Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Pipelines
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 5 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.52% 3.52% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.78% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £375 £353 £402
25th Percentile £413 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £585 £425
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +37.65% -
75th Percentile £488 £617 £525
90th Percentile £525 £670 £534
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £585 £425
% change year-on-year -27.35% +37.65% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 295 185 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.67% 92.96% 85.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 93 100
10th Percentile £179 £280 £248
25th Percentile £366 £354 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £578 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £454 £475
% change year-on-year -0.88% -4.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £19.93 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) Data Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) MLOps
4 1 (20.00%) AIOps
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (20.00%) Data Munging
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) DataOps
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks