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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 112 169
Rank change year-on-year +14 +57 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 548 365 398
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.27% 3.04% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 3.23% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 364 193 183
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,800 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 19,600 11,305 17,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.30% 94.08% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 13,295 7,169 11,114
10th Percentile £40,808 £38,810 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £53,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 September 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 September 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 +46 97 £85,000 - 67
West London -11 16 £45,000 -4.26% 35
South London +6 6 - - 4
East London - 1 - - 5
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 73 (13.32%) Apache Spark
2 69 (12.59%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (7.30%) Apache
4 7 (1.28%) SAS
5 5 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.36%) Confluence
7 2 (0.36%) Luigi
7 2 (0.36%) Tornado
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 245 (44.71%) Azure
2 161 (29.38%) AWS
3 102 (18.61%) Power Platform
4 98 (17.88%) GCP
5 81 (14.78%) dbt
6 74 (13.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 69 (12.59%) Snowflake
8 53 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (9.67%) SaaS
9 52 (9.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 34 (6.20%) Serverless
11 27 (4.93%) Amazon S3
12 21 (3.83%) Azure Databricks
13 16 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.74%) GitHub
15 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 13 (2.37%) Azure Machine Learning
17 10 (1.82%) Azure Functions
17 10 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.73%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) 5G
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (21.53%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (19.16%) Data Lake
3 95 (17.34%) Power BI
4 54 (9.85%) Tableau
5 49 (8.94%) Relational Database
6 47 (8.58%) NoSQL
7 38 (6.93%) BigQuery
8 36 (6.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (6.57%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.20%) Snowflake Schema
10 31 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (5.47%) Star Schema
12 28 (5.11%) Metadata
13 27 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (4.56%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (4.20%) Delta Lake
16 22 (4.01%) Looker
17 17 (3.10%) Milvus
18 16 (2.92%) Big Data
18 16 (2.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (10.04%) Git
2 19 (3.47%) MLflow
3 9 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.91%) JIRA
5 4 (0.73%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.36%) GitLab
7 2 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 183 (33.39%) Social Skills
2 178 (32.48%) Finance
3 121 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.66%) Banking
5 37 (6.75%) Marketing
6 33 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.56%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.38%) Retail
9 22 (4.01%) Law
10 16 (2.92%) Legal
11 13 (2.37%) Front Office
12 12 (2.19%) Advertising
13 9 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.09%) Back Office
15 6 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.09%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.09%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
16 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 232 (42.34%) Data Engineer
2 115 (20.99%) Senior
3 101 (18.43%) Lead
4 52 (9.49%) Senior Data Engineer
5 48 (8.76%) Architect
6 40 (7.30%) Data Architect
7 34 (6.20%) Lead Data Engineer
8 33 (6.02%) Analyst
9 30 (5.47%) Software Engineer
10 24 (4.38%) Developer
10 24 (4.38%) Python Engineer
11 22 (4.01%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 21 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.65%) Databricks Engineer
14 19 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (3.28%) Data Scientist
15 18 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
16 17 (3.10%) Azure Data Engineer
16 17 (3.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 15 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (13.50%) Kafka
2 45 (8.21%) PySpark
3 43 (7.85%) Terraform
4 42 (7.66%) PyTorch
5 40 (7.30%) TensorFlow
6 34 (6.20%) scikit-learn
7 31 (5.66%) LangChain
8 21 (3.83%) Pandas
9 18 (3.28%) LlamaIndex
10 17 (3.10%) pgvector
11 16 (2.92%) LangGraph
12 15 (2.74%) React
13 14 (2.55%) Spring
14 13 (2.37%) Node.js
14 13 (2.37%) RESTful
15 11 (2.01%) REST
16 10 (1.82%) GraphQL
17 8 (1.46%) HTML
17 8 (1.46%) Next.js
17 8 (1.46%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.58%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.75%) AI Agents
4 35 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (6.02%) Data Structures
6 26 (4.74%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.28%) Clustering
8 16 (2.92%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.01%) Derivative
11 9 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.64%) Reinsurance
12 8 (1.46%) Equities
13 7 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.09%) Credit Risk
14 6 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.09%) Market Risk
15 4 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.64%) Linux
2 3 (0.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (51.09%) Analytics
2 256 (46.72%) AI
3 249 (45.44%) Data Engineering
4 221 (40.33%) Data Modelling
5 173 (31.57%) CI/CD
6 162 (29.56%) ETL
7 154 (28.10%) Business Intelligence
8 148 (27.01%) Machine Learning
9 142 (25.91%) Data Science
10 138 (25.18%) Data Governance
11 127 (23.18%) Data Architecture
12 118 (21.53%) Decision-Making
13 101 (18.43%) DevOps
14 96 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
15 85 (15.51%) Agile
16 81 (14.78%) Lakehouse
16 81 (14.78%) Use Case
17 72 (13.14%) Software Engineering
18 70 (12.77%) Mentoring
19 66 (12.04%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 357 (65.15%) Python
2 318 (58.03%) SQL
3 33 (6.02%) Java
4 27 (4.93%) TypeScript
5 24 (4.38%) Scala
6 13 (2.37%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.64%) C#
9 6 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.91%) R
11 4 (0.73%) Bash
11 4 (0.73%) C++
11 4 (0.73%) Rust
11 4 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.36%) Go
14 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.18%) Julia
Qualifications
1 66 (12.04%) Degree
2 34 (6.20%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.28%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.73%) ACCA
10 4 (0.73%) CIMA
10 4 (0.73%) MBA
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.36%) CISSP
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CISM
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (32.66%) Data Quality
2 50 (9.12%) GDPR
3 17 (3.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.19%) QA
6 7 (1.28%) PERC
7 5 (0.91%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.73%) IFRS
9 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) PMO
10 2 (0.36%) PSD2
11 1 (0.18%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (6.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.82%) Grafana
3 5 (0.91%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.73%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.55%) Kibana
6 2 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Packer
7 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 159 (29.01%) Databricks
2 98 (17.88%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.93%) Google
4 17 (3.10%) Cloudera
4 17 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.92%) Dell
5 16 (2.92%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.92%) Oracle
6 13 (2.37%) Informatica
7 8 (1.46%) Foundry
7 8 (1.46%) Palantir
8 5 (0.91%) Anaplan
8 5 (0.91%) SAP
9 4 (0.73%) Sage
10 3 (0.55%) Avaya
10 3 (0.55%) Braze
10 3 (0.55%) Cisco
10 3 (0.55%) Genesys
10 3 (0.55%) Workday
11 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv