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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 125 165
Rank change year-on-year +23 +40 +63
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 527 342 429
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.29% 2.79% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.96% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 353 180 212
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,000 £61,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -0.66%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 18,944 11,569 18,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.19% 94.41% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12,880 7,340 12,569
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%

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 30 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 30 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 +41 98 £80,000 - 47
West London - 20 £45,000 - 15
South London +12 11 - - 5
East London - 7 - - 2
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 98 (18.60%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (16.89%) Apache Spark
3 51 (9.68%) Apache
4 7 (1.33%) SAS
5 5 (0.95%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.19%) Appian
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 238 (45.16%) Azure
2 171 (32.45%) AWS
3 104 (19.73%) Power Platform
4 92 (17.46%) GCP
5 89 (16.89%) dbt
6 79 (14.99%) Snowflake
7 68 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 52 (9.87%) SaaS
9 48 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (8.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 42 (7.97%) Amazon S3
12 35 (6.64%) Serverless
13 18 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (3.42%) OpenShift
14 14 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
15 13 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (2.47%) GitHub
16 12 (2.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 10 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (1.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.71%) Broadband
2 2 (0.38%) 4G
2 2 (0.38%) 5G
3 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (22.01%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (18.41%) Power BI
3 94 (17.84%) Data Lake
4 67 (12.71%) Tableau
5 51 (9.68%) Relational Database
6 42 (7.97%) SQL Server
7 41 (7.78%) BigQuery
8 39 (7.40%) NoSQL
9 34 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
10 33 (6.26%) Metadata
11 32 (6.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 31 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 27 (5.12%) Oracle Database
13 27 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
14 26 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (4.93%) Spark SQL
14 26 (4.93%) Star Schema
15 23 (4.36%) Delta Lake
16 19 (3.61%) Looker
16 19 (3.61%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 75 (14.23%) Git
2 20 (3.80%) MLflow
3 16 (3.04%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.95%) JIRA
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.19%) Yeoman
General
1 170 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 160 (30.36%) Finance
3 132 (25.05%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.87%) Banking
5 26 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.74%) Public Sector
7 21 (3.98%) Marketing
8 20 (3.80%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.80%) Law
9 19 (3.61%) Retail
10 18 (3.42%) Legal
11 12 (2.28%) Front Office
12 8 (1.52%) Advertising
13 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.14%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.95%) Billing
15 5 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 229 (43.45%) Data Engineer
2 117 (22.20%) Senior
3 87 (16.51%) Lead
4 59 (11.20%) Senior Data Engineer
5 48 (9.11%) Architect
6 47 (8.92%) Analyst
7 40 (7.59%) Data Architect
8 31 (5.88%) Python Engineer
9 30 (5.69%) Developer
9 30 (5.69%) Lead Data Engineer
10 22 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 21 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (3.61%) AWS Data Engineer
12 19 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 18 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
14 17 (3.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 15 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (2.85%) Data Analyst
15 15 (2.85%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.99%) Kafka
2 60 (11.39%) PySpark
3 36 (6.83%) PyTorch
4 35 (6.64%) TensorFlow
5 32 (6.07%) scikit-learn
6 30 (5.69%) Pandas
7 29 (5.50%) LangChain
8 19 (3.61%) React
9 18 (3.42%) LlamaIndex
10 17 (3.23%) pgvector
11 16 (3.04%) Node.js
11 16 (3.04%) RESTful
11 16 (3.04%) Spring
12 14 (2.66%) LangGraph
13 12 (2.28%) GraphQL
13 12 (2.28%) Next.js
14 11 (2.09%) REST
14 11 (2.09%) Spring Boot
15 9 (1.71%) FastAPI
15 9 (1.71%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 69 (13.09%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 30 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (4.74%) AI Agents
5 25 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.42%) Clustering
7 17 (3.23%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.47%) Reinsurance
9 11 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.90%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.14%) Derivative
12 6 (1.14%) Equities
13 5 (0.95%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.28%) Linux
2 4 (0.76%) Windows
3 2 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (51.61%) Analytics
2 245 (46.49%) Data Engineering
3 242 (45.92%) AI
4 220 (41.75%) Data Modelling
5 185 (35.10%) CI/CD
6 183 (34.72%) ETL
7 156 (29.60%) Data Governance
8 150 (28.46%) Business Intelligence
9 129 (24.48%) Machine Learning
10 120 (22.77%) Data Science
11 116 (22.01%) Data Architecture
12 104 (19.73%) Decision-Making
13 99 (18.79%) Agile
13 99 (18.79%) DevOps
14 89 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
15 76 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 72 (13.66%) Mentoring
17 70 (13.28%) Software Engineering
17 70 (13.28%) Use Case
18 67 (12.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 352 (66.79%) Python
2 318 (60.34%) SQL
3 40 (7.59%) Java
4 30 (5.69%) TypeScript
5 26 (4.93%) Scala
6 14 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.47%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.28%) C#
9 9 (1.71%) R
10 8 (1.52%) C++
11 5 (0.95%) Bash
11 5 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.76%) Rust
12 4 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.57%) Julia
13 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.38%) Go
14 2 (0.38%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.19%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 63 (11.95%) Degree
2 36 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 32 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.98%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.57%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.38%) CISSP
11 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.38%) PhD
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.19%) PMP
12 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (33.21%) Data Quality
2 57 (10.82%) GDPR
3 23 (4.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.90%) QA
6 7 (1.33%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.33%) PERC
7 5 (0.95%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.57%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (7.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (10.44%) Terraform
2 35 (6.64%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.85%) Grafana
4 10 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.76%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.57%) Kibana
7 2 (0.38%) Ansible
7 2 (0.38%) Control-M
8 1 (0.19%) Packer
8 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 145 (27.51%) Databricks
2 95 (18.03%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.26%) Oracle
4 21 (3.98%) Google
5 17 (3.23%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.23%) Dell
6 16 (3.04%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.85%) Informatica
7 15 (2.85%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.66%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.90%) Palantir
10 9 (1.71%) Foundry
11 4 (0.76%) Sage
11 4 (0.76%) SAP
12 3 (0.57%) Avaya
12 3 (0.57%) Cisco
12 3 (0.57%) Genesys
12 3 (0.57%) Workday
13 2 (0.38%) Talend
13 2 (0.38%) UiPath