Data Pipeline Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Pipelines
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham 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 84 112 85
Rank change year-on-year +28 -27 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 24 18 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.38% 1.00% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.07% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 20 11 20
10th Percentile £50,875 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £37,625 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +7.14% -27.74%
75th Percentile £63,500 £66,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £80,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +12.15% -26.21%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,381 1,683 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.37% 93.29% 88.05%
Number of salaries quoted 979 784 1,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,875 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Birmingham

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Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Pipeline

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Salary Histogram in Birmingham

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

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in Birmingham

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) Power Platform
3 8 (33.33%) AWS
4 7 (29.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (20.83%) Snowflake
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (41.67%) Power BI
3 6 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (4.17%) Big Data
8 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
8 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
8 1 (4.17%) Power Query
8 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Automotive
4 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Data Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Lead
3 7 (29.17%) Senior
3 7 (29.17%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Power BI Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Integration Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Platform Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Integration Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Data Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) EDI
2 4 (16.67%) PySpark
3 2 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.17%) Flask
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) ETL
2 11 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Data Security
5 7 (29.17%) Data Engineering
5 7 (29.17%) Data Governance
6 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 6 (25.00%) Data Strategy
6 6 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 5 (20.83%) Agile Project Management
7 5 (20.83%) CRM
7 5 (20.83%) Data Management
7 5 (20.83%) ERP
7 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
7 5 (20.83%) Project Management
7 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (20.83%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) CITP
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Planon
2 5 (20.83%) Salesforce
3 3 (12.50%) Databricks