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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 177 164
Rank change year-on-year +42 -13 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 21 26 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 0.45% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.55% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 37
10th Percentile £304 £356 £413
25th Percentile £338 £363 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -28.57% -23.24%
75th Percentile £434 £496 £588
90th Percentile £485 £639 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -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 £52.50 £62.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year -16.00% -17.22% +123.70%

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 2,777 4,739 5,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.29% 82.43% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 2,733 3,502
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 479 231
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.04 £15.99
25th Percentile £15.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -4.03% +131.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.09 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
% change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%

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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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +30 10 £400 +6.67% 176
Berkshire +23 6 £459 +22.33% 106
Surrey +21 6 £350 -31.03% 49
Hampshire +27 4 £402 -3.13% 59
Oxfordshire - 4 £360 - 32
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £355 - 39
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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 6 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) AWS
3 7 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 6 (28.57%) Snowflake
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (19.05%) GCP
7 3 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (14.29%) Serverless
8 2 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (4.76%) Contentsquare
9 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (33.33%) Power BI
3 4 (19.05%) Big Data
3 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
3 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
3 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
3 4 (19.05%) Spark SQL
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (14.29%) Hadoop
5 2 (9.52%) Apache Hive
5 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.52%) MySQL
5 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Data Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Data Scientist
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Big Data Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Hadoop Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) PySpark
3 2 (9.52%) JDBC
4 1 (4.76%) NumPy
4 1 (4.76%) Pandas
4 1 (4.76%) Prophet
4 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.76%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Data Modelling
1 13 (61.90%) ETL
2 11 (52.38%) Analytics
3 10 (47.62%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (47.62%) Data Integration
3 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
4 8 (38.10%) Data Science
4 8 (38.10%) Data Security
5 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 6 (28.57%) Visualisation
7 5 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (23.81%) Agile
7 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
7 5 (23.81%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
8 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
8 4 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) SQL
2 18 (85.71%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 3 (14.29%) Scala
5 2 (9.52%) R
6 1 (4.76%) C++
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 4 (19.05%) GDPR
3 3 (14.29%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Databricks
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) Foundry
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Palantir
2 1 (4.76%) SAP