Data Pipeline Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Pipelines
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 79 139 128
Rank change year-on-year +60 -11 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 23 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.52% 0.22% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.26% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 12
10th Percentile £364 £278 £465
25th Percentile £405 £309 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +28.27% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £502 £438 £613
90th Percentile £537 £468 -
South East median daily rate £454 £650 £538
% change year-on-year -30.15% +20.93% -13.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £75.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +44 17 £482 +28.53% 20
Buckinghamshire +18 4 £450 - 19
Oxfordshire - 4 £360 - 22
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (34.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (34.78%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) Big Data
2 8 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (30.43%) Data Lake
4 6 (26.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
5 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
5 4 (17.39%) Spark SQL
5 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
6 3 (13.04%) Hadoop
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (8.70%) Apache Hive
7 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (8.70%) MySQL
7 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (8.70%) Electronics
1 2 (8.70%) Finance
1 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
1 2 (8.70%) Marketing
1 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
1 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.35%) Automotive
2 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Data Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Big Data Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Automation Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) PySpark
2 4 (17.39%) Kafka
3 2 (8.70%) Gherkin
3 2 (8.70%) JDBC
4 1 (4.35%) NumPy
4 1 (4.35%) Pandas
4 1 (4.35%) Prophet
4 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) ETL
2 9 (39.13%) Analytics
2 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (34.78%) Data Integration
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (30.43%) Data Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
5 6 (26.09%) Data Migration
5 6 (26.09%) Migration
6 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
6 5 (21.74%) Data Security
6 5 (21.74%) DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (17.39%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
8 3 (13.04%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) SQL
2 19 (82.61%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
1 3 (13.04%) HIPAA
1 3 (13.04%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Databricks
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Google