Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Data Pipelines
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 5.26% 3.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 4.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
Wales median daily rate £400 £213 £525
% change year-on-year +88.12% -59.50% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33 21 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 86.84% 70.00% 68.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 11
10th Percentile £400 £125 £180
25th Percentile £413 £313 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +53.85% -31.58%
75th Percentile £481 £535 £394
90th Percentile £498 £555 £500
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £420
% change year-on-year -2.94% +1.19% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.33 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.85 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.47% - -
75th Percentile £17.94 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.50 - -
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £23.84 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.74% -27.76% +65.75%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in West Wales

Data Pipeline
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 26 January 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
Swansea +2 2 £400 -20.00% 1
Data Pipeline
Wales

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks