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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 170 170
Rank change year-on-year +78 0 +46
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 492 280 441
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.43% 2.20% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.29% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 329 150 264
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,199 £60,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,865 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +10.49% -6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.47% +2.96% -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 16,650 12,246 21,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.27% 96.08% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,020 7,458 16,022
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +40 116 £80,000 +10.34% 99
West London -5 25 £45,000 -28.00% 7
South London +37 20 £48,975 -20.04% 1
East London - 8 £32,838 - 7
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
1 110 (22.36%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (17.48%) Apache Spark
3 57 (11.59%) Apache
4 12 (2.44%) Appian
5 6 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.61%) Confluence
7 2 (0.41%) 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 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.41%) 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
1 222 (45.12%) Azure
2 166 (33.74%) AWS
3 103 (20.93%) Power Platform
4 92 (18.70%) GCP
5 87 (17.68%) dbt
6 71 (14.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 62 (12.60%) Snowflake
8 51 (10.37%) Amazon S3
9 49 (9.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 48 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (8.13%) Serverless
12 30 (6.10%) GitHub
13 25 (5.08%) Power Automate
13 25 (5.08%) SaaS
14 24 (4.88%) OpenShift
15 23 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (3.46%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
18 14 (2.85%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.83%) Broadband
2 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.41%) 4G
3 2 (0.41%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (21.14%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (19.72%) Power BI
3 73 (14.84%) Tableau
4 70 (14.23%) Data Lake
5 58 (11.79%) SQL Server
6 51 (10.37%) Relational Database
7 46 (9.35%) BigQuery
8 44 (8.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 39 (7.93%) Metadata
10 29 (5.89%) Delta Lake
10 29 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (5.69%) Oracle Database
12 25 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (5.08%) Looker
12 25 (5.08%) NoSQL
12 25 (5.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 23 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (4.67%) MySQL
13 23 (4.67%) Spark SQL
14 17 (3.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 81 (16.46%) Git
2 34 (6.91%) MLflow
3 16 (3.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.81%) JIRA
7 2 (0.41%) 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
1 148 (30.08%) Finance
2 143 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 135 (27.44%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.52%) Banking
5 31 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (4.67%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.47%) Marketing
8 17 (3.46%) Investment Banking
9 16 (3.25%) Retail
10 14 (2.85%) Law
11 13 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.44%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.03%) Front Office
14 8 (1.63%) Legal
15 7 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.22%) Advertising
16 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
18 2 (0.41%) Electronics
18 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (45.12%) Data Engineer
2 96 (19.51%) Senior
3 68 (13.82%) Lead
4 61 (12.40%) Analyst
5 52 (10.57%) Senior Data Engineer
6 40 (8.13%) Developer
7 33 (6.71%) Lead Data Engineer
8 25 (5.08%) Architect
9 24 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 23 (4.67%) AWS Data Engineer
10 23 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (4.47%) Data Analyst
11 22 (4.47%) Python Engineer
12 19 (3.86%) Data Architect
13 17 (3.46%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 17 (3.46%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
16 14 (2.85%) Automation Engineer
16 14 (2.85%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (16.46%) Kafka
2 68 (13.82%) PySpark
3 45 (9.15%) PyTorch
4 41 (8.33%) TensorFlow
5 38 (7.72%) Pandas
6 33 (6.71%) scikit-learn
7 25 (5.08%) LangChain
8 24 (4.88%) RESTful
9 20 (4.07%) React
10 18 (3.66%) REST
11 16 (3.25%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (3.25%) pgvector
11 16 (3.25%) pytest
12 15 (3.05%) FastAPI
12 15 (3.05%) Flask
12 15 (3.05%) Node.js
13 14 (2.85%) Next.js
14 13 (2.64%) Hugging Face
14 13 (2.64%) NumPy
14 13 (2.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.07%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.46%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.46%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.25%) Clustering
8 15 (3.05%) Low-Code
9 12 (2.44%) Reinsurance
10 11 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.03%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.83%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.42%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.24%) Linux
2 10 (2.03%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (55.89%) Analytics
2 252 (51.22%) Data Engineering
3 229 (46.54%) ETL
4 208 (42.28%) Data Modelling
5 200 (40.65%) CI/CD
6 184 (37.40%) AI
7 149 (30.28%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (27.44%) Data Governance
9 122 (24.80%) DevOps
10 109 (22.15%) Machine Learning
11 107 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
12 105 (21.34%) Data Science
13 87 (17.68%) Agile
13 87 (17.68%) Decision-Making
14 86 (17.48%) Data Architecture
15 68 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (12.80%) Observability
17 60 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
18 59 (11.99%) Data Transformation
19 58 (11.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 325 (66.06%) Python
2 314 (63.82%) SQL
3 35 (7.11%) Java
4 29 (5.89%) Scala
5 26 (5.28%) TypeScript
6 24 (4.88%) C#
7 17 (3.46%) Bash
8 14 (2.85%) C++
9 13 (2.64%) JavaScript
10 12 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.63%) R
12 8 (1.63%) Rust
13 5 (1.02%) Go
13 5 (1.02%) PHP
14 4 (0.81%) C
15 2 (0.41%) Julia
15 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.41%) Ruby
15 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (14.43%) Degree
2 35 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (6.71%) Security Cleared
4 27 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.66%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.20%) CISM
12 1 (0.20%) MCSE
12 1 (0.20%) OCP
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (35.16%) Data Quality
2 45 (9.15%) GDPR
3 25 (5.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.42%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.42%) PERC
5 6 (1.22%) QA
6 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.41%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (10.98%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (13.01%) Terraform
2 54 (10.98%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.08%) Grafana
4 16 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.42%) Kibana
6 4 (0.81%) Control-M
7 3 (0.61%) Ansible
7 3 (0.61%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 122 (24.80%) Databricks
2 67 (13.62%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.32%) Oracle
4 20 (4.07%) Dell
5 19 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 18 (3.66%) Google
7 17 (3.46%) Cloudera
7 17 (3.46%) OpenAI
8 15 (3.05%) Palantir
9 13 (2.64%) Informatica
10 12 (2.44%) Automation Anywhere
10 12 (2.44%) UiPath
11 11 (2.24%) Foundry
12 10 (2.03%) Talend
13 6 (1.22%) Adobe
13 6 (1.22%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
14 3 (0.61%) SAP
15 2 (0.41%) Alteryx
15 2 (0.41%) Confluent