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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 159 182
Rank change year-on-year +72 +23 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 488 280 378
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.72% 2.18% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 2.26% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 315 149 256
10th Percentile £43,750 £54,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,225 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 15,138 12,363 20,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.47% 96.25% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,881 7,553 15,932
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,503
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £55,163 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.06% +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 31 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 31 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 +34 121 £82,500 +13.79% 115
West London +5 25 £47,000 -24.80% 5
South London +50 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
1 107 (21.93%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (18.24%) Apache Spark
3 51 (10.45%) Apache
4 12 (2.46%) Appian
5 9 (1.84%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.82%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.84%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Actimize
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Endur
3 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 224 (45.90%) Azure
2 182 (37.30%) AWS
3 120 (24.59%) Power Platform
4 99 (20.29%) GCP
5 93 (19.06%) dbt
6 76 (15.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 70 (14.34%) Snowflake
8 54 (11.07%) Amazon S3
9 45 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (8.61%) Serverless
12 34 (6.97%) GitHub
13 30 (6.15%) OpenShift
14 29 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (5.33%) Power Automate
16 22 (4.51%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (4.10%) SaaS
18 16 (3.28%) Amazon EMR
18 16 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
19 14 (2.87%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.84%) Broadband
2 4 (0.82%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.20%) 4G
3 1 (0.20%) 5G
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (25.20%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (23.98%) Power BI
3 80 (16.39%) Tableau
4 79 (16.19%) Data Lake
5 67 (13.73%) SQL Server
6 49 (10.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (9.84%) Metadata
8 46 (9.43%) BigQuery
9 40 (8.20%) Relational Database
10 34 (6.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (5.74%) Looker
11 28 (5.74%) Oracle Database
12 27 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (5.12%) Delta Lake
14 24 (4.92%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (4.71%) Apache Hive
15 23 (4.71%) Big Data
16 19 (3.89%) NoSQL
16 19 (3.89%) Spark SQL
17 18 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (16.19%) Git
2 35 (7.17%) MLflow
3 16 (3.28%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.46%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.02%) JIRA
7 4 (0.82%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.82%) ERwin
7 4 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.61%) GitLab
9 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.41%) Deequ
10 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 178 (36.48%) Finance
2 151 (30.94%) Social Skills
3 130 (26.64%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.61%) Banking
5 36 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 28 (5.74%) Marketing
8 23 (4.71%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.51%) Retail
10 17 (3.48%) Investment Banking
11 15 (3.07%) Law
12 13 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.25%) Front Office
14 10 (2.05%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.84%) Electronics
16 7 (1.43%) Legal
16 7 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (1.02%) Advertising
17 5 (1.02%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 204 (41.80%) Data Engineer
2 94 (19.26%) Senior
3 60 (12.30%) Analyst
4 54 (11.07%) Lead
5 48 (9.84%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (9.02%) Developer
7 30 (6.15%) Architect
8 28 (5.74%) Lead Data Engineer
9 24 (4.92%) AWS Data Engineer
9 24 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 23 (4.71%) Data Analyst
11 22 (4.51%) Data Architect
12 18 (3.69%) Python Engineer
13 17 (3.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 16 (3.28%) Software Engineer
14 16 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
15 14 (2.87%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (2.87%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.78%) Kafka
2 57 (11.68%) PySpark
3 50 (10.25%) PyTorch
4 46 (9.43%) TensorFlow
5 36 (7.38%) scikit-learn
6 31 (6.35%) Pandas
7 26 (5.33%) LangChain
8 21 (4.30%) RESTful
9 19 (3.89%) React
10 18 (3.69%) pytest
10 18 (3.69%) REST
11 16 (3.28%) FastAPI
11 16 (3.28%) Flask
11 16 (3.28%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (3.28%) OAuth
11 16 (3.28%) pgvector
12 15 (3.07%) .NET
12 15 (3.07%) Node.js
13 14 (2.87%) Django
14 13 (2.66%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.51%) Algorithms
3 22 (4.51%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.69%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.48%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (3.28%) Clustering
6 16 (3.28%) Low-Code
6 16 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.87%) Reinsurance
8 9 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.64%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.07%) Linux
2 11 (2.25%) Windows
3 6 (1.23%) Unix
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Solaris
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (56.76%) Analytics
2 243 (49.80%) Data Engineering
3 235 (48.16%) ETL
4 210 (43.03%) Data Modelling
5 200 (40.98%) CI/CD
6 190 (38.93%) AI
7 153 (31.35%) Business Intelligence
8 146 (29.92%) Data Governance
9 121 (24.80%) Machine Learning
10 120 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
11 117 (23.98%) Data Science
12 115 (23.57%) DevOps
13 92 (18.85%) Agile
14 76 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 76 (15.57%) Decision-Making
15 75 (15.37%) Data Architecture
16 67 (13.73%) Data Management
17 64 (13.11%) Computer Science
18 61 (12.50%) Data Transformation
18 61 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 322 (65.98%) Python
2 308 (63.11%) SQL
3 36 (7.38%) Java
4 33 (6.76%) C#
5 27 (5.53%) Scala
6 26 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.30%) C++
8 15 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (2.87%) Bash
10 12 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 12 (2.46%) R
11 8 (1.64%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.23%) PHP
12 6 (1.23%) Rust
13 5 (1.02%) C
14 4 (0.82%) Go
14 4 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.41%) Julia
15 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 84 (17.21%) Degree
2 49 (10.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (8.20%) Security Cleared
4 35 (7.17%) SC Cleared
5 23 (4.71%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.69%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.46%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.02%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.82%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.61%) CISSP
12 3 (0.61%) MCSE
12 3 (0.61%) OCP
12 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (33.81%) Data Quality
2 47 (9.63%) GDPR
3 26 (5.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.43%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.82%) PERC
6 4 (0.82%) QA
7 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.41%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (11.68%) Docker
2 6 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.61%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (13.11%) Terraform
2 56 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.12%) Grafana
4 16 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.43%) Kibana
6 6 (1.23%) Ansible
7 4 (0.82%) Control-M
8 3 (0.61%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.41%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) Ambari
10 1 (0.20%) Puppet
10 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 117 (23.98%) Databricks
2 65 (13.32%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.58%) Oracle
4 27 (5.53%) Dell
5 22 (4.51%) Palantir
6 21 (4.30%) Google
7 20 (4.10%) Red Hat
8 16 (3.28%) Cloudera
9 14 (2.87%) Foundry
9 14 (2.87%) Informatica
10 13 (2.66%) OpenAI
11 12 (2.46%) Automation Anywhere
11 12 (2.46%) UiPath
12 10 (2.05%) SAP
12 10 (2.05%) Talend
13 6 (1.23%) Adobe
13 6 (1.23%) NVIDIA
14 5 (1.02%) IBM
14 5 (1.02%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.82%) Alteryx