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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 164 178
Rank change year-on-year +75 +14 +36
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 504 279 430
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.52% 2.19% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.28% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 336 149 264
10th Percentile £45,000 £53,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,199 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £125,000 £119,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -2.80%

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 16,533 12,244 21,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.71% 96.02% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,899 7,465 16,090
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +40 119 £80,500 +11.03% 70
West London +1 26 £45,000 -28.00% 3
South London +32 20 £48,975 -20.04% 1
East London - 9 £32,838 - 6
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
1 111 (22.02%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (17.26%) Apache Spark
3 56 (11.11%) Apache
4 12 (2.38%) Appian
5 6 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.60%) Confluence
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Actimize
3 1 (0.20%) Endur
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 228 (45.24%) Azure
2 172 (34.13%) AWS
3 107 (21.23%) Power Platform
4 95 (18.85%) GCP
5 89 (17.66%) dbt
6 75 (14.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 63 (12.50%) Snowflake
8 51 (10.12%) Amazon S3
9 50 (9.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 48 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (8.13%) Serverless
12 30 (5.95%) GitHub
13 26 (5.16%) SaaS
14 25 (4.96%) OpenShift
14 25 (4.96%) Power Automate
15 24 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
19 13 (2.58%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.98%) Broadband
2 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.40%) 4G
3 2 (0.40%) 5G
3 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (21.83%) Data Warehouse
2 101 (20.04%) Power BI
3 75 (14.88%) Tableau
4 72 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 60 (11.90%) SQL Server
6 52 (10.32%) Relational Database
7 45 (8.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (8.93%) BigQuery
8 40 (7.94%) Metadata
9 29 (5.75%) Delta Lake
9 29 (5.75%) Oracle Database
9 29 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (4.96%) Looker
11 25 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
12 24 (4.76%) MySQL
12 24 (4.76%) NoSQL
13 23 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (4.56%) Spark SQL
14 19 (3.77%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 81 (16.07%) Git
2 34 (6.75%) MLflow
3 16 (3.17%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.38%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.79%) JIRA
7 2 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Deequ
8 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 156 (30.95%) Finance
2 146 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 136 (26.98%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.54%) Banking
5 32 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.96%) Marketing
6 25 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.17%) Retail
9 14 (2.78%) Law
9 14 (2.78%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.98%) Front Office
12 8 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.39%) Legal
13 7 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.19%) Advertising
15 4 (0.79%) Electronics
15 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (45.04%) Data Engineer
2 97 (19.25%) Senior
3 70 (13.89%) Lead
4 60 (11.90%) Analyst
5 52 (10.32%) Senior Data Engineer
6 41 (8.13%) Developer
7 34 (6.75%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (4.76%) Architect
8 24 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 24 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
8 24 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (4.37%) Python Engineer
10 21 (4.17%) Data Analyst
11 18 (3.57%) Data Architect
12 17 (3.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 17 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (2.78%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (16.27%) Kafka
2 67 (13.29%) PySpark
3 47 (9.33%) PyTorch
4 43 (8.53%) TensorFlow
5 39 (7.74%) Pandas
6 35 (6.94%) scikit-learn
7 26 (5.16%) LangChain
8 24 (4.76%) RESTful
9 22 (4.37%) React
10 18 (3.57%) REST
11 16 (3.17%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (3.17%) Node.js
11 16 (3.17%) pgvector
11 16 (3.17%) pytest
12 15 (2.98%) FastAPI
12 15 (2.98%) Flask
13 14 (2.78%) HTML
13 14 (2.78%) Next.js
13 14 (2.78%) OAuth
14 13 (2.58%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.37%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.37%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.17%) Clustering
8 15 (2.98%) Low-Code
9 11 (2.18%) Reinsurance
9 11 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.79%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.59%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
15 4 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.18%) Linux
2 10 (1.98%) Windows
3 2 (0.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (55.56%) Analytics
2 259 (51.39%) Data Engineering
3 235 (46.63%) ETL
4 212 (42.06%) Data Modelling
5 203 (40.28%) CI/CD
6 190 (37.70%) AI
7 155 (30.75%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (26.79%) Data Governance
9 124 (24.60%) DevOps
10 113 (22.42%) Machine Learning
11 111 (22.02%) Data Science
11 111 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (17.46%) Agile
13 86 (17.06%) Data Architecture
13 86 (17.06%) Decision-Making
14 70 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (12.50%) Observability
16 60 (11.90%) Software Engineering
17 59 (11.71%) Data Transformation
17 59 (11.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 332 (65.87%) Python
2 320 (63.49%) SQL
3 37 (7.34%) Java
4 29 (5.75%) Scala
4 29 (5.75%) TypeScript
5 27 (5.36%) C#
6 17 (3.37%) Bash
7 16 (3.17%) C++
8 13 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.58%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.98%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.79%) R
11 7 (1.39%) Rust
12 6 (1.19%) PHP
13 5 (0.99%) Go
14 4 (0.79%) C
15 2 (0.40%) Julia
15 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.40%) Ruby
15 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (14.88%) Degree
2 38 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (6.94%) Security Cleared
4 29 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.77%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.98%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.60%) CISSP
13 2 (0.40%) MCSE
13 2 (0.40%) OCP
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.20%) CEH
14 1 (0.20%) CISM
14 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (33.53%) Data Quality
2 48 (9.52%) GDPR
3 25 (4.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.39%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.39%) PERC
5 6 (1.19%) QA
6 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (11.31%) Docker
2 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (12.50%) Terraform
2 57 (11.31%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.96%) Grafana
4 16 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.39%) Kibana
6 4 (0.79%) Ansible
6 4 (0.79%) Control-M
7 3 (0.60%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
Vendors
1 123 (24.40%) Databricks
2 69 (13.69%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.34%) Oracle
4 21 (4.17%) Dell
5 19 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.37%) Cloudera
6 17 (3.37%) Google
6 17 (3.37%) Palantir
7 16 (3.17%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.38%) Automation Anywhere
8 12 (2.38%) Informatica
8 12 (2.38%) UiPath
9 11 (2.18%) Foundry
9 11 (2.18%) Talend
10 6 (1.19%) Adobe
10 6 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.99%) SAP
12 3 (0.60%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.40%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.40%) Confluent