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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 146 158
Rank change year-on-year +48 +12 +86
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 477 297 503
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.24% 2.43% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.53% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 319 162 277
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £61,438 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -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 17,362 11,717 21,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.40% 95.82% 89.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11,870 6,989 16,075
10th Percentile £40,802 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +41 101 £82,500 +13.79% 55
West London +5 21 £45,000 -28.00% 8
South London +34 16 £50,000 -18.37% 1
East London - 7 - - 8
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
1 104 (21.80%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (17.61%) Apache Spark
3 58 (12.16%) Apache
4 8 (1.68%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (1.47%) Appian
6 5 (1.05%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.84%) SAS
8 3 (0.63%) Confluence
9 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.42%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 214 (44.86%) Azure
2 172 (36.06%) AWS
3 87 (18.24%) dbt
3 87 (18.24%) GCP
4 85 (17.82%) Power Platform
5 71 (14.88%) Snowflake
6 61 (12.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 50 (10.48%) Amazon S3
8 47 (9.85%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (9.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 40 (8.39%) SaaS
11 37 (7.76%) Serverless
12 21 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (4.40%) OpenShift
13 19 (3.98%) GitHub
14 17 (3.56%) Power Automate
15 16 (3.35%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
17 12 (2.52%) Azure Functions
18 11 (2.31%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.10%) Broadband
2 2 (0.42%) 4G
2 2 (0.42%) 5G
3 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (20.13%) Data Warehouse
2 78 (16.35%) Power BI
3 74 (15.51%) Data Lake
4 71 (14.88%) Tableau
5 47 (9.85%) Relational Database
6 43 (9.01%) BigQuery
7 41 (8.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (8.39%) SQL Server
9 35 (7.34%) Metadata
10 32 (6.71%) Snowflake Schema
11 31 (6.50%) NoSQL
12 28 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (5.66%) Oracle Database
14 25 (5.24%) Spark SQL
15 24 (5.03%) Delta Lake
15 24 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
16 21 (4.40%) Looker
17 20 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (4.19%) Star Schema
18 17 (3.56%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 78 (16.35%) Git
2 27 (5.66%) MLflow
3 16 (3.35%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.68%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.05%) JIRA
7 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.21%) Deequ
8 1 (0.21%) GitLab
8 1 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 137 (28.72%) Finance
2 136 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 129 (27.04%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.13%) Banking
5 23 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (4.82%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.35%) Investment Banking
7 14 (2.94%) Marketing
7 14 (2.94%) Retail
8 11 (2.31%) Legal
9 9 (1.89%) Law
10 8 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.47%) Front Office
11 7 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.26%) Advertising
13 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (46.54%) Data Engineer
2 102 (21.38%) Senior
3 65 (13.63%) Lead
4 55 (11.53%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (10.69%) Analyst
6 30 (6.29%) Architect
7 29 (6.08%) Developer
8 28 (5.87%) Lead Data Engineer
9 27 (5.66%) Data Architect
10 24 (5.03%) Python Engineer
11 21 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 21 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (4.19%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.77%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 18 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
15 16 (3.35%) Data Analyst
16 14 (2.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 14 (2.94%) Python Data Engineer
16 14 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (16.14%) Kafka
2 64 (13.42%) PySpark
3 45 (9.43%) PyTorch
4 40 (8.39%) TensorFlow
5 30 (6.29%) scikit-learn
6 28 (5.87%) LangChain
6 28 (5.87%) Pandas
7 17 (3.56%) LlamaIndex
7 17 (3.56%) React
8 16 (3.35%) pgvector
8 16 (3.35%) RESTful
9 15 (3.14%) Next.js
10 14 (2.94%) LangGraph
10 14 (2.94%) Node.js
11 13 (2.73%) REST
12 10 (2.10%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.10%) pytest
13 9 (1.89%) Flask
13 9 (1.89%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.89%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.77%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.77%) Clustering
6 17 (3.56%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.94%) Reinsurance
9 13 (2.73%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.52%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.89%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
14 4 (0.84%) Equities
14 4 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.84%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.52%) Linux
2 11 (2.31%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (52.41%) Analytics
2 235 (49.27%) Data Engineering
3 211 (44.23%) AI
4 207 (43.40%) Data Modelling
5 196 (41.09%) ETL
6 189 (39.62%) CI/CD
7 133 (27.88%) Data Governance
8 130 (27.25%) Business Intelligence
9 121 (25.37%) Machine Learning
10 106 (22.22%) DevOps
11 105 (22.01%) Data Science
12 95 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
13 91 (19.08%) Data Architecture
14 88 (18.45%) Decision-Making
15 87 (18.24%) Agile
16 66 (13.84%) Software Engineering
17 65 (13.63%) Observability
18 64 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
19 62 (13.00%) Data Transformation
20 61 (12.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 317 (66.46%) Python
2 294 (61.64%) SQL
3 29 (6.08%) Java
4 28 (5.87%) Scala
5 25 (5.24%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.14%) C#
7 13 (2.73%) Bash
8 12 (2.52%) C++
9 11 (2.31%) JavaScript
10 10 (2.10%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.10%) R
11 8 (1.68%) Rust
12 6 (1.26%) Go
13 3 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.63%) Julia
13 3 (0.63%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.42%) C
14 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (13.63%) Degree
2 34 (7.13%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (5.87%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.84%) SnowPro
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.21%) CISM
11 1 (0.21%) GIAC
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PhD
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMP
11 1 (0.21%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (33.75%) Data Quality
2 46 (9.64%) GDPR
3 24 (5.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.47%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.47%) PERC
5 6 (1.26%) QA
6 3 (0.63%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (8.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (13.42%) Terraform
2 39 (8.18%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.82%) Grafana
4 15 (3.14%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.10%) Kibana
6 5 (1.05%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.42%) Ansible
7 2 (0.42%) Control-M
8 1 (0.21%) Packer
8 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 120 (25.16%) Databricks
2 62 (13.00%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.92%) Oracle
4 20 (4.19%) Dell
5 17 (3.56%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.56%) Google
6 16 (3.35%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.14%) Palantir
8 13 (2.73%) Foundry
9 11 (2.31%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.68%) Informatica
11 8 (1.68%) UiPath
12 7 (1.47%) Automation Anywhere
13 4 (0.84%) Adobe
14 3 (0.63%) NVIDIA
14 3 (0.63%) Sage
14 3 (0.63%) Talend
15 2 (0.42%) Workday
16 1 (0.21%) Mapbox