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 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 38 79
Rank change year-on-year -12 +41 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 15 25 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.67% 3.37% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 4.01% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 9
10th Percentile £444 - £513
25th Percentile £463 £450 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £609 £559 £650
90th Percentile £668 £599 £680
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% -3.85%

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 513 623 1,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 91.44% 84.08% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 405 718
10th Percentile £308 £300 £363
25th Percentile £387 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% -7.41% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £609 £650 £703
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 26 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £12.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.28% -35.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £50.48 £18.92 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £33.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.90 £18.50
% change year-on-year +71.63% -30.27% -4.39%

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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 30 July 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 9 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) GCP
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
4 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) dbt
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Flink
1 7 (46.67%) MongoDB
1 7 (46.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Tableau
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) DataStage
4 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Architect
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Apache Beam
1 7 (46.67%) JDBC
1 7 (46.67%) Kafka
1 7 (46.67%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
3 8 (53.33%) High Availability
4 7 (46.67%) Data Ingestion
4 7 (46.67%) Event-Driven
5 5 (33.33%) ETL
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 2 (13.33%) Agile
8 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
8 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
9 1 (6.67%) Data Science
9 1 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
9 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
9 1 (6.67%) Transpiler
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Groovy
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Talend