Data Pipeline Contracts in the South West

Data Pipelines
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 99 146 153
Rank change year-on-year +47 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 12 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.72% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.41% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 13
10th Percentile £450 £346 £409
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £566 £688
90th Percentile £639 £613 £722
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £475 - 15
Bristol +15 2 £550 -4.35% 20
Somerset - 2 £550 - 10
Wiltshire +32 1 £600 +20.00% 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Matillion
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (8.33%) Google Ads
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Local Government
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 7 (58.33%) ETL
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (16.67%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (8.33%) Data Science
5 1 (8.33%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kibana
1 2 (16.67%) logstash
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) Criteo
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft