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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 168 185
Rank change year-on-year +77 +17 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 473 277 360
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.78% 2.06% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 2.14% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 312 148 258
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,063 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -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 14,514 12,914 20,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.30% 96.17% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,426 7,639 15,878
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 16 March 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 16 March 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 +45 112 £83,500 +15.17% 99
West London +6 20 £47,000 -24.80% 16
South London +49 17 £48,975 -20.04% 6
East London - 9 £32,838 - 9
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 98 (20.72%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (17.12%) Apache Spark
3 50 (10.57%) Apache
4 14 (2.96%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (2.54%) Appian
6 5 (1.06%) Confluence
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.42%) IIS
8 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.21%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.90%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Actimize
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Endur
3 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 211 (44.61%) Azure
2 182 (38.48%) AWS
3 113 (23.89%) Power Platform
4 92 (19.45%) GCP
5 84 (17.76%) dbt
6 72 (15.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 67 (14.16%) Snowflake
8 56 (11.84%) Amazon S3
9 45 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
10 42 (8.88%) Serverless
11 36 (7.61%) GitHub
12 34 (7.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (6.55%) OpenShift
14 25 (5.29%) Power Automate
15 22 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
15 22 (4.65%) SaaS
16 16 (3.38%) Amazon EMR
16 16 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (3.38%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.69%) Broadband
2 5 (1.06%) Kerberos
2 5 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.42%) Firewall
3 2 (0.42%) VLAN
4 1 (0.21%) 4G
4 1 (0.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.21%) BGP
4 1 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.21%) MQTT
4 1 (0.21%) OSPF
4 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.21%) RTMP
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
4 1 (0.21%) WAN
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (25.37%) Data Warehouse
2 112 (23.68%) Power BI
3 71 (15.01%) SQL Server
4 69 (14.59%) Data Lake
4 69 (14.59%) Tableau
5 52 (10.99%) Metadata
6 43 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (7.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (7.19%) Relational Database
9 33 (6.98%) BigQuery
10 29 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (5.71%) Oracle Database
12 25 (5.29%) Big Data
13 24 (5.07%) Apache Hive
14 22 (4.65%) Delta Lake
15 20 (4.23%) Looker
16 19 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (4.02%) NoSQL
17 18 (3.81%) Hadoop
17 18 (3.81%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 79 (16.70%) Git
2 26 (5.50%) MLflow
3 16 (3.38%) IBM UrbanCode
4 11 (2.33%) Visual Studio
5 10 (2.11%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.27%) JIRA
7 5 (1.06%) GitLab
8 4 (0.85%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.85%) ERwin
8 4 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.42%) Deequ
10 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.21%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.21%) Postman
10 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.21%) Selenium
10 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 180 (38.05%) Finance
2 158 (33.40%) Social Skills
3 119 (25.16%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.30%) Banking
5 39 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 31 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (5.29%) Marketing
8 22 (4.65%) Manufacturing
9 17 (3.59%) Investment Banking
10 16 (3.38%) Law
10 16 (3.38%) Retail
11 12 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.33%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.11%) Electronics
14 9 (1.90%) Front Office
15 7 (1.48%) Legal
15 7 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.06%) Advertising
16 5 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 197 (41.65%) Data Engineer
2 90 (19.03%) Senior
3 54 (11.42%) Analyst
4 50 (10.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 47 (9.94%) Lead
6 43 (9.09%) Developer
7 28 (5.92%) Architect
7 28 (5.92%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (5.07%) AWS Data Engineer
8 24 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 22 (4.65%) Data Analyst
11 20 (4.23%) Data Architect
11 20 (4.23%) Python Engineer
12 19 (4.02%) Software Engineer
13 17 (3.59%) Consultant
14 14 (2.96%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (2.96%) Transformation Analyst
15 13 (2.75%) Banking Analyst
16 12 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (13.74%) Kafka
2 54 (11.42%) PySpark
3 39 (8.25%) PyTorch
4 35 (7.40%) TensorFlow
5 32 (6.77%) Pandas
6 26 (5.50%) scikit-learn
7 22 (4.65%) React
8 21 (4.44%) RESTful
9 19 (4.02%) pytest
9 19 (4.02%) REST
10 17 (3.59%) FastAPI
10 17 (3.59%) Node.js
10 17 (3.59%) OAuth
11 16 (3.38%) Flask
11 16 (3.38%) LangChain
12 15 (3.17%) .NET
13 14 (2.96%) Django
13 14 (2.96%) NumPy
14 12 (2.54%) Faiss
14 12 (2.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.44%) Algorithms
5 19 (4.02%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.59%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.54%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.27%) Clustering
12 6 (1.27%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.38%) Linux
2 10 (2.11%) Windows
3 7 (1.48%) Unix
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Solaris
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (54.97%) Analytics
2 235 (49.68%) Data Engineering
3 230 (48.63%) ETL
4 202 (42.71%) CI/CD
4 202 (42.71%) Data Modelling
5 181 (38.27%) AI
6 142 (30.02%) Business Intelligence
6 142 (30.02%) Data Governance
7 120 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (24.10%) DevOps
9 111 (23.47%) Data Science
9 111 (23.47%) Machine Learning
10 98 (20.72%) Agile
11 83 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 70 (14.80%) Decision-Making
13 66 (13.95%) Data Architecture
13 66 (13.95%) Software Engineering
14 62 (13.11%) Computer Science
14 62 (13.11%) Data Management
15 59 (12.47%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 316 (66.81%) Python
2 296 (62.58%) SQL
3 39 (8.25%) Java
4 37 (7.82%) C#
5 32 (6.77%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.71%) Scala
7 24 (5.07%) C++
8 15 (3.17%) Bash
8 15 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (2.75%) R
10 9 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.69%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.48%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.27%) PHP
14 5 (1.06%) C
14 5 (1.06%) Rust
15 4 (0.85%) Go
16 2 (0.42%) Julia
16 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 83 (17.55%) Degree
2 50 (10.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (9.94%) Security Cleared
4 41 (8.67%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.07%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.86%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.06%) CISSP
9 5 (1.06%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.06%) MCSE
9 5 (1.06%) OCP
9 5 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.85%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (34.46%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.19%) GDPR
3 16 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.48%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.48%) QA
5 2 (0.42%) IFRS
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.21%) MiFID
6 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 61 (12.90%) Docker
2 7 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) NFS
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (13.53%) Terraform
2 59 (12.47%) Kubernetes
3 26 (5.50%) Grafana
4 16 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.69%) Ansible
6 7 (1.48%) Kibana
7 5 (1.06%) Control-M
8 3 (0.63%) Argo
9 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.21%) Ambari
10 1 (0.21%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (20.30%) Databricks
2 59 (12.47%) Microsoft
3 38 (8.03%) Oracle
4 30 (6.34%) Palantir
5 22 (4.65%) Google
6 20 (4.23%) Red Hat
7 19 (4.02%) Dell
7 19 (4.02%) Foundry
8 16 (3.38%) Informatica
9 14 (2.96%) OpenAI
10 12 (2.54%) Automation Anywhere
10 12 (2.54%) SAP
10 12 (2.54%) UiPath
11 11 (2.33%) Talend
12 6 (1.27%) Adobe
12 6 (1.27%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.27%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.06%) IBM
14 4 (0.85%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.85%) Cisco