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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 109 168
Rank change year-on-year +13 +59 +44
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 554 365 404
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.30% 3.03% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 3.22% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 366 193 192
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,800 £56,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,000 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +9.68% -3.13%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,384 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.89% -0.88% -3.45%

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 19,608 11,341 17,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.49% 94.16% 89.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13,256 7,167 11,457
10th Percentile £40,804 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,668 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +44 96 £85,000 - 40
West London -9 17 £45,000 -6.44% 32
South London +8 6 - - 2
East London - 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 76 (13.72%) Apache Airflow
1 76 (13.72%) Apache Spark
2 42 (7.58%) Apache
3 7 (1.26%) SAS
4 5 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.72%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.36%) Confluence
6 2 (0.36%) Luigi
6 2 (0.36%) Tornado
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.54%) 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 (44.04%) Azure
2 163 (29.42%) AWS
3 103 (18.59%) Power Platform
4 99 (17.87%) GCP
5 84 (15.16%) dbt
6 74 (13.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 72 (13.00%) Snowflake
8 55 (9.93%) SaaS
9 53 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (9.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 35 (6.32%) Serverless
12 29 (5.23%) Amazon S3
13 17 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.71%) GitHub
15 14 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 12 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
18 11 (1.99%) Amazon EMR
19 10 (1.81%) Azure Functions
19 10 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.72%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) 5G
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (21.12%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (18.41%) Data Lake
3 96 (17.33%) Power BI
4 57 (10.29%) Tableau
5 53 (9.57%) Relational Database
6 47 (8.48%) NoSQL
7 38 (6.86%) BigQuery
8 37 (6.68%) SQL Server
9 36 (6.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (6.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 31 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (5.23%) Star Schema
13 27 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (4.87%) Metadata
14 26 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (4.33%) Delta Lake
16 22 (3.97%) Looker
17 16 (2.89%) Big Data
17 16 (2.89%) MySQL
18 14 (2.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 60 (10.83%) Git
2 19 (3.43%) MLflow
3 9 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.90%) JIRA
5 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.36%) GitLab
7 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 182 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 177 (31.95%) Finance
3 125 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.76%) Banking
5 37 (6.68%) Marketing
6 33 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.33%) Retail
9 22 (3.97%) Law
10 17 (3.07%) Legal
11 13 (2.35%) Front Office
12 12 (2.17%) Advertising
13 9 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.08%) Back Office
15 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.08%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.90%) Legal Technology
16 5 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 236 (42.60%) Data Engineer
2 115 (20.76%) Senior
3 101 (18.23%) Lead
4 52 (9.39%) Senior Data Engineer
5 47 (8.48%) Architect
6 39 (7.04%) Data Architect
7 36 (6.50%) Analyst
8 34 (6.14%) Lead Data Engineer
9 29 (5.23%) Software Engineer
10 25 (4.51%) Developer
10 25 (4.51%) Python Engineer
11 21 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (3.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 19 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
14 18 (3.25%) Data Scientist
14 18 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
15 17 (3.07%) Azure Data Engineer
15 17 (3.07%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 16 (2.89%) Data Analyst
17 15 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.26%) Kafka
2 49 (8.84%) PySpark
3 47 (8.48%) Terraform
4 41 (7.40%) PyTorch
5 39 (7.04%) TensorFlow
6 33 (5.96%) scikit-learn
7 30 (5.42%) LangChain
8 22 (3.97%) Pandas
9 18 (3.25%) LlamaIndex
10 17 (3.07%) pgvector
10 17 (3.07%) React
11 15 (2.71%) LangGraph
11 15 (2.71%) Node.js
11 15 (2.71%) RESTful
11 15 (2.71%) Spring
12 11 (1.99%) GraphQL
12 11 (1.99%) REST
13 10 (1.81%) Next.js
14 8 (1.44%) FastAPI
14 8 (1.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.00%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.50%) AI Agents
4 34 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (5.78%) Data Structures
6 24 (4.33%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.25%) Clustering
8 16 (2.89%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.99%) Derivative
11 10 (1.81%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.62%) Reinsurance
13 8 (1.44%) Equities
14 7 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (1.08%) Credit Risk
15 6 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (1.08%) Market Risk
16 4 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.62%) Linux
2 3 (0.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (51.26%) Analytics
2 261 (47.11%) AI
3 249 (44.95%) Data Engineering
4 224 (40.43%) Data Modelling
5 177 (31.95%) CI/CD
6 166 (29.96%) ETL
7 155 (27.98%) Business Intelligence
8 146 (26.35%) Machine Learning
9 142 (25.63%) Data Science
10 139 (25.09%) Data Governance
11 128 (23.10%) Data Architecture
12 116 (20.94%) Decision-Making
13 101 (18.23%) DevOps
14 97 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (15.88%) Agile
16 79 (14.26%) Use Case
17 73 (13.18%) Software Engineering
18 71 (12.82%) Mentoring
19 69 (12.45%) Observability
20 65 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 361 (65.16%) Python
2 324 (58.48%) SQL
3 34 (6.14%) Java
4 29 (5.23%) TypeScript
5 25 (4.51%) Scala
6 13 (2.35%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.99%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.62%) C#
9 6 (1.08%) R
10 5 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.72%) Bash
11 4 (0.72%) Rust
11 4 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.54%) C++
12 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.36%) Go
14 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 70 (12.64%) Degree
2 34 (6.14%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.79%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.43%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.72%) ACCA
10 4 (0.72%) CIMA
10 4 (0.72%) MBA
11 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.54%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.36%) CISSP
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.36%) PhD
13 1 (0.18%) ISEB
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (32.67%) Data Quality
2 51 (9.21%) GDPR
3 18 (3.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.17%) QA
6 7 (1.26%) PERC
7 5 (0.90%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.72%) IFRS
9 3 (0.54%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) PMO
10 2 (0.36%) PSD2
11 1 (0.18%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (6.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.99%) Grafana
3 6 (1.08%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.72%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.54%) Kibana
6 2 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Packer
7 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 161 (29.06%) Databricks
2 99 (17.87%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.87%) Google
4 19 (3.43%) Oracle
5 17 (3.07%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.89%) Dell
6 16 (2.89%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.35%) Informatica
8 8 (1.44%) Foundry
8 8 (1.44%) Palantir
9 5 (0.90%) Anaplan
9 5 (0.90%) SAP
10 4 (0.72%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.72%) Sage
11 3 (0.54%) Avaya
11 3 (0.54%) Braze
11 3 (0.54%) Cisco
11 3 (0.54%) Genesys
11 3 (0.54%) Workday