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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 208 175
Rank change year-on-year +122 -33 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 458 267 334
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.13% 1.72% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 1.81% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 301 144 268
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,063 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £105,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 12,769 14,739 18,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.24% 94.83% 92.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,144 8,025 14,817
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +56 105 £83,000 +10.67% 65
West London +11 17 £47,000 -24.80% 18
South London +42 10 £48,975 -20.04% 18
East London - 3 £32,838 - 8
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 66 (14.41%) Apache Spark
2 60 (13.10%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (6.99%) Apache
4 11 (2.40%) Appian
5 5 (1.09%) Confluence
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.44%) IIS
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Actimize
3 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.22%) Endur
3 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 231 (50.44%) Azure
2 173 (37.77%) AWS
3 124 (27.07%) Power Platform
4 96 (20.96%) GCP
5 75 (16.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 68 (14.85%) Snowflake
7 56 (12.23%) dbt
8 45 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (9.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 44 (9.61%) Serverless
10 37 (8.08%) Amazon S3
10 37 (8.08%) GitHub
11 31 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (5.90%) Fivetran
13 23 (5.02%) Amazon Kinesis
14 21 (4.59%) Power Automate
15 19 (4.15%) AWS Step Functions
16 18 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (3.71%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (3.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.31%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.87%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.66%) Broadband
3 3 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.66%) VLAN
4 2 (0.44%) BGP
4 2 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.44%) MQTT
4 2 (0.44%) OSPF
4 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.44%) RTMP
4 2 (0.44%) VPN
4 2 (0.44%) WAN
4 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.44%) Wireless
5 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (27.95%) Data Warehouse
2 122 (26.64%) Power BI
3 87 (19.00%) SQL Server
4 75 (16.38%) Data Lake
5 62 (13.54%) Metadata
6 54 (11.79%) Tableau
7 46 (10.04%) Big Data
8 43 (9.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (7.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (7.42%) Hadoop
10 29 (6.33%) Looker
10 29 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (6.11%) NoSQL
12 27 (5.90%) Relational Database
13 25 (5.46%) BigQuery
14 22 (4.80%) Delta Lake
15 21 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (4.59%) MySQL
16 18 (3.93%) MongoDB
17 15 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 57 (12.45%) Git
2 21 (4.59%) MLflow
3 15 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.40%) JIRA
5 7 (1.53%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.31%) GitLab
7 4 (0.87%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.87%) ERwin
7 4 (0.87%) Postman
7 4 (0.87%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.87%) Selenium
8 3 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.66%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.66%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.66%) Maven
8 3 (0.66%) TestNG
8 3 (0.66%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.66%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 201 (43.89%) Finance
2 177 (38.65%) Social Skills
3 97 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.86%) Law
5 34 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (7.42%) Marketing
6 33 (7.21%) Public Sector
7 28 (6.11%) Manufacturing
8 25 (5.46%) Banking
9 17 (3.71%) Retail
10 15 (3.28%) Electronics
11 14 (3.06%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.84%) Advertising
13 12 (2.62%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.40%) French Language
15 10 (2.18%) Front Office
16 9 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (41.70%) Data Engineer
2 95 (20.74%) Senior
3 54 (11.79%) Senior Data Engineer
4 47 (10.26%) Lead
5 42 (9.17%) Analyst
6 37 (8.08%) Developer
7 25 (5.46%) Architect
8 24 (5.24%) Lead Data Engineer
9 20 (4.37%) AWS Data Engineer
9 20 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 19 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (4.15%) Data Architect
10 19 (4.15%) Software Engineer
11 17 (3.71%) Azure Data Engineer
11 17 (3.71%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.28%) Consultant
13 13 (2.84%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (2.62%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (12.66%) Kafka
2 38 (8.30%) PySpark
3 33 (7.21%) PyTorch
4 30 (6.55%) TensorFlow
5 24 (5.24%) Pandas
6 20 (4.37%) scikit-learn
7 19 (4.15%) REST
8 18 (3.93%) pytest
9 16 (3.49%) FastAPI
9 16 (3.49%) RESTful
10 15 (3.28%) .NET
10 15 (3.28%) OAuth
10 15 (3.28%) React
11 14 (3.06%) Django
11 14 (3.06%) Flask
12 13 (2.84%) NumPy
12 13 (2.84%) Web Services
13 12 (2.62%) Node.js
14 11 (2.40%) JWT
14 11 (2.40%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 30 (6.55%) Cloud Native
4 29 (6.33%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.93%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.49%) Algorithms
8 15 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.06%) Low-Code
10 13 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (2.18%) Data Centre
11 10 (2.18%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.75%) FMCG
13 8 (1.75%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.75%) Reinsurance
13 8 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.09%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.84%) Linux
2 9 (1.97%) Windows
3 8 (1.75%) Unix
4 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Solaris
5 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (53.28%) Data Engineering
2 242 (52.84%) Analytics
3 225 (49.13%) ETL
4 200 (43.67%) Data Modelling
5 189 (41.27%) CI/CD
6 158 (34.50%) Business Intelligence
7 145 (31.66%) AI
8 140 (30.57%) Data Governance
9 129 (28.17%) DevOps
10 126 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
11 116 (25.33%) Machine Learning
12 104 (22.71%) Data Science
13 103 (22.49%) Agile
14 95 (20.74%) Decision-Making
15 66 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
17 64 (13.97%) Data Integration
18 62 (13.54%) Data Management
19 60 (13.10%) Data Architecture
20 58 (12.66%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 293 (63.97%) Python
2 274 (59.83%) SQL
3 49 (10.70%) Java
4 42 (9.17%) Scala
5 36 (7.86%) C#
6 22 (4.80%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.93%) C++
8 17 (3.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.71%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.06%) R
10 13 (2.84%) Bash
11 8 (1.75%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.53%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.31%) PHP
14 5 (1.09%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.87%) C
16 3 (0.66%) Go
16 3 (0.66%) Rust
17 2 (0.44%) Bicep
17 2 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 89 (19.43%) Degree
2 46 (10.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (8.52%) Security Cleared
4 34 (7.42%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.68%) Master's Degree
6 22 (4.80%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 16 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.18%) CISSP
8 10 (2.18%) MCSE
8 10 (2.18%) OCP
8 10 (2.18%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (1.75%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.87%) MCP
11 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.66%) PhD
11 3 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (33.41%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.11%) GDPR
3 17 (3.71%) QA
4 15 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.44%) IFRS
7 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.22%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (12.66%) Docker
2 8 (1.75%) HDFS
3 6 (1.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.44%) NFS
5 1 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (12.45%) Kubernetes
2 52 (11.35%) Terraform
3 20 (4.37%) Grafana
4 10 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.75%) Ansible
6 7 (1.53%) Kibana
7 5 (1.09%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.87%) Argo
9 3 (0.66%) Control-M
10 1 (0.22%) Ambari
10 1 (0.22%) Puppet
10 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (23.36%) Databricks
2 72 (15.72%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.55%) Oracle
4 25 (5.46%) Palantir
5 23 (5.02%) Google
6 21 (4.59%) SAP
7 19 (4.15%) Informatica
8 16 (3.49%) Dell
8 16 (3.49%) Foundry
9 14 (3.06%) Talend
10 13 (2.84%) OpenAI
11 11 (2.40%) Automation Anywhere
11 11 (2.40%) UiPath
12 10 (2.18%) NVIDIA
13 9 (1.97%) Adobe
14 5 (1.09%) Cisco
14 5 (1.09%) IBM
15 4 (0.87%) Dataiku
15 4 (0.87%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.87%) Salesforce