Data Pipeline Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Pipelines
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 73 104
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 14 38 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.00% 1.95% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 2.35% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 18
10th Percentile £346 £348 £480
25th Percentile £380 £469 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -2.68%
75th Percentile £613 £681 £638
90th Percentile £681 £850 £665
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,241 1,617 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.77% 83.09% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 1,076 1,329
10th Percentile £200 £266 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £610
90th Percentile £665 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 117 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.10 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.13 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.73% +28.92%
75th Percentile £30.05 £40.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.13
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the West Midlands

Data Pipeline
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the West Midlands

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the West Midlands

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Birmingham +7 3 £466 +24.13% 46
Staffordshire +5 2 £550 +57.14% 39
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 35
Coventry +3 1 £375 -16.67% 35
Warwickshire -3 1 £725 +38.10% 3
Solihull - 1 £320 - 1
Shropshire - 1 £350 - 78
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (42.86%) Apache
2 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (14.29%) Confluence
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (14.29%) Boomi
4 2 (14.29%) OCI
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (35.71%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
2 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (14.29%) Big Data
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Flink
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.14%) HDInsight
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (28.57%) PySpark
3 3 (21.43%) Kafka
4 2 (14.29%) Django
4 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (14.29%) MACH
5 1 (7.14%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
2 9 (64.29%) ETL
3 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 6 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Dashboard Development
4 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 4 (28.57%) Workflow
6 3 (21.43%) DataOps
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) R
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Kibana
2 2 (14.29%) logstash
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk