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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 191 193
Rank change year-on-year +108 +2 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 444 267 318
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.12% 1.73% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 1.83% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 290 143 256
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,688 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,750
Median % change year-on-year - -7.12% +0.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,125 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £105,000 £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 12,430 14,629 17,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.36% 94.69% 92.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,910 7,999 14,056
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,245 £40,726
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,357 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%

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 January 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 19 January 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 +64 100 £83,000 +10.67% 80
West London +12 16 £47,000 -24.80% 18
South London +44 8 £55,200 -9.88% 17
East London - 3 £32,838 - 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 66 (14.86%) Apache Spark
2 59 (13.29%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (6.76%) Apache
4 10 (2.25%) Appian
5 5 (1.13%) Confluence
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.45%) IIS
7 2 (0.45%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Actimize
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Endur
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 229 (51.58%) Azure
2 172 (38.74%) AWS
3 122 (27.48%) Power Platform
4 97 (21.85%) GCP
5 71 (15.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 66 (14.86%) Snowflake
7 55 (12.39%) dbt
8 45 (10.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 41 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (9.23%) Serverless
10 35 (7.88%) GitHub
11 34 (7.66%) Amazon S3
12 29 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (5.86%) Fivetran
14 22 (4.95%) Amazon Kinesis
15 20 (4.50%) Power Automate
16 18 (4.05%) AWS Step Functions
17 16 (3.60%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
18 15 (3.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.90%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.68%) Broadband
3 3 (0.68%) Firewall
3 3 (0.68%) VLAN
4 2 (0.45%) BGP
4 2 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.45%) MQTT
4 2 (0.45%) OSPF
4 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.45%) RTMP
4 2 (0.45%) VPN
4 2 (0.45%) WAN
4 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.45%) Wireless
5 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (29.05%) Data Warehouse
2 120 (27.03%) Power BI
3 86 (19.37%) SQL Server
4 73 (16.44%) Data Lake
5 61 (13.74%) Metadata
6 53 (11.94%) Tableau
7 47 (10.59%) Big Data
8 43 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 35 (7.88%) Hadoop
10 31 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (6.76%) Looker
12 29 (6.53%) NoSQL
12 29 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (6.08%) Relational Database
14 25 (5.63%) BigQuery
15 21 (4.73%) Delta Lake
15 21 (4.73%) MySQL
16 19 (4.28%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (4.05%) MongoDB
18 15 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 56 (12.61%) Git
2 20 (4.50%) MLflow
3 14 (3.15%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.48%) JIRA
5 7 (1.58%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.13%) GitLab
7 4 (0.90%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.90%) ERwin
7 4 (0.90%) Postman
7 4 (0.90%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.90%) Selenium
8 3 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.68%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.68%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.68%) Maven
8 3 (0.68%) TestNG
8 3 (0.68%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.68%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.45%) CircleCI
General
1 193 (43.47%) Finance
2 176 (39.64%) Social Skills
3 96 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.33%) Law
5 35 (7.88%) Marketing
6 33 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (6.98%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.86%) Manufacturing
9 24 (5.41%) Banking
10 16 (3.60%) Retail
11 15 (3.38%) Electronics
12 13 (2.93%) Advertising
12 13 (2.93%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.70%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.48%) French Language
15 9 (2.03%) Front Office
15 9 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 184 (41.44%) Data Engineer
2 92 (20.72%) Senior
3 53 (11.94%) Senior Data Engineer
4 47 (10.59%) Lead
5 41 (9.23%) Analyst
6 36 (8.11%) Developer
7 23 (5.18%) Architect
8 22 (4.95%) Lead Data Engineer
9 19 (4.28%) AWS Data Engineer
9 19 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (4.28%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 17 (3.83%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.60%) Azure Data Engineer
13 15 (3.38%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.93%) Consultant
15 12 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
15 12 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (13.06%) Kafka
2 37 (8.33%) PySpark
3 29 (6.53%) PyTorch
4 27 (6.08%) TensorFlow
5 24 (5.41%) Pandas
6 19 (4.28%) scikit-learn
7 18 (4.05%) REST
8 15 (3.38%) FastAPI
8 15 (3.38%) pytest
8 15 (3.38%) React
8 15 (3.38%) RESTful
9 14 (3.15%) .NET
9 14 (3.15%) OAuth
10 13 (2.93%) Django
10 13 (2.93%) Flask
11 12 (2.70%) Node.js
11 12 (2.70%) NumPy
11 12 (2.70%) Web Services
12 11 (2.48%) LangChain
13 10 (2.25%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 30 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 26 (5.86%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.83%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.60%) Algorithms
6 16 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.93%) Low-Code
9 10 (2.25%) e-Learning
10 9 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.03%) FMCG
11 8 (1.80%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.80%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.80%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.13%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.93%) Linux
2 8 (1.80%) Unix
2 8 (1.80%) Windows
3 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Solaris
4 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (52.70%) Data Engineering
2 231 (52.03%) Analytics
3 222 (50.00%) ETL
4 196 (44.14%) Data Modelling
5 181 (40.77%) CI/CD
6 157 (35.36%) Business Intelligence
7 136 (30.63%) AI
8 132 (29.73%) Data Governance
9 125 (28.15%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (27.93%) DevOps
11 110 (24.77%) Machine Learning
12 102 (22.97%) Data Science
13 101 (22.75%) Agile
14 94 (21.17%) Decision-Making
15 63 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 62 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (13.29%) Data Integration
17 59 (13.29%) Data Management
18 58 (13.06%) Data Architecture
19 57 (12.84%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 286 (64.41%) Python
2 269 (60.59%) SQL
3 49 (11.04%) Java
4 42 (9.46%) Scala
5 35 (7.88%) C#
6 22 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.05%) C++
8 17 (3.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.83%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.15%) R
10 12 (2.70%) Bash
11 8 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.58%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.35%) PHP
13 6 (1.35%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.90%) C
15 3 (0.68%) Go
15 3 (0.68%) Rust
16 2 (0.45%) Fortran
16 2 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (19.14%) Degree
2 43 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 33 (7.43%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.41%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.73%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 16 (3.60%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.25%) CISSP
8 10 (2.25%) MCSE
8 10 (2.25%) OCP
8 10 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (1.80%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.90%) MCP
11 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.68%) PhD
12 2 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (32.88%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.08%) GDPR
3 17 (3.83%) QA
4 13 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (12.84%) Docker
2 8 (1.80%) HDFS
3 6 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.45%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.04%) Terraform
3 19 (4.28%) Grafana
4 10 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.80%) Ansible
6 6 (1.35%) Kibana
7 5 (1.13%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.90%) Argo
9 3 (0.68%) Control-M
10 1 (0.23%) Ambari
10 1 (0.23%) Puppet
10 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (23.42%) Databricks
2 72 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.76%) Oracle
4 23 (5.18%) Google
4 23 (5.18%) Palantir
5 22 (4.95%) SAP
6 19 (4.28%) Informatica
7 14 (3.15%) Dell
7 14 (3.15%) Foundry
7 14 (3.15%) Talend
8 12 (2.70%) OpenAI
9 10 (2.25%) Automation Anywhere
9 10 (2.25%) UiPath
10 9 (2.03%) Adobe
11 8 (1.80%) NVIDIA
12 5 (1.13%) Cisco
12 5 (1.13%) IBM
13 4 (0.90%) Dataiku
13 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.68%) Tealium