Data Pipeline Contracts in Leeds

Data Pipelines
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 43 46 90
Rank change year-on-year +3 +44 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 17 17 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.66% 2.13% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 2.46% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 5
10th Percentile £455 £435 £418
25th Percentile £463 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £638 £615 £675
90th Percentile £693 - £690
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (41.18%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) GCP
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Collibra
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (5.88%) dbt
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) BigQuery
2 4 (23.53%) Flink
2 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
3 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.76%) Big Data
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI
4 2 (11.76%) Power Query
5 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) GCP Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Beam
2 4 (23.53%) JDBC
2 4 (23.53%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (11.76%) NHS
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Decision-Making
4 6 (35.29%) ETL
5 5 (29.41%) High Availability
5 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
6 4 (23.53%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (23.53%) Event-Driven
7 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 3 (17.65%) Data Science
8 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
8 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
8 2 (11.76%) Data Security
8 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
8 2 (11.76%) Monte Carlo Method
8 2 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Scala
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Databricks
1 5 (29.41%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) AppDynamics
2 2 (11.76%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat