Data Pipeline Contracts in the Midlands

Data Pipelines
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 93 128
Rank change year-on-year -2 +35 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 30 45 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.46% 1.62% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.99% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 20
10th Percentile £359 £363 £480
25th Percentile £381 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -16.55% +0.46% -2.23%
75th Percentile £537 £659 £650
90th Percentile £605 £850 £689
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.73 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year -16.00% -17.22% +123.70%

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 1,818 2,267 2,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.42% 81.46% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,531 1,990
10th Percentile £205 £231 £260
25th Percentile £358 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £643 £688 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 173 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.81 £14.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.75 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -15.56% +28.13%
75th Percentile £26.93 £35.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the Midlands

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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 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in the Midlands

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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 31 May 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
East Midlands +18 15 £455 +13.69% 16
West Midlands -12 14 £525 -4.55% 35
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (20.00%) Apache
2 4 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (13.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.67%) Confluence
4 1 (3.33%) Luigi
4 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) NetSuite
1 2 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon S3
2 8 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (26.67%) Serverless
3 7 (23.33%) Power Platform
4 6 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (13.33%) GCP
6 4 (13.33%) SaaS
7 3 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (10.00%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.67%) Boomi
8 2 (6.67%) BrowserStack
8 2 (6.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (23.33%) Power BI
3 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
5 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.67%) Big Data
6 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.67%) Spark SQL
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.33%) Flink
7 1 (3.33%) HDInsight
7 1 (3.33%) Metadata
7 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) JMeter
2 2 (6.67%) Postman
2 2 (6.67%) Selenium
2 2 (6.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Kafka
2 5 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (13.33%) PySpark
4 3 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (10.00%) RESTful
5 2 (6.67%) Django
5 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.67%) MACH
6 1 (3.33%) Keycloak
6 1 (3.33%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) ETL
2 16 (53.33%) Analytics
2 16 (53.33%) Data Modelling
3 13 (43.33%) Data Engineering
4 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (33.33%) Agile
5 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 10 (33.33%) Data Governance
6 9 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (26.67%) Data Integration
8 7 (23.33%) Data Security
8 7 (23.33%) Visualisation
9 6 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 6 (20.00%) DevOps
10 5 (16.67%) Data Science
10 5 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) SQL
2 16 (53.33%) Python
3 11 (36.67%) Java
4 3 (10.00%) Scala
5 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.67%) R
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) Degree
4 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (43.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Kibana
3 2 (6.67%) logstash
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Nintex
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Cognos
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Splunk