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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 105 172
Rank change year-on-year -4 +67 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 537 391 362
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.08% 3.32% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 3.53% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 347 226 171
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £123,750 £104,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.08%

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 20,808 11,078 16,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.45% 93.94% 89.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,742 6,957 9,894
10th Percentile £40,846 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +26 74 £80,000 -5.88% 99
West London -14 5 £70,500 +50.00% 28
South London - 2 £70,000 - 9
East London - 1 - - 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 59 (10.99%) Apache Spark
2 50 (9.31%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (7.45%) Apache
4 7 (1.30%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.37%) Luigi
7 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.37%) Tornado
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) Confluence
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.19%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.19%) Primavera
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 240 (44.69%) Azure
2 159 (29.61%) AWS
3 110 (20.48%) Power Platform
4 89 (16.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 82 (15.27%) GCP
6 79 (14.71%) dbt
7 68 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (11.92%) Snowflake
9 54 (10.06%) SaaS
10 45 (8.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 39 (7.26%) Serverless
12 31 (5.77%) Amazon S3
13 27 (5.03%) Azure Databricks
14 22 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (3.35%) GitHub
16 17 (3.17%) Azure Machine Learning
16 17 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
18 10 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 9 (1.68%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) Broadband
2 1 (0.19%) 4G
2 1 (0.19%) 5G
2 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (22.16%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (20.11%) Power BI
3 91 (16.95%) Data Lake
4 52 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 46 (8.57%) NoSQL
6 39 (7.26%) Relational Database
6 39 (7.26%) SQL Server
6 39 (7.26%) Tableau
7 36 (6.70%) Metadata
8 32 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (5.59%) Star Schema
10 21 (3.91%) Delta Lake
10 21 (3.91%) Snowflake Schema
11 20 (3.72%) Big Data
12 18 (3.35%) BigQuery
13 13 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (2.42%) Data Vault
14 10 (1.86%) Looker
14 10 (1.86%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 66 (12.29%) Git
2 13 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.30%) JIRA
4 5 (0.93%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.56%) GitLab
5 3 (0.56%) MLflow
5 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.19%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.19%) Yeoman
General
1 198 (36.87%) Finance
2 185 (34.45%) Social Skills
3 93 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.19%) Banking
5 33 (6.15%) Marketing
6 25 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.28%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.91%) Retail
9 20 (3.72%) Law
10 16 (2.98%) Legal
11 12 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.05%) Advertising
13 10 (1.86%) Front Office
14 8 (1.49%) Back Office
14 8 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.12%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.93%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.74%) Billing
17 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 233 (43.39%) Data Engineer
2 116 (21.60%) Senior
3 92 (17.13%) Lead
4 61 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (9.50%) Architect
6 40 (7.45%) Data Architect
7 38 (7.08%) Software Engineer
8 34 (6.33%) Lead Data Engineer
9 29 (5.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 28 (5.21%) Developer
11 27 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (4.84%) Azure Data Engineer
13 22 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 21 (3.91%) Data Scientist
14 21 (3.91%) Python Engineer
15 19 (3.54%) Analyst
16 16 (2.98%) Databricks Engineer
17 14 (2.61%) Operations Engineer
18 13 (2.42%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.68%) Kafka
2 45 (8.38%) Terraform
3 44 (8.19%) PySpark
4 25 (4.66%) PyTorch
5 23 (4.28%) TensorFlow
6 22 (4.10%) scikit-learn
7 20 (3.72%) Pandas
8 18 (3.35%) LangChain
8 18 (3.35%) LangGraph
8 18 (3.35%) REST
9 14 (2.61%) Spring
10 12 (2.23%) React
11 9 (1.68%) FastAPI
11 9 (1.68%) Node.js
11 9 (1.68%) RESTful
12 8 (1.49%) Flask
12 8 (1.49%) GraphQL
13 7 (1.30%) Next.js
13 7 (1.30%) NumPy
13 7 (1.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.17%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.64%) AI Agents
2 41 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (6.15%) Data Structures
5 24 (4.47%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.05%) Derivative
7 10 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.30%) Credit Risk
8 7 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (1.30%) Equities
9 6 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.12%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.93%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.74%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.49%) Linux
2 2 (0.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (49.16%) Analytics
2 250 (46.55%) AI
3 240 (44.69%) Data Engineering
4 225 (41.90%) Data Modelling
5 184 (34.26%) CI/CD
6 150 (27.93%) Business Intelligence
6 150 (27.93%) ETL
7 143 (26.63%) Data Science
8 142 (26.44%) Machine Learning
9 119 (22.16%) Data Architecture
10 118 (21.97%) Data Governance
11 109 (20.30%) DevOps
12 107 (19.93%) Decision-Making
13 102 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (16.20%) Agile
15 78 (14.53%) Software Engineering
16 70 (13.04%) Roadmaps
17 68 (12.66%) LLM
17 68 (12.66%) Validation
18 67 (12.48%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 360 (67.04%) Python
2 320 (59.59%) SQL
3 36 (6.70%) Scala
4 32 (5.96%) Java
5 27 (5.03%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.23%) C#
6 12 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.86%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.86%) R
8 8 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.74%) Bash
10 4 (0.74%) C++
11 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.56%) Rust
11 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.37%) Go
13 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.19%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 59 (10.99%) Degree
2 39 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.47%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.35%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.74%) ACCA
9 4 (0.74%) CIMA
9 4 (0.74%) MBA
10 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.56%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) ISEB
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (37.62%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.40%) GDPR
3 14 (2.61%) QA
4 13 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.93%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.74%) IFRS
7 3 (0.56%) PMO
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) PSD2
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.05%) Grafana
3 3 (0.56%) Kibana
3 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.56%) SQL Sentry
4 2 (0.37%) Argo
4 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.19%) Packer
5 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 150 (27.93%) Databricks
2 98 (18.25%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.59%) Google
4 16 (2.98%) OpenAI
4 16 (2.98%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.23%) Informatica
6 11 (2.05%) Oracle
6 11 (2.05%) SAP
7 6 (1.12%) Braze
8 5 (0.93%) Anaplan
9 4 (0.74%) Foundry
9 4 (0.74%) Palantir
9 4 (0.74%) Sage
9 4 (0.74%) SnapLogic
9 4 (0.74%) Splunk
10 3 (0.56%) Avaya
10 3 (0.56%) Cisco
10 3 (0.56%) Genesys
10 3 (0.56%) New Relic
10 3 (0.56%) RedGate