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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 211 196
Rank change year-on-year +125 -15 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 434 270 301
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.28% 1.58% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 1.71% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 264 160 251
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,188 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £103,875 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -3.33%

All Process and 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 11,970 15,796 17,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.42% 92.39% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,673 9,233 13,887
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £121,250 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +61 90 £83,500 +11.33% 27
West London +12 14 £47,000 -34.04% 7
East London - 3 £32,838 - 7
South London +34 1 - - 10
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 73 (16.82%) Apache Spark
2 49 (11.29%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (4.38%) Apache
4 6 (1.38%) Confluence
5 4 (0.92%) Appian
6 2 (0.46%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) Luigi
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 15 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Actimize
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Endur
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 229 (52.76%) Azure
2 181 (41.71%) AWS
3 127 (29.26%) Power Platform
4 103 (23.73%) GCP
5 75 (17.28%) Snowflake
6 58 (13.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 53 (12.21%) dbt
8 44 (10.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 34 (7.83%) GitHub
9 34 (7.83%) Serverless
10 31 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (6.91%) Fivetran
12 27 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (5.99%) Amazon S3
14 18 (4.15%) Amazon EMR
14 18 (4.15%) OpenShift
15 17 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (3.46%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (3.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
1 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.69%) Firewall
2 3 (0.69%) VLAN
3 2 (0.46%) BGP
3 2 (0.46%) Broadband
3 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.46%) MQTT
3 2 (0.46%) OSPF
3 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.46%) RTMP
3 2 (0.46%) VPN
3 2 (0.46%) WAN
3 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.46%) Wireless
4 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (29.95%) Data Warehouse
2 125 (28.80%) Power BI
3 86 (19.82%) SQL Server
4 71 (16.36%) Data Lake
5 57 (13.13%) Big Data
6 56 (12.90%) Metadata
7 46 (10.60%) Hadoop
8 44 (10.14%) Tableau
9 42 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (9.68%) NoSQL
10 31 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (6.68%) Looker
12 28 (6.45%) Relational Database
13 22 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (5.07%) MySQL
14 19 (4.38%) MongoDB
15 18 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
16 17 (3.92%) BigQuery
17 16 (3.69%) DynamoDB
17 16 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (11.29%) Git
2 16 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.00%) MLflow
4 11 (2.53%) JIRA
5 6 (1.38%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.15%) GitLab
7 4 (0.92%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.92%) ERwin
7 4 (0.92%) Postman
7 4 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.92%) Selenium
8 3 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.69%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.69%) Maven
8 3 (0.69%) TestNG
8 3 (0.69%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.69%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.46%) Jaeger
General
1 198 (45.62%) Finance
2 193 (44.47%) Social Skills
3 103 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (13.82%) Law
5 38 (8.76%) Marketing
6 35 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (6.91%) Public Sector
8 29 (6.68%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.84%) Banking
10 18 (4.15%) Retail
11 17 (3.92%) Advertising
12 16 (3.69%) French Language
13 14 (3.23%) Electronics
14 13 (3.00%) Financial Institution
15 11 (2.53%) Telecoms
16 9 (2.07%) Front Office
16 9 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.61%) Back Office
18 5 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 168 (38.71%) Data Engineer
2 92 (21.20%) Senior
3 53 (12.21%) Lead
4 50 (11.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 43 (9.91%) Analyst
6 40 (9.22%) Developer
7 30 (6.91%) Architect
8 22 (5.07%) Data Architect
9 20 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.15%) AWS Data Engineer
11 17 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
12 16 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (3.69%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (3.00%) Consultant
13 13 (3.00%) Data Analyst
13 13 (3.00%) Data Scientist
13 13 (3.00%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (3.00%) Product Lead
14 12 (2.76%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (14.52%) Kafka
2 40 (9.22%) PySpark
3 28 (6.45%) PyTorch
3 28 (6.45%) TensorFlow
4 21 (4.84%) React
5 20 (4.61%) Pandas
6 17 (3.92%) scikit-learn
7 13 (3.00%) REST
8 12 (2.76%) RESTful
9 11 (2.53%) Keras
9 11 (2.53%) Node.js
9 11 (2.53%) Spark Streaming
10 9 (2.07%) .NET
10 9 (2.07%) Django
11 8 (1.84%) boto
11 8 (1.84%) HTML
11 8 (1.84%) LangChain
11 8 (1.84%) OAuth
11 8 (1.84%) pytest
11 8 (1.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
2 39 (8.99%) Product Ownership
3 32 (7.37%) Cloud Native
4 29 (6.68%) Management Information System
5 24 (5.53%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.46%) FMCG
7 15 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.23%) Hedge funds
9 12 (2.76%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.53%) Data Centre
11 10 (2.30%) e-Learning
11 10 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.84%) Reinsurance
13 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.38%) Low-Code
14 5 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.15%) IoT
14 5 (1.15%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.30%) Linux
2 8 (1.84%) Unix
3 2 (0.46%) Windows
3 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Solaris
4 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (52.53%) Data Engineering
2 224 (51.61%) ETL
3 210 (48.39%) Analytics
4 196 (45.16%) Data Modelling
5 172 (39.63%) CI/CD
6 162 (37.33%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (30.88%) Data Governance
8 130 (29.95%) AI
9 129 (29.72%) DevOps
10 126 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
11 116 (26.73%) Agile
12 114 (26.27%) Machine Learning
13 106 (24.42%) Data Science
14 96 (22.12%) Decision-Making
15 69 (15.90%) Data Integration
16 65 (14.98%) Visualisation
17 61 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
19 59 (13.59%) Software Engineering
20 58 (13.36%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 293 (67.51%) Python
2 265 (61.06%) SQL
3 59 (13.59%) Java
4 36 (8.29%) Scala
5 30 (6.91%) C#
6 21 (4.84%) T-SQL
7 20 (4.61%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (3.00%) C++
9 13 (3.00%) R
10 8 (1.84%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.61%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.38%) Bash
13 5 (1.15%) PHP
14 4 (0.92%) Fortran
15 2 (0.46%) Bicep
15 2 (0.46%) C
15 2 (0.46%) Ruby
16 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 89 (20.51%) Degree
2 44 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (7.60%) Security Cleared
4 30 (6.91%) SC Cleared
5 25 (5.76%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.61%) DV Cleared
7 19 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (3.23%) Azure Certification
9 11 (2.53%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.30%) CISSP
10 10 (2.30%) MCSE
10 10 (2.30%) OCP
10 10 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (1.61%) SnowPro
12 6 (1.38%) PhD
13 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (28.34%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.99%) GDPR
3 25 (5.76%) QA
4 14 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (12.21%) Docker
2 8 (1.84%) HDFS
3 6 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.46%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (11.75%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.29%) Terraform
3 9 (2.07%) Ansible
4 7 (1.61%) Grafana
4 7 (1.61%) Kubeflow
4 7 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.92%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Ambari
6 1 (0.23%) Control-M
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (27.19%) Databricks
2 83 (19.12%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.37%) Oracle
4 27 (6.22%) SAP
5 20 (4.61%) Google
5 20 (4.61%) Palantir
6 19 (4.38%) Informatica
7 17 (3.92%) Dell
8 14 (3.23%) Talend
9 12 (2.76%) Foundry
10 11 (2.53%) NVIDIA
11 6 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.15%) Cisco
13 4 (0.92%) Adobe
13 4 (0.92%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.92%) Automation Anywhere
13 4 (0.92%) Dataiku
13 4 (0.92%) IBM
13 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.92%) UiPath