Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Wales

Data Pipelines
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 39 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.77% 1.68% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.92% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile - £180 -
25th Percentile - £200 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £213 £525
Median % change year-on-year +88.12% -59.50% -
75th Percentile £450 £288 £538
90th Percentile £480 £415 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £57.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.56% -25.38%

All Process & 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 402 312 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 77.61% 87.15% 81.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 207 269
10th Percentile £201 £180 £160
25th Percentile £293 £253 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £501 £545 £563
90th Percentile £638 £643 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 28 28
10th Percentile £12.87 - £11.57
25th Percentile £14.81 £20.12 £15.45
Median hourly rate £19.10 £22.50 £25.27
Median % change year-on-year -15.13% -10.96% +29.66%
75th Percentile £28.94 £31.88 £54.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £86.54
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Pipeline

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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 28 February 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
West Wales +1 2 £400 -20.00%
South Wales -3 1 £500 +142.35% 4
Dyfed - 1 - -
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UK

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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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft