Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Data Pipelines
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 6.90% 3.45% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% 5.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
West Wales median daily rate £400 £500 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24 20 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 82.76% 68.97% 68.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 11
10th Percentile £400 £139 £180
25th Percentile £413 £438 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +53.85% -31.58%
75th Percentile £481 £535 £394
90th Percentile £498 £558 £500
West Wales median daily rate £425 £500 £325
% change year-on-year -15.00% +53.85% -31.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £16.75 - -
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £18.50 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% - -
75th Percentile £19.13 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.35 - -
West Wales median hourly rate £13.85 £22.50 -
% change year-on-year -38.47% - -

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Swansea

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks