Data Pipeline Contracts in Scotland

Data Pipelines
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 112 148
Rank change year-on-year +16 +36 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 20 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.22% 0.57% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.65% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 10
10th Percentile £409 £433 £343
25th Percentile £425 £440 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% +6.59% -21.59%
75th Percentile £488 £457 £477
90th Percentile £533 £460 £559
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

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 1,532 1,849 2,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.76% 87.96% 92.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,142 1,741
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +0.95%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 92 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.18 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £24.78 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Scotland

Data Pipeline
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 May 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 22 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
Edinburgh +23 15 £475 -25.49% 22
Glasgow -9 4 £415 -8.39% 18
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UK

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (35.00%) Snowflake
4 6 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (30.00%) Azure
4 6 (30.00%) Serverless
5 5 (25.00%) GCP
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (10.00%) Big Data
5 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (10.00%) Looker
5 2 (10.00%) Metadata
5 2 (10.00%) PowerCenter
5 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.00%) DB2
6 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
6 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) ER Studio
2 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Open Source Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) Great Expectations
3 1 (5.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) ETL
2 10 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (40.00%) Data Transformation
4 7 (35.00%) Analytics
4 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (30.00%) Data Governance
6 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Workflow
8 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
8 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
8 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (15.00%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 16 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Informatica
2 3 (15.00%) Teradata
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (5.00%) Greenplum
4 1 (5.00%) Pega
4 1 (5.00%) TSYS