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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 147 155
Rank change year-on-year +53 +8 +82
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 475 293 506
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.24% 2.42% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.52% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 314 156 280
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -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 17,281 11,604 21,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.49% 95.92% 89.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,675 6,946 15,990
10th Percentile £40,500 £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 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +43 102 £82,500 +13.79% 68
West London +5 22 £45,000 -28.00% 5
South London +27 20 £48,975 -20.04% 1
East London - 6 - - 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
1 104 (21.89%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (18.11%) Apache Spark
3 59 (12.42%) Apache
4 8 (1.68%) Appian
4 8 (1.68%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (1.05%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.84%) SAS
7 3 (0.63%) Confluence
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Markit EDM
1 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 216 (45.47%) Azure
2 168 (35.37%) AWS
3 85 (17.89%) dbt
4 84 (17.68%) GCP
4 84 (17.68%) Power Platform
5 69 (14.53%) Snowflake
6 64 (13.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 52 (10.95%) Amazon S3
8 47 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (8.21%) Serverless
11 35 (7.37%) SaaS
12 22 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (4.42%) GitHub
13 21 (4.42%) OpenShift
14 17 (3.58%) Power Automate
15 16 (3.37%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
17 12 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
17 12 (2.53%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.89%) Broadband
2 2 (0.42%) 4G
2 2 (0.42%) 5G
2 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (20.21%) Data Warehouse
2 77 (16.21%) Power BI
3 73 (15.37%) Tableau
4 72 (15.16%) Data Lake
5 47 (9.89%) Relational Database
6 43 (9.05%) BigQuery
7 42 (8.84%) SQL Server
8 41 (8.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 39 (8.21%) Metadata
10 30 (6.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 28 (5.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (5.89%) NoSQL
12 26 (5.47%) Delta Lake
12 26 (5.47%) Oracle Database
13 24 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (5.05%) Spark SQL
14 21 (4.42%) Looker
15 19 (4.00%) Star Schema
16 18 (3.79%) Parquet
17 17 (3.58%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 76 (16.00%) Git
2 29 (6.11%) MLflow
3 16 (3.37%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.68%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.84%) JIRA
7 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.21%) Deequ
7 1 (0.21%) GitLab
7 1 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 139 (29.26%) Finance
2 135 (28.42%) Social Skills
3 127 (26.74%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.16%) Banking
5 26 (5.47%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.16%) Marketing
9 14 (2.95%) Retail
10 10 (2.11%) Legal
11 9 (1.89%) Law
11 9 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.68%) Front Office
13 6 (1.26%) Advertising
13 6 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.42%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (46.95%) Data Engineer
2 103 (21.68%) Senior
3 62 (13.05%) Lead
4 57 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (10.74%) Analyst
6 31 (6.53%) Developer
7 26 (5.47%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (5.05%) Architect
9 23 (4.84%) Python Engineer
10 22 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 22 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (4.42%) AWS Data Engineer
11 21 (4.42%) Data Architect
12 18 (3.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 18 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.37%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (2.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 14 (2.95%) Python Data Engineer
14 14 (2.95%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (16.00%) Kafka
2 68 (14.32%) PySpark
3 44 (9.26%) PyTorch
4 39 (8.21%) TensorFlow
5 30 (6.32%) scikit-learn
6 29 (6.11%) Pandas
7 28 (5.89%) LangChain
8 17 (3.58%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (3.58%) React
8 17 (3.58%) RESTful
9 16 (3.37%) pgvector
10 15 (3.16%) Next.js
11 14 (2.95%) LangGraph
11 14 (2.95%) Node.js
11 14 (2.95%) REST
12 11 (2.32%) pytest
13 10 (2.11%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.11%) Flask
13 10 (2.11%) Hugging Face
13 10 (2.11%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.32%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 22 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (3.58%) Algorithms
5 17 (3.58%) Clustering
5 17 (3.58%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.95%) Reinsurance
7 13 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.53%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.32%) Low-Code
9 11 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.05%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.84%) Anti-Piracy
12 4 (0.84%) Social Media
12 4 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.32%) Linux
2 10 (2.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (52.21%) Analytics
2 240 (50.53%) Data Engineering
3 205 (43.16%) Data Modelling
3 205 (43.16%) ETL
4 201 (42.32%) AI
5 190 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 131 (27.58%) Data Governance
7 130 (27.37%) Business Intelligence
8 114 (24.00%) Machine Learning
9 109 (22.95%) DevOps
10 102 (21.47%) Data Science
11 91 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
12 89 (18.74%) Agile
13 87 (18.32%) Decision-Making
14 86 (18.11%) Data Architecture
15 68 (14.32%) Software Engineering
16 65 (13.68%) Observability
17 63 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (12.63%) Mentoring
19 58 (12.21%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 317 (66.74%) Python
2 294 (61.89%) SQL
3 33 (6.95%) Scala
4 30 (6.32%) Java
5 25 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.58%) C#
7 14 (2.95%) C++
8 13 (2.74%) Bash
9 11 (2.32%) JavaScript
10 10 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.11%) R
11 8 (1.68%) Rust
12 6 (1.26%) Go
13 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.63%) C
14 3 (0.63%) Julia
14 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 67 (14.11%) Degree
2 34 (7.16%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (5.89%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.79%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.37%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.11%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.21%) SSCP
12 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (33.26%) Data Quality
2 45 (9.47%) GDPR
3 24 (5.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.47%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.47%) PERC
5 5 (1.05%) QA
6 3 (0.63%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (8.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (13.26%) Terraform
2 40 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.05%) Grafana
4 16 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.11%) Kibana
6 4 (0.84%) Control-M
6 4 (0.84%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.21%) Ansible
7 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 122 (25.68%) Databricks
2 61 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.74%) Oracle
4 20 (4.21%) Dell
5 18 (3.79%) Google
6 17 (3.58%) Cloudera
7 16 (3.37%) Palantir
7 16 (3.37%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.74%) Foundry
9 12 (2.53%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.89%) Informatica
11 8 (1.68%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.68%) UiPath
12 6 (1.26%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.05%) Adobe
14 4 (0.84%) Talend
15 3 (0.63%) NVIDIA
16 2 (0.42%) SAP
17 1 (0.21%) IBM
17 1 (0.21%) Sage