Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Data Pipelines
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 1.35% 2.56% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 3.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £389 -
25th Percentile £425 £402 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £431 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £475 £464 -
90th Percentile - £478 -
Leicestershire median daily rate £360 £388 -
% change year-on-year -7.10% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62 63 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 83.78% 80.77% 74.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 64
10th Percentile £326 £250 £279
25th Percentile £409 £283 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -1.30% +21.84%
75th Percentile £609 £598 £578
90th Percentile £704 £687 £625
Leicestershire median daily rate £421 £463 £375
% change year-on-year -8.92% +23.33% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £15.77 - £13.20
25th Percentile £18.63 £21.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +9.76% -0.49%
75th Percentile £26.31 £23.75 £25.38
90th Percentile £28.63 - £27.40
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.00 £26.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -16.19% +22.09% +4.37%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Pipeline relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Leicester

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks