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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 101 165
Rank change year-on-year -5 +64 +32
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 550 389 366
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.10% 3.32% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 3.54% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 346 226 172
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £104,900
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 21,076 10,987 16,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.63% 93.82% 89.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,780 6,979 9,678
10th Percentile £40,825 £37,500 £41,370
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,500
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% -1.32%

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 14 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 14 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 +23 73 £81,250 -4.41% 105
West London -22 4 £81,500 +73.40% 27
South London - 2 £70,000 - 7
East London - 1 - - 7
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 60 (10.91%) Apache Spark
2 53 (9.64%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (7.82%) Apache
4 7 (1.27%) SAS
5 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
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%) Confluence
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
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%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.18%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Primavera
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
1 242 (44.00%) Azure
2 168 (30.55%) AWS
3 113 (20.55%) Power Platform
4 92 (16.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 85 (15.45%) dbt
6 84 (15.27%) GCP
7 68 (12.36%) Snowflake
8 67 (12.18%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (9.64%) SaaS
10 49 (8.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 43 (7.82%) Serverless
12 36 (6.55%) Amazon S3
13 29 (5.27%) Azure Databricks
14 26 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.45%) GitHub
16 17 (3.09%) Azure Machine Learning
16 17 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (2.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 9 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.36%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) 5G
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (22.18%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (20.18%) Power BI
3 93 (16.91%) Data Lake
4 53 (9.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 45 (8.18%) NoSQL
6 40 (7.27%) SQL Server
6 40 (7.27%) Tableau
7 39 (7.09%) Relational Database
8 37 (6.73%) Metadata
9 32 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (5.64%) Star Schema
11 22 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (3.82%) Delta Lake
13 20 (3.64%) Big Data
13 20 (3.64%) BigQuery
14 18 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
16 13 (2.36%) Data Vault
17 12 (2.18%) Looker
18 11 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 68 (12.36%) Git
2 13 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.27%) JIRA
4 6 (1.09%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.73%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) MLflow
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 204 (37.09%) Finance
2 188 (34.18%) Social Skills
3 97 (17.64%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.73%) Banking
5 34 (6.18%) Marketing
6 25 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.82%) Retail
9 20 (3.64%) Law
10 16 (2.91%) Legal
11 12 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.00%) Advertising
13 9 (1.64%) Front Office
13 9 (1.64%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.45%) Back Office
15 6 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.09%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.73%) Billing
17 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 240 (43.64%) Data Engineer
2 116 (21.09%) Senior
3 92 (16.73%) Lead
4 60 (10.91%) Senior Data Engineer
5 49 (8.91%) Architect
6 40 (7.27%) Software Engineer
7 38 (6.91%) Data Architect
8 33 (6.00%) Lead Data Engineer
9 30 (5.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 28 (5.09%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (4.91%) Azure Data Engineer
12 26 (4.73%) Developer
12 26 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (4.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 23 (4.18%) Data Scientist
15 21 (3.82%) Analyst
15 21 (3.82%) Python Engineer
16 17 (3.09%) Databricks Engineer
17 15 (2.73%) Data Analyst
18 14 (2.55%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.64%) Kafka
2 48 (8.73%) Terraform
3 47 (8.55%) PySpark
4 26 (4.73%) PyTorch
5 24 (4.36%) TensorFlow
6 23 (4.18%) scikit-learn
7 20 (3.64%) Pandas
7 20 (3.64%) REST
8 19 (3.45%) LangChain
8 19 (3.45%) LangGraph
9 14 (2.55%) Spring
10 11 (2.00%) React
11 9 (1.64%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.45%) AWS CDK
12 8 (1.45%) Flask
12 8 (1.45%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.45%) Model Context Protocol
12 8 (1.45%) Node.js
12 8 (1.45%) RESTful
13 7 (1.27%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 61 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.64%) AI Agents
2 42 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (6.00%) Data Structures
5 25 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.00%) Derivative
7 10 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.45%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.27%) Market Risk
10 6 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.09%) Equities
10 6 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.91%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.64%) Linux
2 2 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (49.27%) Analytics
2 256 (46.55%) AI
3 249 (45.27%) Data Engineering
4 231 (42.00%) Data Modelling
5 190 (34.55%) CI/CD
6 157 (28.55%) ETL
7 154 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
8 148 (26.91%) Data Science
9 146 (26.55%) Machine Learning
10 119 (21.64%) Data Governance
11 117 (21.27%) Data Architecture
12 109 (19.82%) DevOps
13 107 (19.45%) Decision-Making
14 106 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
15 91 (16.55%) Agile
16 81 (14.73%) Software Engineering
17 71 (12.91%) Roadmaps
18 70 (12.73%) Data Ingestion
18 70 (12.73%) LLM
18 70 (12.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 373 (67.82%) Python
2 334 (60.73%) SQL
3 37 (6.73%) Scala
4 34 (6.18%) Java
5 26 (4.73%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.00%) C#
6 11 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.00%) R
7 10 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.45%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.73%) C++
10 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.55%) Bash
11 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.55%) Rust
12 2 (0.36%) Go
13 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 61 (11.09%) Degree
2 41 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.36%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.45%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (1.09%) DV Cleared
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%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.18%) ISEB
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (38.36%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.09%) GDPR
3 14 (2.55%) QA
4 13 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.91%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS
7 3 (0.55%) PMO
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (8.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.18%) Grafana
3 3 (0.55%) Kibana
3 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.55%) SQL Sentry
4 2 (0.36%) Argo
4 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 152 (27.64%) Databricks
2 101 (18.36%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.64%) Google
4 16 (2.91%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.18%) Informatica
7 11 (2.00%) Oracle
7 11 (2.00%) SAP
8 6 (1.09%) Braze
9 5 (0.91%) Anaplan
9 5 (0.91%) Foundry
9 5 (0.91%) Palantir
9 5 (0.91%) Splunk
10 4 (0.73%) New Relic
10 4 (0.73%) Sage
10 4 (0.73%) SnapLogic
11 3 (0.55%) Avaya
11 3 (0.55%) Cisco
11 3 (0.55%) Genesys
11 3 (0.55%) RedGate