Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Pipelines
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -54 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 9 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.11% 1.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £268 £550 -
25th Percentile £295 £573 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% - -
75th Percentile £488 £688 -
90th Percentile £544 £718 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £625 -
% change year-on-year -24.00% - -

All Process & 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 766 221 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.68% 95.26% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 135 224
10th Percentile £350 £220 £366
25th Percentile £413 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £14.44 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £15.34 £12.62 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -34.02% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile - £16.97 £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
% change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Sheffield over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Sheffield

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (44.44%) Apache Spark
2 3 (33.33%) Apache
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Hadoop
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 3 (33.33%) HBase
3 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Hadoop Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (22.22%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Avro
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Analytics
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Data Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Use Case
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (33.33%) Data Security
4 2 (22.22%) Data Mapping
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
5 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google