Data Pipeline Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Pipelines
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Pipeline skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 239 205
Rank change year-on-year +48 -34 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 169 255 584
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.10% 0.99% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.10% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 174 397
10th Percentile £363 £413 £457
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £713
90th Percentile £775 £713 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £48.70 £78.75 £19.13
25th Percentile £51.63 £80.63 £21.57
Median hourly rate £58.00 £85.00 £26.27
Median % change year-on-year -31.76% +223.56% -40.97%
75th Percentile £64.13 £88.13 £52.83
90th Percentile £66.90 £89.25 £68.38
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.25 £30.13
% change year-on-year -11.03% +133.20% -34.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Pipeline is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Data Pipeline
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Pipeline trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline.

Data Pipeline daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Data Pipeline daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline.

Data Pipeline hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Data Pipeline hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 26 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.37%) Apache
3 4 (2.37%) Luigi
4 3 (1.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (50.89%) Azure
2 62 (36.69%) AWS
3 27 (15.98%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (11.83%) GCP
5 18 (10.65%) Serverless
6 15 (8.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (8.28%) Power Platform
8 13 (7.69%) dbt
8 13 (7.69%) Snowflake
9 10 (5.92%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.73%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (4.73%) GitHub
11 7 (4.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (3.55%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (2.96%) Fivetran
13 5 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) HTTP
1 1 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (28.40%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (21.30%) Data Lake
3 32 (18.93%) Big Data
4 17 (10.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (7.69%) Power BI
5 13 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 11 (6.51%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (4.73%) Tableau
9 6 (3.55%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.96%) Apache Hive
10 5 (2.96%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.37%) Impala
11 4 (2.37%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.78%) Flink
12 3 (1.78%) Metadata
12 3 (1.78%) Power Query
12 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (8.88%) Git
2 11 (6.51%) JIRA
3 6 (3.55%) MLflow
4 4 (2.37%) GitLab
4 4 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.37%) JMeter
4 4 (2.37%) TestRail
5 3 (1.78%) Postman
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.59%) Deequ
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
6 1 (0.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.59%) TestNG
General
1 48 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.20%) Finance
3 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.47%) Banking
5 11 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.33%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.14%) Front Office
8 3 (1.78%) Marketing
8 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Czech Language
9 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Advertising
10 1 (0.59%) Billing
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Publishing
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
10 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (60.95%) Data Engineer
2 26 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (14.20%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (13.61%) Azure Data Engineer
5 18 (10.65%) Lead
6 16 (9.47%) AWS Data Engineer
6 16 (9.47%) Senior
7 15 (8.88%) Lead Data Engineer
8 14 (8.28%) Architect
8 14 (8.28%) Developer
9 10 (5.92%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) Analyst
10 9 (5.33%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.73%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Data Scientist
13 6 (3.55%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.57%) PySpark
2 12 (7.10%) Kafka
3 9 (5.33%) Pandas
4 5 (2.96%) REST
5 3 (1.78%) .NET
5 3 (1.78%) NumPy
5 3 (1.78%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.18%) JSON
6 2 (1.18%) JSON Schema
6 2 (1.18%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.18%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (1.18%) Web Services
7 1 (0.59%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.59%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.59%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.59%) MLlib
7 1 (0.59%) pytest
7 1 (0.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.51%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.92%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.14%) Derivative
4 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.37%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.78%) NHS
5 3 (1.78%) Social Media
6 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.18%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.18%) Grid Computing
6 2 (1.18%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.59%) CMDB
7 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.51%) Linux
2 5 (2.96%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (43.20%) Analytics
2 65 (38.46%) ETL
3 56 (33.14%) Data Engineering
3 56 (33.14%) Data Modelling
4 39 (23.08%) Agile
5 38 (22.49%) DevOps
6 34 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (19.53%) Data Science
8 31 (18.34%) CI/CD
9 30 (17.75%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (16.57%) Data Integration
11 20 (11.83%) Computer Science
11 20 (11.83%) Machine Learning
12 17 (10.06%) Data Architecture
13 16 (9.47%) Data Ingestion
14 15 (8.88%) Test Automation
14 15 (8.88%) Visualisation
15 13 (7.69%) MLOps
16 12 (7.10%) Data Governance
16 12 (7.10%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 108 (63.91%) Python
2 82 (48.52%) SQL
3 27 (15.98%) Scala
4 24 (14.20%) Java
5 6 (3.55%) C#
6 5 (2.96%) Bicep
6 5 (2.96%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.37%) R
8 3 (1.78%) Bash
9 2 (1.18%) C++
9 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.59%) Perl
10 1 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.88%) Degree
4 14 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.55%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.96%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (16.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.96%) QA
3 4 (2.37%) NCSC
4 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) JSP 440
System Software
1 23 (13.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (11.83%) Terraform
2 14 (8.28%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 51 (30.18%) Databricks
2 18 (10.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.96%) Google
3 5 (2.96%) Informatica
3 5 (2.96%) Oracle
4 4 (2.37%) Facebook
4 4 (2.37%) Twitter
5 3 (1.78%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.78%) Instagram
5 3 (1.78%) YouTube
6 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.18%) Foundry
6 2 (1.18%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.18%) Palantir
6 2 (1.18%) QAD
6 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.18%) Talend
7 1 (0.59%) Brio