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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 187 187
Rank change year-on-year +98 0 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 457 269 349
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.95% 1.79% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 1.88% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 311 149 273
10th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +0.46% -0.46%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year - +0.80% -4.21%

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 13,371 14,315 19,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.43% 95.41% 91.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,632 7,813 15,771
10th Percentile £37,375 £43,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,001 £52,500
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 £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +52 108 £83,500 +15.17% 31
West London +12 17 £47,000 -23.27% 6
South London +46 10 £48,975 -20.04% 4
East London - 3 £32,838 - 2
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 65 (14.22%) Apache Airflow
1 65 (14.22%) Apache Spark
2 34 (7.44%) Apache
3 12 (2.63%) Appian
3 12 (2.63%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (1.09%) Confluence
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.44%) IIS
6 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Actimize
3 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.22%) Endur
3 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 226 (49.45%) Azure
2 169 (36.98%) AWS
3 118 (25.82%) Power Platform
4 93 (20.35%) GCP
5 77 (16.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 69 (15.10%) dbt
7 66 (14.44%) Snowflake
8 47 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (9.63%) Serverless
10 38 (8.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 37 (8.10%) Amazon S3
12 36 (7.88%) GitHub
13 32 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (5.47%) Fivetran
15 24 (5.25%) Power Automate
16 22 (4.81%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (3.72%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (3.72%) SaaS
18 16 (3.50%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.31%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.88%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.66%) Broadband
3 3 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.66%) VLAN
4 2 (0.44%) BGP
4 2 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.44%) MQTT
4 2 (0.44%) OSPF
4 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.44%) RTMP
4 2 (0.44%) VPN
4 2 (0.44%) WAN
4 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.44%) Wireless
5 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (27.57%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (25.60%) Power BI
3 85 (18.60%) SQL Server
4 71 (15.54%) Data Lake
5 54 (11.82%) Metadata
6 51 (11.16%) Tableau
7 40 (8.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (8.32%) Big Data
9 35 (7.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (6.56%) Relational Database
11 29 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (5.91%) Hadoop
13 25 (5.47%) NoSQL
14 23 (5.03%) BigQuery
15 22 (4.81%) Looker
16 21 (4.60%) Delta Lake
17 20 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (4.38%) MySQL
18 17 (3.72%) MongoDB
19 15 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 59 (12.91%) Git
2 22 (4.81%) MLflow
3 12 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.97%) JIRA
4 9 (1.97%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.31%) GitLab
6 4 (0.88%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.88%) ERwin
6 4 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.66%) Postman
7 3 (0.66%) Selenium
8 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.44%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.44%) Maven
8 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.44%) TestNG
8 2 (0.44%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 188 (41.14%) Finance
2 173 (37.86%) Social Skills
3 101 (22.10%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.35%) Law
6 27 (5.91%) Marketing
7 25 (5.47%) Banking
8 22 (4.81%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.50%) Retail
10 12 (2.63%) Electronics
11 11 (2.41%) Advertising
12 10 (2.19%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.19%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.97%) Front Office
14 8 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.53%) French Language
15 7 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 198 (43.33%) Data Engineer
2 96 (21.01%) Senior
3 55 (12.04%) Senior Data Engineer
4 47 (10.28%) Lead
5 40 (8.75%) Developer
6 39 (8.53%) Analyst
7 28 (6.13%) Lead Data Engineer
8 27 (5.91%) Architect
9 22 (4.81%) AWS Data Engineer
9 22 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 19 (4.16%) Data Architect
11 19 (4.16%) Software Engineer
12 18 (3.94%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.28%) Azure Data Engineer
14 15 (3.28%) Python Engineer
15 14 (3.06%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (3.06%) Consultant
16 12 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (12.91%) Kafka
2 38 (8.32%) PySpark
3 32 (7.00%) PyTorch
4 28 (6.13%) TensorFlow
5 23 (5.03%) Pandas
6 21 (4.60%) scikit-learn
7 20 (4.38%) REST
8 19 (4.16%) pytest
9 18 (3.94%) FastAPI
10 17 (3.72%) React
10 17 (3.72%) RESTful
11 16 (3.50%) .NET
11 16 (3.50%) Flask
11 16 (3.50%) OAuth
12 14 (3.06%) Django
12 14 (3.06%) NumPy
13 13 (2.84%) Web Services
14 12 (2.63%) Hugging Face
14 12 (2.63%) Node.js
14 12 (2.63%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 25 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.25%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.94%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.72%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.28%) Low-Code
8 14 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (2.41%) Reinsurance
11 9 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.75%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.53%) e-Learning
14 6 (1.31%) Data Centre
15 5 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (1.09%) Fixed Income
15 5 (1.09%) FMCG
16 4 (0.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.06%) Linux
2 9 (1.97%) Windows
3 7 (1.53%) Unix
4 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Solaris
5 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (53.17%) Data Engineering
2 239 (52.30%) Analytics
3 222 (48.58%) ETL
4 201 (43.98%) Data Modelling
5 191 (41.79%) CI/CD
6 149 (32.60%) Business Intelligence
7 148 (32.39%) AI
8 133 (29.10%) Data Governance
9 128 (28.01%) DevOps
10 127 (27.79%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (23.63%) Data Science
11 108 (23.63%) Machine Learning
12 98 (21.44%) Agile
13 82 (17.94%) Decision-Making
14 72 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (13.35%) Visualisation
16 60 (13.13%) Data Architecture
16 60 (13.13%) Data Integration
17 59 (12.91%) Data Management
18 58 (12.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 297 (64.99%) Python
2 280 (61.27%) SQL
3 48 (10.50%) Java
4 39 (8.53%) C#
5 35 (7.66%) Scala
6 25 (5.47%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.60%) C++
8 17 (3.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (3.28%) T-SQL
10 14 (3.06%) Bash
10 14 (3.06%) R
11 8 (1.75%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.53%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.31%) PHP
14 4 (0.88%) C
14 4 (0.88%) Go
14 4 (0.88%) Rust
15 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.44%) Julia
16 2 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (18.82%) Degree
2 44 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (8.75%) Security Cleared
4 35 (7.66%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.81%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.60%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.72%) AWS Certification
8 16 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 16 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.19%) CISSP
9 10 (2.19%) MCSE
9 10 (2.19%) OCP
9 10 (2.19%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (1.53%) SnowPro
11 5 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.09%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (32.60%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.69%) GDPR
3 14 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.84%) QA
5 3 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.44%) IFRS
6 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 65 (14.22%) Docker
2 7 (1.53%) HDFS
3 6 (1.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.44%) NFS
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 61 (13.35%) Terraform
3 24 (5.25%) Grafana
4 14 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.75%) Ansible
6 7 (1.53%) Kibana
7 4 (0.88%) Argo
7 4 (0.88%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.66%) Control-M
9 1 (0.22%) Ambari
9 1 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 98 (21.44%) Databricks
2 70 (15.32%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.13%) Oracle
4 25 (5.47%) Palantir
5 21 (4.60%) Google
6 18 (3.94%) Informatica
7 16 (3.50%) SAP
8 15 (3.28%) Foundry
9 14 (3.06%) OpenAI
9 14 (3.06%) Talend
10 12 (2.63%) Automation Anywhere
10 12 (2.63%) Dell
10 12 (2.63%) UiPath
11 7 (1.53%) Adobe
12 6 (1.31%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.09%) Cisco
13 5 (1.09%) IBM
14 4 (0.88%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.88%) Salesforce