Data Pipeline Contracts in England

Data Pipelines
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 183 276
Rank change year-on-year +51 +93 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 527 472 474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.16% 1.27% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 1.47% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 353 318
10th Percentile £375 £384 £425
25th Percentile £425 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £742
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £34.67 £25.94 £50.63
25th Percentile £48.84 £42.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £58.75 £62.50 £70.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -11.03% +133.20%
75th Percentile £66.88 £66.38 £80.81
90th Percentile £74.36 £67.35 £86.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.25
% change year-on-year +4.00% -11.03% +133.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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

Data Pipeline
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

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in England

Data Pipeline
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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
London +29 324 £525 -8.70% 582
North of England +57 94 £475 -5.00% 94
North West +52 64 £463 -7.50% 50
South East +58 30 £454 -30.15% 203
Yorkshire +10 26 £575 +2.22% 34
Midlands +5 26 £467 -15.09% 51
West Midlands -8 14 £550 - 27
South West +47 12 £513 -6.82% 55
East Midlands +15 12 £450 +9.09% 20
East of England +25 9 £367 -28.40% 34
North East - 4 £404 - 10
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UK

Data Pipeline
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 93 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 75 (14.23%) Apache
3 69 (13.09%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.90%) Jupyter
5 9 (1.71%) Confluence
6 4 (0.76%) SAS
6 4 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) CATIA
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.19%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 207 (39.28%) AWS
2 199 (37.76%) Azure
3 96 (18.22%) GCP
4 82 (15.56%) Power Platform
5 79 (14.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 73 (13.85%) Snowflake
7 64 (12.14%) dbt
8 63 (11.95%) Amazon S3
9 48 (9.11%) Serverless
10 46 (8.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 46 (8.73%) GitHub
11 40 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (3.42%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.14%) SSH
2 4 (0.76%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) MQTT
3 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (24.48%) Data Warehouse
2 89 (16.89%) Data Lake
3 81 (15.37%) Power BI
4 74 (14.04%) Big Data
5 46 (8.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 45 (8.54%) BigQuery
7 42 (7.97%) NoSQL
8 41 (7.78%) Hadoop
9 39 (7.40%) Tableau
10 35 (6.64%) Relational Database
11 33 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
12 31 (5.88%) SQL Server
13 25 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
14 24 (4.55%) Flink
15 23 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (4.36%) Snowflake Schema
16 21 (3.98%) DynamoDB
17 20 (3.80%) Apache Hive
18 19 (3.61%) Metadata
19 17 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 51 (9.68%) Git
2 23 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.61%) JIRA
4 16 (3.04%) GitLab
5 8 (1.52%) ERwin
6 6 (1.14%) MLflow
6 6 (1.14%) RStudio
7 4 (0.76%) Postman
7 4 (0.76%) Selenium
7 4 (0.76%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.57%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.57%) JMeter
9 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.38%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.38%) MagicDraw
9 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.38%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.19%) Mocha
10 1 (0.19%) Mockito
General
1 131 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 106 (20.11%) Finance
3 83 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.11%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.45%) Banking
6 22 (4.17%) Retail
7 18 (3.42%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.33%) Local Government
10 7 (1.33%) Marketing
10 7 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.33%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.76%) Front Office
11 4 (0.76%) Military
11 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.57%) Electronics
12 3 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 258 (48.96%) Data Engineer
2 76 (14.42%) Senior
3 64 (12.14%) Architect
4 63 (11.95%) Developer
5 46 (8.73%) Senior Data Engineer
6 38 (7.21%) AWS Engineer
7 37 (7.02%) Data Architect
8 33 (6.26%) AWS Data Engineer
9 32 (6.07%) Lead
10 27 (5.12%) Analyst
11 26 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (4.36%) Python Engineer
13 21 (3.98%) Azure Data Engineer
14 18 (3.42%) Python Data Engineer
15 17 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
15 17 (3.23%) Snowflake Engineer
16 16 (3.04%) Data Analyst
16 16 (3.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 16 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (2.85%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (17.46%) PySpark
2 80 (15.18%) Kafka
3 20 (3.80%) Pandas
4 19 (3.61%) pytest
5 18 (3.42%) React
6 15 (2.85%) Spark Streaming
7 14 (2.66%) NumPy
7 14 (2.66%) RESTful
8 11 (2.09%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.09%) JSON
9 10 (1.90%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (1.90%) pydantic
9 10 (1.90%) scikit-learn
9 10 (1.90%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.90%) YAML
10 9 (1.71%) FastAPI
10 9 (1.71%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.71%) REST
11 8 (1.52%) .NET
11 8 (1.52%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.42%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.42%) Distributed Computing
4 14 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.28%) Derivative
6 11 (2.09%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.90%) Market Risk
8 9 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.71%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.14%) Clustering
11 6 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.69%) Linux
2 12 (2.28%) Unix
3 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (42.88%) ETL
2 188 (35.67%) Analytics
3 176 (33.40%) Data Modelling
4 167 (31.69%) Data Engineering
5 149 (28.27%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (26.94%) CI/CD
7 97 (18.41%) Visualisation
8 94 (17.84%) Agile
9 93 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
9 93 (17.65%) Data Science
10 89 (16.89%) DevOps
11 83 (15.75%) Data Integration
12 80 (15.18%) Decision-Making
13 78 (14.80%) Machine Learning
14 76 (14.42%) Data Governance
15 61 (11.57%) Containerisation
16 60 (11.39%) Data Security
17 59 (11.20%) Artificial Intelligence
18 58 (11.01%) Data Ingestion
19 56 (10.63%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 327 (62.05%) Python
2 304 (57.69%) SQL
3 50 (9.49%) Java
4 30 (5.69%) Scala
5 27 (5.12%) R
6 19 (3.61%) JavaScript
7 16 (3.04%) C++
8 14 (2.66%) Bash
9 10 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (1.71%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.52%) C#
12 7 (1.33%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.14%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.38%) Lua
16 2 (0.38%) Perl
16 2 (0.38%) PHP
16 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.38%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 94 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.01%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.21%) Degree
4 18 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.52%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.76%) PMP
10 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.38%) PhD
10 2 (0.38%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.19%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (22.96%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.26%) QA
3 23 (4.36%) GDPR
4 21 (3.98%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (11.39%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) HDFS
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 70 (13.28%) Kubernetes
2 64 (12.14%) Terraform
3 7 (1.33%) Grafana
4 5 (0.95%) Kibana
4 5 (0.95%) logstash
4 5 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.76%) Ansible
6 3 (0.57%) Istio
6 3 (0.57%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 117 (22.20%) Databricks
2 46 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 43 (8.16%) Google
4 23 (4.36%) Oracle
5 16 (3.04%) Informatica
6 9 (1.71%) SAP
7 8 (1.52%) Splunk
8 7 (1.33%) Talend
9 6 (1.14%) Palantir
10 5 (0.95%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.57%) Dataiku
11 3 (0.57%) DataRobot
11 3 (0.57%) IBM
11 3 (0.57%) IDERA
11 3 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.57%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.38%) Aareon
12 2 (0.38%) Mapbox