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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 132 162
Rank change year-on-year +30 +30 +73
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 490 325 493
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.23% 2.64% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.77% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 329 177 267
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £136,000 £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 18,001 11,748 21,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.05% 95.34% 89.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12,337 7,224 15,769
10th Percentile £40,700 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
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 2 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 2 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 +32 99 £82,500 +13.79% 87
West London +7 20 £45,000 -28.00% 9
South London +33 15 £60,000 - 3
East London - 7 - - 6
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
1 104 (21.22%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (16.94%) Apache Spark
3 55 (11.22%) Apache
4 8 (1.63%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (1.02%) Appian
5 5 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.02%) SAS
6 3 (0.61%) Confluence
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 214 (43.67%) Azure
2 170 (34.69%) AWS
3 94 (19.18%) Power Platform
4 89 (18.16%) dbt
5 87 (17.76%) GCP
6 74 (15.10%) Snowflake
7 65 (13.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 48 (9.80%) Amazon S3
9 45 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 45 (9.18%) SaaS
10 37 (7.55%) Serverless
11 21 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.29%) OpenShift
12 16 (3.27%) GitHub
12 16 (3.27%) Power Automate
13 13 (2.65%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (2.45%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (2.24%) Azure Functions
16 10 (2.04%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.84%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) 4G
2 2 (0.41%) 5G
3 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (20.82%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (17.76%) Power BI
3 79 (16.12%) Data Lake
4 69 (14.08%) Tableau
5 47 (9.59%) Relational Database
6 43 (8.78%) BigQuery
7 39 (7.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (7.96%) SQL Server
8 35 (7.14%) Metadata
9 32 (6.53%) NoSQL
9 32 (6.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 27 (5.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (5.51%) Oracle Database
11 25 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (5.10%) Spark SQL
12 23 (4.69%) Delta Lake
13 21 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (4.29%) Star Schema
14 20 (4.08%) Looker
15 19 (3.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 74 (15.10%) Git
2 26 (5.31%) MLflow
3 16 (3.27%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.02%) JIRA
6 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.20%) Deequ
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 145 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 141 (28.78%) Finance
3 128 (26.12%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.96%) Banking
5 23 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.47%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.06%) Retail
9 13 (2.65%) Legal
9 13 (2.65%) Marketing
10 9 (1.84%) Advertising
10 9 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.84%) Front Office
10 9 (1.84%) Law
11 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 225 (45.92%) Data Engineer
2 104 (21.22%) Senior
3 71 (14.49%) Lead
4 58 (11.84%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (10.41%) Analyst
6 37 (7.55%) Architect
7 33 (6.73%) Data Architect
8 31 (6.33%) Developer
9 29 (5.92%) Lead Data Engineer
10 26 (5.31%) Python Engineer
11 21 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (4.08%) AWS Data Engineer
12 20 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 18 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
14 17 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 17 (3.47%) Data Analyst
15 16 (3.27%) Python Data Engineer
16 15 (3.06%) Software Engineer
17 14 (2.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.10%) Kafka
2 61 (12.45%) PySpark
3 42 (8.57%) PyTorch
4 38 (7.76%) TensorFlow
5 29 (5.92%) scikit-learn
6 28 (5.71%) LangChain
7 27 (5.51%) Pandas
8 17 (3.47%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (3.47%) React
9 16 (3.27%) pgvector
10 14 (2.86%) LangGraph
10 14 (2.86%) RESTful
11 13 (2.65%) Next.js
11 13 (2.65%) Node.js
12 11 (2.24%) REST
13 10 (2.04%) FastAPI
14 9 (1.84%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.63%) NumPy
15 8 (1.63%) pytest
15 8 (1.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.04%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 30 (6.12%) Data Structures
4 22 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.67%) Clustering
7 17 (3.47%) Public Cloud
8 16 (3.27%) AI Agents
9 15 (3.06%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.86%) Reinsurance
11 13 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (2.45%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.43%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.02%) Equities
16 4 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (0.82%) Security Posture
16 4 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.45%) Linux
2 8 (1.63%) Windows
3 2 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (51.63%) Analytics
2 244 (49.80%) Data Engineering
3 219 (44.69%) AI
4 212 (43.27%) Data Modelling
5 193 (39.39%) ETL
6 181 (36.94%) CI/CD
7 146 (29.80%) Data Governance
8 139 (28.37%) Business Intelligence
9 125 (25.51%) Machine Learning
10 101 (20.61%) Data Science
11 100 (20.41%) Data Architecture
12 98 (20.00%) DevOps
13 92 (18.78%) Decision-Making
14 91 (18.57%) Agile
15 88 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
16 69 (14.08%) Data Transformation
17 66 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 66 (13.47%) Mentoring
18 65 (13.27%) Software Engineering
19 63 (12.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 323 (65.92%) Python
2 301 (61.43%) SQL
3 30 (6.12%) Java
4 26 (5.31%) TypeScript
5 24 (4.90%) Scala
6 13 (2.65%) C#
7 12 (2.45%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.04%) Bash
8 10 (2.04%) C++
8 10 (2.04%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.04%) R
9 6 (1.22%) Rust
10 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.82%) Go
12 3 (0.61%) Julia
12 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.41%) C
13 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (13.67%) Degree
2 34 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.67%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.61%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) CEH
12 1 (0.20%) CISM
12 1 (0.20%) GIAC
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
1 167 (34.08%) Data Quality
2 46 (9.39%) GDPR
3 23 (4.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.63%) QA
5 7 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.43%) PERC
6 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.20%) MiFID
7 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (7.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (12.45%) Terraform
2 35 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.47%) Grafana
4 12 (2.45%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.43%) Kibana
6 4 (0.82%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.41%) Ansible
7 2 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.20%) Packer
8 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 126 (25.71%) Databricks
2 71 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.73%) Oracle
4 20 (4.08%) Dell
5 17 (3.47%) Cloudera
6 16 (3.27%) Google
6 16 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.86%) Palantir
8 13 (2.65%) Foundry
8 13 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.45%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.24%) Informatica
11 6 (1.22%) UiPath
12 5 (1.02%) Automation Anywhere
13 4 (0.82%) Sage
14 3 (0.61%) Adobe
14 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
14 3 (0.61%) SAP
14 3 (0.61%) Talend
14 3 (0.61%) Workday