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 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 131 183 286
Rank change year-on-year +52 +103 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 523 479 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.18% 1.30% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.52% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 356 300
10th Percentile £392 £363 £425
25th Percentile £425 £450 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £32.36 £34.24 £47.75
25th Percentile £46.42 £49.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -17.22% +123.70%
75th Percentile £75.60 £66.25 £82.50
90th Percentile £79.22 £67.50 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year +12.00% -17.22% +123.70%

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 21,854 31,539 42,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.92% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,225 20,657 30,069
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,292 1,514
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +39 321 £538 -6.52% 829
North of England +47 96 £475 -5.00% 827
North West +43 67 £475 -5.00% 386
Midlands +1 30 £459 -16.55% 664
Yorkshire +13 27 £563 - 330
South East +49 25 £402 +7.20% 1,125
East Midlands +16 15 £455 +13.69% 261
West Midlands -6 14 £525 -4.55% 363
South West +45 13 £519 -5.68% 411
East of England +34 11 £367 -31.73% 505
North East - 2 £431 - 115
Data Pipeline
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 92 (17.59%) Apache Spark
2 74 (14.15%) Apache
3 72 (13.77%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.29%) Jupyter
5 11 (2.10%) Confluence
6 4 (0.76%) SAS
6 4 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (2.68%) 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 (1.15%) Aladdin
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.19%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.19%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 205 (39.20%) AWS
2 203 (38.81%) Azure
3 97 (18.55%) GCP
4 88 (16.83%) Power Platform
5 73 (13.96%) Snowflake
6 69 (13.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 65 (12.43%) dbt
8 60 (11.47%) Amazon S3
9 49 (9.37%) GitHub
10 48 (9.18%) Serverless
11 44 (8.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 41 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.44%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (3.06%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.15%) SSH
2 4 (0.76%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (25.62%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (16.63%) Power BI
3 81 (15.49%) Data Lake
4 64 (12.24%) Big Data
5 49 (9.37%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.41%) BigQuery
7 40 (7.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (7.46%) Hadoop
8 39 (7.46%) Relational Database
9 35 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
9 35 (6.69%) Tableau
10 33 (6.31%) SQL Server
11 26 (4.97%) Flink
12 25 (4.78%) Snowflake Schema
13 23 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (4.40%) Metadata
14 22 (4.21%) DynamoDB
15 21 (4.02%) Delta Lake
16 19 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (3.25%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 57 (10.90%) Git
2 27 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.82%) GitLab
4 19 (3.63%) JIRA
5 10 (1.91%) ERwin
6 7 (1.34%) MLflow
7 6 (1.15%) ER Studio
7 6 (1.15%) RStudio
8 5 (0.96%) Terragrunt
9 4 (0.76%) Postman
9 4 (0.76%) Selenium
10 3 (0.57%) JMeter
10 3 (0.57%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.38%) MagicDraw
11 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.19%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.19%) Mocha
12 1 (0.19%) Mockito
12 1 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 143 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 110 (21.03%) Finance
3 76 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.50%) Banking
6 20 (3.82%) Retail
7 17 (3.25%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.53%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.34%) Marketing
11 7 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.15%) Local Government
13 5 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.76%) Police
15 3 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 237 (45.32%) Data Engineer
2 74 (14.15%) Developer
3 70 (13.38%) Senior
4 66 (12.62%) Architect
5 44 (8.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 34 (6.50%) Lead
7 33 (6.31%) Data Architect
8 31 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
9 29 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (5.16%) Analyst
11 26 (4.97%) AWS Data Engineer
11 26 (4.97%) Azure Data Engineer
12 21 (4.02%) Python Engineer
13 18 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (3.25%) Python Data Engineer
14 17 (3.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 17 (3.25%) Snowflake Engineer
15 16 (3.06%) Python Developer
16 15 (2.87%) Data Analyst
16 15 (2.87%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.68%) Kafka
2 71 (13.58%) PySpark
3 21 (4.02%) Pandas
4 19 (3.63%) Spark Streaming
5 18 (3.44%) pytest
6 16 (3.06%) React
6 16 (3.06%) RESTful
7 15 (2.87%) NumPy
8 12 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.10%) Apache Beam
9 11 (2.10%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (2.10%) JSON
9 11 (2.10%) pydantic
9 11 (2.10%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.91%) FastAPI
10 10 (1.91%) REST
10 10 (1.91%) YAML
11 9 (1.72%) .NET
11 9 (1.72%) JDBC
11 9 (1.72%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.78%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.82%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.25%) Distributed Computing
6 14 (2.68%) Derivative
7 13 (2.49%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.91%) Market Risk
9 9 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.72%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.53%) Equities
10 8 (1.53%) Equity Derivative
11 7 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.15%) Clustering
12 6 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.69%) Linux
2 12 (2.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (43.79%) ETL
2 196 (37.48%) Analytics
3 191 (36.52%) Data Modelling
4 163 (31.17%) Data Engineering
5 153 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (28.68%) CI/CD
7 99 (18.93%) Agile
8 98 (18.74%) Business Intelligence
9 93 (17.78%) Visualisation
10 92 (17.59%) Data Science
11 90 (17.21%) Data Governance
12 89 (17.02%) DevOps
13 87 (16.63%) Data Integration
14 83 (15.87%) Decision-Making
15 76 (14.53%) Machine Learning
16 65 (12.43%) Data Ingestion
17 61 (11.66%) Artificial Intelligence
17 61 (11.66%) Containerisation
18 60 (11.47%) Data Security
19 54 (10.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 324 (61.95%) Python
2 294 (56.21%) SQL
3 52 (9.94%) Java
4 33 (6.31%) Scala
5 23 (4.40%) R
6 18 (3.44%) C++
7 16 (3.06%) JavaScript
8 14 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (2.49%) Bash
10 10 (1.91%) C#
11 7 (1.34%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.15%) SPARQL
13 4 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.38%) Go
15 2 (0.38%) Perl
15 2 (0.38%) PHP
15 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.38%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 91 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.03%) Degree
4 18 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.87%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.91%) Numerate Degree
8 9 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.15%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.15%) PMP
11 3 (0.57%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.19%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (22.18%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.31%) QA
3 26 (4.97%) GDPR
4 18 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
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 65 (12.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) HDFS
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 78 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 62 (11.85%) Terraform
3 9 (1.72%) Grafana
3 9 (1.72%) Kibana
4 7 (1.34%) logstash
4 7 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.15%) Ansible
6 3 (0.57%) Istio
6 3 (0.57%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 114 (21.80%) Databricks
2 43 (8.22%) Microsoft
3 41 (7.84%) Google
4 25 (4.78%) Oracle
5 16 (3.06%) Informatica
6 8 (1.53%) Talend
7 7 (1.34%) SAP
8 6 (1.15%) Palantir
9 5 (0.96%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.96%) Dataiku
9 5 (0.96%) DataRobot
9 5 (0.96%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (0.96%) Splunk
10 4 (0.76%) 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%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.38%) Mapbox