Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Data Pipelines
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire 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 22 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 2.00% 3.09% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 3.66% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £369 -
25th Percentile - £374 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £388 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% - -
75th Percentile £418 £441 -
90th Percentile £452 £469 -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £388 £438
% change year-on-year +16.13% -11.43% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 82 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 81.33% 84.54% 77.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 54 92
10th Percentile £131 £233 £182
25th Percentile £345 £283 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +23.33% -5.06%
75th Percentile £543 £558 £544
90th Percentile £629 £668 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £436 £425
% change year-on-year +3.33% +2.47% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £17.11 £22.13 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £26.25 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +22.09% +4.37%
75th Percentile £27.25 £28.44 £25.50
90th Percentile £30.60 £29.38 £27.45
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £22.05 £17.50
% change year-on-year -0.20% +25.97% -1.24%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 14 April 2026. 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
Leicester +2 1 £450 +4.35% 3
Data Pipeline
East Midlands

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) ETL Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks