Data Pipeline Contracts in the South East

Data Pipelines
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 129 187 172
Rank change year-on-year +58 -15 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 30 18 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.00% 0.32% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.38% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 32
10th Percentile £320 £320 £453
25th Percentile £359 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% +20.93% -13.13%
75th Percentile £504 £663 £588
90th Percentile £541 £680 £613
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £62.50 £70.25
% change year-on-year -6.00% -11.03% +133.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +60 23 £481 +28.27% 35
Berkshire +44 17 £482 +28.53% 10
Surrey +21 6 £359 -44.81% 6
Buckinghamshire +18 4 £450 - 9
Oxfordshire - 4 £360 - 17
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (26.67%) AWS
4 7 (23.33%) Power Platform
5 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 4 (13.33%) GCP
7 3 (10.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (3.33%) Contentsquare
9 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Big Data
2 10 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (30.00%) Data Lake
4 7 (23.33%) Power BI
5 6 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
7 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
7 4 (13.33%) Spark SQL
7 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
8 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (6.67%) Apache Hive
9 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (6.67%) MySQL
9 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
10 1 (3.33%) Power Query
10 1 (3.33%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
1 3 (10.00%) Marketing
1 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Electronics
2 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.33%) Automotive
3 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Data Scientist
3 4 (13.33%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Big Data Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Automation Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) PySpark
2 4 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) Gherkin
3 2 (6.67%) JDBC
4 1 (3.33%) NumPy
4 1 (3.33%) Pandas
4 1 (3.33%) Prophet
4 1 (3.33%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Analytics
2 14 (46.67%) ETL
3 13 (43.33%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (30.00%) Data Engineering
6 9 (30.00%) Data Integration
7 8 (26.67%) Agile
8 7 (23.33%) Decision-Making
9 6 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 6 (20.00%) Data Migration
9 6 (20.00%) Migration
10 5 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (16.67%) Data Science
10 5 (16.67%) Data Security
10 5 (16.67%) DevOps
10 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) SQL
2 24 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) Bash
3 3 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.67%) R
5 1 (3.33%) C++
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
2 3 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Databricks
2 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Adobe
5 1 (3.33%) Foundry
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Palantir
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk