Data Pipeline Job Trends in England

Data Pipelines
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 209 237
Rank change year-on-year +30 +28 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 907 556 998
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.18% 1.49% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.60% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 630 351 629
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,125 £50,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +2.96% -3.01%
75th Percentile £85,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - -2.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,241 34,721 70,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.47% 93.08% 85.88%
Number of salaries quoted 36,707 20,549 53,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in England

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in England

Data Pipeline
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Pipeline within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
London +88 498 £76,250 -7.98% 294
South East +9 120 £60,000 -27.27% 103
North of England -40 109 £67,500 +5.47% 84
Midlands -40 68 £60,000 -7.69% 51
North West +1 59 £67,500 - 50
West Midlands -6 59 £60,000 -2.04% 33
South West -28 52 £55,200 -3.95% 56
Yorkshire -56 42 £66,720 +6.75% 24
East of England -16 35 £58,750 +17.50% 22
East Midlands -76 9 £42,500 -34.62% 18
North East -31 8 £65,000 -11.86% 12
Data Pipeline
UK

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 170 (18.74%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (14.55%) Apache Spark
3 95 (10.47%) Apache
4 13 (1.43%) SAS
5 12 (1.32%) Appian
6 8 (0.88%) Confluence
6 8 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.22%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Endur
3 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 396 (43.66%) Azure
2 307 (33.85%) AWS
3 194 (21.39%) Power Platform
4 148 (16.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 142 (15.66%) GCP
6 124 (13.67%) dbt
7 108 (11.91%) Snowflake
8 95 (10.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 85 (9.37%) Amazon S3
10 65 (7.17%) Serverless
11 58 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (4.41%) OpenShift
14 36 (3.97%) GitHub
15 30 (3.31%) SaaS
16 28 (3.09%) Power Automate
17 25 (2.76%) Amazon Kinesis
18 18 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
19 17 (1.87%) AWS Step Functions
19 17 (1.87%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.43%) Broadband
2 6 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.33%) MQTT
4 2 (0.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.11%) 4G
5 1 (0.11%) 5G
5 1 (0.11%) Firewall
5 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.11%) HTTP
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
5 1 (0.11%) TCAP
5 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (20.73%) Data Warehouse
2 183 (20.18%) Power BI
3 140 (15.44%) Data Lake
4 101 (11.14%) Tableau
5 96 (10.58%) SQL Server
6 72 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 71 (7.83%) Metadata
8 70 (7.72%) Relational Database
9 62 (6.84%) BigQuery
10 49 (5.40%) NoSQL
11 44 (4.85%) Spark SQL
12 43 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
13 41 (4.52%) Oracle Database
14 38 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 38 (4.19%) Looker
15 36 (3.97%) MySQL
15 36 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
16 34 (3.75%) Big Data
17 33 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
18 31 (3.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 123 (13.56%) Git
2 42 (4.63%) MLflow
3 25 (2.76%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (1.65%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.54%) JIRA
6 11 (1.21%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.44%) GitLab
8 2 (0.22%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.11%) Deequ
9 1 (0.11%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 245 (27.01%) Finance
2 233 (25.69%) Social Skills
3 203 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 55 (6.06%) Banking
6 47 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (4.19%) Marketing
8 28 (3.09%) Law
8 28 (3.09%) Retail
9 27 (2.98%) Investment Banking
10 26 (2.87%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.65%) Legal
13 11 (1.21%) Front Office
14 10 (1.10%) Advertising
15 9 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.88%) Automotive
16 8 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 472 (52.04%) Data Engineer
2 181 (19.96%) Senior
3 110 (12.13%) Lead
4 103 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
5 81 (8.93%) Analyst
6 75 (8.27%) Developer
7 51 (5.62%) Lead Data Engineer
8 44 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
9 40 (4.41%) Azure Data Engineer
10 34 (3.75%) Architect
10 34 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
10 34 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (3.20%) Data Analyst
11 29 (3.20%) Python Engineer
12 27 (2.98%) Software Engineer
13 26 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 25 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (2.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 23 (2.54%) Data Architect
16 23 (2.54%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (13.89%) PySpark
2 111 (12.24%) Kafka
3 66 (7.28%) PyTorch
4 62 (6.84%) TensorFlow
5 56 (6.17%) Pandas
6 42 (4.63%) scikit-learn
7 35 (3.86%) LangChain
8 30 (3.31%) RESTful
9 28 (3.09%) REST
10 27 (2.98%) .NET
11 25 (2.76%) React
12 23 (2.54%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (2.54%) pgvector
13 21 (2.32%) Node.js
14 18 (1.98%) HTML
14 18 (1.98%) Spring
15 17 (1.87%) NumPy
16 16 (1.76%) FastAPI
16 16 (1.76%) Flask
16 16 (1.76%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.42%) Algorithms
5 30 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 30 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 28 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 26 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (2.54%) Clustering
9 21 (2.32%) Distributed Computing
10 19 (2.09%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.98%) Low-Code
12 16 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.10%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.10%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.10%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
14 9 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.09%) Linux
2 11 (1.21%) Windows
3 3 (0.33%) Unix
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (53.14%) Analytics
2 452 (49.83%) Data Engineering
3 427 (47.08%) ETL
4 345 (38.04%) Data Modelling
5 315 (34.73%) CI/CD
6 270 (29.77%) AI
7 262 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
8 234 (25.80%) Data Governance
9 210 (23.15%) Agile
10 190 (20.95%) DevOps
11 186 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
12 182 (20.07%) Machine Learning
13 180 (19.85%) Data Science
14 158 (17.42%) Decision-Making
15 145 (15.99%) Data Architecture
16 121 (13.34%) Continuous Improvement
17 113 (12.46%) Mentoring
18 109 (12.02%) Data Transformation
19 99 (10.92%) Computer Science
20 98 (10.80%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 550 (60.64%) Python
2 546 (60.20%) SQL
3 70 (7.72%) Java
4 51 (5.62%) Scala
5 44 (4.85%) C#
6 37 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 25 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 24 (2.65%) Bash
8 24 (2.65%) C++
8 24 (2.65%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.98%) R
10 15 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.10%) PowerShell
12 9 (0.99%) VBA
13 7 (0.77%) Rust
14 6 (0.66%) Bicep
14 6 (0.66%) Go
14 6 (0.66%) Groovy
14 6 (0.66%) PHP
15 5 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 125 (13.78%) Degree
2 79 (8.71%) Security Cleared
3 66 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 52 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 38 (4.19%) Master's Degree
6 29 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.77%) CITP
9 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.44%) CISSP
11 4 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.44%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.33%) MCSE
12 3 (0.33%) OCP
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.22%) CFA
13 2 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (31.42%) Data Quality
2 76 (8.38%) GDPR
3 38 (4.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 16 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.32%) HIPAA
6 9 (0.99%) QA
7 7 (0.77%) PERC
8 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.33%) IFRS
9 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.22%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.22%) GxP
11 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.11%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (9.92%) Docker
2 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.22%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 101 (11.14%) Terraform
2 88 (9.70%) Kubernetes
3 28 (3.09%) Grafana
4 19 (2.09%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.77%) Kibana
6 6 (0.66%) Control-M
7 5 (0.55%) Ansible
7 5 (0.55%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 219 (24.15%) Databricks
2 136 (14.99%) Microsoft
3 66 (7.28%) Oracle
4 33 (3.64%) Dell
5 32 (3.53%) Cloudera
6 30 (3.31%) Red Hat
7 28 (3.09%) Google
8 25 (2.76%) Palantir
9 23 (2.54%) Talend
10 20 (2.21%) Informatica
11 16 (1.76%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.76%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.54%) Foundry
13 12 (1.32%) Automation Anywhere
13 12 (1.32%) UiPath
14 9 (0.99%) SAP
15 8 (0.88%) NVIDIA
16 7 (0.77%) Planon
17 6 (0.66%) Adobe
18 5 (0.55%) Confluent