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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 133 168
Rank change year-on-year +31 +35 +63
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 499 335 452
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.24% 2.69% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.84% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 340 176 237
10th Percentile £48,625 £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,375 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £98,125 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £136,250 £118,500
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 18,337 11,781 20,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.28% 94.66% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 7,403 14,459
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,542 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
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 £108,000 £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 17 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 17 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 +43 97 £81,250 +8.33% 32
West London - 20 £45,000 - 9
South London +20 13 £40,000 - 3
East London - 7 - - 4
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 96 (19.24%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (17.03%) Apache Spark
3 54 (10.82%) Apache
4 7 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (1.40%) SAS
5 5 (1.00%) Jupyter
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 (1.80%) 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 (1.00%) 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
1 227 (45.49%) Azure
2 170 (34.07%) AWS
3 99 (19.84%) Power Platform
4 88 (17.64%) GCP
5 85 (17.03%) dbt
6 79 (15.83%) Snowflake
7 67 (13.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 49 (9.82%) SaaS
9 46 (9.22%) Amazon S3
9 46 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 36 (7.21%) Serverless
12 21 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (4.21%) OpenShift
13 14 (2.81%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (2.61%) GitHub
15 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
15 12 (2.40%) Power Automate
16 11 (2.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 11 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.80%) 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
1 111 (22.24%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (18.44%) Power BI
3 88 (17.64%) Data Lake
4 66 (13.23%) Tableau
5 45 (9.02%) Relational Database
6 40 (8.02%) BigQuery
6 40 (8.02%) SQL Server
7 35 (7.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (6.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 33 (6.61%) Metadata
10 32 (6.41%) NoSQL
11 28 (5.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (5.41%) Oracle Database
13 26 (5.21%) Star Schema
14 25 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (5.01%) Spark SQL
15 23 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (4.41%) Delta Lake
17 19 (3.81%) Parquet
18 18 (3.61%) Looker
Development Applications
1 73 (14.63%) Git
2 21 (4.21%) MLflow
3 16 (3.21%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.40%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.80%) 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
1 152 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 140 (28.06%) Finance
3 127 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (9.02%) Banking
5 24 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.81%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.21%) Retail
9 15 (3.01%) Legal
10 12 (2.40%) Marketing
11 11 (2.20%) Law
12 10 (2.00%) Front Office
13 8 (1.60%) Advertising
13 8 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.00%) Billing
16 5 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 225 (45.09%) Data Engineer
2 108 (21.64%) Senior
3 76 (15.23%) Lead
4 57 (11.42%) Senior Data Engineer
5 48 (9.62%) Analyst
6 44 (8.82%) Architect
7 38 (7.62%) Data Architect
8 30 (6.01%) Developer
9 28 (5.61%) Lead Data Engineer
9 28 (5.61%) Python Engineer
10 22 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (4.21%) AWS Data Engineer
12 19 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.61%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 18 (3.61%) Systems Engineer
14 17 (3.41%) Data Analyst
14 17 (3.41%) Software Engineer
15 16 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (3.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 15 (3.01%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (14.43%) Kafka
2 58 (11.62%) PySpark
3 41 (8.22%) PyTorch
4 38 (7.62%) TensorFlow
5 32 (6.41%) scikit-learn
6 28 (5.61%) LangChain
6 28 (5.61%) Pandas
7 17 (3.41%) LlamaIndex
7 17 (3.41%) React
8 16 (3.21%) Node.js
8 16 (3.21%) pgvector
9 14 (2.81%) LangGraph
10 13 (2.61%) RESTful
11 12 (2.40%) Next.js
12 10 (2.00%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.80%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.80%) NumPy
13 9 (1.80%) REST
13 9 (1.80%) Spring
14 8 (1.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.42%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 35 (7.01%) Data Structures
4 25 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (4.61%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.01%) AI Agents
7 18 (3.61%) Clustering
8 17 (3.41%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.81%) Reinsurance
10 13 (2.61%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.40%) Algorithms
11 12 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.00%) Equities
13 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.80%) Credit Risk
14 4 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.80%) Social Media
14 4 (0.80%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.20%) Linux
2 5 (1.00%) Windows
3 2 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (51.90%) Analytics
2 242 (48.50%) Data Engineering
3 229 (45.89%) AI
4 216 (43.29%) Data Modelling
5 183 (36.67%) ETL
6 177 (35.47%) CI/CD
7 156 (31.26%) Data Governance
8 143 (28.66%) Business Intelligence
9 128 (25.65%) Machine Learning
10 107 (21.44%) Data Science
11 106 (21.24%) Data Architecture
12 99 (19.84%) Decision-Making
13 97 (19.44%) DevOps
14 93 (18.64%) Agile
15 86 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
16 73 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (14.23%) Mentoring
18 68 (13.63%) Validation
19 65 (13.03%) Data Transformation
20 64 (12.83%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 336 (67.33%) Python
2 307 (61.52%) SQL
3 34 (6.81%) Java
4 28 (5.61%) TypeScript
5 23 (4.61%) Scala
6 13 (2.61%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.20%) C#
7 11 (2.20%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.80%) R
9 8 (1.60%) C++
10 7 (1.40%) Bash
11 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.00%) 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%) C
14 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 61 (12.22%) Degree
2 34 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.80%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.60%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.40%) CISSP
10 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMP
11 1 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (34.27%) Data Quality
2 53 (10.62%) GDPR
3 23 (4.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.20%) QA
5 7 (1.40%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.40%) PERC
6 4 (0.80%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (7.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (11.62%) Terraform
2 31 (6.21%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.21%) Grafana
4 10 (2.00%) 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
1 135 (27.05%) Databricks
2 86 (17.23%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.61%) Oracle
4 20 (4.01%) Dell
5 17 (3.41%) Cloudera
6 16 (3.21%) Google
6 16 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.01%) Informatica
8 14 (2.81%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.40%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.40%) Palantir
10 11 (2.20%) Foundry
11 4 (0.80%) Sage
12 3 (0.60%) Avaya
12 3 (0.60%) Cisco
12 3 (0.60%) Genesys
12 3 (0.60%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.60%) SAP
12 3 (0.60%) Talend
12 3 (0.60%) Workday