Data Pipeline Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Pipelines
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 116 145
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 -4
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 22 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.12% 0.24% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.26% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £43,800 - -
25th Percentile £45,500 £72,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +100.00% -33.04%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £38,750
90th Percentile £90,500 - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -23.53% +25.93% +8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Pipeline falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,611 1,514 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.28% 92.71% 88.53%
Number of salaries quoted 744 653 1,301
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £94,750 £88,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Pipeline relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Pipeline

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Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in Berkshire

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Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Pipeline within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Slough -19 8 £85,000 +13.33% 70
Maidenhead - 7 £57,500 -
Windsor - 4 £45,500 -
Reading +27 3 £45,000 - 9
Data Pipeline
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) GCP
3 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) MQTT
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (18.18%) Power BI
3 3 (13.64%) Metadata
3 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 2 (9.09%) Tableau
5 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (4.55%) Looker
5 1 (4.55%) MySQL
5 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 6 (27.27%) Law
1 6 (27.27%) Marketing
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Data Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Data Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Analytics Manager
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Analytics Manager
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Middleware
1 3 (13.64%) REST
1 3 (13.64%) SOAP
2 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 2 (9.09%) LangChain
3 1 (4.55%) LangGraph
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.55%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Life Science
2 4 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 4 (18.18%) Operational Technology
3 3 (13.64%) LIMS
4 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.55%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) ETL
2 14 (63.64%) AI
3 13 (59.09%) Data Science
3 13 (59.09%) Machine Learning
4 12 (54.55%) Analytics
4 12 (54.55%) Data Engineering
5 10 (45.45%) Data Governance
5 10 (45.45%) Data Modelling
6 9 (40.91%) Data Architecture
6 9 (40.91%) Data Integration
6 9 (40.91%) Validation
7 8 (36.36%) Computer Science
7 8 (36.36%) Data Strategy
7 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (31.82%) Biotechnology
8 7 (31.82%) Mentoring
9 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (27.27%) Customer Insight
9 6 (27.27%) Data Management
9 6 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
4 2 (9.09%) CISSP
4 2 (9.09%) MCSE
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.09%) OCP
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (18.18%) QA
3 3 (13.64%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (13.64%) GxP
4 2 (9.09%) GDPR
5 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Agilent
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Foundry
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Palantir