Data Pipeline Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Pipelines
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 47 83
Rank change year-on-year -6 +36 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 17 24 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.52% 2.54% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.99% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £463 £428 £513
25th Percentile £525 £450 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £650
90th Percentile £743 £584 £680
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 617 804 1,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.54% 85.17% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 494 869
10th Percentile £305 £300 £354
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £495 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -8.33% +8.00%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 19
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.63% -27.00% -1.81%
75th Percentile £32.80 £19.50 £22.53
90th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £19.00
% change year-on-year +59.63% -27.00% +1.60%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Leeds -2 16 £575 +16.16% 21
Huddersfield - 1 £550 - 2
Data Pipeline
Yorkshire

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 9 (52.94%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) GCP
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (5.88%) dbt
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) MongoDB
1 8 (47.06%) NoSQL
2 7 (41.18%) Flink
3 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
4 3 (17.65%) BigQuery
4 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (17.65%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data
5 1 (5.88%) DataStage
5 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
5 1 (5.88%) Power Query
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
5 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) GCP Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Apache Beam
1 7 (41.18%) JDBC
1 7 (41.18%) Kafka
1 7 (41.18%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (11.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (52.94%) Decision-Making
4 8 (47.06%) High Availability
5 7 (41.18%) Data Ingestion
5 7 (41.18%) ETL
5 7 (41.18%) Event-Driven
6 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 4 (23.53%) Analytics
8 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
8 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
8 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (11.76%) Agile
9 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
9 2 (11.76%) Data Science
10 1 (5.88%) Refactoring
10 1 (5.88%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Scala
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) Groovy
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Databricks
2 4 (23.53%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.88%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) Talend