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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 161 181
Rank change year-on-year +67 +20 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 497 281 431
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.48% 2.21% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.30% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 331 151 263
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,475 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £125,000 £119,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -2.80%

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 16,533 12,202 21,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.62% 96.03% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,902 7,442 16,092
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,788
Median % change year-on-year - +5.95% -5.62%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +33 118 £81,000 +11.72% 70
West London -7 25 £45,000 -28.00% 3
South London +33 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
1 109 (21.93%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (17.10%) Apache Spark
3 56 (11.27%) Apache
4 12 (2.41%) Appian
5 6 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.60%) Confluence
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 222 (44.67%) Azure
2 167 (33.60%) AWS
3 105 (21.13%) Power Platform
4 91 (18.31%) GCP
5 88 (17.71%) dbt
6 72 (14.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 62 (12.47%) Snowflake
8 51 (10.26%) Amazon S3
9 49 (9.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 48 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (8.05%) Serverless
12 30 (6.04%) GitHub
13 26 (5.23%) SaaS
14 25 (5.03%) Power Automate
15 24 (4.83%) OpenShift
16 23 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (3.42%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (3.22%) Amazon EMR
19 13 (2.62%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.01%) Broadband
2 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.40%) 4G
3 2 (0.40%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (21.33%) Data Warehouse
2 99 (19.92%) Power BI
3 74 (14.89%) Tableau
4 72 (14.49%) Data Lake
5 58 (11.67%) SQL Server
6 51 (10.26%) Relational Database
7 45 (9.05%) BigQuery
8 44 (8.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 39 (7.85%) Metadata
10 29 (5.84%) Delta Lake
10 29 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (5.63%) Oracle Database
12 26 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (5.03%) Looker
13 25 (5.03%) Snowflake Schema
14 24 (4.83%) MySQL
14 24 (4.83%) NoSQL
15 23 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (4.63%) Spark SQL
16 17 (3.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 81 (16.30%) Git
2 34 (6.84%) MLflow
3 16 (3.22%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.41%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.61%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.80%) JIRA
7 2 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Deequ
8 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 151 (30.38%) Finance
2 144 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 135 (27.16%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.65%) Banking
5 32 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.03%) Marketing
7 24 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.42%) Investment Banking
9 16 (3.22%) Retail
10 14 (2.82%) Law
10 14 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.01%) Front Office
13 8 (1.61%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.41%) Legal
14 7 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.21%) Advertising
16 4 (0.80%) Electronics
16 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 220 (44.27%) Data Engineer
2 95 (19.11%) Senior
3 70 (14.08%) Lead
4 60 (12.07%) Analyst
5 50 (10.06%) Senior Data Engineer
6 41 (8.25%) Developer
7 34 (6.84%) Lead Data Engineer
8 25 (5.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 24 (4.83%) Architect
10 23 (4.63%) AWS Data Engineer
10 23 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (4.43%) Python Engineer
12 21 (4.23%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.62%) Data Architect
14 17 (3.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 17 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
15 16 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
16 15 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
17 14 (2.82%) Automation Engineer
17 14 (2.82%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (16.30%) Kafka
2 67 (13.48%) PySpark
3 47 (9.46%) PyTorch
4 43 (8.65%) TensorFlow
5 39 (7.85%) Pandas
6 35 (7.04%) scikit-learn
7 26 (5.23%) LangChain
8 24 (4.83%) RESTful
9 21 (4.23%) React
10 18 (3.62%) REST
11 16 (3.22%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (3.22%) Node.js
11 16 (3.22%) pgvector
11 16 (3.22%) pytest
12 15 (3.02%) FastAPI
12 15 (3.02%) Flask
13 14 (2.82%) HTML
13 14 (2.82%) Next.js
14 13 (2.62%) .NET
14 13 (2.62%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.23%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (3.62%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.42%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.22%) Clustering
8 15 (3.02%) Low-Code
9 11 (2.21%) Reinsurance
9 11 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.01%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.81%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.41%) Hedge funds
14 6 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.21%) Linux
2 10 (2.01%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (55.53%) Analytics
2 253 (50.91%) Data Engineering
3 231 (46.48%) ETL
4 209 (42.05%) Data Modelling
5 201 (40.44%) CI/CD
6 189 (38.03%) AI
7 153 (30.78%) Business Intelligence
8 133 (26.76%) Data Governance
9 121 (24.35%) DevOps
10 113 (22.74%) Machine Learning
11 109 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
12 108 (21.73%) Data Science
13 88 (17.71%) Agile
14 86 (17.30%) Decision-Making
15 85 (17.10%) Data Architecture
16 69 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 64 (12.88%) Observability
18 60 (12.07%) Software Engineering
19 59 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
20 58 (11.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 328 (66.00%) Python
2 318 (63.98%) SQL
3 35 (7.04%) Java
4 29 (5.84%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.63%) Scala
6 27 (5.43%) C#
7 17 (3.42%) Bash
8 16 (3.22%) C++
9 13 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (2.62%) JavaScript
10 10 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.81%) R
12 8 (1.61%) Rust
13 6 (1.21%) PHP
14 5 (1.01%) Go
15 4 (0.80%) C
16 2 (0.40%) Julia
16 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.40%) Ruby
16 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (14.49%) Degree
2 36 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (7.04%) Security Cleared
4 29 (5.84%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.82%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.22%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.20%) CISM
12 1 (0.20%) MCSE
12 1 (0.20%) OCP
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (34.21%) Data Quality
2 45 (9.05%) GDPR
3 25 (5.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.41%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.41%) PERC
5 6 (1.21%) QA
6 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (11.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (12.68%) Terraform
2 56 (11.27%) Kubernetes
3 26 (5.23%) Grafana
4 16 (3.22%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.41%) Kibana
6 4 (0.80%) Control-M
7 3 (0.60%) Ansible
7 3 (0.60%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
Vendors
1 122 (24.55%) Databricks
2 67 (13.48%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.24%) Oracle
4 20 (4.02%) Dell
5 19 (3.82%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.42%) Cloudera
6 17 (3.42%) Google
6 17 (3.42%) Palantir
7 16 (3.22%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.62%) Informatica
9 12 (2.41%) Automation Anywhere
9 12 (2.41%) UiPath
10 11 (2.21%) Foundry
11 10 (2.01%) Talend
12 6 (1.21%) Adobe
12 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.01%) SAP
14 3 (0.60%) NVIDIA
15 2 (0.40%) Alteryx
15 2 (0.40%) Confluent