Data Pipeline Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Pipelines
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 75 88
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 +48
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 42 25 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.97% 2.24% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 2.33% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 22
10th Percentile - - £47,175
25th Percentile - £45,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £75,104
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -21.77% +25.17%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £84,764
90th Percentile £75,500 - £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +30.00% -29.15% +17.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 906 1,072 968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.55% 96.23% 91.93%
Number of salaries quoted 387 405 780
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -8.00% +4.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Pipeline

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 30 (71.43%) Azure
2 29 (69.05%) Azure Data Factory
3 22 (52.38%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (50.00%) GitHub
5 16 (38.10%) Snowflake
6 14 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
6 14 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (21.43%) dbt
8 8 (19.05%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (14.29%) AWS
11 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (9.52%) SaaS
11 4 (9.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 7 (16.67%) Metadata
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Git
General
1 29 (69.05%) Finance
2 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Integration Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Data Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Engineering Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Informatica Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
3 4 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) JSON
1 14 (33.33%) OAuth
1 14 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 14 (33.33%) RESTful
2 8 (19.05%) YAML
3 4 (9.52%) REST
3 4 (9.52%) SOAP
4 1 (2.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
1 4 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 30 (71.43%) Coaching
3 29 (69.05%) Analytics
3 29 (69.05%) Asset Management
3 29 (69.05%) DevOps
4 26 (61.90%) Data Integration
5 22 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (52.38%) RBAC
6 21 (50.00%) Observability
6 21 (50.00%) Test Automation
7 19 (45.24%) Data Modelling
8 18 (42.86%) Event-Driven
8 18 (42.86%) Integration Patterns
8 18 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (38.10%) Data Engineering
10 15 (35.71%) Agile
11 14 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (33.33%) ETL
11 14 (33.33%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) SQL
2 17 (40.48%) Python
3 14 (33.33%) Bicep
4 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
5 7 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.38%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (33.33%) GDPR
2 12 (28.57%) Data Quality
3 8 (19.05%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 22 (52.38%) Terraform
2 4 (9.52%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Ab Initio
2 8 (19.05%) Databricks
2 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Informatica
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle