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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 165 183
Rank change year-on-year +82 +18 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 492 274 378
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.71% 2.13% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.22% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 320 144 256
10th Percentile £43,750 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,199 £62,188 £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 £117,625 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £66,720 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.69% +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 15,330 12,355 20,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.33% 96.25% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,021 7,519 15,975
10th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £38,500
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 £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +38 119 £82,500 +13.79% 115
West London +6 26 £46,000 -26.40% 5
South London +46 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
1 109 (22.15%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (17.48%) Apache Spark
3 51 (10.37%) Apache
4 12 (2.44%) Appian
5 9 (1.83%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.81%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.83%) 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%) 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
1 222 (45.12%) Azure
2 180 (36.59%) AWS
3 116 (23.58%) Power Platform
4 99 (20.12%) GCP
5 94 (19.11%) dbt
6 78 (15.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 68 (13.82%) Snowflake
8 53 (10.77%) Amazon S3
9 48 (9.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (8.94%) Serverless
11 43 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (6.50%) GitHub
13 28 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (5.69%) OpenShift
14 25 (5.08%) Power Automate
15 22 (4.47%) Amazon Kinesis
15 22 (4.47%) SaaS
16 16 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
18 13 (2.64%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.83%) Broadband
2 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.20%) 4G
4 1 (0.20%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (23.78%) Data Warehouse
2 112 (22.76%) Power BI
3 83 (16.87%) Tableau
4 80 (16.26%) Data Lake
5 66 (13.41%) SQL Server
6 49 (9.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (9.76%) BigQuery
8 47 (9.55%) Metadata
9 41 (8.33%) Relational Database
10 32 (6.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (5.89%) Oracle Database
12 28 (5.69%) Looker
13 26 (5.28%) Delta Lake
13 26 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
14 24 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
15 21 (4.27%) Apache Hive
15 21 (4.27%) Big Data
15 21 (4.27%) Spark SQL
16 19 (3.86%) MySQL
16 19 (3.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 80 (16.26%) Git
2 35 (7.11%) MLflow
3 16 (3.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.02%) JIRA
7 3 (0.61%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.61%) ERwin
7 3 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.41%) GitLab
9 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.20%) Deequ
General
1 176 (35.77%) Finance
2 150 (30.49%) Social Skills
3 135 (27.44%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.54%) Banking
5 38 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.71%) Public Sector
7 29 (5.89%) Marketing
8 23 (4.67%) Manufacturing
8 23 (4.67%) Retail
9 17 (3.46%) Investment Banking
10 15 (3.05%) Law
11 13 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.24%) Front Office
13 10 (2.03%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.83%) Electronics
15 7 (1.42%) Legal
15 7 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.02%) Advertising
16 5 (1.02%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 207 (42.07%) Data Engineer
2 96 (19.51%) Senior
3 62 (12.60%) Analyst
4 58 (11.79%) Lead
5 50 (10.16%) Senior Data Engineer
6 43 (8.74%) Developer
7 28 (5.69%) Lead Data Engineer
8 27 (5.49%) Architect
9 23 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (4.67%) AWS Data Engineer
9 23 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (4.47%) Data Analyst
11 19 (3.86%) Data Architect
12 17 (3.46%) Python Engineer
12 17 (3.46%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.25%) Software Engineer
13 16 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (2.85%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (2.85%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (16.06%) Kafka
2 60 (12.20%) PySpark
3 50 (10.16%) PyTorch
4 46 (9.35%) TensorFlow
5 36 (7.32%) scikit-learn
6 31 (6.30%) Pandas
7 26 (5.28%) LangChain
8 21 (4.27%) React
8 21 (4.27%) RESTful
9 18 (3.66%) REST
10 17 (3.46%) Node.js
10 17 (3.46%) pytest
11 16 (3.25%) FastAPI
11 16 (3.25%) Flask
11 16 (3.25%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (3.25%) pgvector
12 14 (2.85%) .NET
12 14 (2.85%) Django
12 14 (2.85%) HTML
12 14 (2.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (4.47%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.46%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.46%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (3.25%) Clustering
7 16 (3.25%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.64%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.63%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.81%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.64%) Linux
2 11 (2.24%) Windows
3 4 (0.81%) 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
1 279 (56.71%) Analytics
2 251 (51.02%) Data Engineering
3 236 (47.97%) ETL
4 207 (42.07%) Data Modelling
5 201 (40.85%) CI/CD
6 190 (38.62%) AI
7 152 (30.89%) Business Intelligence
8 147 (29.88%) Data Governance
9 121 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (24.19%) Machine Learning
11 118 (23.98%) DevOps
12 117 (23.78%) Data Science
13 95 (19.31%) Agile
14 80 (16.26%) Decision-Making
15 79 (16.06%) Data Architecture
16 76 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 65 (13.21%) Computer Science
17 65 (13.21%) Data Management
18 61 (12.40%) Data Transformation
19 60 (12.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 321 (65.24%) Python
2 311 (63.21%) SQL
3 36 (7.32%) Java
4 32 (6.50%) C#
5 28 (5.69%) Scala
5 28 (5.69%) TypeScript
6 21 (4.27%) C++
7 15 (3.05%) JavaScript
8 14 (2.85%) Bash
8 14 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (2.44%) R
10 8 (1.63%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.22%) PHP
11 6 (1.22%) Rust
12 5 (1.02%) C
13 4 (0.81%) Go
13 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.41%) Julia
14 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (17.28%) Degree
2 48 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (8.13%) Security Cleared
4 35 (7.11%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.47%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.81%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.61%) CISSP
11 3 (0.61%) MCSE
11 3 (0.61%) OCP
11 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) CFA
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (33.54%) Data Quality
2 51 (10.37%) GDPR
3 26 (5.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.42%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.42%) PERC
6 3 (0.61%) QA
6 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.41%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (11.59%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.61%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (12.80%) Terraform
2 57 (11.59%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.08%) Grafana
4 16 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.42%) Kibana
6 4 (0.81%) Ansible
6 4 (0.81%) Control-M
7 3 (0.61%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Ambari
9 1 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (23.98%) Databricks
2 65 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.52%) Oracle
4 24 (4.88%) Dell
5 22 (4.47%) Palantir
6 20 (4.07%) Google
6 20 (4.07%) Red Hat
7 16 (3.25%) Cloudera
8 14 (2.85%) Foundry
9 13 (2.64%) Informatica
9 13 (2.64%) OpenAI
10 12 (2.44%) Automation Anywhere
10 12 (2.44%) UiPath
11 10 (2.03%) SAP
11 10 (2.03%) Talend
12 6 (1.22%) Adobe
12 6 (1.22%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.81%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.81%) IBM