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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 166 182
Rank change year-on-year +80 +16 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 484 279 376
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.78% 2.10% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 2.18% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 313 148 262
10th Percentile £44,000 £55,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,199 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,500 £116,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,991 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.24% +6.65% -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 14,816 12,783 20,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.01% 96.29% 91.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,613 7,603 15,922
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,250 £56,250 £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 £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +40 118 £82,500 +13.79% 123
West London +7 23 £47,000 -24.80% 14
South London +49 20 £48,975 -20.04% 7
East London - 9 £32,838 - 9
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
1 107 (22.11%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (18.80%) Apache Spark
3 50 (10.33%) Apache
4 12 (2.48%) Appian
5 10 (2.07%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (1.03%) Confluence
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.86%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Actimize
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Endur
3 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 224 (46.28%) Azure
2 188 (38.84%) AWS
3 121 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 103 (21.28%) GCP
5 95 (19.63%) dbt
6 76 (15.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 73 (15.08%) Snowflake
8 54 (11.16%) Amazon S3
9 45 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 41 (8.47%) Serverless
11 36 (7.44%) GitHub
12 31 (6.40%) OpenShift
13 29 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (5.37%) Power Automate
15 22 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
15 22 (4.55%) SaaS
16 16 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (3.31%) Fivetran
17 15 (3.10%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.65%) Broadband
2 5 (1.03%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.21%) 4G
4 1 (0.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (26.45%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (24.59%) Power BI
3 80 (16.53%) Tableau
4 78 (16.12%) Data Lake
5 70 (14.46%) SQL Server
6 50 (10.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 50 (10.33%) Metadata
7 46 (9.50%) BigQuery
8 37 (7.64%) Relational Database
9 35 (7.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (6.20%) Looker
11 29 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (5.58%) Oracle Database
13 25 (5.17%) Big Data
14 24 (4.96%) Apache Hive
14 24 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (4.75%) Delta Lake
16 20 (4.13%) NoSQL
17 18 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (3.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 79 (16.32%) Git
2 35 (7.23%) MLflow
3 16 (3.31%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.48%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.24%) JIRA
7 4 (0.83%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.83%) ERwin
7 4 (0.83%) GitLab
7 4 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.41%) Deequ
9 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.21%) Postman
9 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 179 (36.98%) Finance
2 155 (32.02%) Social Skills
3 129 (26.65%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.09%) Banking
5 36 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 34 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (5.79%) Marketing
8 23 (4.75%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.93%) Retail
10 17 (3.51%) Investment Banking
11 16 (3.31%) Law
12 13 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.07%) Electronics
15 9 (1.86%) Front Office
16 7 (1.45%) Legal
16 7 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (1.03%) Advertising
17 5 (1.03%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 201 (41.53%) Data Engineer
2 99 (20.45%) Senior
3 57 (11.78%) Analyst
4 53 (10.95%) Lead
5 50 (10.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 43 (8.88%) Developer
7 29 (5.99%) Lead Data Engineer
8 28 (5.79%) Architect
9 23 (4.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 22 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
10 22 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (4.34%) Data Analyst
12 20 (4.13%) Data Architect
12 20 (4.13%) Python Engineer
13 18 (3.72%) Software Engineer
14 17 (3.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 16 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
16 15 (3.10%) Consultant
17 14 (2.89%) Automation Engineer
17 14 (2.89%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (15.50%) Kafka
2 54 (11.16%) PySpark
3 49 (10.12%) PyTorch
4 45 (9.30%) TensorFlow
5 36 (7.44%) scikit-learn
6 32 (6.61%) Pandas
7 26 (5.37%) LangChain
8 21 (4.34%) RESTful
9 20 (4.13%) React
10 19 (3.93%) pytest
10 19 (3.93%) REST
11 17 (3.51%) OAuth
12 16 (3.31%) FastAPI
12 16 (3.31%) Flask
12 16 (3.31%) LlamaIndex
12 16 (3.31%) Node.js
12 16 (3.31%) pgvector
13 15 (3.10%) .NET
14 14 (2.89%) Django
14 14 (2.89%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.34%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.93%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.51%) Low-Code
6 17 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.51%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (3.31%) Clustering
8 13 (2.69%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.45%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.31%) Linux
2 11 (2.27%) Windows
3 7 (1.45%) Unix
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Solaris
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (56.40%) Analytics
2 245 (50.62%) Data Engineering
3 241 (49.79%) ETL
4 209 (43.18%) Data Modelling
5 201 (41.53%) CI/CD
6 192 (39.67%) AI
7 153 (31.61%) Business Intelligence
8 148 (30.58%) Data Governance
9 121 (25.00%) Machine Learning
10 119 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
11 118 (24.38%) Data Science
12 115 (23.76%) DevOps
13 96 (19.83%) Agile
14 79 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 73 (15.08%) Decision-Making
16 71 (14.67%) Data Management
17 67 (13.84%) Data Architecture
18 65 (13.43%) Computer Science
19 64 (13.22%) Software Engineering
20 60 (12.40%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 321 (66.32%) Python
2 305 (63.02%) SQL
3 38 (7.85%) Java
4 36 (7.44%) C#
5 30 (6.20%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.58%) Scala
7 24 (4.96%) C++
8 15 (3.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (2.89%) Bash
10 13 (2.69%) R
11 11 (2.27%) JavaScript
12 9 (1.86%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.24%) PHP
14 5 (1.03%) C
14 5 (1.03%) Rust
14 5 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.83%) Go
16 2 (0.41%) Julia
16 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (17.56%) Degree
2 50 (10.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 39 (8.06%) SC Cleared
5 23 (4.75%) Master's Degree
6 22 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.48%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.03%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.83%) CISSP
11 4 (0.83%) MCSE
11 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.83%) OCP
11 4 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.83%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (33.88%) Data Quality
2 46 (9.50%) GDPR
3 26 (5.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.45%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.45%) QA
6 3 (0.62%) PERC
7 2 (0.41%) IFRS
7 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (11.98%) Docker
2 7 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.62%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (13.02%) Terraform
2 57 (11.78%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.17%) Grafana
4 15 (3.10%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.45%) Ansible
5 7 (1.45%) Kibana
6 5 (1.03%) Control-M
7 2 (0.41%) Argo
7 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.21%) Ambari
8 1 (0.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 111 (22.93%) Databricks
2 61 (12.60%) Microsoft
3 38 (7.85%) Oracle
4 29 (5.99%) Dell
5 26 (5.37%) Palantir
6 22 (4.55%) Google
7 20 (4.13%) Red Hat
8 16 (3.31%) Cloudera
8 16 (3.31%) Informatica
9 15 (3.10%) Foundry
10 14 (2.89%) OpenAI
11 12 (2.48%) Automation Anywhere
11 12 (2.48%) UiPath
12 11 (2.27%) SAP
12 11 (2.27%) Talend
13 6 (1.24%) Adobe
13 6 (1.24%) NVIDIA
14 5 (1.03%) IBM
15 4 (0.83%) Alteryx
15 4 (0.83%) Salesforce