Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data Pipelines
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 86 83
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 13 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.78% 0.49% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.54% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £506 - £553
25th Percentile £513 - £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £315 £608
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -48.15% +48.17%
75th Percentile £566 - £634
90th Percentile £575 - £638
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +46.34%

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 654 931 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.71% 91.27% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 527 620
10th Percentile £350 £317 £213
25th Percentile £433 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £615 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £698 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.90 £41.24
25th Percentile £24.81 £35.75 £59.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £94.06 £63.24 £65.25
90th Percentile £99.25 £68.78 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Reading

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 4 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (30.77%) dbt
3 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) iPaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Relational Database
2 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (30.77%) Power BI
3 4 (30.77%) Tableau
4 2 (15.38%) Big Data
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (7.69%) Parquet
5 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.69%) PowerCenter
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Security Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Informatica Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) scikit-learn
2 4 (30.77%) Google JAX
2 4 (30.77%) JAX
2 4 (30.77%) PyTorch
2 4 (30.77%) TensorFlow
3 2 (15.38%) PySpark
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) NumPy
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (61.54%) Workflow
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 6 (46.15%) ETL
3 5 (38.46%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Data Science
3 5 (38.46%) Data Transformation
3 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) LLM
3 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
3 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
4 4 (30.77%) AI
4 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) Validation
4 4 (30.77%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) Java
4 4 (30.77%) C++
4 4 (30.77%) R
5 3 (23.08%) C
6 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
1 5 (38.46%) Master's Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) GDPR
2 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 4 (30.77%) EU AI Act
2 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (15.38%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Databricks
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Informatica