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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 196 186
Rank change year-on-year +110 -10 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 452 262 327
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.10% 1.69% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 1.78% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 298 141 263
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,000 £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 12,709 14,716 18,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.25% 94.76% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,119 8,029 14,524
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,750 £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 £121,500 £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 23 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 23 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 +58 104 £82,500 +10.00% 68
West London +12 17 £47,000 -24.80% 18
South London +47 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 (14.60%) Apache Spark
2 60 (13.27%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (7.08%) Apache
4 10 (2.21%) Appian
5 5 (1.11%) 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 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (1.77%) 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
1 229 (50.66%) Azure
2 172 (38.05%) AWS
3 121 (26.77%) Power Platform
4 96 (21.24%) GCP
5 74 (16.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 65 (14.38%) Snowflake
7 55 (12.17%) dbt
8 45 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (9.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 43 (9.51%) Serverless
10 37 (8.19%) GitHub
11 36 (7.96%) Amazon S3
12 30 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (5.97%) Fivetran
14 23 (5.09%) Amazon Kinesis
15 20 (4.42%) Power Automate
16 18 (3.98%) AWS Step Functions
16 18 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (3.76%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (3.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.88%) 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
1 126 (27.88%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (26.33%) Power BI
3 86 (19.03%) SQL Server
4 75 (16.59%) Data Lake
5 62 (13.72%) Metadata
6 54 (11.95%) Tableau
7 46 (10.18%) Big Data
8 43 (9.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (7.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (7.52%) Hadoop
10 29 (6.42%) Looker
10 29 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (6.19%) NoSQL
12 27 (5.97%) Relational Database
13 25 (5.53%) BigQuery
14 22 (4.87%) Delta Lake
15 21 (4.65%) MySQL
16 20 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (3.98%) MongoDB
18 15 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 57 (12.61%) Git
2 20 (4.42%) MLflow
3 15 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.43%) JIRA
5 7 (1.55%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.33%) GitLab
7 4 (0.88%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.88%) ERwin
7 4 (0.88%) Postman
7 4 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.88%) 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%) CircleCI
General
1 197 (43.58%) Finance
2 174 (38.50%) Social Skills
3 95 (21.02%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.96%) Law
5 34 (7.52%) Marketing
6 33 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (7.30%) Public Sector
7 28 (6.19%) Manufacturing
8 24 (5.31%) Banking
9 17 (3.76%) Retail
10 15 (3.32%) Electronics
11 13 (2.88%) Advertising
11 13 (2.88%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.43%) French Language
14 9 (1.99%) Front Office
14 9 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (42.26%) Data Engineer
2 94 (20.80%) Senior
3 54 (11.95%) Senior Data Engineer
4 47 (10.40%) Lead
5 42 (9.29%) Analyst
6 36 (7.96%) Developer
7 24 (5.31%) Architect
7 24 (5.31%) Lead Data Engineer
8 20 (4.42%) AWS Data Engineer
8 20 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (4.20%) Software Engineer
10 18 (3.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 18 (3.98%) Data Architect
11 17 (3.76%) Azure Data Engineer
11 17 (3.76%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.32%) Consultant
13 12 (2.65%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (2.65%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (12.83%) Kafka
2 38 (8.41%) PySpark
3 32 (7.08%) PyTorch
4 29 (6.42%) TensorFlow
5 23 (5.09%) Pandas
6 19 (4.20%) scikit-learn
7 18 (3.98%) REST
8 16 (3.54%) pytest
9 15 (3.32%) .NET
9 15 (3.32%) FastAPI
9 15 (3.32%) React
9 15 (3.32%) RESTful
10 14 (3.10%) OAuth
11 13 (2.88%) Django
11 13 (2.88%) Flask
12 12 (2.65%) Node.js
12 12 (2.65%) NumPy
12 12 (2.65%) Web Services
13 11 (2.43%) LangChain
14 10 (2.21%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (7.08%) Product Ownership
3 30 (6.64%) Cloud Native
4 28 (6.19%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.32%) Algorithms
7 15 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.88%) Low-Code
9 10 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.21%) e-Learning
10 9 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.77%) FMCG
11 8 (1.77%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.55%) Reinsurance
13 5 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.11%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.88%) Linux
2 9 (1.99%) Windows
3 8 (1.77%) 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
1 241 (53.32%) Data Engineering
2 239 (52.88%) Analytics
3 221 (48.89%) ETL
4 197 (43.58%) Data Modelling
5 186 (41.15%) CI/CD
6 156 (34.51%) Business Intelligence
7 142 (31.42%) AI
8 138 (30.53%) Data Governance
9 127 (28.10%) DevOps
10 126 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
11 114 (25.22%) Machine Learning
12 103 (22.79%) Data Science
13 102 (22.57%) Agile
14 94 (20.80%) Decision-Making
15 65 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 64 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
17 63 (13.94%) Data Integration
18 60 (13.27%) Data Management
19 59 (13.05%) Data Architecture
20 58 (12.83%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 289 (63.94%) Python
2 271 (59.96%) SQL
3 48 (10.62%) Java
4 42 (9.29%) Scala
5 36 (7.96%) C#
6 22 (4.87%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.98%) C++
8 17 (3.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.76%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.10%) R
10 13 (2.88%) Bash
11 8 (1.77%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.55%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.33%) PHP
14 5 (1.11%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.88%) C
16 3 (0.66%) Go
16 3 (0.66%) Rust
17 2 (0.44%) Bicep
17 2 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (19.25%) Degree
2 45 (9.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (8.63%) Security Cleared
4 34 (7.52%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.75%) Master's Degree
6 22 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.54%) AWS Certification
7 16 (3.54%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.21%) CISSP
8 10 (2.21%) MCSE
8 10 (2.21%) OCP
8 10 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (1.77%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.88%) 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
1 148 (32.74%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.97%) GDPR
3 16 (3.54%) QA
4 15 (3.32%) 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%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (12.61%) Docker
2 8 (1.77%) HDFS
3 6 (1.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.44%) NFS
5 1 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 52 (11.50%) Terraform
3 20 (4.42%) Grafana
4 10 (2.21%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.77%) Ansible
6 7 (1.55%) Kibana
7 5 (1.11%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.88%) 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 (23.67%) Databricks
2 72 (15.93%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.64%) Oracle
4 25 (5.53%) Palantir
5 23 (5.09%) Google
6 21 (4.65%) SAP
7 19 (4.20%) Informatica
8 16 (3.54%) Dell
8 16 (3.54%) Foundry
9 14 (3.10%) Talend
10 12 (2.65%) OpenAI
11 10 (2.21%) Automation Anywhere
11 10 (2.21%) NVIDIA
11 10 (2.21%) UiPath
12 9 (1.99%) Adobe
13 5 (1.11%) Cisco
13 5 (1.11%) IBM
14 4 (0.88%) Dataiku
14 4 (0.88%) Red Hat
15 3 (0.66%) Tealium