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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 130 166
Rank change year-on-year +36 +36 +67
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 497 336 439
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.21% 2.72% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 2.87% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 338 175 229
10th Percentile £47,125 £49,750 £59,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

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 18,467 11,699 19,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.11% 94.61% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 12,676 7,352 13,760
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 96 £80,000 - 45
West London - 19 £45,000 - 7
South London +23 12 £40,000 - 4
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 97 (19.52%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (17.71%) Apache Spark
3 54 (10.87%) Apache
4 7 (1.41%) SAS
5 5 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.40%) Appian
6 2 (0.40%) Confluence
7 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.40%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 231 (46.48%) Azure
2 171 (34.41%) AWS
3 101 (20.32%) Power Platform
4 90 (18.11%) GCP
5 85 (17.10%) dbt
6 78 (15.69%) Snowflake
7 70 (14.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 50 (10.06%) SaaS
9 48 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (9.26%) Amazon S3
10 46 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 36 (7.24%) Serverless
12 21 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (3.62%) OpenShift
14 14 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (2.62%) GitHub
15 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (2.41%) Power Automate
17 11 (2.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 11 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.81%) Broadband
2 2 (0.40%) 4G
2 2 (0.40%) 5G
3 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (23.14%) Data Warehouse
2 94 (18.91%) Power BI
3 87 (17.51%) Data Lake
4 67 (13.48%) Tableau
5 46 (9.26%) Relational Database
6 42 (8.45%) SQL Server
7 41 (8.25%) BigQuery
8 35 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (6.84%) Snowflake Schema
10 33 (6.64%) Metadata
10 33 (6.64%) NoSQL
11 32 (6.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (5.43%) Oracle Database
13 26 (5.23%) Spark SQL
14 25 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (5.03%) Star Schema
15 24 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (4.63%) Delta Lake
17 19 (3.82%) Parquet
18 18 (3.62%) Looker
Development Applications
1 75 (15.09%) Git
2 21 (4.23%) MLflow
3 16 (3.22%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.01%) JIRA
7 3 (0.60%) GitLab
8 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.20%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.20%) Deequ
9 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 153 (30.78%) Social Skills
2 140 (28.17%) Finance
3 126 (25.35%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.26%) Banking
5 23 (4.63%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.82%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.02%) Legal
7 15 (3.02%) Retail
8 12 (2.41%) Law
8 12 (2.41%) Marketing
9 10 (2.01%) Front Office
10 8 (1.61%) Advertising
10 8 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.01%) Billing
12 5 (1.01%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 226 (45.47%) Data Engineer
2 108 (21.73%) Senior
3 76 (15.29%) Lead
4 57 (11.47%) Senior Data Engineer
5 46 (9.26%) Analyst
6 45 (9.05%) Architect
7 38 (7.65%) Data Architect
8 31 (6.24%) Developer
9 28 (5.63%) Python Engineer
10 27 (5.43%) Lead Data Engineer
11 22 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (4.23%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 18 (3.62%) Systems Engineer
15 17 (3.42%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.22%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 15 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
17 15 (3.02%) Data Analyst
17 15 (3.02%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (14.89%) Kafka
2 60 (12.07%) PySpark
3 37 (7.44%) PyTorch
4 35 (7.04%) TensorFlow
5 32 (6.44%) scikit-learn
6 28 (5.63%) LangChain
6 28 (5.63%) Pandas
7 17 (3.42%) LlamaIndex
7 17 (3.42%) React
8 16 (3.22%) Node.js
8 16 (3.22%) pgvector
9 14 (2.82%) LangGraph
10 13 (2.62%) RESTful
11 12 (2.41%) Next.js
12 10 (2.01%) GraphQL
12 10 (2.01%) Spring
13 9 (1.81%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.81%) NumPy
13 9 (1.81%) REST
14 8 (1.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.44%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.64%) Data Structures
4 26 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (4.63%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.02%) AI Agents
7 18 (3.62%) Clustering
8 17 (3.42%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.82%) Reinsurance
10 12 (2.41%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (2.21%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.01%) Equities
13 5 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.80%) Autonomous Agent
14 4 (0.80%) Credit Risk
14 4 (0.80%) Social Media
14 4 (0.80%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.41%) Linux
2 5 (1.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (51.31%) Analytics
2 241 (48.49%) Data Engineering
3 224 (45.07%) AI
4 218 (43.86%) Data Modelling
5 187 (37.63%) ETL
6 180 (36.22%) CI/CD
7 156 (31.39%) Data Governance
8 145 (29.18%) Business Intelligence
9 123 (24.75%) Machine Learning
10 108 (21.73%) Data Science
11 107 (21.53%) Data Architecture
12 100 (20.12%) DevOps
13 97 (19.52%) Decision-Making
14 95 (19.11%) Agile
15 86 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
16 74 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (13.88%) Mentoring
17 69 (13.88%) Validation
18 67 (13.48%) Data Transformation
19 65 (13.08%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 336 (67.61%) Python
2 307 (61.77%) SQL
3 34 (6.84%) Java
4 28 (5.63%) TypeScript
5 26 (5.23%) Scala
6 13 (2.62%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.41%) C#
7 12 (2.41%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.01%) R
9 9 (1.81%) C++
10 7 (1.41%) Bash
11 5 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.01%) Rust
12 3 (0.60%) Go
12 3 (0.60%) Julia
12 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.20%) Bicep
14 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 61 (12.27%) Degree
2 35 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.02%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.81%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.60%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.40%) PhD
12 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.20%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (34.21%) Data Quality
2 54 (10.87%) GDPR
3 23 (4.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (2.41%) QA
5 9 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.41%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.41%) PERC
7 4 (0.80%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.40%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) PSD2
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (7.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (11.87%) Terraform
2 33 (6.64%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.22%) Grafana
4 10 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.80%) Kibana
5 4 (0.80%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.40%) Ansible
6 2 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 133 (26.76%) Databricks
2 89 (17.91%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.64%) Oracle
4 18 (3.62%) Google
5 17 (3.42%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.42%) Dell
6 16 (3.22%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.02%) Informatica
8 14 (2.82%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.41%) OpenAI
10 10 (2.01%) Palantir
11 9 (1.81%) Foundry
12 4 (0.80%) Sage
12 4 (0.80%) SAP
13 3 (0.60%) Avaya
13 3 (0.60%) Cisco
13 3 (0.60%) Genesys
13 3 (0.60%) Talend
13 3 (0.60%) UiPath
13 3 (0.60%) Workday