Data Pipeline Contracts in the North West

Data Pipelines
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 57 109 120
Rank change year-on-year +52 +11 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 64 28 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.25% 1.02% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 1.18% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 24 25
10th Percentile £358 £336 £368
25th Percentile £409 £398 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £522 £518 £650
90th Percentile £545 £576 £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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the North West

Data Pipeline
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the North West

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +35 39 £469 -4.34% 31
Cheshire +11 17 £402 -21.18% 11
Merseyside - 4 £500 - 3
Lancashire - 3 £425 - 16
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.56%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (65.63%) AWS
2 20 (31.25%) Azure
3 16 (25.00%) GitHub
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (15.63%) dbt
5 10 (15.63%) GCP
6 9 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (10.94%) Amazon S3
8 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
8 6 (9.38%) Serverless
9 5 (7.81%) Snowflake
10 4 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (6.25%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (3.13%) AWS CodeBuild
12 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.94%) Hadoop
3 7 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (9.38%) Big Data
4 6 (9.38%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.38%) Power BI
5 5 (7.81%) Data Vault
5 5 (7.81%) MySQL
5 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.25%) Airbyte
6 4 (6.25%) BigQuery
6 4 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 4 (6.25%) ObjectStore
6 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.25%) Tableau
7 3 (4.69%) Bigtable
7 3 (4.69%) Delta Lake
7 3 (4.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Git
2 9 (14.06%) GitLab
3 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.69%) ER Studio
4 3 (4.69%) ERwin
5 2 (3.13%) JIRA
5 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.56%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.56%) Mocha
General
1 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.25%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Advertising
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Data Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Senior
3 9 (14.06%) Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Developer
5 7 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (4.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Data Modeller
9 3 (4.69%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.13%) AWS Data Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.75%) Kafka
2 9 (14.06%) RESTful
3 7 (10.94%) PySpark
4 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.81%) React
5 4 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (6.25%) OAuth
5 4 (6.25%) OAuth2
5 4 (6.25%) OpenID
5 4 (6.25%) REST
5 4 (6.25%) SAML
6 3 (4.69%) Node.js
6 3 (4.69%) Pandas
7 2 (3.13%) .NET
7 2 (3.13%) ADO
7 2 (3.13%) GeoJSON
7 2 (3.13%) Google Maps API
7 2 (3.13%) Leaflet
7 2 (3.13%) MapLibre
8 1 (1.56%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) ETL
2 24 (37.50%) Analytics
3 22 (34.38%) Containerisation
4 21 (32.81%) Visualisation
5 20 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 16 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 16 (25.00%) Digital Twin
6 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (20.31%) Agile
7 13 (20.31%) Data Engineering
7 13 (20.31%) DevOps
8 10 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (14.06%) Continuous Deployment
10 8 (12.50%) RBAC
11 7 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
11 7 (10.94%) Cloud Security
11 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
12 6 (9.38%) Data Management
12 6 (9.38%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) Python
2 29 (45.31%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.25%) Java
5 4 (6.25%) SPARQL
6 2 (3.13%) C#
7 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.38%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (29.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.94%) Terraform
3 3 (4.69%) Istio
3 3 (4.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Databricks
2 5 (7.81%) Google
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.69%) IDERA
4 3 (4.69%) Informatica
4 3 (4.69%) Oracle
4 3 (4.69%) Talend
5 2 (3.13%) Brio
5 2 (3.13%) Mapbox
6 1 (1.56%) Apple
6 1 (1.56%) Criteo
6 1 (1.56%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.56%) Virgin Media