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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 103 177
Rank change year-on-year +2 +74 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 552 374 355
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.16% 3.16% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 3.36% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 366 207 165
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,900 £55,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £99,375 £98,125 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,000 £117,500
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 20,612 11,132 16,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.82% 94.15% 89.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,900 7,046 10,186
10th Percentile £41,125 £38,500 £40,003
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 £106,250 £122,500 £121,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -6.94%

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 23 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 23 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 +37 85 £85,000 - 121
West London -17 9 £45,000 -4.26% 52
South London - 2 £70,000 - 6
East London - 1 - - 9
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 (11.05%) Apache Spark
2 49 (8.88%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (7.25%) Apache
4 7 (1.27%) SAS
5 4 (0.72%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.36%) Confluence
7 2 (0.36%) Luigi
7 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
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%) 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%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.54%) 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
1 247 (44.75%) Azure
2 153 (27.72%) AWS
3 107 (19.38%) Power Platform
4 88 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 85 (15.40%) GCP
6 72 (13.04%) dbt
7 64 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (10.87%) Snowflake
9 53 (9.60%) SaaS
10 43 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 41 (7.43%) Serverless
12 30 (5.43%) Amazon S3
13 28 (5.07%) Azure Databricks
14 21 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.08%) GitHub
15 17 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
16 15 (2.72%) Azure Machine Learning
17 13 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (1.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 10 (1.81%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.54%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) 5G
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
2 101 (18.30%) Power BI
3 96 (17.39%) Data Lake
4 49 (8.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (8.70%) NoSQL
6 46 (8.33%) Relational Database
7 45 (8.15%) Tableau
8 38 (6.88%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.16%) Metadata
10 31 (5.62%) Star Schema
11 29 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (4.35%) Delta Lake
13 22 (3.99%) Big Data
14 21 (3.80%) BigQuery
15 20 (3.62%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
16 13 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (2.36%) Data Vault
17 12 (2.17%) MySQL
18 11 (1.99%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 63 (11.41%) Git
2 14 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.91%) Claude Code
3 5 (0.91%) JIRA
4 3 (0.54%) MLflow
4 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.36%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 191 (34.60%) Finance
2 187 (33.88%) Social Skills
3 100 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.97%) Banking
5 36 (6.52%) Marketing
6 30 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (4.35%) Retail
8 23 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.62%) Law
10 16 (2.90%) Legal
11 12 (2.17%) Front Office
11 12 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.99%) Advertising
13 8 (1.45%) Back Office
13 8 (1.45%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.09%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
16 4 (0.72%) Billing
16 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 239 (43.30%) Data Engineer
2 108 (19.57%) Senior
3 96 (17.39%) Lead
4 58 (10.51%) Senior Data Engineer
5 54 (9.78%) Architect
6 43 (7.79%) Data Architect
7 36 (6.52%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.80%) Lead Data Engineer
9 26 (4.71%) Developer
9 26 (4.71%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 26 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
11 24 (4.35%) Analyst
12 22 (3.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 22 (3.99%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (3.99%) Python Engineer
13 21 (3.80%) Data Scientist
14 19 (3.44%) Databricks Engineer
15 14 (2.54%) Data Analyst
16 13 (2.36%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.05%) Kafka
2 51 (9.24%) PySpark
3 45 (8.15%) Terraform
4 26 (4.71%) PyTorch
5 24 (4.35%) TensorFlow
6 20 (3.62%) Pandas
6 20 (3.62%) scikit-learn
7 18 (3.26%) LangGraph
8 17 (3.08%) LangChain
9 15 (2.72%) REST
10 14 (2.54%) React
10 14 (2.54%) Spring
11 12 (2.17%) Node.js
12 10 (1.81%) RESTful
13 8 (1.45%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.45%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.45%) Next.js
14 7 (1.27%) Flask
14 7 (1.27%) Model Context Protocol
14 7 (1.27%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 46 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 40 (7.25%) AI Agents
4 38 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (5.98%) Data Structures
6 26 (4.71%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.99%) Derivative
8 10 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.45%) Equities
11 7 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.27%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.09%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.09%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
14 4 (0.72%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.27%) Linux
2 2 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (49.28%) Analytics
2 251 (45.47%) AI
3 243 (44.02%) Data Engineering
4 220 (39.86%) Data Modelling
5 186 (33.70%) CI/CD
6 156 (28.26%) Business Intelligence
6 156 (28.26%) ETL
7 142 (25.72%) Machine Learning
8 137 (24.82%) Data Architecture
8 137 (24.82%) Data Science
9 126 (22.83%) Data Governance
10 118 (21.38%) Decision-Making
11 112 (20.29%) DevOps
12 104 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (16.67%) Agile
14 79 (14.31%) Software Engineering
15 72 (13.04%) Roadmaps
16 66 (11.96%) Data Ingestion
16 66 (11.96%) LLM
16 66 (11.96%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 359 (65.04%) Python
2 320 (57.97%) SQL
3 35 (6.34%) Java
4 34 (6.16%) Scala
5 29 (5.25%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.36%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.99%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.81%) C#
8 10 (1.81%) R
9 7 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.72%) Bash
11 4 (0.72%) C++
11 4 (0.72%) Rust
12 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.36%) Go
13 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 65 (11.78%) Degree
2 38 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.44%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.09%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.72%) ACCA
9 4 (0.72%) CIMA
9 4 (0.72%) MBA
10 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.54%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.36%) CISSP
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (35.69%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.98%) GDPR
3 13 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.17%) QA
5 5 (0.91%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.72%) IFRS
6 4 (0.72%) PERC
7 3 (0.54%) 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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (7.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.99%) Grafana
3 4 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.54%) Kibana
4 3 (0.54%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.36%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Packer
6 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 154 (27.90%) Databricks
2 102 (18.48%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.43%) Google
4 17 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.90%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.36%) Oracle
7 12 (2.17%) Informatica
8 9 (1.63%) SAP
9 5 (0.91%) Anaplan
9 5 (0.91%) Braze
9 5 (0.91%) Foundry
10 4 (0.72%) Palantir
10 4 (0.72%) Sage
10 4 (0.72%) SnapLogic
11 3 (0.54%) Avaya
11 3 (0.54%) Cisco
11 3 (0.54%) Genesys
11 3 (0.54%) Splunk
11 3 (0.54%) Workday
12 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv