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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 210 191
Rank change year-on-year +120 -19 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 433 267 320
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.34% 1.52% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 1.67% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 257 163 267
10th Percentile £45,600 £52,500 £50,819
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 £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £103,950 £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 11,882 16,011 17,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.70% 90.85% 93.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,508 9,451 14,406
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,875
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 22 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 22 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 +70 84 £85,000 +13.33% 275
West London +12 14 £47,000 -34.04% 13
East London - 2 £32,838 - 11
South London +30 1 - - 3
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 74 (17.09%) Apache Spark
2 47 (10.85%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (4.62%) Apache
4 5 (1.15%) Confluence
5 2 (0.46%) Appian
5 2 (0.46%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (3.23%) 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%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 223 (51.50%) Azure
2 179 (41.34%) AWS
3 124 (28.64%) Power Platform
4 97 (22.40%) GCP
5 74 (17.09%) Snowflake
6 53 (12.24%) dbt
7 50 (11.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 40 (9.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 39 (9.01%) Serverless
10 32 (7.39%) GitHub
11 29 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (6.70%) Fivetran
12 28 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (6.24%) Amazon S3
14 17 (3.93%) OpenShift
15 16 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
15 16 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (3.00%) Amazon Kinesis
18 12 (2.77%) 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 (28.64%) Data Warehouse
2 120 (27.71%) Power BI
3 79 (18.24%) SQL Server
4 64 (14.78%) Data Lake
5 56 (12.93%) Metadata
6 55 (12.70%) Big Data
7 44 (10.16%) Hadoop
8 43 (9.93%) Tableau
9 39 (9.01%) NoSQL
10 38 (8.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 28 (6.47%) Looker
11 28 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (6.00%) Relational Database
13 19 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (3.70%) BigQuery
15 16 (3.70%) Delta Lake
16 15 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (3.23%) DynamoDB
17 14 (3.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 45 (10.39%) Git
2 16 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.54%) MLflow
4 10 (2.31%) JIRA
5 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.92%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.92%) ERwin
6 4 (0.92%) GitLab
6 4 (0.92%) Postman
6 4 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.92%) Selenium
7 3 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.69%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.69%) Maven
7 3 (0.69%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.69%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.69%) TestNG
7 3 (0.69%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 193 (44.57%) Finance
2 190 (43.88%) Social Skills
3 104 (24.02%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (15.70%) Law
5 45 (10.39%) Marketing
6 43 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (8.55%) Public Sector
8 31 (7.16%) Manufacturing
9 24 (5.54%) Banking
10 19 (4.39%) Retail
11 16 (3.70%) Advertising
11 16 (3.70%) Electronics
11 16 (3.70%) French Language
12 13 (3.00%) Financial Institution
12 13 (3.00%) Telecoms
13 9 (2.08%) Front Office
13 9 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.62%) Back Office
15 5 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 172 (39.72%) Data Engineer
2 97 (22.40%) Senior
3 56 (12.93%) Senior Data Engineer
4 54 (12.47%) Lead
5 45 (10.39%) Analyst
6 41 (9.47%) Developer
7 24 (5.54%) Architect
8 23 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (4.85%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.39%) AWS Data Engineer
10 19 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (4.39%) Data Architect
11 17 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (3.46%) Product Lead
12 15 (3.46%) Python Engineer
13 13 (3.00%) Azure Data Engineer
13 13 (3.00%) Consultant
13 13 (3.00%) Data Scientist
13 13 (3.00%) Lead Developer
14 12 (2.77%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.86%) Kafka
2 39 (9.01%) PySpark
3 25 (5.77%) React
4 23 (5.31%) PyTorch
4 23 (5.31%) TensorFlow
5 17 (3.93%) Pandas
6 13 (3.00%) Spark Streaming
7 12 (2.77%) RESTful
7 12 (2.77%) scikit-learn
8 11 (2.54%) Keras
8 11 (2.54%) Node.js
8 11 (2.54%) REST
9 9 (2.08%) Django
9 9 (2.08%) Spring
10 8 (1.85%) boto
11 7 (1.62%) .NET
11 7 (1.62%) Hibernate
11 7 (1.62%) HTML
11 7 (1.62%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.39%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.24%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (8.55%) Product Ownership
3 34 (7.85%) Cloud Native
4 25 (5.77%) Data Structures
4 25 (5.77%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.93%) FMCG
5 17 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.46%) Hedge funds
7 13 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.54%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.31%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.62%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.15%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.15%) IoT
12 5 (1.15%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.31%) Linux
2 8 (1.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Solaris
3 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (51.27%) Data Engineering
2 217 (50.12%) ETL
3 191 (44.11%) Analytics
4 189 (43.65%) Data Modelling
5 164 (37.88%) CI/CD
6 154 (35.57%) Business Intelligence
7 133 (30.72%) AI
8 128 (29.56%) DevOps
9 126 (29.10%) Data Governance
9 126 (29.10%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (27.94%) Agile
11 116 (26.79%) Machine Learning
12 107 (24.71%) Data Science
13 100 (23.09%) Decision-Making
14 68 (15.70%) Computer Science
15 65 (15.01%) Visualisation
16 64 (14.78%) Software Engineering
17 62 (14.32%) Data Integration
18 60 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (13.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 295 (68.13%) Python
2 260 (60.05%) SQL
3 59 (13.63%) Java
4 34 (7.85%) Scala
5 27 (6.24%) C#
6 24 (5.54%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.62%) T-SQL
8 15 (3.46%) C++
8 15 (3.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (3.23%) R
10 12 (2.77%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.92%) Fortran
12 4 (0.92%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.69%) Bash
14 2 (0.46%) Bicep
14 2 (0.46%) C
14 2 (0.46%) PHP
14 2 (0.46%) Ruby
15 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 96 (22.17%) Degree
2 49 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (8.08%) Security Cleared
4 32 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 25 (5.77%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 19 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (3.23%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.77%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.31%) CISSP
10 10 (2.31%) MCSE
10 10 (2.31%) OCP
10 10 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (1.62%) SnowPro
12 6 (1.39%) PhD
13 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (27.02%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.24%) GDPR
2 27 (6.24%) QA
3 14 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS
6 1 (0.23%) NCSC
6 1 (0.23%) NIST
6 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 48 (11.09%) Docker
2 8 (1.85%) HDFS
3 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.46%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (10.85%) Kubernetes
2 40 (9.24%) Terraform
3 10 (2.31%) Ansible
4 9 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.85%) Grafana
6 7 (1.62%) 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
1 119 (27.48%) Databricks
2 88 (20.32%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.47%) SAP
4 27 (6.24%) Oracle
5 26 (6.00%) Palantir
6 19 (4.39%) Google
7 17 (3.93%) Dell
8 16 (3.70%) Foundry
9 15 (3.46%) Informatica
10 11 (2.54%) NVIDIA
11 9 (2.08%) Talend
12 6 (1.39%) 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