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 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 99 176
Rank change year-on-year -6 +77 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 551 393 340
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.10% 3.35% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 3.58% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 343 232 168
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,025 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £98,125
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £104,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,176 10,971 15,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.85% 93.54% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,750 6,958 9,502
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,222 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -0.41%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +10 71 £82,500 -2.94% 121
West London -19 4 £83,250 +77.13% 32
South London - 2 £70,000 - 6
East London - 1 - - 10
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Analytics48.8%269
2AI46.3%255
3Data Engineering45.6%251
4Data Modelling41.0%226
5CI/CD33.9%187
6ETL28.7%158
7Business Intelligence27.8%153
8Machine Learning27.6%152
9Data Science27.2%150
10Data Governance22.1%122
11Data Architecture20.5%113
12Problem-Solving20.0%110
13DevOps19.4%107
14Decision-Making18.7%103
15Agile16.5%91
16Software Engineering15.4%85
17LLM13.2%73
17Roadmaps13.2%73
19Validation13.1%72
20Data Ingestion12.7%70