Data Pipeline Job Trends in London

Data Pipelines
England > London

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 133 165
Rank change year-on-year +31 +32 +75
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 493 336 466
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.21% 2.67% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 2.82% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 333 180 248
10th Percentile £47,750 £51,000 £55,392
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,338 11,915 20,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.31% 94.81% 89.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12,530 7,431 14,970
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £122,500 £117,850
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in London

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in London

Data Pipeline
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Pipeline within the London region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Central London +40 97 £82,500 +11.86% 99
West London +6 20 £45,000 -28.00% 12
South London +28 13 £40,000 -
East London - 7 - - 4
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 99 (20.08%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (17.04%) Apache Spark
3 53 (10.75%) Apache
4 8 (1.62%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (1.42%) SAS
6 5 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.61%) Appian
7 3 (0.61%) Confluence
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 224 (45.44%) Azure
2 171 (34.69%) AWS
3 98 (19.88%) Power Platform
4 89 (18.05%) dbt
5 87 (17.65%) GCP
6 80 (16.23%) Snowflake
7 67 (13.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 49 (9.94%) SaaS
9 46 (9.33%) Amazon S3
9 46 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (9.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 35 (7.10%) Serverless
11 21 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.26%) OpenShift
12 15 (3.04%) GitHub
13 14 (2.84%) Power Automate
14 13 (2.64%) Amazon EMR
15 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (2.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.83%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) 4G
2 2 (0.41%) 5G
3 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (22.11%) Data Warehouse
2 91 (18.46%) Power BI
3 86 (17.44%) Data Lake
4 65 (13.18%) Tableau
5 47 (9.53%) Relational Database
6 41 (8.32%) BigQuery
6 41 (8.32%) SQL Server
7 37 (7.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (6.69%) Metadata
8 33 (6.69%) Snowflake Schema
9 31 (6.29%) NoSQL
10 30 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (5.48%) Oracle Database
12 25 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (5.07%) Spark SQL
13 23 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
13 23 (4.67%) Star Schema
14 21 (4.26%) Delta Lake
15 19 (3.85%) Parquet
16 18 (3.65%) Looker
Development Applications
1 74 (15.01%) Git
2 22 (4.46%) MLflow
3 16 (3.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.62%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.01%) JIRA
6 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.41%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.20%) Deequ
7 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 148 (30.02%) Social Skills
2 139 (28.19%) Finance
3 127 (25.76%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.52%) Banking
5 23 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (3.65%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.04%) Retail
8 13 (2.64%) Legal
9 12 (2.43%) Marketing
10 9 (1.83%) Advertising
10 9 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.83%) Front Office
10 9 (1.83%) Law
11 7 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.01%) Billing
14 4 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 225 (45.64%) Data Engineer
2 102 (20.69%) Senior
3 76 (15.42%) Lead
4 54 (10.95%) Senior Data Engineer
5 50 (10.14%) Analyst
6 42 (8.52%) Architect
7 36 (7.30%) Data Architect
8 30 (6.09%) Developer
8 30 (6.09%) Lead Data Engineer
9 26 (5.27%) Python Engineer
10 21 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (4.06%) AWS Data Engineer
11 20 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.65%) Data Analyst
12 18 (3.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 18 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.25%) Software Engineer
14 15 (3.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 15 (3.04%) Python Data Engineer
15 14 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (14.60%) Kafka
2 58 (11.76%) PySpark
3 40 (8.11%) PyTorch
4 37 (7.51%) TensorFlow
5 31 (6.29%) scikit-learn
6 28 (5.68%) Pandas
7 27 (5.48%) LangChain
8 17 (3.45%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (3.45%) React
9 16 (3.25%) Node.js
9 16 (3.25%) pgvector
10 13 (2.64%) LangGraph
10 13 (2.64%) Next.js
10 13 (2.64%) RESTful
11 10 (2.03%) GraphQL
12 9 (1.83%) FastAPI
12 9 (1.83%) NumPy
12 9 (1.83%) REST
13 8 (1.62%) Vue
14 7 (1.42%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 36 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.65%) AI Agents
6 18 (3.65%) Clustering
7 17 (3.45%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.84%) Reinsurance
9 13 (2.64%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.43%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.01%) Equities
13 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.23%) Linux
2 6 (1.22%) Windows
3 2 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (51.72%) Analytics
2 243 (49.29%) Data Engineering
3 222 (45.03%) AI
4 216 (43.81%) Data Modelling
5 187 (37.93%) ETL
6 180 (36.51%) CI/CD
7 152 (30.83%) Data Governance
8 141 (28.60%) Business Intelligence
9 125 (25.35%) Machine Learning
10 106 (21.50%) Data Science
11 103 (20.89%) Data Architecture
12 101 (20.49%) Decision-Making
13 97 (19.68%) DevOps
14 93 (18.86%) Agile
15 88 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
16 70 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (14.00%) Mentoring
17 69 (14.00%) Validation
18 68 (13.79%) Data Transformation
19 64 (12.98%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 331 (67.14%) Python
2 305 (61.87%) SQL
3 32 (6.49%) Java
4 28 (5.68%) TypeScript
5 24 (4.87%) Scala
6 13 (2.64%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.43%) C#
8 11 (2.23%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.83%) R
10 8 (1.62%) Bash
10 8 (1.62%) C++
11 5 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.01%) Rust
12 3 (0.61%) Go
12 3 (0.61%) Julia
12 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.20%) C
14 1 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (12.58%) Degree
2 34 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.61%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.41%) CISSP
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CEH
11 1 (0.20%) CISM
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PhD
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMP
11 1 (0.20%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (34.89%) Data Quality
2 51 (10.34%) GDPR
3 23 (4.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.03%) QA
6 7 (1.42%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.42%) PERC
7 3 (0.61%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (7.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (12.17%) Terraform
2 31 (6.29%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.45%) Grafana
4 10 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.01%) Kibana
6 4 (0.81%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.41%) Ansible
7 2 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.20%) Packer
8 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 127 (25.76%) Databricks
2 80 (16.23%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.69%) Oracle
4 20 (4.06%) Dell
5 17 (3.45%) Cloudera
6 16 (3.25%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.04%) Google
7 15 (3.04%) Informatica
8 13 (2.64%) Palantir
8 13 (2.64%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.43%) Foundry
10 10 (2.03%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.81%) Sage
11 4 (0.81%) UiPath
12 3 (0.61%) Automation Anywhere
12 3 (0.61%) Avaya
12 3 (0.61%) Cisco
12 3 (0.61%) Genesys
12 3 (0.61%) SAP
12 3 (0.61%) Talend