Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Pipelines
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 113 128
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 27 14 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.17% 0.67% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.77% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 8
10th Percentile £480 £450 £421
25th Percentile £525 £456 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £625 £522 £556
90th Percentile £675 £588 £594
England median daily rate £525 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -0.85% -0.84% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £65.48 - -
25th Percentile £67.73 - -
Median hourly rate £73.17 - -
75th Percentile £76.93 - -
90th Percentile £78.17 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.25 £53.60
% change year-on-year +9.39% +14.28% -16.91%

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 1,942 1,825 2,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.89% 86.74% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,123 1,736
10th Percentile £263 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £731 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 128 268
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.57 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.88 £45.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the South West over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the South West

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Pipeline
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 16 December 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 +6 15 £550 -4.35% 12
Bristol +7 7 £575 - 19
Dorset - 2 - - 5
Devon +8 1 - - 12
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.81%) Apache
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.70%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (37.04%) GitHub
4 5 (18.52%) AWS
5 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.70%) Matillion
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.81%) Power BI
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data
4 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
4 2 (7.41%) KDB
4 2 (7.41%) Kdb+
4 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.41%) SAP BW
4 2 (7.41%) SAP HANA
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.70%) Impala
5 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Data Engineer
2 14 (51.85%) Senior
3 13 (48.15%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (7.41%) KDB Developer
5 2 (7.41%) SAP BI Developer
5 2 (7.41%) SAP Developer
5 2 (7.41%) SAP Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Scientific Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (62.96%) Kafka
2 12 (44.44%) Keycloak
3 3 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.70%) JWT
5 1 (3.70%) NLTK
5 1 (3.70%) Node.js
5 1 (3.70%) OAuth
5 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.70%) OpenMP
5 1 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (3.70%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) SCADA
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) ETL
2 14 (51.85%) Data Engineering
2 14 (51.85%) DevOps
3 12 (44.44%) Batch Processing
3 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 12 (44.44%) DataOps
4 11 (40.74%) Data Architecture
5 9 (33.33%) Analytics
6 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
6 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
7 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.81%) Machine Learning
7 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.11%) AI
8 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (11.11%) Data Science
8 3 (11.11%) Migration
8 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) Go
3 5 (18.52%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) ABAP
4 2 (7.41%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) C
5 1 (3.70%) C++
5 1 (3.70%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 17 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 15 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 12 (44.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Kibana
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 2 (7.41%) Grafana
3 2 (7.41%) logstash
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Databricks
1 2 (7.41%) SAP
2 1 (3.70%) IBM
2 1 (3.70%) Talend