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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 205 202
Rank change year-on-year +112 -3 -15
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 435 270 311
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.37% 1.56% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 1.72% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 258 162 258
10th Percentile £45,700 £52,500 £50,927
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - -
75th Percentile £95,938 £97,500 £97,447
90th Percentile £122,500 £103,975 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -3.33%

All Process and 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 11,900 15,666 17,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 92.18% 90.70% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 9,181 14,327
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +66 83 £85,000 +13.33% 282
West London +7 14 £47,000 -34.04% 10
East London - 2 £32,838 - 7
South London +31 1 - - 1
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 76 (17.47%) Apache Spark
2 48 (11.03%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (4.60%) Apache
4 5 (1.15%) Confluence
5 2 (0.46%) Appian
5 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (3.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 224 (51.49%) Azure
2 182 (41.84%) AWS
3 123 (28.28%) Power Platform
4 96 (22.07%) GCP
5 74 (17.01%) Snowflake
6 52 (11.95%) dbt
7 50 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 41 (9.43%) Serverless
9 40 (9.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 35 (8.05%) GitHub
11 31 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (6.67%) Amazon S3
13 28 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (6.44%) Fivetran
14 17 (3.91%) AWS Step Functions
14 17 (3.91%) OpenShift
15 16 (3.68%) Amazon EMR
15 16 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (3.22%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
1 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.69%) Firewall
2 3 (0.69%) VLAN
3 2 (0.46%) BGP
3 2 (0.46%) Broadband
3 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.46%) MQTT
3 2 (0.46%) OSPF
3 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.46%) RTMP
3 2 (0.46%) VPN
3 2 (0.46%) WAN
3 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.46%) Wireless
4 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (28.51%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (27.36%) Power BI
3 78 (17.93%) SQL Server
4 64 (14.71%) Data Lake
5 57 (13.10%) Big Data
6 56 (12.87%) Metadata
7 44 (10.11%) Hadoop
7 44 (10.11%) Tableau
8 39 (8.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (8.97%) NoSQL
9 28 (6.44%) Looker
9 28 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (6.21%) Relational Database
11 22 (5.06%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (3.68%) BigQuery
14 16 (3.68%) DynamoDB
15 15 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
15 15 (3.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 45 (10.34%) Git
2 17 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.30%) JIRA
3 10 (2.30%) MLflow
4 4 (0.92%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.92%) ERwin
4 4 (0.92%) GitLab
4 4 (0.92%) Postman
4 4 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (0.92%) Selenium
4 4 (0.92%) Spinnaker
4 4 (0.92%) Terragrunt
4 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.69%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.69%) Maven
5 3 (0.69%) TestNG
5 3 (0.69%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 196 (45.06%) Finance
2 189 (43.45%) Social Skills
3 105 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (16.55%) Law
5 48 (11.03%) Marketing
6 47 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (8.51%) Public Sector
8 31 (7.13%) Manufacturing
9 26 (5.98%) Banking
10 19 (4.37%) Retail
11 16 (3.68%) Advertising
11 16 (3.68%) Electronics
11 16 (3.68%) French Language
12 13 (2.99%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.99%) Telecoms
13 9 (2.07%) Front Office
13 9 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.61%) Back Office
15 5 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 174 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 100 (22.99%) Senior
3 58 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 55 (12.64%) Lead
5 44 (10.11%) Analyst
6 42 (9.66%) Developer
7 25 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (5.29%) Architect
9 21 (4.83%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.37%) AWS Data Engineer
10 19 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (4.14%) Data Architect
11 18 (4.14%) Python Engineer
12 17 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.45%) Product Lead
14 14 (3.22%) Consultant
14 14 (3.22%) Lead Developer
15 13 (2.99%) Azure Data Engineer
15 13 (2.99%) Data Scientist
16 12 (2.76%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (14.25%) Kafka
2 39 (8.97%) PySpark
3 25 (5.75%) React
4 23 (5.29%) PyTorch
4 23 (5.29%) TensorFlow
5 17 (3.91%) Pandas
6 14 (3.22%) Spark Streaming
7 13 (2.99%) RESTful
8 12 (2.76%) scikit-learn
9 11 (2.53%) Keras
9 11 (2.53%) Node.js
9 11 (2.53%) REST
10 9 (2.07%) Django
10 9 (2.07%) Spring
11 8 (1.84%) boto
11 8 (1.84%) HTML
12 7 (1.61%) .NET
12 7 (1.61%) AngularJS
12 7 (1.61%) CSS
12 7 (1.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
2 38 (8.74%) Product Ownership
3 37 (8.51%) Cloud Native
4 26 (5.98%) Data Structures
5 24 (5.52%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.91%) FMCG
7 16 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (3.45%) Hedge funds
9 13 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.53%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.53%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (2.30%) e-Learning
12 7 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.61%) Reinsurance
13 6 (1.38%) Low-Code
14 5 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.15%) IoT
14 5 (1.15%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.53%) Linux
2 8 (1.84%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Solaris
3 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (50.57%) Data Engineering
2 219 (50.34%) ETL
3 193 (44.37%) Data Modelling
4 191 (43.91%) Analytics
5 168 (38.62%) CI/CD
6 152 (34.94%) Business Intelligence
7 136 (31.26%) AI
8 131 (30.11%) DevOps
9 128 (29.43%) Problem-Solving
10 126 (28.97%) Data Governance
11 124 (28.51%) Agile
12 119 (27.36%) Machine Learning
13 110 (25.29%) Data Science
14 99 (22.76%) Decision-Making
15 69 (15.86%) Computer Science
16 68 (15.63%) Software Engineering
16 68 (15.63%) Visualisation
17 64 (14.71%) Mentoring
18 61 (14.02%) Data Integration
19 60 (13.79%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 300 (68.97%) Python
2 263 (60.46%) SQL
3 60 (13.79%) Java
4 34 (7.82%) Scala
5 27 (6.21%) C#
6 23 (5.29%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.60%) T-SQL
8 15 (3.45%) C++
8 15 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (3.22%) R
10 13 (2.99%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.92%) Bash
12 4 (0.92%) Fortran
12 4 (0.92%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.46%) Bicep
13 2 (0.46%) C
13 2 (0.46%) PHP
13 2 (0.46%) Ruby
14 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 96 (22.07%) Degree
2 49 (11.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (8.28%) Security Cleared
4 33 (7.59%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.52%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 19 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (3.22%) Azure Certification
9 13 (2.99%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.30%) CISSP
10 10 (2.30%) MCSE
10 10 (2.30%) OCP
10 10 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (1.61%) SnowPro
12 6 (1.38%) PhD
13 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (26.90%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.44%) GDPR
3 27 (6.21%) QA
4 14 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 50 (11.49%) Docker
2 8 (1.84%) HDFS
3 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.46%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 46 (10.57%) Terraform
3 11 (2.53%) Ansible
4 10 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.07%) Grafana
6 7 (1.61%) Kubeflow
7 4 (0.92%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) Ambari
8 1 (0.23%) Control-M
8 1 (0.23%) Puppet
8 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 121 (27.82%) Databricks
2 87 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.44%) SAP
4 27 (6.21%) Palantir
5 26 (5.98%) Oracle
6 19 (4.37%) Google
7 17 (3.91%) Dell
8 16 (3.68%) Foundry
9 15 (3.45%) Informatica
10 11 (2.53%) NVIDIA
11 9 (2.07%) Talend
12 8 (1.84%) Splunk
13 5 (1.15%) Cisco
14 4 (0.92%) Adobe
14 4 (0.92%) Dataiku
14 4 (0.92%) IBM
14 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.69%) Bloomberg
15 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
15 3 (0.69%) Tealium