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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 105 169
Rank change year-on-year +3 +64 +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 545 369 383
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.21% 3.07% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 3.27% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 365 199 175
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,950 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 19,995 11,293 17,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.99% 94.06% 89.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,604 7,162 10,638
10th Percentile £40,825 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +39 93 £82,500 -2.94% 43
West London -6 14 £45,000 -4.26% 33
South London 0 4 - - 5
East London - 1 - - 5
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 67 (12.29%) Apache Spark
2 61 (11.19%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (6.97%) Apache
4 7 (1.28%) SAS
5 5 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) Luigi
7 2 (0.37%) Tornado
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 244 (44.77%) Azure
2 157 (28.81%) AWS
3 98 (17.98%) Power Platform
4 94 (17.25%) GCP
5 78 (14.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 76 (13.94%) dbt
7 66 (12.11%) Snowflake
8 55 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (9.36%) SaaS
10 48 (8.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 35 (6.42%) Serverless
12 27 (4.95%) Amazon S3
13 24 (4.40%) Azure Databricks
14 17 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.75%) GitHub
15 15 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (2.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 13 (2.39%) Azure Machine Learning
17 11 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
18 10 (1.83%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) 5G
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (20.92%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (18.90%) Data Lake
3 91 (16.70%) Power BI
4 49 (8.99%) Tableau
5 48 (8.81%) NoSQL
5 48 (8.81%) Relational Database
6 38 (6.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (6.24%) SQL Server
8 32 (5.87%) BigQuery
9 30 (5.50%) Star Schema
10 29 (5.32%) Metadata
10 29 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (5.14%) Snowflake Schema
12 24 (4.40%) Delta Lake
13 21 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (2.94%) Big Data
15 16 (2.94%) Looker
16 15 (2.75%) MySQL
17 13 (2.39%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 58 (10.64%) Git
2 13 (2.39%) MLflow
3 11 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.92%) JIRA
5 4 (0.73%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.37%) GitLab
8 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 183 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 179 (32.84%) Finance
3 111 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.71%) Banking
5 38 (6.97%) Marketing
6 33 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.40%) Retail
8 20 (3.67%) Law
9 15 (2.75%) Legal
10 13 (2.39%) Front Office
11 12 (2.20%) Advertising
12 11 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.10%) Back Office
13 6 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.10%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.92%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (42.75%) Data Engineer
2 113 (20.73%) Senior
3 105 (19.27%) Lead
4 53 (9.72%) Senior Data Engineer
5 48 (8.81%) Architect
6 40 (7.34%) Data Architect
7 35 (6.42%) Lead Data Engineer
8 34 (6.24%) Software Engineer
9 29 (5.32%) Analyst
10 24 (4.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 24 (4.40%) Python Engineer
11 23 (4.22%) Developer
12 22 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (3.67%) Databricks Engineer
15 18 (3.30%) Azure Data Engineer
15 18 (3.30%) Data Scientist
16 17 (3.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 15 (2.75%) Data Analyst
18 13 (2.39%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.84%) Kafka
2 45 (8.26%) PySpark
3 43 (7.89%) Terraform
4 37 (6.79%) PyTorch
5 35 (6.42%) TensorFlow
6 30 (5.50%) scikit-learn
7 27 (4.95%) LangChain
8 20 (3.67%) Pandas
9 18 (3.30%) LangGraph
10 14 (2.57%) Spring
11 13 (2.39%) React
12 12 (2.20%) LlamaIndex
12 12 (2.20%) REST
13 11 (2.02%) Node.js
13 11 (2.02%) pgvector
14 10 (1.83%) RESTful
15 8 (1.47%) CSS
15 8 (1.47%) FastAPI
15 8 (1.47%) HTML
15 8 (1.47%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.48%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.99%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.16%) AI Agents
4 36 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (6.06%) Data Structures
6 27 (4.95%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.20%) Clustering
8 11 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.02%) Derivative
8 11 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.65%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.47%) Equities
12 7 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.10%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.10%) Market Risk
14 5 (0.92%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.65%) Linux
2 3 (0.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (50.28%) Analytics
2 253 (46.42%) AI
3 248 (45.50%) Data Engineering
4 217 (39.82%) Data Modelling
5 174 (31.93%) CI/CD
6 157 (28.81%) ETL
7 148 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
8 145 (26.61%) Machine Learning
9 138 (25.32%) Data Science
10 132 (24.22%) Data Governance
11 130 (23.85%) Data Architecture
12 120 (22.02%) Decision-Making
13 104 (19.08%) DevOps
14 97 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (15.23%) Agile
16 77 (14.13%) Use Case
17 76 (13.94%) Lakehouse
18 75 (13.76%) Software Engineering
19 69 (12.66%) Mentoring
20 68 (12.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 353 (64.77%) Python
2 313 (57.43%) SQL
3 32 (5.87%) Java
4 27 (4.95%) Scala
5 25 (4.59%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.57%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.02%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.65%) C#
9 6 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.10%) R
10 4 (0.73%) Bash
10 4 (0.73%) C++
10 4 (0.73%) Rust
10 4 (0.73%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.37%) Go
13 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 63 (11.56%) Degree
2 34 (6.24%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 21 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.73%) ACCA
10 4 (0.73%) CIMA
10 4 (0.73%) MBA
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.37%) CISSP
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) ISEB
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (33.58%) Data Quality
2 44 (8.07%) GDPR
3 13 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.20%) QA
5 10 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.28%) PERC
7 5 (0.92%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.73%) IFRS
9 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.37%) PMO
10 2 (0.37%) PSD2
11 1 (0.18%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (6.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.83%) Grafana
3 5 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.55%) Kibana
4 3 (0.55%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.37%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Packer
6 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 155 (28.44%) Databricks
2 97 (17.80%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.95%) Google
4 17 (3.12%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.94%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.39%) Oracle
7 12 (2.20%) Informatica
8 11 (2.02%) Cloudera
9 10 (1.83%) Dell
10 8 (1.47%) Foundry
10 8 (1.47%) Palantir
11 5 (0.92%) Anaplan
11 5 (0.92%) SAP
12 4 (0.73%) Braze
12 4 (0.73%) Sage
13 3 (0.55%) Avaya
13 3 (0.55%) Cisco
13 3 (0.55%) Genesys
13 3 (0.55%) Workday
14 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg