Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Pipelines
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 219 273
Rank change year-on-year +45 +54 +84
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 223 166 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.44% 0.93% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.11% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 115 119
10th Percentile £356 £352 £413
25th Percentile £409 £400 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £638
90th Percentile £600 £708 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £52.45 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £70.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - +66.67%

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 13,808 14,890 18,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.26% 83.05% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,304 8,562 12,469
10th Percentile £235 £242 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,447 1,212 1,260
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.04 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +1.18% +84.18%
75th Percentile £42.50 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.53%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Pipeline

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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Pipeline

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 19 September 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 19 September 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
Midlands +4 63 £500 +2.04% 29
North of England -20 63 £475 -2.06% 83
West Midlands +6 48 £515 -6.36% 20
North West +5 37 £475 +5.56% 44
South East +14 31 £450 +20.00% 172
Scotland +19 29 £358 -20.97% 15
East of England +23 24 £563 +9.76% 23
Yorkshire -22 23 £500 - 31
East Midlands 0 14 £450 +16.13% 9
South West +13 13 £475 -13.64% 28
Northern Ireland -1 4 £500 +17.65% 4
North East -2 3 £450 -24.69% 8
Wales +2 1 £500 - 5
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 45 (20.18%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (17.94%) Apache Spark
3 24 (10.76%) Apache
4 21 (9.42%) SAS
5 4 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.35%) Confluence
6 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (36.32%) AWS
2 66 (29.60%) Azure
3 42 (18.83%) GCP
4 40 (17.94%) Power Platform
5 35 (15.70%) Amazon S3
6 31 (13.90%) Serverless
7 27 (12.11%) Snowflake
8 22 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (8.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (7.17%) dbt
11 13 (5.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (5.83%) GitHub
12 10 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.04%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (4.04%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (2.69%) Apigee
14 6 (2.69%) Cloud Functions
14 6 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) MQTT
1 1 (0.45%) SSH
1 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (26.01%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (17.94%) Power BI
3 35 (15.70%) Relational Database
4 29 (13.00%) Data Lake
5 24 (10.76%) NoSQL
6 20 (8.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (8.97%) Big Data
7 19 (8.52%) Hadoop
8 18 (8.07%) Pentaho
9 17 (7.62%) Tableau
10 14 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (6.28%) SQL Server
11 12 (5.38%) Metadata
12 11 (4.93%) Delta Lake
13 9 (4.04%) Apache Hive
13 9 (4.04%) HBase
13 9 (4.04%) RDBMS
14 8 (3.59%) Flink
14 8 (3.59%) GIS
14 8 (3.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (23.32%) Git
2 30 (13.45%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.42%) JIRA
4 16 (7.17%) GitLab
5 6 (2.69%) MLflow
6 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.90%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.90%) JMeter
7 2 (0.90%) Postman
7 2 (0.90%) Selenium
7 2 (0.90%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.45%) Pylint
8 1 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 74 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (12.56%) Finance
4 15 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.48%) Banking
6 7 (3.14%) Aerospace
6 7 (3.14%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.69%) Retail
8 5 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.35%) Legal
11 2 (0.90%) Local Government
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
11 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Automotive
12 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (40.36%) Data Engineer
2 24 (10.76%) Architect
3 23 (10.31%) Developer
4 20 (8.97%) Senior
5 16 (7.17%) Analyst
6 13 (5.83%) Data Analyst
7 12 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (5.38%) Lead
7 12 (5.38%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (4.04%) AWS Data Engineer
9 9 (4.04%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (3.14%) Data Scientist
10 7 (3.14%) Python Engineer
10 7 (3.14%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (2.69%) C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (2.69%) Cloud Developer
11 6 (2.69%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.35%) PySpark
2 30 (13.45%) Kafka
3 15 (6.73%) Spark Streaming
4 13 (5.83%) Pandas
5 11 (4.93%) PyTorch
6 10 (4.48%) TensorFlow
7 9 (4.04%) scikit-learn
8 8 (3.59%) Node.js
8 8 (3.59%) NumPy
8 8 (3.59%) RESTful
9 7 (3.14%) Apache Beam
9 7 (3.14%) JDBC
9 7 (3.14%) Middleware
10 6 (2.69%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.24%) REST
12 4 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (1.79%) Flask
12 4 (1.79%) Google JAX
12 4 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.04%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.59%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.69%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.69%) FPGA
5 6 (2.69%) PCIe
5 6 (2.69%) State Machine
6 5 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.79%) Replication
8 2 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) IoT
8 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) SCADA
8 2 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.17%) Linux
2 6 (2.69%) Windows
3 5 (2.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (45.29%) ETL
2 92 (41.26%) Analytics
3 87 (39.01%) Data Modelling
4 86 (38.57%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (38.12%) CI/CD
6 72 (32.29%) Data Engineering
7 68 (30.49%) Business Intelligence
8 64 (28.70%) DevOps
9 60 (26.91%) Agile
10 48 (21.52%) Data Integration
11 42 (18.83%) Visualisation
12 38 (17.04%) Test Automation
13 37 (16.59%) Data Governance
14 36 (16.14%) Data Analytics
14 36 (16.14%) Data Science
15 35 (15.70%) Machine Learning
16 34 (15.25%) Decision-Making
17 32 (14.35%) Validation
18 25 (11.21%) Containerisation
18 25 (11.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 127 (56.95%) SQL
2 117 (52.47%) Python
3 24 (10.76%) Java
4 14 (6.28%) Scala
5 11 (4.93%) C++
6 9 (4.04%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.14%) C#
8 6 (2.69%) R
9 5 (2.24%) VBA
10 4 (1.79%) C
10 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.35%) Bash
11 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.90%) ABAP
13 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.45%) Fortran
13 1 (0.45%) Groovy
13 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.11%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.31%) Degree
4 11 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.14%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.14%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.90%) MCP
9 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.90%) PMP
10 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.45%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (30.94%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.93%) GDPR
3 8 (3.59%) QA
4 6 (2.69%) EU AI Act
5 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.79%) NIST
6 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (20.63%) Docker
2 9 (4.04%) HDFS
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (20.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.48%) Ansible
3 9 (4.04%) Hadoop YARN
3 9 (4.04%) Terraform
4 5 (2.24%) Kibana
4 5 (2.24%) logstash
4 5 (2.24%) Puppet
5 4 (1.79%) Grafana
6 3 (1.35%) Oozie
7 2 (0.90%) Control-M
7 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.45%) Argo
8 1 (0.45%) Istio
8 1 (0.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 36 (16.14%) Databricks
2 31 (13.90%) Microsoft
3 30 (13.45%) Oracle
4 19 (8.52%) Talend
5 17 (7.62%) Denodo
5 17 (7.62%) Google
6 12 (5.38%) SAP
7 6 (2.69%) Foundry
7 6 (2.69%) Informatica
8 5 (2.24%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.79%) Palantir
9 4 (1.79%) StreamSets
10 3 (1.35%) IBM
10 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.90%) Capita
11 2 (0.90%) Cognos
11 2 (0.90%) Nintex
11 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.45%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.45%) TSYS