Data Pipeline Contracts in the North of England

Data Pipelines
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 133 174
Rank change year-on-year +57 +41 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 94 52 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.85% 1.09% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 1.27% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 40 30
10th Percentile £358 £379 £386
25th Percentile £413 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -9.72%
75th Percentile £537 £588 £650
90th Percentile £616 £615 £700
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 £67.50 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £62.50 £70.25
% change year-on-year -6.00% -11.03% +133.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the North of England

Data Pipeline
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the North of England

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the North of England

Data Pipeline
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in the North of England

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +52 64 £463 -7.50% 50
Yorkshire +10 26 £575 +2.22% 34
North East - 4 £404 - 10
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (17.02%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (13.83%) Apache Spark
3 9 (9.57%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (51.06%) AWS
2 27 (28.72%) Azure
3 26 (27.66%) GCP
4 16 (17.02%) GitHub
5 14 (14.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (12.77%) Amazon S3
6 12 (12.77%) dbt
7 11 (11.70%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (9.57%) Power Platform
9 7 (7.45%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (7.45%) Serverless
9 7 (7.45%) Snowflake
10 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.26%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (4.26%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.09%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (11.70%) Data Lake
3 10 (10.64%) BigQuery
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (9.57%) Flink
4 9 (9.57%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.57%) Power BI
5 8 (8.51%) Big Data
5 8 (8.51%) Hadoop
5 8 (8.51%) Relational Database
6 7 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.32%) Data Vault
7 5 (5.32%) Metadata
7 5 (5.32%) MySQL
7 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.32%) Tableau
8 4 (4.26%) Airbyte
8 4 (4.26%) DynamoDB
8 4 (4.26%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.26%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) Git
2 9 (9.57%) GitLab
3 5 (5.32%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.19%) ER Studio
4 3 (3.19%) ERwin
5 2 (2.13%) JIRA
5 2 (2.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.06%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.06%) Mocha
General
1 33 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.51%) Finance
3 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.32%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Marketing
7 2 (2.13%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (39.36%) Data Engineer
2 22 (23.40%) Architect
3 15 (15.96%) Senior
4 8 (8.51%) Data Architect
4 8 (8.51%) Developer
4 8 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (8.51%) Senior Data Engineer
5 7 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) GCP Architect
6 5 (5.32%) Python Data Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Python Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.26%) Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Data Modeller
8 3 (3.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.21%) Kafka
2 10 (10.64%) PySpark
3 9 (9.57%) RESTful
4 5 (5.32%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.32%) React
5 4 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (4.26%) Apache Beam
5 4 (4.26%) JDBC
5 4 (4.26%) OAuth
5 4 (4.26%) OAuth2
5 4 (4.26%) OpenID
5 4 (4.26%) REST
5 4 (4.26%) SAML
5 4 (4.26%) Spark Streaming
6 3 (3.19%) Node.js
6 3 (3.19%) Pandas
7 2 (2.13%) .NET
7 2 (2.13%) ADO
7 2 (2.13%) GeoJSON
7 2 (2.13%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
1 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.13%) NHS
4 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Linux
1 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (43.62%) ETL
2 33 (35.11%) Analytics
3 32 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (28.72%) Data Modelling
4 27 (28.72%) Visualisation
5 24 (25.53%) Containerisation
6 23 (24.47%) CI/CD
7 22 (23.40%) DevOps
8 21 (22.34%) Data Engineering
9 17 (18.09%) Agile
10 16 (17.02%) Digital Twin
11 14 (14.89%) Decision-Making
12 13 (13.83%) Data Science
13 12 (12.77%) Data Management
14 11 (11.70%) Continuous Integration
15 10 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (10.64%) Data Governance
15 10 (10.64%) Data Ingestion
15 10 (10.64%) High Availability
16 9 (9.57%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 45 (47.87%) Python
2 40 (42.55%) SQL
3 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.26%) Java
5 4 (4.26%) Scala
5 4 (4.26%) SPARQL
6 3 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.13%) C#
8 1 (1.06%) Groovy
8 1 (1.06%) R
8 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.15%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.38%) QA
3 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (10.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (22.34%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.70%) Terraform
3 3 (3.19%) Istio
3 3 (3.19%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.13%) Ansible
4 2 (2.13%) Grafana
4 2 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (25.53%) Databricks
2 16 (17.02%) Google
3 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.19%) IDERA
4 3 (3.19%) Informatica
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle
4 3 (3.19%) Talend
5 2 (2.13%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.13%) Brio
5 2 (2.13%) IBM
5 2 (2.13%) Mapbox
6 1 (1.06%) Apple
6 1 (1.06%) Criteo
6 1 (1.06%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.06%) Virgin Media