Data Pipeline Contracts

Data Pipelines
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 194 286
Rank change year-on-year +54 +92 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 600 533 553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.05% 1.22% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.42% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 400 365
10th Percentile £375 £381 £419
25th Percentile £425 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £39.29 £25.94 £50.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -11.03% +133.20%
75th Percentile £77.15 £66.38 £80.81
90th Percentile £92.50 £67.35 £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £55.88
% change year-on-year +12.00% +11.86% +179.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +55 523 £500 -9.09% 676
London +34 322 £525 -8.70% 445
Work from Home +59 193 £500 -4.76% 401
UK excluding London +78 191 £469 -6.25% 258
North of England +63 92 £475 -5.00% 76
North West +46 63 £463 -7.50% 43
South East +56 30 £454 -30.15% 59
Midlands +6 26 £467 -15.09% 35
Yorkshire +16 25 £575 +2.22% 24
Scotland +16 19 £450 -0.66% 22
West Midlands -7 14 £550 - 21
South West +47 12 £513 -6.82% 40
East Midlands +15 12 £450 +9.09% 14
East of England +28 9 £367 -28.40% 15
Wales +8 4 £206 -58.74% 8
North East - 4 £404 - 9
Northern Ireland -10 2 £560 +13.42% 7

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 102 (17.00%) Apache Spark
2 79 (13.17%) Apache
3 75 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.67%) Confluence
4 10 (1.67%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.83%) SAS
6 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) CATIA
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 250 (41.67%) AWS
2 225 (37.50%) Azure
3 119 (19.83%) GCP
4 86 (14.33%) Power Platform
5 82 (13.67%) Amazon S3
5 82 (13.67%) Snowflake
6 81 (13.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 64 (10.67%) dbt
7 64 (10.67%) Serverless
8 57 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (8.33%) GitHub
10 48 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 28 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
15 21 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (3.00%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.33%) DNS
2 6 (1.00%) SSH
3 4 (0.67%) Firewall
3 4 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (26.17%) Data Warehouse
2 100 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 85 (14.17%) Power BI
4 82 (13.67%) Big Data
5 56 (9.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 51 (8.50%) NoSQL
7 48 (8.00%) BigQuery
7 48 (8.00%) Hadoop
8 43 (7.17%) Tableau
9 41 (6.83%) Relational Database
10 39 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
11 35 (5.83%) SQL Server
12 32 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (4.00%) Flink
14 24 (4.00%) Metadata
15 23 (3.83%) Snowflake Schema
16 22 (3.67%) Apache Hive
17 21 (3.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (9.00%) Git
2 29 (4.83%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.50%) GitLab
4 20 (3.33%) JIRA
5 8 (1.33%) ERwin
5 8 (1.33%) MLflow
6 6 (1.00%) RStudio
7 4 (0.67%) Postman
7 4 (0.67%) Selenium
7 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.50%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.50%) JMeter
8 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.33%) Gradle
9 2 (0.33%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.33%) MagicDraw
9 2 (0.33%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 145 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.67%) Finance
3 92 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.17%) Banking
6 23 (3.83%) Retail
7 20 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.33%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.17%) Local Government
11 7 (1.17%) Marketing
11 7 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.83%) Front Office
13 4 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.67%) Military
13 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.50%) Electronics
14 3 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 298 (49.67%) Data Engineer
2 83 (13.83%) Senior
3 74 (12.33%) Architect
4 70 (11.67%) Developer
5 52 (8.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (7.33%) Data Architect
7 39 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (6.50%) Lead
8 34 (5.67%) AWS Data Engineer
9 30 (5.00%) Analyst
10 26 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (4.33%) Python Engineer
11 21 (3.50%) Lead Data Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) Python Data Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) Python Developer
13 18 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (3.00%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.00%) Snowflake Engineer
14 17 (2.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (17.33%) PySpark
2 87 (14.50%) Kafka
3 27 (4.50%) Pandas
4 19 (3.17%) pytest
5 18 (3.00%) React
6 15 (2.50%) Spark Streaming
7 14 (2.33%) NumPy
7 14 (2.33%) RESTful
8 12 (2.00%) JSON
9 11 (1.83%) AngularJS
9 11 (1.83%) TensorFlow
9 11 (1.83%) YAML
10 10 (1.67%) .NET
10 10 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
10 10 (1.67%) FastAPI
10 10 (1.67%) pydantic
10 10 (1.67%) scikit-learn
11 9 (1.50%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.50%) REST
12 8 (1.33%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.33%) Cloud Native
1 26 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
2 24 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
3 18 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.00%) Derivative
6 11 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.67%) Market Risk
7 10 (1.67%) Reference Data
8 9 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.00%) Clustering
10 6 (1.00%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.17%) Linux
2 13 (2.17%) Unix
3 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (43.83%) ETL
2 220 (36.67%) Analytics
3 199 (33.17%) Data Modelling
4 193 (32.17%) Data Engineering
5 167 (27.83%) Problem-Solving
6 163 (27.17%) CI/CD
7 110 (18.33%) Data Science
7 110 (18.33%) Visualisation
8 109 (18.17%) DevOps
9 100 (16.67%) Agile
10 99 (16.50%) Business Intelligence
11 96 (16.00%) Data Integration
12 90 (15.00%) Machine Learning
13 87 (14.50%) Decision-Making
14 86 (14.33%) Data Governance
15 72 (12.00%) Containerisation
16 70 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
17 68 (11.33%) Data Ingestion
18 66 (11.00%) Data Security
18 66 (11.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 378 (63.00%) Python
2 344 (57.33%) SQL
3 59 (9.83%) Java
4 34 (5.67%) Scala
5 32 (5.33%) R
6 26 (4.33%) JavaScript
7 16 (2.67%) C++
8 14 (2.33%) Bash
9 12 (2.00%) C#
9 12 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.50%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.00%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.83%) PHP
13 5 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.67%) Go
14 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.33%) Lua
15 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.33%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 104 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.17%) Degree
4 28 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.67%) PMP
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) PhD
10 2 (0.33%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.17%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (22.83%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.67%) QA
3 27 (4.50%) GDPR
4 21 (3.50%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.17%) HL7
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (0.67%) HDFS
3 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (13.50%) Kubernetes
2 79 (13.17%) Terraform
3 8 (1.33%) Grafana
4 6 (1.00%) Ansible
4 6 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.83%) Kibana
5 5 (0.83%) logstash
6 4 (0.67%) Istio
6 4 (0.67%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.50%) Packer
7 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.50%) Puppet
8 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 137 (22.83%) Databricks
2 53 (8.83%) Google
2 53 (8.83%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.67%) Oracle
4 19 (3.17%) Informatica
5 9 (1.50%) SAP
6 8 (1.33%) Splunk
7 7 (1.17%) Palantir
7 7 (1.17%) Talend
8 6 (1.00%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
10 4 (0.67%) Foundry
10 4 (0.67%) Teradata
11 3 (0.50%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.50%) Dataiku
11 3 (0.50%) DataRobot
11 3 (0.50%) IBM
11 3 (0.50%) IDERA
11 3 (0.50%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow