Data Lineage Contract Job Trends in Wales

Data Lineage
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Lineage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 43 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.30% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -1.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Data Lineage 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 459 323 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 69.97% 83.68% 78.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 195 177
10th Percentile £281 £192 £140
25th Percentile £353 £283 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £583 £488 £550
90th Percentile £675 £642 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 61 48
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.23 £15.48
25th Percentile - £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £14.10 £20.50 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year -31.22% -19.16% -2.46%
75th Percentile £24.50 £25.15 £41.88
90th Percentile £53.88 - £52.35
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lineage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Data Lineage job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Lineage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Lineage

Data Lineage
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lineage within the Wales region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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
South Wales -10 1 - - 4
Dyfed - 1 £475 -
Data Lineage
UK

Data Lineage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cerner Millennium
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (50.00%) Dagster
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cerner
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle