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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 104 183
Rank change year-on-year -4 +79 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 547 385 353
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.11% 3.26% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 3.46% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 359 220 167
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £104,400
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 20,905 11,131 16,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.66% 94.12% 89.72%
Number of salaries quoted 13,908 6,993 10,090
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 80 £80,000 -5.88% 103
West London -16 6 £57,750 +22.87% 51
South London - 2 £70,000 - 6
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 61 (11.15%) Apache Spark
2 50 (9.14%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (7.50%) Apache
4 7 (1.28%) SAS
5 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) Luigi
7 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.37%) Tornado
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.18%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Primavera
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 242 (44.24%) Azure
2 159 (29.07%) AWS
3 109 (19.93%) Power Platform
4 88 (16.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 86 (15.72%) GCP
6 76 (13.89%) dbt
7 65 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (11.33%) Snowflake
9 55 (10.05%) SaaS
10 44 (8.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 39 (7.13%) Serverless
12 30 (5.48%) Amazon S3
13 27 (4.94%) Azure Databricks
14 21 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
16 16 (2.93%) Azure Machine Learning
16 16 (2.93%) GitHub
17 13 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (2.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 9 (1.65%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) 5G
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (21.57%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (19.20%) Power BI
3 91 (16.64%) Data Lake
4 51 (9.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (8.96%) NoSQL
6 42 (7.68%) Relational Database
6 42 (7.68%) Tableau
7 38 (6.95%) SQL Server
8 34 (6.22%) Metadata
9 31 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (5.67%) Star Schema
10 22 (4.02%) Big Data
11 20 (3.66%) BigQuery
11 20 (3.66%) Delta Lake
11 20 (3.66%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (2.38%) Data Vault
13 12 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (2.01%) MySQL
15 10 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 65 (11.88%) Git
2 14 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.28%) JIRA
4 5 (0.91%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.55%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) MLflow
5 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 194 (35.47%) Finance
2 186 (34.00%) Social Skills
3 93 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.04%) Banking
5 35 (6.40%) Marketing
6 27 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.66%) Law
8 20 (3.66%) Retail
9 16 (2.93%) Legal
10 12 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.01%) Advertising
12 10 (1.83%) Front Office
13 8 (1.46%) Back Office
13 8 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.10%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
16 4 (0.73%) Billing
16 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 239 (43.69%) Data Engineer
2 116 (21.21%) Senior
3 92 (16.82%) Lead
4 62 (11.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (9.32%) Architect
6 40 (7.31%) Data Architect
7 37 (6.76%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.85%) Lead Data Engineer
9 28 (5.12%) Developer
10 27 (4.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 27 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (4.39%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (4.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 23 (4.20%) Python Engineer
14 21 (3.84%) Analyst
14 21 (3.84%) Data Scientist
15 17 (3.11%) Databricks Engineer
16 13 (2.38%) Data Analyst
16 13 (2.38%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (10.60%) Kafka
2 47 (8.59%) PySpark
3 46 (8.41%) Terraform
4 25 (4.57%) PyTorch
5 23 (4.20%) TensorFlow
6 21 (3.84%) Pandas
6 21 (3.84%) scikit-learn
7 18 (3.29%) LangChain
7 18 (3.29%) LangGraph
8 17 (3.11%) REST
9 14 (2.56%) React
9 14 (2.56%) Spring
10 11 (2.01%) Node.js
11 10 (1.83%) RESTful
12 9 (1.65%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.46%) Flask
13 8 (1.46%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.46%) Next.js
14 7 (1.28%) NumPy
14 7 (1.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.68%) Product Ownership
3 41 (7.50%) AI Agents
4 39 (7.13%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (5.85%) Data Structures
6 25 (4.57%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.01%) Derivative
8 10 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.28%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.28%) Equities
9 7 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.10%) Market Risk
10 6 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.91%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.73%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (49.18%) Analytics
2 250 (45.70%) AI
3 242 (44.24%) Data Engineering
4 220 (40.22%) Data Modelling
5 185 (33.82%) CI/CD
6 154 (28.15%) Business Intelligence
6 154 (28.15%) ETL
7 140 (25.59%) Machine Learning
8 139 (25.41%) Data Science
9 126 (23.03%) Data Architecture
10 120 (21.94%) Data Governance
11 113 (20.66%) Decision-Making
12 110 (20.11%) DevOps
13 102 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (16.64%) Agile
15 80 (14.63%) Software Engineering
16 71 (12.98%) Roadmaps
17 69 (12.61%) LLM
18 67 (12.25%) Data Ingestion
18 67 (12.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 360 (65.81%) Python
2 320 (58.50%) SQL
3 37 (6.76%) Scala
4 36 (6.58%) Java
5 29 (5.30%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.19%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.01%) C#
8 10 (1.83%) R
9 7 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.73%) Bash
11 4 (0.73%) C++
12 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.55%) Rust
12 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.37%) Go
14 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 63 (11.52%) Degree
2 39 (7.13%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.75%) Azure Certification
5 23 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.73%) ACCA
9 4 (0.73%) CIMA
9 4 (0.73%) MBA
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (36.93%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.67%) GDPR
3 14 (2.56%) QA
4 13 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.91%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS
7 3 (0.55%) PMO
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) PERC
8 2 (0.37%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 48 (8.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.01%) Grafana
3 3 (0.55%) Kibana
3 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.37%) Argo
4 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.37%) SQL Sentry
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 150 (27.42%) Databricks
2 100 (18.28%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.67%) Google
4 17 (3.11%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.93%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.19%) Informatica
6 12 (2.19%) Oracle
7 10 (1.83%) SAP
8 6 (1.10%) Braze
9 5 (0.91%) Anaplan
9 5 (0.91%) Foundry
10 4 (0.73%) Palantir
10 4 (0.73%) Sage
10 4 (0.73%) SnapLogic
10 4 (0.73%) Splunk
11 3 (0.55%) Avaya
11 3 (0.55%) Cisco
11 3 (0.55%) Genesys
11 3 (0.55%) New Relic
11 3 (0.55%) Workday