Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Pipelines
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 106 114
Rank change year-on-year +38 +8 +74
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 107 26 20
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.46% 1.04% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 1.22% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 19 16
10th Percentile £411 £306 £363
25th Percentile £471 £359 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £489 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -4.59% -6.82%
75th Percentile £540 £500 £600
90th Percentile £600 £608 £706
England median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.25 £53.60
% change year-on-year +9.39% +14.28% -2.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,688 2,125 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.96% 84.70% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,322 1,557
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £373 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Pipeline

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Midlands +38 93 £515 +3.00% 21
East Midlands -11 14 £433 +21.49% 12
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 52 (48.60%) SAS
2 12 (11.21%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (10.28%) Apache Spark
4 9 (8.41%) Apache
5 4 (3.74%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.51%) Azure
2 19 (17.76%) AWS
2 19 (17.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (14.02%) GCP
3 15 (14.02%) OpenShift
4 12 (11.21%) GitHub
5 10 (9.35%) Serverless
6 7 (6.54%) Apigee
6 7 (6.54%) Cloud Functions
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.61%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.61%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.74%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) SSH
1 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.97%) Pentaho
2 19 (17.76%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.95%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (12.15%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (11.21%) Oracle Database
6 11 (10.28%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (10.28%) Relational Database
7 9 (8.41%) Hadoop
7 9 (8.41%) Metadata
8 7 (6.54%) Apache Hive
8 7 (6.54%) Big Data
8 7 (6.54%) HBase
8 7 (6.54%) MySQL
8 7 (6.54%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 6 (5.61%) Power BI
10 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
10 5 (4.67%) NoSQL
11 4 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.74%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 4 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (52.34%) Git
2 46 (42.99%) Jenkins
3 31 (28.97%) JIRA
4 19 (17.76%) GitLab
5 15 (14.02%) Selenium
6 14 (13.08%) JUnit
7 2 (1.87%) MLflow
8 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (37.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.41%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.54%) Finance
5 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Local Government
7 1 (0.93%) Military
7 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Publishing
7 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (39.25%) Data Engineer
2 16 (14.95%) Senior
3 15 (14.02%) Test Specialist
4 12 (11.21%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (10.28%) Developer
6 7 (6.54%) Cloud Developer
6 7 (6.54%) GCP Developer
6 7 (6.54%) SAS Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Test Automation Specialist
7 6 (5.61%) Lead
8 5 (4.67%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Data Scientist
9 4 (3.74%) Hadoop Developer
10 3 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) Denodo Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) Hadoop Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) Network Specialist
10 3 (2.80%) Scala Developer
11 2 (1.87%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.82%) Kafka
2 17 (15.89%) REST
3 15 (14.02%) pytest
4 11 (10.28%) Keycloak
5 7 (6.54%) Node.js
6 4 (3.74%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (2.80%) Pandas
7 3 (2.80%) PySpark
7 3 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.87%) Flask
8 2 (1.87%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.87%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.93%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.93%) Apache Avro
9 1 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.93%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.93%) Middleware
9 1 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.87%) IoT
5 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.93%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (66.36%) Analytics
2 69 (64.49%) DevOps
3 66 (61.68%) CI/CD
4 63 (58.88%) ETL
5 62 (57.94%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (55.14%) Agile
7 50 (46.73%) Test Automation
8 41 (38.32%) Data Modelling
9 40 (37.38%) Scrum
10 39 (36.45%) Data Integration
11 37 (34.58%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (30.84%) Containerisation
12 33 (30.84%) Deployment Automation
13 31 (28.97%) Data Analytics
13 31 (28.97%) Data Engineering
14 29 (27.10%) Data Virtualisation
15 27 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (24.30%) Business Analytics
17 19 (17.76%) Risk Assessment
18 18 (16.82%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 59 (55.14%) SQL
2 54 (50.47%) Python
3 11 (10.28%) Go
4 6 (5.61%) Java
4 6 (5.61%) VBA
5 5 (4.67%) Scala
5 5 (4.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.87%) R
7 1 (0.93%) Bash
7 1 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 58 (54.21%) Security Cleared
2 53 (49.53%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.87%) Degree
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) PhD
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (44.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.87%) GDPR
2 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.87%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (56.07%) Docker
2 7 (6.54%) HDFS
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (57.01%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.54%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (2.80%) Ansible
3 3 (2.80%) Oozie
3 3 (2.80%) Puppet
4 1 (0.93%) Argo
4 1 (0.93%) Istio
4 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (35.51%) Oracle
2 34 (31.78%) Talend
3 30 (28.04%) Denodo
4 15 (14.02%) Microsoft
5 10 (9.35%) Databricks
6 8 (7.48%) Google
7 4 (3.74%) Informatica
8 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.93%) SAP