Data Pipeline Contracts

Data Pipelines
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 292 267
Rank change year-on-year +105 -25 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 521 518 930
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 0.91% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.01% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 351 608
10th Percentile £381 £419 £450
25th Percentile £450 £490 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £713
90th Percentile £738 £741 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £25.34 £50.63 £26.00
25th Percentile £37.25 £65.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.25 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% +119.53% -21.95%
75th Percentile £66.25 £80.81 £57.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £86.25 £83.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £55.88 -
% change year-on-year +11.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline.

Hourly rate trend for Data Pipeline in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Pipeline in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
England +97 463 £550 - 318
London +83 309 £575 +1.77% 185
Work from Home +58 168 £525 -4.55% 156
UK excluding London +54 147 £505 -3.81% 158
North of England +38 52 £500 -6.98% 36
Midlands +54 43 £550 +0.92% 25
West Midlands +34 36 £550 +0.92% 20
North West +16 28 £500 +2.56% 15
Yorkshire +40 24 £563 -13.46% 17
South East -10 19 £475 -9.52% 31
Scotland +43 12 £453 +6.59% 18
South West +11 11 £550 -18.52% 26
East of England +18 8 £538 +2.38% 9
East Midlands - 7 £413 - 5
Wales +21 1 £500 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 - 8

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 79 (15.16%) Apache Spark
2 65 (12.48%) Apache
3 61 (11.71%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.96%) Confluence
5 4 (0.77%) Luigi
6 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 223 (42.80%) AWS
2 213 (40.88%) Azure
3 80 (15.36%) Serverless
4 68 (13.05%) AWS Lambda
5 66 (12.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 65 (12.48%) GCP
7 60 (11.52%) Amazon S3
8 52 (9.98%) Snowflake
9 42 (8.06%) Power Platform
10 37 (7.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (6.33%) Amazon EMR
12 32 (6.14%) dbt
13 31 (5.95%) Amazon Kinesis
14 30 (5.76%) GitHub
15 27 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (4.99%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
18 13 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
19 12 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.69%) Intrusion Detection
1 14 (2.69%) Network Security
2 5 (0.96%) FTP
3 2 (0.38%) SAN
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) HTTP
4 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (26.30%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (20.73%) Big Data
3 92 (17.66%) Data Lake
4 61 (11.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 42 (8.06%) NoSQL
5 42 (8.06%) Power BI
6 33 (6.33%) SQL Server
7 32 (6.14%) BigQuery
8 31 (5.95%) Relational Database
9 26 (4.99%) Flink
10 24 (4.61%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (4.61%) Parquet
11 21 (4.03%) Tableau
12 20 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (3.26%) DynamoDB
14 16 (3.07%) Hadoop
15 15 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (2.50%) Delta Lake
16 13 (2.50%) Metadata
17 12 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 57 (10.94%) Git
2 25 (4.80%) JIRA
3 8 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.34%) GitLab
4 7 (1.34%) MLflow
5 5 (0.96%) JMeter
5 5 (0.96%) TestRail
6 4 (0.77%) Deequ
6 4 (0.77%) ERwin
6 4 (0.77%) Mercurial
7 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.58%) Postman
8 2 (0.38%) Bugzilla
8 2 (0.38%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.38%) JUnit
8 2 (0.38%) Selenium
8 2 (0.38%) TestNG
8 2 (0.38%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.19%) GoCD
9 1 (0.19%) kappa
General
1 118 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 85 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (13.82%) Finance
4 35 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.18%) Banking
6 15 (2.88%) Front Office
6 15 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.34%) Retail
10 5 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.96%) Marketing
11 4 (0.77%) Multimedia
12 3 (0.58%) Back Office
12 3 (0.58%) Games
12 3 (0.58%) Law
13 2 (0.38%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 270 (51.82%) Data Engineer
2 72 (13.82%) Senior
3 60 (11.52%) Azure Engineer
4 58 (11.13%) Developer
5 54 (10.36%) Azure Data Engineer
6 50 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (8.25%) Architect
8 41 (7.87%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (7.29%) AWS Data Engineer
10 33 (6.33%) Lead
11 24 (4.61%) Analyst
12 23 (4.41%) Python Developer
13 20 (3.84%) Data Scientist
14 19 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
15 16 (3.07%) Data Analyst
15 16 (3.07%) Data Architect
16 15 (2.88%) Python Engineer
17 14 (2.69%) Platform Engineer
17 14 (2.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 13 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (13.82%) PySpark
2 61 (11.71%) Kafka
3 37 (7.10%) Pandas
4 26 (4.99%) JSON
5 24 (4.61%) NumPy
6 20 (3.84%) Apache Avro
7 17 (3.26%) SciPy
8 15 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (2.11%) REST
10 10 (1.92%) scikit-learn
10 10 (1.92%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (1.34%) Flask
12 7 (1.34%) React
13 6 (1.15%) ARM Templates
13 6 (1.15%) FastAPI
13 6 (1.15%) Node.js
13 6 (1.15%) XML
14 5 (0.96%) .NET
14 5 (0.96%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.37%) Algorithms
2 23 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.65%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.65%) Derivative
5 16 (3.07%) Distributed Applications
6 15 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
7 12 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.34%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.34%) Social Media
11 6 (1.15%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.96%) NHS
13 4 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.53%) Linux
2 27 (5.18%) Windows
3 15 (2.88%) Unix
4 12 (2.30%) Android
4 12 (2.30%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (39.73%) ETL
2 177 (33.97%) Data Modelling
3 172 (33.01%) Analytics
4 163 (31.29%) Data Engineering
5 113 (21.69%) CI/CD
6 107 (20.54%) DevOps
7 96 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (18.04%) Agile
9 85 (16.31%) Data Science
10 81 (15.55%) Business Intelligence
11 73 (14.01%) Data Integration
12 59 (11.32%) Machine Learning
13 58 (11.13%) Computer Science
14 56 (10.75%) Data Ingestion
15 53 (10.17%) Data Management
16 51 (9.79%) Visualisation
17 50 (9.60%) Data Governance
18 48 (9.21%) Data Transformation
18 48 (9.21%) Test Automation
19 41 (7.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 326 (62.57%) Python
2 270 (51.82%) SQL
3 75 (14.40%) Java
4 66 (12.67%) Scala
5 21 (4.03%) C#
5 21 (4.03%) C++
6 17 (3.26%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.26%) T-SQL
7 12 (2.30%) R
7 12 (2.30%) Rust
8 10 (1.92%) Bash
9 7 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.15%) Bicep
11 5 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.77%) Go
12 4 (0.77%) Perl
12 4 (0.77%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.58%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 97 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.60%) Degree
4 36 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.15%) CISSP
10 5 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.38%) PhD
13 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (17.27%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.69%) Actionable Recommendations
2 14 (2.69%) QA
3 6 (1.15%) GDPR
4 4 (0.77%) NCSC
5 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (8.64%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.54%) iptables
3 7 (1.34%) HDFS
4 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (10.17%) Terraform
2 41 (7.87%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.54%) Kibana
3 8 (1.54%) logstash
4 5 (0.96%) Ansible
4 5 (0.96%) Argo
5 3 (0.58%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.38%) Puppet
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
7 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 116 (22.26%) Databricks
2 34 (6.53%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.37%) Google
4 18 (3.45%) Informatica
5 13 (2.50%) Oracle
6 11 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.92%) SAP
8 8 (1.54%) Palantir
9 7 (1.34%) Ab Initio
10 6 (1.15%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.15%) Foundry
10 6 (1.15%) Talend
11 4 (0.77%) Facebook
11 4 (0.77%) IFS
11 4 (0.77%) Twitter
12 3 (0.58%) Dataiku
12 3 (0.58%) Instagram
12 3 (0.58%) Sage
12 3 (0.58%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.58%) YouTube