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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 122 161
Rank change year-on-year +31 +39 +54
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 565 348 420
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.37% 2.85% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 3.03% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 371 185 204
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,950 £60,225
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £139,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -1.79% -

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 19,484 11,498 17,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.90% 94.26% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,176 7,263 11,821
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £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 £121,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 11 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 11 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 +38 96 £81,250 +1.56% 69
West London - 20 £45,000 - 19
South London +11 11 - - 3
East London - 7 - - 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 98 (17.35%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (16.46%) Apache Spark
3 55 (9.73%) Apache
4 7 (1.24%) SAS
5 5 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.35%) Confluence
6 2 (0.35%) Luigi
6 2 (0.35%) 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 9 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 249 (44.07%) Azure
2 181 (32.04%) AWS
3 104 (18.41%) Power Platform
4 101 (17.88%) GCP
5 88 (15.58%) dbt
6 78 (13.81%) Snowflake
7 70 (12.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 54 (9.56%) SaaS
9 51 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (8.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 42 (7.43%) Amazon S3
12 36 (6.37%) Serverless
13 18 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (3.19%) OpenShift
14 15 (2.65%) GitHub
15 14 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (2.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 10 (1.77%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.42%) Broadband
2 2 (0.35%) 4G
2 2 (0.35%) 5G
3 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (21.24%) Data Warehouse
2 100 (17.70%) Data Lake
3 97 (17.17%) Power BI
4 71 (12.57%) Tableau
5 55 (9.73%) Relational Database
6 46 (8.14%) NoSQL
6 46 (8.14%) SQL Server
7 41 (7.26%) BigQuery
8 37 (6.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (6.02%) Snowflake Schema
10 32 (5.66%) Metadata
11 31 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
12 30 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 27 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (4.78%) Oracle Database
14 26 (4.60%) Spark SQL
14 26 (4.60%) Star Schema
15 24 (4.25%) Delta Lake
16 22 (3.89%) Looker
17 20 (3.54%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 75 (13.27%) Git
2 19 (3.36%) MLflow
3 16 (2.83%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.88%) JIRA
6 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.35%) GitLab
9 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 182 (32.21%) Finance
2 178 (31.50%) Social Skills
3 139 (24.60%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.73%) Banking
5 34 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.49%) Marketing
7 29 (5.13%) Public Sector
8 26 (4.60%) Law
9 23 (4.07%) Retail
10 20 (3.54%) Investment Banking
10 20 (3.54%) Legal
11 13 (2.30%) Front Office
12 11 (1.95%) Advertising
13 7 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.06%) Back Office
14 6 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.06%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.88%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 238 (42.12%) Data Engineer
2 120 (21.24%) Senior
3 98 (17.35%) Lead
4 57 (10.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (9.03%) Analyst
6 48 (8.50%) Architect
7 40 (7.08%) Data Architect
8 31 (5.49%) Lead Data Engineer
9 29 (5.13%) Developer
9 29 (5.13%) Python Engineer
10 27 (4.78%) Software Engineer
11 19 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.19%) Business Analyst
12 18 (3.19%) Data Analyst
12 18 (3.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 18 (3.19%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 18 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (3.01%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (14.69%) Kafka
2 61 (10.80%) PySpark
3 39 (6.90%) PyTorch
4 37 (6.55%) TensorFlow
5 32 (5.66%) scikit-learn
6 30 (5.31%) Pandas
7 29 (5.13%) LangChain
8 19 (3.36%) React
9 18 (3.19%) LlamaIndex
10 17 (3.01%) pgvector
11 16 (2.83%) Node.js
11 16 (2.83%) RESTful
11 16 (2.83%) Spring
12 14 (2.48%) LangGraph
13 12 (2.12%) GraphQL
14 11 (1.95%) Next.js
14 11 (1.95%) REST
15 10 (1.77%) Spring Boot
16 8 (1.42%) FastAPI
16 8 (1.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.61%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.84%) Data Structures
5 32 (5.66%) AI Agents
6 26 (4.60%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.19%) Clustering
8 16 (2.83%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.12%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.95%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.77%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.59%) Derivative
14 8 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (1.42%) Equities
15 7 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 6 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (1.06%) Market Risk
17 5 (0.88%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.95%) Linux
2 4 (0.71%) Windows
3 2 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (52.39%) Analytics
2 267 (47.26%) AI
3 253 (44.78%) Data Engineering
4 221 (39.12%) Data Modelling
5 194 (34.34%) CI/CD
6 188 (33.27%) ETL
7 156 (27.61%) Business Intelligence
8 155 (27.43%) Data Governance
9 143 (25.31%) Machine Learning
10 138 (24.42%) Data Science
11 125 (22.12%) Data Architecture
12 111 (19.65%) Decision-Making
13 101 (17.88%) Agile
14 99 (17.52%) DevOps
15 94 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
16 78 (13.81%) Software Engineering
17 76 (13.45%) Use Case
18 75 (13.27%) Mentoring
19 74 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
20 67 (11.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 376 (66.55%) Python
2 336 (59.47%) SQL
3 39 (6.90%) Java
4 32 (5.66%) TypeScript
5 25 (4.42%) Scala
6 14 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.12%) C#
9 8 (1.42%) R
10 7 (1.24%) C++
11 5 (0.88%) Bash
11 5 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.71%) Rust
12 4 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.53%) Julia
13 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.35%) Go
14 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.35%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 72 (12.74%) Degree
2 37 (6.55%) Security Cleared
3 33 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.35%) ACCA
12 2 (0.35%) CIMA
12 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 2 (0.35%) MBA
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.35%) PhD
13 1 (0.18%) CEH
13 1 (0.18%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (32.21%) Data Quality
2 59 (10.44%) GDPR
3 23 (4.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.95%) QA
6 7 (1.24%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.24%) PERC
7 5 (0.88%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.53%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.35%) IFRS
9 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.35%) PMO
9 2 (0.35%) PSD2
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (7.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (9.38%) Terraform
2 36 (6.37%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.48%) Grafana
4 8 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.71%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.53%) Kibana
7 2 (0.35%) Ansible
7 2 (0.35%) Argo
7 2 (0.35%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) Packer
8 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 157 (27.79%) Databricks
2 100 (17.70%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.84%) Oracle
4 26 (4.60%) Google
5 17 (3.01%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.01%) Dell
6 16 (2.83%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.65%) Informatica
7 15 (2.65%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.77%) Palantir
9 9 (1.59%) Foundry
10 5 (0.88%) SAP
11 4 (0.71%) Sage
12 3 (0.53%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.53%) Avaya
12 3 (0.53%) Cisco
12 3 (0.53%) Genesys
12 3 (0.53%) Workday
13 2 (0.35%) Talend