Data Pipeline Job Trends in the City of London

Data Pipelines
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 102 137
Rank change year-on-year +51 +35 +41
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 88 61 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.91% 2.30% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 2.41% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 69 41 26
10th Percentile £53,500 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -18.92% +15.63%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £83,500 £77,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year +7.74% -16.22% +8.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,943 2,536 2,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.28% 95.55% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 1,623 2,410
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in the City of London

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 11 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.27%) Apache
3 2 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) IIS
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) Actimize
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 51 (57.95%) Azure
2 33 (37.50%) AWS
3 24 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 18 (20.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (20.45%) GCP
5 16 (18.18%) Snowflake
6 11 (12.50%) dbt
7 10 (11.36%) Serverless
8 9 (10.23%) SaaS
9 7 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (7.95%) GitHub
10 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
10 6 (6.82%) Power Automate
11 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.68%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (5.68%) Azure Functions
11 5 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (5.68%) Azure Storage
11 5 (5.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (4.55%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (27.27%) Power BI
3 23 (26.14%) Data Lake
4 18 (20.45%) SQL Server
5 9 (10.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.82%) Metadata
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (5.68%) Metabase
8 4 (4.55%) BigQuery
8 4 (4.55%) Delta Lake
8 4 (4.55%) Hadoop
8 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.55%) Power Query
9 3 (3.41%) Big Data
9 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.41%) Tableau
10 2 (2.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Git
2 4 (4.55%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.41%) JIRA
4 2 (2.27%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.27%) ERwin
4 2 (2.27%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.14%) Deequ
5 1 (1.14%) GitLab
5 1 (1.14%) MLflow
General
1 42 (47.73%) Finance
2 40 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 22 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (19.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (11.36%) Banking
6 9 (10.23%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Retail
8 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.27%) International Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Marketing
9 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Back Office
10 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.14%) Front Office
10 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (39.77%) Data Engineer
2 28 (31.82%) Senior
3 18 (20.45%) Senior Data Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) Developer
5 9 (10.23%) Analyst
6 7 (7.95%) Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Data Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Lead
7 6 (6.82%) Product Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Applications Support
8 5 (5.68%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
9 4 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (4.55%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Systems Support
9 4 (4.55%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) Node.js
2 9 (10.23%) Kafka
3 8 (9.09%) React
4 5 (5.68%) .NET
4 5 (5.68%) PySpark
4 5 (5.68%) WPF
5 4 (4.55%) Next.js
6 3 (3.41%) Pandas
6 3 (3.41%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (2.27%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.27%) CSS
7 2 (2.27%) Django
7 2 (2.27%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.27%) Flask
7 2 (2.27%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.27%) TensorFlow
7 2 (2.27%) XML
8 1 (1.14%) LDAP
8 1 (1.14%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.68%) Reinsurance
3 4 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.55%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.14%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.14%) Equities
6 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.86%) ETL
2 42 (47.73%) Analytics
3 39 (44.32%) Data Modelling
4 27 (30.68%) AI
4 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (29.55%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (29.55%) CI/CD
5 26 (29.55%) Data Engineering
6 23 (26.14%) Agile
7 22 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 20 (22.73%) Data Governance
9 19 (21.59%) DevOps
10 14 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (13.64%) Data Architecture
12 11 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (11.36%) Data Integration
13 10 (11.36%) Machine Learning
13 10 (11.36%) Observability
13 10 (11.36%) Roadmaps
13 10 (11.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (62.50%) SQL
2 50 (56.82%) Python
3 11 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.23%) T-SQL
6 6 (6.82%) C#
7 4 (4.55%) Java
8 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.41%) Scala
9 1 (1.14%) Bash
9 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) Azure Certification
2 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) SnowPro
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
2 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.09%) Terraform
3 7 (7.95%) Grafana
4 5 (5.68%) Kibana
5 2 (2.27%) Ansible
6 1 (1.14%) Ambari
6 1 (1.14%) Argo
6 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.14%) Puppet
6 1 (1.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (31.82%) Databricks
2 25 (28.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.55%) Google
4 3 (3.41%) Dell
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle
5 2 (2.27%) Foundry
5 2 (2.27%) IBM
5 2 (2.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.14%) Confluent
6 1 (1.14%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.14%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.14%) Palantir
6 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.14%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce