Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Data Pipelines
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.67% 1.89% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile £651 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £650 £400 -
% change year-on-year +62.50% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 49 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 70.83% 92.45% 71.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 21 41
10th Percentile £324 - £180
25th Percentile £400 £222 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £363 £438
Median % change year-on-year +41.38% -17.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £450 £500
90th Percentile £783 £600 £569
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 2
10th Percentile £29.00 - £12.85
25th Percentile £35.56 £25.15 £13.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £51.08 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +258.42% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £87.97 £15.13
90th Percentile - £89.63 £15.65
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £37.75 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year +50.10% +57.19% -50.48%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Oxford

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Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Data Pipeline

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Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Oxford over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Oxford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (50.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Biotechnology
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes