Data Pipeline Contracts in Wales

Data Pipelines
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 39 43 58
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.37% 0.25% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.32% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £177 - -
25th Percentile £192 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £206 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -58.74% - -
75th Percentile £231 - -
90th Percentile £265 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in Wales

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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 Pipeline within the Wales 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
South Wales +9 4 £206 -58.74% 10
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Development
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) Database Security
4 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy