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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 110 110
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 +64
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 20 15 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.20% 0.66% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.78% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 23
10th Percentile £390 £352 £370
25th Percentile £406 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £613
90th Percentile £580 £539 £636
South East median daily rate £419 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -6.94% -14.29% -21.81%

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 1,537 1,916 2,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.98% 84.59% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,090 1,694
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 108 86
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.90 £15.13
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £55.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.71% +10.88% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £66.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.37 £75.13
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +94.17%

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

Data Pipeline
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

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the Thames Valley

Data Pipeline
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 18 August 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 +25 18 £525 +40.00% 39
Oxfordshire - 2 £375 - 9
Buckinghamshire -1 1 £350 -26.32% 4
Data Pipeline
South East

Data Pipeline
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 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (15.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) GCP
4 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (20.00%) dbt
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (25.00%) Big Data
3 5 (25.00%) Power BI
4 4 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (20.00%) Spark SQL
4 4 (20.00%) Tableau
5 3 (15.00%) MySQL
5 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
7 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
7 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
7 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Big Data Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Hadoop Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Kafka
1 6 (30.00%) scikit-learn
2 5 (25.00%) PySpark
3 4 (20.00%) Google JAX
3 4 (20.00%) JAX
3 4 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 4 (20.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (10.00%) JDBC
4 2 (10.00%) NumPy
4 2 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) ETL
3 9 (45.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
5 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (35.00%) Data Science
5 7 (35.00%) LLM
5 7 (35.00%) Machine Learning
5 7 (35.00%) Visualisation
5 7 (35.00%) Workflow
6 6 (30.00%) DevOps
7 5 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (25.00%) Data Transformation
7 5 (25.00%) Validation
8 4 (20.00%) Agile
8 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (20.00%) Data Security
8 4 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 15 (75.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) C++
4 4 (20.00%) R
5 3 (15.00%) C
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) GDPR
2 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (20.00%) EU AI Act
3 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (10.00%) NIST
5 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle