Data Pipeline Contracts in Reading

Data Pipelines
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 90 75
Rank change year-on-year +33 -15 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 3 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.084% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.093% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +100.00%
75th Percentile - - £613
90th Percentile - - £622
Berkshire median daily rate £482 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +28.53% -28.57% +90.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £75.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Automation Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Tester
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) SAP