Data Pipeline Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Pipelines
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 182 243
Rank change year-on-year +50 +61 -33
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 193 169 255
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.95% 1.10% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.25% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 140 174
10th Percentile £382 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £607 £646 £638
90th Percentile £738 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £48.70 £78.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £51.63 £80.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -31.76% +223.56%
75th Percentile £92.50 £64.13 £88.13
90th Percentile - £66.90 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.25
% change year-on-year +4.00% -11.03% +133.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Pipeline
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Pipeline trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Pipeline.

Data Pipeline daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Pipeline daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Pipeline.

Data Pipeline hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Pipeline hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Pipeline
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 27 (13.99%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (7.77%) Apache
4 3 (1.55%) Confluence
5 2 (1.04%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (45.08%) AWS
2 83 (43.01%) Azure
3 42 (21.76%) GCP
4 37 (19.17%) Power Platform
5 33 (17.10%) Snowflake
6 28 (14.51%) Amazon S3
7 24 (12.44%) Serverless
8 23 (11.92%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (10.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (9.33%) dbt
11 12 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (5.70%) GitHub
13 9 (4.66%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (4.66%) Azure Machine Learning
14 8 (4.15%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) DNS
1 4 (2.07%) Firewall
1 4 (2.07%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.07%) VPN
2 1 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (25.39%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (19.69%) Data Lake
3 36 (18.65%) Power BI
4 27 (13.99%) Big Data
5 17 (8.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (8.29%) BigQuery
6 16 (8.29%) Hadoop
7 15 (7.77%) Tableau
8 14 (7.25%) NoSQL
9 12 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (5.70%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (5.18%) DynamoDB
12 9 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (4.66%) Looker
12 9 (4.66%) Relational Database
13 8 (4.15%) SQL Server
14 7 (3.63%) MongoDB
15 5 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (2.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (5.70%) Git
1 11 (5.70%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.59%) GitLab
3 4 (2.07%) JIRA
3 4 (2.07%) MLflow
4 2 (1.04%) Gradle
4 2 (1.04%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.52%) RStudio
General
1 38 (19.69%) Finance
2 31 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.54%) Social Skills
4 26 (13.47%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.74%) Banking
6 9 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.15%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.15%) Retail
8 6 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.59%) Local Government
10 3 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.55%) Military
10 3 (1.55%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.52%) French Language
12 1 (0.52%) Law
12 1 (0.52%) Legal
12 1 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (48.70%) Data Engineer
2 24 (12.44%) Developer
3 23 (11.92%) Senior
4 19 (9.84%) Architect
4 19 (9.84%) Lead
5 13 (6.74%) Analyst
5 13 (6.74%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (6.22%) Data Architect
7 11 (5.70%) AWS Data Engineer
7 11 (5.70%) Python Engineer
8 8 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.15%) Data Analyst
8 8 (4.15%) Python Data Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Data Scientist
9 7 (3.63%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) Snowflake Developer
11 5 (2.59%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.54%) PySpark
2 21 (10.88%) Kafka
3 9 (4.66%) .NET
3 9 (4.66%) Pandas
4 8 (4.15%) React
5 7 (3.63%) RESTful
6 6 (3.11%) HTML
6 6 (3.11%) TensorFlow
7 5 (2.59%) CSS
7 5 (2.59%) Plotly
7 5 (2.59%) pytest
7 5 (2.59%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.07%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (2.07%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.07%) FHIR
8 4 (2.07%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.55%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.55%) Node.js
9 3 (1.55%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.04%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.07%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.07%) Clustering
5 4 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.55%) Derivative
7 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.04%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.04%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.04%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.52%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.11%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (47.15%) ETL
2 73 (37.82%) Analytics
3 68 (35.23%) Data Engineering
4 67 (34.72%) Data Modelling
5 48 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (24.35%) Data Science
7 44 (22.80%) CI/CD
8 42 (21.76%) Machine Learning
9 41 (21.24%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (19.69%) DevOps
11 37 (19.17%) Visualisation
12 34 (17.62%) Data Integration
12 34 (17.62%) Decision-Making
13 32 (16.58%) Artificial Intelligence
13 32 (16.58%) Data Governance
14 28 (14.51%) Data Visualisation
15 25 (12.95%) Agile
15 25 (12.95%) Data Transformation
16 24 (12.44%) Data Security
16 24 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 117 (60.62%) Python
2 114 (59.07%) SQL
3 19 (9.84%) Java
4 11 (5.70%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.70%) R
5 10 (5.18%) C#
6 8 (4.15%) Scala
7 4 (2.07%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.07%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.04%) Bash
8 2 (1.04%) C++
8 2 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.52%) Bicep
9 1 (0.52%) Go
9 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.52%) Ruby
9 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.84%) Degree
4 10 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.66%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.55%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.52%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PhD
9 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (22.80%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.66%) GDPR
3 5 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.59%) QA
4 4 (2.07%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 25 (12.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (12.95%) Terraform
2 20 (10.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.04%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (22.80%) Databricks
2 21 (10.88%) Google
2 21 (10.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.18%) Oracle
4 4 (2.07%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.55%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.55%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.04%) Foundry
6 2 (1.04%) Informatica
6 2 (1.04%) Mapbox
6 2 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.04%) New Relic
6 2 (1.04%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.04%) Palantir
6 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.04%) Splunk
7 1 (0.52%) Criteo
7 1 (0.52%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.52%) HubSpot