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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 143 164
Rank change year-on-year +43 +21 +75
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 482 300 504
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.23% 2.46% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.58% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 319 164 275
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £136,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,110 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.13% +3.70% -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 17,595 11,649 21,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.57% 95.70% 88.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,024 7,025 16,134
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,687 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 June 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 June 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 +32 99 £82,500 +13.79% 19
West London +6 21 £45,000 -28.00% 5
South London +32 15 £60,000 -
East London - 7 - - 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
1 103 (21.37%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (17.43%) Apache Spark
3 57 (11.83%) Apache
4 8 (1.66%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (1.24%) Appian
6 5 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.04%) SAS
7 3 (0.62%) Confluence
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.87%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 215 (44.61%) Azure
2 171 (35.48%) AWS
3 90 (18.67%) Power Platform
4 89 (18.46%) dbt
5 87 (18.05%) GCP
6 71 (14.73%) Snowflake
7 64 (13.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 49 (10.17%) Amazon S3
9 48 (9.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 45 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (8.30%) SaaS
12 38 (7.88%) Serverless
13 22 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (4.36%) OpenShift
15 17 (3.53%) GitHub
15 17 (3.53%) Power Automate
16 15 (3.11%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (2.49%) Azure Functions
17 12 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
18 11 (2.28%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.07%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) 4G
2 2 (0.41%) 5G
3 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (20.95%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (17.22%) Power BI
3 78 (16.18%) Data Lake
4 71 (14.73%) Tableau
5 47 (9.75%) Relational Database
6 43 (8.92%) BigQuery
7 40 (8.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 40 (8.30%) SQL Server
8 35 (7.26%) Metadata
9 33 (6.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 31 (6.43%) NoSQL
11 28 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (5.60%) Oracle Database
13 25 (5.19%) Spark SQL
14 24 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (4.77%) Delta Lake
16 21 (4.36%) Looker
16 21 (4.36%) Star Schema
17 19 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
18 17 (3.53%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 76 (15.77%) Git
2 27 (5.60%) MLflow
3 16 (3.32%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.66%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.04%) JIRA
6 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.21%) Deequ
7 1 (0.21%) GitLab
7 1 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 140 (29.05%) Finance
2 137 (28.42%) Social Skills
3 129 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.88%) Banking
5 23 (4.77%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.53%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.90%) Retail
9 13 (2.70%) Marketing
10 12 (2.49%) Legal
11 9 (1.87%) Law
12 8 (1.66%) Advertising
12 8 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.66%) Front Office
12 8 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (45.85%) Data Engineer
2 100 (20.75%) Senior
3 67 (13.90%) Lead
4 55 (11.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (10.58%) Analyst
6 36 (7.47%) Architect
7 32 (6.64%) Data Architect
8 29 (6.02%) Developer
9 28 (5.81%) Lead Data Engineer
10 24 (4.98%) Python Engineer
11 21 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 20 (4.15%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 18 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
15 16 (3.32%) Data Analyst
16 15 (3.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 15 (3.11%) Software Engineer
17 14 (2.90%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (15.56%) Kafka
2 63 (13.07%) PySpark
3 45 (9.34%) PyTorch
4 40 (8.30%) TensorFlow
5 30 (6.22%) scikit-learn
6 29 (6.02%) LangChain
7 28 (5.81%) Pandas
8 17 (3.53%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (3.53%) React
9 16 (3.32%) pgvector
10 15 (3.11%) LangGraph
10 15 (3.11%) RESTful
11 13 (2.70%) Next.js
11 13 (2.70%) Node.js
12 12 (2.49%) REST
13 10 (2.07%) FastAPI
14 9 (1.87%) GraphQL
14 9 (1.87%) NumPy
14 9 (1.87%) pytest
15 8 (1.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.64%) Product Ownership
3 30 (6.22%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.73%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.73%) Clustering
6 17 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.53%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.11%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.90%) Reinsurance
9 13 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.49%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.66%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
14 4 (0.83%) Equities
14 4 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.28%) Linux
2 10 (2.07%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (52.07%) Analytics
2 235 (48.76%) Data Engineering
3 216 (44.81%) AI
4 210 (43.57%) Data Modelling
5 195 (40.46%) ETL
6 184 (38.17%) CI/CD
7 140 (29.05%) Data Governance
8 134 (27.80%) Business Intelligence
9 125 (25.93%) Machine Learning
10 105 (21.78%) Data Science
11 100 (20.75%) DevOps
12 96 (19.92%) Data Architecture
13 91 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
14 89 (18.46%) Agile
14 89 (18.46%) Decision-Making
15 65 (13.49%) Mentoring
15 65 (13.49%) Software Engineering
16 64 (13.28%) Data Transformation
17 62 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (12.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 319 (66.18%) Python
2 298 (61.83%) SQL
3 29 (6.02%) Java
4 27 (5.60%) Scala
5 24 (4.98%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.90%) C#
7 11 (2.28%) Bash
7 11 (2.28%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.07%) C++
8 10 (2.07%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.07%) R
9 6 (1.24%) Rust
10 4 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.83%) Go
11 3 (0.62%) Julia
11 3 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.41%) C
12 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (13.49%) Degree
2 34 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 29 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.94%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.32%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.49%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.83%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.41%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) CISM
13 1 (0.21%) GIAC
13 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PhD
13 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PMP
13 1 (0.21%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (33.40%) Data Quality
2 47 (9.75%) GDPR
3 24 (4.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.45%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.45%) PERC
5 7 (1.45%) QA
6 3 (0.62%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (8.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (12.66%) Terraform
2 36 (7.47%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.15%) Grafana
4 13 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.87%) Kibana
6 5 (1.04%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.41%) Ansible
7 2 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.21%) Packer
8 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 126 (26.14%) Databricks
2 69 (14.32%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.85%) Oracle
4 20 (4.15%) Dell
5 17 (3.53%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.53%) Google
6 16 (3.32%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.11%) Palantir
8 13 (2.70%) Foundry
9 11 (2.28%) OpenAI
10 10 (2.07%) Informatica
10 10 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.45%) UiPath
12 6 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
13 4 (0.83%) Adobe
14 3 (0.62%) NVIDIA
14 3 (0.62%) Sage
14 3 (0.62%) SAP
14 3 (0.62%) Talend
15 2 (0.41%) Workday