Data Pipeline Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Pipelines
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Pipeline skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 304 333
Rank change year-on-year +57 +29 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 154 152 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.63% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.71% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 105 94
10th Percentile £363 £405 £407
25th Percentile £425 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £631 £685
90th Percentile £639 £700 £732
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £25.34 £40.15 -
25th Percentile £43.25 £46.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% +179.38% -
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.88 £22.50
90th Percentile £67.55 £71.80 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.25 £30.13
% change year-on-year -11.03% +133.20% -34.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Pipeline is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London

Data Pipeline
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London

Data Pipeline
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
North of England +39 52 £500 +2.56% 28
Midlands +50 43 £550 +0.92% 28
West Midlands +35 36 £550 +0.92% 20
North West +10 28 £500 +5.26% 13
Yorkshire +36 24 £563 -13.46% 12
South East -7 18 £650 +23.81% 21
East of England +27 14 £513 -2.38% 18
Scotland +34 12 £453 +6.59% 9
South West +19 10 £550 -18.52% 17
East Midlands - 7 £413 - 8
Northern Ireland - 4 £494 - 4
Wales +18 1 £500 - 9
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UK

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 28 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 23 (14.94%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (14.29%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.65%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.65%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 53 (34.42%) Azure
2 47 (30.52%) AWS
3 23 (14.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 16 (10.39%) GCP
5 16 (10.39%) Power Platform
6 14 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 11 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (7.14%) Serverless
8 9 (5.84%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (2.60%) iPaaS
13 3 (1.95%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (1.95%) dbt
13 3 (1.95%) Vertex AI
14 2 (1.30%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
1 14 (9.09%) Network Security
2 5 (3.25%) FTP
3 2 (1.30%) SAN
4 1 (0.65%) HTTP
4 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (23.38%) Big Data
2 31 (20.13%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (14.94%) Data Lake
4 16 (10.39%) Power BI
5 12 (7.79%) Hadoop
5 12 (7.79%) Relational Database
5 12 (7.79%) Tableau
6 11 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (6.49%) Apache Hive
7 10 (6.49%) BigQuery
7 10 (6.49%) SQL Server
8 9 (5.84%) Flink
9 8 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (4.55%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.90%) Impala
12 4 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (2.60%) HBase
12 4 (2.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (14.94%) Git
2 10 (6.49%) JIRA
3 7 (4.55%) Mercurial
4 4 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.30%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) ERwin
6 1 (0.65%) JMeter
6 1 (0.65%) Postman
6 1 (0.65%) TestRail
General
1 32 (20.78%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (18.83%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.84%) Finance
5 7 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.55%) Multimedia
5 7 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.25%) Banking
7 4 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.95%) Back Office
9 2 (1.30%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.30%) Police
9 2 (1.30%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (43.51%) Data Engineer
2 19 (12.34%) Developer
3 15 (9.74%) Senior
4 13 (8.44%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
6 11 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 10 (6.49%) Architect
8 9 (5.84%) Analyst
8 9 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) SIEM Engineer
10 7 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (3.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 5 (3.25%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (6.49%) Kafka
2 10 (6.49%) Pandas
3 9 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (5.84%) NumPy
4 8 (5.19%) PySpark
4 8 (5.19%) React
5 7 (4.55%) Flask
5 7 (4.55%) SciPy
6 6 (3.90%) FastAPI
6 6 (3.90%) JSON
6 6 (3.90%) XML
7 2 (1.30%) REST
7 2 (1.30%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.65%) .NET
8 1 (0.65%) CSS
8 1 (0.65%) HTML
8 1 (0.65%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.65%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.39%) Distributed Applications
2 15 (9.74%) Cyber Defence
2 15 (9.74%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.25%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.25%) Social Media
7 4 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.95%) NHS
8 3 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.30%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.65%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.83%) Windows
2 25 (16.23%) Linux
3 15 (9.74%) Unix
4 12 (7.79%) Android
4 12 (7.79%) Apple iOS
5 8 (5.19%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.61%) Data Engineering
2 53 (34.42%) Data Modelling
3 50 (32.47%) ETL
4 45 (29.22%) Analytics
5 32 (20.78%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (20.78%) Data Management
6 27 (17.53%) Data Integration
7 24 (15.58%) CI/CD
7 24 (15.58%) Computer Science
7 24 (15.58%) SIEM
8 23 (14.94%) DevOps
9 22 (14.29%) Data Governance
9 22 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (12.34%) Data Analysis
11 18 (11.69%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (11.69%) DataOps
11 18 (11.69%) Machine Learning
11 18 (11.69%) Visualisation
12 16 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (10.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 83 (53.90%) Python
2 63 (40.91%) SQL
3 35 (22.73%) Java
4 23 (14.94%) Scala
5 12 (7.79%) C#
6 11 (7.14%) R
7 8 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.30%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.30%) Perl
9 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.04%) DV Cleared
3 15 (9.74%) Degree
4 13 (8.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.30%) PhD
8 1 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.53%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (3.90%) QA
4 3 (1.95%) GDPR
5 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (14.94%) Docker
2 8 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.19%) iptables
3 5 (3.25%) HDFS
4 2 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 22 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.34%) Terraform
3 8 (5.19%) Kibana
3 8 (5.19%) logstash
4 2 (1.30%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.65%) Control-M
Vendors
1 31 (20.13%) Databricks
2 11 (7.14%) Informatica
2 11 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 9 (5.84%) Google
3 9 (5.84%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.84%) SAP
4 7 (4.55%) Talend
5 4 (2.60%) IFS
6 2 (1.30%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.30%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.30%) QAD
6 2 (1.30%) VMware
7 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.65%) Brio
7 1 (0.65%) Facebook
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle
7 1 (0.65%) Palantir
7 1 (0.65%) Sage
7 1 (0.65%) Teradata
7 1 (0.65%) Twitter