Data Pipeline Contracts in Sheffield

Data Pipelines
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 41 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 9 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.82% 1.06% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 1.14% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £515 - £655
25th Percentile £538 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% +35.00%
75th Percentile £638 - £688
90th Percentile £645 - £695
South Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £550 £675
% change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 5 (55.56%) Apache
1 5 (55.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) GCP
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Flink
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) GCP Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) ETL
2 6 (66.67%) Data Management
2 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 6 (66.67%) Workflow
2 6 (66.67%) Workflow Management
3 5 (55.56%) Data Lineage
3 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 2 (22.22%) Data Science
7 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (11.11%) High Availability
7 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
7 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Groovy
2 1 (11.11%) Scala
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat