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 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 75 130 168
Rank change year-on-year +55 +38 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 97 54 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.90% 1.15% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 1.35% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 41 30
10th Percentile £388 £363 £386
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.05% +3.57%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £669
90th Percentile £601 £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 £52.50 £62.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year -16.00% -17.22% +123.70%

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 3,004 3,989 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.83% 84.76% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,936 2,423 3,432
10th Percentile £267 £300 £302
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 379 203
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -29.60% +45.79%
75th Percentile £51.00 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 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 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
North West +45 67 £475 -5.00% 70
Yorkshire +17 27 £563 - 40
North East - 3 £450 - 22
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 (16.49%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (15.46%) Apache Spark
3 8 (8.25%) Apache
4 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (48.45%) AWS
2 28 (28.87%) Azure
2 28 (28.87%) GCP
3 17 (17.53%) GitHub
4 14 (14.43%) Amazon S3
5 13 (13.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (12.37%) dbt
6 12 (12.37%) Power Platform
7 11 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (9.28%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.25%) Snowflake
10 5 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.12%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (4.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.56%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (12.37%) Data Lake
2 12 (12.37%) Flink
2 12 (12.37%) NoSQL
2 12 (12.37%) Power BI
3 11 (11.34%) BigQuery
4 9 (9.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (8.25%) Hadoop
5 8 (8.25%) Relational Database
6 7 (7.22%) Big Data
6 7 (7.22%) MongoDB
6 7 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.15%) Data Vault
8 4 (4.12%) Airbyte
8 4 (4.12%) Delta Lake
8 4 (4.12%) DynamoDB
8 4 (4.12%) Metadata
8 4 (4.12%) ObjectStore
9 3 (3.09%) Bigtable
9 3 (3.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (14.43%) Git
2 9 (9.28%) GitLab
3 5 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.09%) ER Studio
4 3 (3.09%) ERwin
5 1 (1.03%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.03%) Mocha
General
1 33 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.31%) Finance
3 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.15%) Banking
5 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Retail
6 2 (2.06%) Marketing
6 2 (2.06%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Advertising
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (35.05%) Data Engineer
2 23 (23.71%) Architect
3 12 (12.37%) Senior
4 11 (11.34%) Developer
5 8 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Data Architect
7 6 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) GCP Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Data Modeller
10 3 (3.09%) Lead
10 3 (3.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.65%) Kafka
2 11 (11.34%) PySpark
3 9 (9.28%) RESTful
4 7 (7.22%) Apache Beam
4 7 (7.22%) JDBC
4 7 (7.22%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.15%) React
6 4 (4.12%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (4.12%) OAuth
6 4 (4.12%) OAuth2
6 4 (4.12%) OpenID
6 4 (4.12%) REST
6 4 (4.12%) SAML
7 3 (3.09%) Node.js
7 3 (3.09%) Pandas
8 2 (2.06%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.06%) GeoJSON
8 2 (2.06%) Google Maps API
8 2 (2.06%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.06%) NHS
4 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) Linux
1 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (42.27%) ETL
2 34 (35.05%) Analytics
2 34 (35.05%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (29.90%) Data Modelling
4 25 (25.77%) CI/CD
4 25 (25.77%) Visualisation
5 24 (24.74%) Containerisation
5 24 (24.74%) DevOps
6 21 (21.65%) Data Engineering
7 17 (17.53%) Agile
8 16 (16.49%) Digital Twin
9 14 (14.43%) Decision-Making
10 13 (13.40%) High Availability
11 12 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (12.37%) Data Governance
12 11 (11.34%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (11.34%) Data Ingestion
12 11 (11.34%) Data Management
12 11 (11.34%) Event-Driven
13 10 (10.31%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 48 (49.48%) Python
2 41 (42.27%) SQL
3 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.15%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.12%) Java
5 4 (4.12%) Scala
5 4 (4.12%) SPARQL
6 3 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.06%) C#
8 1 (1.03%) Groovy
8 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.03%) Degree
4 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.19%) QA
3 4 (4.12%) GDPR
4 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (10.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.37%) Terraform
3 4 (4.12%) Ansible
4 3 (3.09%) Istio
4 3 (3.09%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.06%) Grafana
5 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (22.68%) Databricks
2 16 (16.49%) Google
3 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.09%) IDERA
4 3 (3.09%) Informatica
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle
4 3 (3.09%) Talend
5 2 (2.06%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.06%) IBM
5 2 (2.06%) Mapbox
6 1 (1.03%) Apple
6 1 (1.03%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.03%) Criteo
6 1 (1.03%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) Veeam
6 1 (1.03%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.03%) VMware