Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Data Pipelines
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 1 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.25% 1.68% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 1.89% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £177 -
25th Percentile - £192 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £206 £525
Median % change year-on-year +142.35% -60.70% -
75th Percentile - £231 £538
90th Percentile - £265 -
Wales median daily rate £400 £213 £525
% change year-on-year +88.12% -59.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
Wales median hourly rate - £26.50 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 300 265 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 75.95% 89.23% 81.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 171 226
10th Percentile £214 £188 £147
25th Percentile £304 £258 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £444
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -4.23% -6.58%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 26 28
10th Percentile £12.21 - £11.57
25th Percentile £15.96 £20.12 £15.45
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.27
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.96% +29.66%
75th Percentile £48.42 £38.13 £54.13
90th Percentile £83.00 £45.00 £86.54
Wales median hourly rate £19.10 £22.50 £25.27
% change year-on-year -15.13% -10.96% +29.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Pipeline

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Pipeline

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Cardiff -9 1 £500 +142.35% 4
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Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks