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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 168 188
Rank change year-on-year +81 +20 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 495 274 380
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.65% 2.13% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.21% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 320 144 258
10th Percentile £43,750 £54,125 £49,250
25th Percentile £58,199 £60,938 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £96,563 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.47% +2.96% -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 15,703 12,375 20,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.02% 96.18% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,258 7,553 16,046
10th Percentile £39,871 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +37 121 £82,500 +11.86% 115
West London +5 25 £45,000 -28.00% 5
South London +44 20 £48,975 -20.04% 1
East London - 9 £32,838 - 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
1 111 (22.42%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (17.37%) Apache Spark
3 52 (10.51%) Apache
4 12 (2.42%) Appian
5 7 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (1.01%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.40%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Actimize
3 1 (0.20%) Endur
3 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 220 (44.44%) Azure
2 179 (36.16%) AWS
3 114 (23.03%) Power Platform
4 99 (20.00%) GCP
5 94 (18.99%) dbt
6 75 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 66 (13.33%) Snowflake
8 53 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 48 (9.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (8.89%) Serverless
11 40 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (6.06%) GitHub
13 28 (5.66%) OpenShift
14 27 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (5.05%) Power Automate
16 22 (4.44%) SaaS
17 21 (4.24%) Amazon Kinesis
18 17 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
19 15 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
20 14 (2.83%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.82%) Broadband
2 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.20%) 4G
4 1 (0.20%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (23.03%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (21.82%) Power BI
3 81 (16.36%) Tableau
4 75 (15.15%) Data Lake
5 62 (12.53%) SQL Server
6 48 (9.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 47 (9.49%) BigQuery
8 44 (8.89%) Metadata
9 43 (8.69%) Relational Database
10 30 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (5.66%) Looker
11 28 (5.66%) Oracle Database
12 26 (5.25%) Delta Lake
12 26 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (4.85%) Snowflake Schema
14 21 (4.24%) Apache Hive
14 21 (4.24%) Big Data
14 21 (4.24%) NoSQL
14 21 (4.24%) Spark SQL
15 20 (4.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 81 (16.36%) Git
2 35 (7.07%) MLflow
3 16 (3.23%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.42%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.62%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.21%) JIRA
7 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Deequ
8 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.20%) ERwin
8 1 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
General
1 171 (34.55%) Finance
2 150 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 130 (26.26%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.88%) Banking
4 39 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (6.26%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.86%) Marketing
7 23 (4.65%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.04%) Retail
9 17 (3.43%) Investment Banking
10 15 (3.03%) Law
11 13 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.42%) Front Office
13 10 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.82%) Electronics
15 7 (1.41%) Legal
15 7 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.01%) Advertising
17 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (43.03%) Data Engineer
2 95 (19.19%) Senior
3 62 (12.53%) Analyst
4 58 (11.72%) Lead
5 51 (10.30%) Senior Data Engineer
6 43 (8.69%) Developer
7 29 (5.86%) Lead Data Engineer
8 26 (5.25%) Architect
9 24 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 24 (4.85%) AWS Data Engineer
9 24 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (4.44%) Data Analyst
11 18 (3.64%) Data Architect
11 18 (3.64%) Python Engineer
12 17 (3.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (2.83%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (2.83%) Software Engineer
15 14 (2.83%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (16.16%) Kafka
2 63 (12.73%) PySpark
3 51 (10.30%) PyTorch
4 47 (9.49%) TensorFlow
5 36 (7.27%) scikit-learn
6 32 (6.46%) Pandas
7 27 (5.45%) LangChain
8 22 (4.44%) RESTful
9 21 (4.24%) React
10 18 (3.64%) REST
11 17 (3.43%) pytest
12 16 (3.23%) LlamaIndex
12 16 (3.23%) Node.js
12 16 (3.23%) pgvector
13 15 (3.03%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.03%) Flask
14 14 (2.83%) .NET
14 14 (2.83%) HTML
14 14 (2.83%) OAuth
15 13 (2.63%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.24%) Algorithms
5 20 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.43%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (3.23%) Clustering
7 16 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.23%) Low-Code
8 15 (3.03%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.22%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.82%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.01%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.63%) Linux
2 11 (2.22%) Windows
3 4 (0.81%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Solaris
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (55.56%) Analytics
2 251 (50.71%) Data Engineering
3 232 (46.87%) ETL
4 205 (41.41%) Data Modelling
5 200 (40.40%) CI/CD
6 186 (37.58%) AI
7 152 (30.71%) Business Intelligence
8 144 (29.09%) Data Governance
9 118 (23.84%) Machine Learning
10 117 (23.64%) DevOps
10 117 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (22.83%) Data Science
12 96 (19.39%) Agile
13 80 (16.16%) Decision-Making
14 79 (15.96%) Data Architecture
15 73 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 64 (12.93%) Computer Science
17 62 (12.53%) Data Management
17 62 (12.53%) Data Transformation
18 61 (12.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 323 (65.25%) Python
2 314 (63.43%) SQL
3 36 (7.27%) Java
4 32 (6.46%) C#
5 28 (5.66%) Scala
6 27 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.04%) C++
8 14 (2.83%) Bash
8 14 (2.83%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (2.42%) R
11 8 (1.62%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.21%) PHP
12 6 (1.21%) Rust
13 5 (1.01%) C
14 4 (0.81%) Go
15 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.40%) Julia
16 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 84 (16.97%) Degree
2 46 (9.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (7.47%) Security Cleared
4 33 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 21 (4.24%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.81%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.40%) MCSE
11 2 (0.40%) OCP
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (32.93%) Data Quality
2 50 (10.10%) GDPR
3 26 (5.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.41%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.41%) PERC
6 3 (0.61%) QA
6 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (11.72%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.61%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (12.53%) Terraform
2 58 (11.72%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.05%) Grafana
4 16 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.41%) Kibana
6 4 (0.81%) Ansible
6 4 (0.81%) Control-M
7 3 (0.61%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Ambari
9 1 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 119 (24.04%) Databricks
2 66 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.27%) Oracle
4 24 (4.85%) Dell
5 20 (4.04%) Palantir
5 20 (4.04%) Red Hat
6 19 (3.84%) Google
7 16 (3.23%) Cloudera
8 14 (2.83%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.63%) Foundry
10 12 (2.42%) Automation Anywhere
10 12 (2.42%) UiPath
11 11 (2.22%) Informatica
12 10 (2.02%) SAP
12 10 (2.02%) Talend
13 6 (1.21%) Adobe
13 6 (1.21%) NVIDIA
13 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.81%) Alteryx
15 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg