Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Pipelines
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 114 118
Rank change year-on-year +42 +4 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 42 5 25
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.67% 0.29% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 0.33% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 4 18
10th Percentile £320 £327 £451
25th Percentile £351 £333 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £367 £519
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -29.20% -9.78%
75th Percentile £449 £399 £575
90th Percentile £526 £400 £683
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.57% - -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,386 1,521 2,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.22% 88.43% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 901 1,374
10th Percentile £238 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 46 57
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £52.25 £31.44 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Scotland

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Glasgow +24 31 £400 +8.92% 1
Edinburgh +14 9 £500 - 2
Data Pipeline
UK

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (19.05%) Apache Spark
2 7 (16.67%) Apache
2 7 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) Amazon S3
2 9 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (21.43%) Serverless
3 8 (19.05%) Snowflake
4 7 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 7 (16.67%) Azure
4 7 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.76%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.38%) dbt
8 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 9 (21.43%) Relational Database
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (14.29%) Delta Lake
5 6 (14.29%) GIS
6 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
6 5 (11.90%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.76%) Big Data
7 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.76%) Power BI
8 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) GitLab
2 6 (14.29%) MLflow
3 5 (11.90%) Git
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Data Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Senior
3 6 (14.29%) Integration Specialist
4 5 (11.90%) Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Data Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) SQL Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) SQL Data Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.38%) Ab Initio Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) DBA
8 1 (2.38%) Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Ab Initio Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) PySpark
2 9 (21.43%) Pandas
3 8 (19.05%) NumPy
4 6 (14.29%) Middleware
5 3 (7.14%) REST
6 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
6 2 (4.76%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.76%) Kafka
6 2 (4.76%) OpenCV
6 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
6 2 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (2.38%) boto
7 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.38%) Hugging Face
7 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Unix
2 3 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Analytics
2 14 (33.33%) Agile
2 14 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 12 (28.57%) ETL
4 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 10 (23.81%) Data Modelling
6 9 (21.43%) Data Analytics
7 8 (19.05%) Data Governance
7 8 (19.05%) Data Integration
7 8 (19.05%) Unit Testing
7 8 (19.05%) Visualisation
8 7 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 7 (16.67%) Data Development
8 7 (16.67%) Data Science
8 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (14.29%) Migration
9 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (71.43%) Python
2 20 (47.62%) SQL
3 5 (11.90%) PL/SQL
4 4 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.38%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
1 1 (2.38%) Grafana
1 1 (2.38%) Kibana
1 1 (2.38%) logstash
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Databricks
2 6 (14.29%) SAP
3 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.14%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.38%) Greenplum
6 1 (2.38%) IBM
6 1 (2.38%) Informatica
6 1 (2.38%) Talend