Data Pipeline Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Pipelines
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 164 246 315
Rank change year-on-year +82 +69 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 193 155 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.51% 0.75% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.88% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 108 100
10th Percentile £349 £363 £405
25th Percentile £406 £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £525 £586 £613
90th Percentile £605 £639 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £28.30 £25.34 £40.15
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £55.88
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +11.86% +179.38%
75th Percentile £75.60 £66.50 £65.88
90th Percentile £77.46 £67.55 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.25
% change year-on-year +4.00% -11.03% +133.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North of England +57 94 £475 -5.00% 95
North West +52 64 £463 -7.50% 50
South East +58 30 £454 -30.15% 203
Yorkshire +10 26 £575 +2.22% 35
Midlands +5 26 £467 -15.09% 51
Scotland +20 19 £450 -0.66% 25
West Midlands -8 14 £550 - 27
South West +47 12 £513 -6.82% 55
East Midlands +15 12 £450 +9.09% 20
East of England +25 9 £367 -28.40% 34
Wales +4 4 £206 -58.74% 10
North East - 4 £404 - 10
Northern Ireland -10 2 £560 +13.42% 10
Data Pipeline
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 29 (15.03%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (13.99%) Apache Spark
3 26 (13.47%) Apache
4 4 (2.07%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) CATIA
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.41%) AWS
2 69 (35.75%) Azure
3 44 (22.80%) GCP
4 32 (16.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 29 (15.03%) Amazon S3
6 28 (14.51%) Power Platform
7 26 (13.47%) Snowflake
8 19 (9.84%) GitHub
8 19 (9.84%) Serverless
9 17 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (8.29%) dbt
11 11 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (5.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (5.18%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.63%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (3.11%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.55%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (25.91%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (14.51%) Data Lake
2 28 (14.51%) Power BI
3 25 (12.95%) Big Data
4 18 (9.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (8.81%) BigQuery
5 17 (8.81%) Relational Database
6 15 (7.77%) Hadoop
7 14 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (7.25%) SQL Server
8 13 (6.74%) Tableau
9 12 (6.22%) NoSQL
10 11 (5.70%) Flink
10 11 (5.70%) Metadata
11 9 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (4.15%) MongoDB
13 7 (3.63%) MySQL
14 6 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (3.11%) Spark SQL
15 5 (2.59%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (9.33%) Git
2 13 (6.74%) GitLab
3 8 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.59%) JIRA
5 3 (1.55%) ER Studio
5 3 (1.55%) ERwin
6 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.04%) JMeter
6 2 (1.04%) Postman
6 2 (1.04%) Selenium
6 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.04%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.52%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.52%) Mocha
7 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.95%) Finance
3 24 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.66%) Banking
6 7 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.59%) Marketing
8 4 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.55%) Retail
10 2 (1.04%) Electronics
10 2 (1.04%) Legal
10 2 (1.04%) Local Government
10 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.04%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Advertising
11 1 (0.52%) Automotive
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (48.19%) Data Engineer
2 35 (18.13%) Senior
3 28 (14.51%) Architect
4 22 (11.40%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (7.77%) Developer
6 13 (6.74%) Data Architect
7 10 (5.18%) Lead
8 9 (4.66%) Analyst
8 9 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Python Data Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Python Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Snowflake Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.11%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.11%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.62%) Kafka
2 33 (17.10%) PySpark
3 10 (5.18%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (5.18%) RESTful
4 9 (4.66%) AngularJS
4 9 (4.66%) React
5 8 (4.15%) Pandas
6 6 (3.11%) JDBC
7 5 (2.59%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (2.07%) Apache Beam
8 4 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.07%) NumPy
8 4 (2.07%) OAuth
8 4 (2.07%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.07%) OpenID
8 4 (2.07%) REST
8 4 (2.07%) SAML
8 4 (2.07%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (1.55%) Node.js
10 2 (1.04%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.15%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (3.63%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.07%) Replication
6 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.55%) NHS
7 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.04%) CRISPR
7 2 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.63%) Linux
2 4 (2.07%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (50.26%) ETL
2 80 (41.45%) Analytics
3 70 (36.27%) Data Modelling
4 63 (32.64%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (29.53%) Data Engineering
6 46 (23.83%) CI/CD
6 46 (23.83%) Visualisation
7 39 (20.21%) DevOps
8 38 (19.69%) Business Intelligence
9 37 (19.17%) Agile
10 35 (18.13%) Containerisation
11 33 (17.10%) Data Governance
11 33 (17.10%) Data Science
12 32 (16.58%) Decision-Making
13 29 (15.03%) Data Ingestion
13 29 (15.03%) Data Integration
14 25 (12.95%) Data Security
15 22 (11.40%) Data Management
16 21 (10.88%) Workflow
17 20 (10.36%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 115 (59.59%) SQL
2 110 (56.99%) Python
3 15 (7.77%) Java
4 9 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.15%) Scala
6 7 (3.63%) R
7 6 (3.11%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.59%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.07%) Bash
9 4 (2.07%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.04%) C#
11 1 (0.52%) C++
11 1 (0.52%) Groovy
11 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.88%) Degree
3 14 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.22%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.15%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (22.80%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.74%) QA
3 11 (5.70%) GDPR
4 6 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.07%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (10.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.54%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.84%) Terraform
3 4 (2.07%) Grafana
3 4 (2.07%) Kibana
3 4 (2.07%) logstash
4 3 (1.55%) Ansible
4 3 (1.55%) Istio
4 3 (1.55%) Kustomize
4 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (23.83%) Databricks
2 25 (12.95%) Google
3 22 (11.40%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.18%) Oracle
5 6 (3.11%) Informatica
6 5 (2.59%) SAP
7 3 (1.55%) IDERA
7 3 (1.55%) Talend
7 3 (1.55%) Teradata
8 2 (1.04%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.04%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.04%) Brio
8 2 (1.04%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.04%) IBM
8 2 (1.04%) Mapbox
8 2 (1.04%) Nintex
8 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.04%) Splunk
9 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.52%) Remedy