeline skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 277 278
Rank change year-on-year +92 +1 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 470 461 693
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.28% 0.94% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.04% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 311 450
10th Percentile £374 £425 £456
25th Percentile £450 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £714
90th Percentile £738 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £25.94 £50.63 £26.00
25th Percentile £42.00 £65.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.25 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% +119.53% -28.09%
75th Percentile £66.38 £80.81 £57.75
90th Percentile £67.35 £86.25 £83.61
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.25 £32.00
% change year-on-year -11.03% +119.53% -28.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Pipeline is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Pipeline in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
London +75 311 £575 +2.22% 201
North of England +36 52 £500 - 34
Midlands +55 43 £550 +0.92% 25
West Midlands +39 36 £550 +0.92% 19
North West +15 28 £500 +8.11% 16
Yorkshire +45 24 £563 -13.46% 15
South East -10 20 £563 +7.14% 24
East of England +14 12 £525 - 17
South West +8 10 £550 -18.52% 21
East Midlands - 7 £413 - 6
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 74 (15.74%) Apache Spark
2 61 (12.98%) Apache
3 45 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.85%) Luigi
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.43%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (40.64%) Azure
2 190 (40.43%) AWS
3 70 (14.89%) Serverless
4 68 (14.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 59 (12.55%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (12.13%) GCP
7 50 (10.64%) Amazon S3
8 38 (8.09%) Power Platform
9 36 (7.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 32 (6.81%) Snowflake
11 28 (5.96%) Amazon Kinesis
12 26 (5.53%) Amazon EMR
13 24 (5.11%) AWS Step Functions
13 24 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (4.89%) GitHub
15 19 (4.04%) dbt
16 13 (2.77%) Amazon MSK
17 12 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
18 11 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.98%) Intrusion Detection
1 14 (2.98%) Network Security
2 5 (1.06%) FTP
3 2 (0.43%) SAN
4 1 (0.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (25.32%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (22.98%) Big Data
3 87 (18.51%) Data Lake
4 48 (10.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 43 (9.15%) NoSQL
6 38 (8.09%) Power BI
7 33 (7.02%) Relational Database
8 30 (6.38%) SQL Server
9 29 (6.17%) BigQuery
10 25 (5.32%) Flink
11 24 (5.11%) Parquet
12 19 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (4.04%) DynamoDB
13 18 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (3.83%) Tableau
14 16 (3.40%) Hadoop
15 15 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
17 12 (2.55%) Metadata
18 11 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (10.00%) Git
2 19 (4.04%) JIRA
3 9 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.49%) GitLab
5 6 (1.28%) Mercurial
5 6 (1.28%) MLflow
6 4 (0.85%) Deequ
6 4 (0.85%) ERwin
7 3 (0.64%) JMeter
7 3 (0.64%) TestRail
8 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.43%) Bugzilla
8 2 (0.43%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.43%) JUnit
8 2 (0.43%) Maven
8 2 (0.43%) Poetry
8 2 (0.43%) Selenium
8 2 (0.43%) TestNG
8 2 (0.43%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 112 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (13.40%) Finance
4 33 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.89%) Banking
6 15 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.98%) Front Office
8 10 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.49%) Retail
10 6 (1.28%) Multimedia
11 5 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.06%) Marketing
12 3 (0.64%) Back Office
12 3 (0.64%) Games
13 2 (0.43%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 249 (52.98%) Data Engineer
2 71 (15.11%) Senior
3 56 (11.91%) Developer
4 52 (11.06%) Azure Engineer
5 51 (10.85%) Azure Data Engineer
6 43 (9.15%) Architect
7 38 (8.09%) Senior Data Engineer
8 30 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
9 27 (5.74%) Lead
10 26 (5.53%) AWS Data Engineer
11 24 (5.11%) Python Developer
12 21 (4.47%) Data Scientist
13 18 (3.83%) Lead Data Engineer
14 17 (3.62%) Analyst
14 17 (3.62%) Data Architect
15 14 (2.98%) Python Engineer
16 12 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (2.55%) Senior Developer
17 11 (2.34%) Data Analyst
17 11 (2.34%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.77%) Kafka
2 56 (11.91%) PySpark
3 38 (8.09%) Pandas
4 26 (5.53%) JSON
4 26 (5.53%) NumPy
5 20 (4.26%) Apache Avro
5 20 (4.26%) SciPy
6 15 (3.19%) Apache NiFi
7 11 (2.34%) scikit-learn
8 10 (2.13%) REST
9 9 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (1.91%) React
9 9 (1.91%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.70%) Flask
11 6 (1.28%) ARM Templates
11 6 (1.28%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.28%) Great Expectations
11 6 (1.28%) XML
11 6 (1.28%) YAML
12 5 (1.06%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.96%) Algorithms
2 21 (4.47%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.83%) Derivative
4 16 (3.40%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.40%) Distributed Applications
5 15 (3.19%) Cyber Defence
6 14 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.49%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.28%) Hedge funds
13 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.06%) Social Media
14 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.85%) Security Posture
15 3 (0.64%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.45%) Linux
2 29 (6.17%) Windows
3 15 (3.19%) Unix
4 12 (2.55%) Android
4 12 (2.55%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (39.15%) ETL
2 161 (34.26%) Data Modelling
3 152 (32.34%) Analytics
4 137 (29.15%) Data Engineering
5 102 (21.70%) CI/CD
6 83 (17.66%) DevOps
6 83 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (15.96%) Agile
7 75 (15.96%) Data Science
8 71 (15.11%) Data Integration
9 67 (14.26%) Business Intelligence
10 58 (12.34%) Machine Learning
11 51 (10.85%) Data Ingestion
12 48 (10.21%) Computer Science
13 47 (10.00%) Data Management
13 47 (10.00%) Visualisation
14 45 (9.57%) Data Governance
15 44 (9.36%) Test Automation
16 38 (8.09%) Data Transformation
17 37 (7.87%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 297 (63.19%) Python
2 259 (55.11%) SQL
3 66 (14.04%) Java
4 48 (10.21%) Scala
5 23 (4.89%) C#
6 20 (4.26%) C++
7 19 (4.04%) JavaScript
8 17 (3.62%) T-SQL
9 12 (2.55%) Rust
10 11 (2.34%) R
11 7 (1.49%) Bash
11 7 (1.49%) Bicep
11 7 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.85%) Perl
13 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.43%) PHP
15 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (20.64%) Security Cleared
2 78 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.64%) Degree
4 36 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.06%) CISSP
10 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.43%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (17.66%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.98%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (2.34%) QA
4 5 (1.06%) GDPR
5 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (6.38%) Docker
2 8 (1.70%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.70%) HDFS
2 8 (1.70%) iptables
3 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (8.72%) Terraform
2 24 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.70%) Kibana
3 8 (1.70%) logstash
4 4 (0.85%) Argo
5 3 (0.64%) Ansible
6 2 (0.43%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.21%) Control-M
7 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 99 (21.06%) Databricks
2 31 (6.60%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.89%) Google
4 18 (3.83%) Informatica
5 15 (3.19%) Oracle
6 12 (2.55%) SAP
7 11 (2.34%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.13%) Talend
9 8 (1.70%) Palantir
10 6 (1.28%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.28%) Foundry
11 4 (0.85%) IFS
12 3 (0.64%) Dataiku
12 3 (0.64%) Sage
13 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.43%) JD Edwards
13 2 (0.43%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.43%) QAD
13 2 (0.43%) VMware
13 2 (0.43%) Workday