Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Data Pipelines
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 4.95% 1.69% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 2.00% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £391 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £350
75th Percentile - - £375
90th Percentile £563 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +8.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84 50 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 83.17% 84.75% 79.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 24 58
10th Percentile £179 £140 £132
25th Percentile £200 £150 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £225 £372
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -39.50% -25.62%
75th Percentile £494 £491 £484
90th Percentile £735 £590 £581
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 9
10th Percentile - £12.40 £14.29
25th Percentile - £21.61 £15.13
Median hourly rate £13.10 £30.00 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -56.33% -11.58% +23.38%
75th Percentile £20.93 £31.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £25.62 £36.63 £54.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £23.36 £19.00
% change year-on-year +45.51% +22.95% -24.75%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Data Pipeline

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Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Staffordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Uttoxeter - 3 £450 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £388 - 3
Data Pipeline
West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Delta Lake
2 3 (60.00%) Spark SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Tableau
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Change Data Capture
2 3 (60.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft