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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 107 176
Rank change year-on-year +2 +69 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 556 370 374
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.19% 3.11% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 3.30% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 364 203 174
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,800 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £129,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,384 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.89% -0.88% -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 20,486 11,212 17,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.81% 94.14% 89.47%
Number of salaries quoted 13,831 7,104 10,464
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £40,000
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 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 20 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 20 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 +42 89 £82,500 -2.94% 128
West London -10 11 £45,000 -4.26% 35
South London - 3 - - 7
East London - 1 - - 19
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 68 (12.23%) Apache Spark
2 55 (9.89%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (7.01%) Apache
4 7 (1.26%) 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%) 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 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.54%) 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
1 254 (45.68%) Azure
2 160 (28.78%) AWS
3 111 (19.96%) Power Platform
4 94 (16.91%) GCP
5 88 (15.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 77 (13.85%) dbt
7 66 (11.87%) Snowflake
8 62 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (9.35%) SaaS
10 49 (8.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 39 (7.01%) Serverless
12 29 (5.22%) Amazon S3
12 29 (5.22%) Azure Databricks
13 20 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
15 16 (2.88%) GitHub
16 14 (2.52%) Azure Machine Learning
17 13 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (1.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 10 (1.80%) 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
1 120 (21.58%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (18.71%) Data Lake
2 104 (18.71%) Power BI
3 52 (9.35%) Tableau
4 48 (8.63%) NoSQL
5 47 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (7.73%) Relational Database
7 36 (6.47%) SQL Server
8 33 (5.94%) Metadata
9 31 (5.58%) Star Schema
10 29 (5.22%) BigQuery
11 28 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.86%) Snowflake Schema
13 25 (4.50%) Delta Lake
14 22 (3.96%) Big Data
15 19 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (2.52%) Looker
18 13 (2.34%) Data Vault
19 12 (2.16%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 63 (11.33%) Git
2 14 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.80%) MLflow
4 5 (0.90%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.90%) JIRA
5 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.36%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 188 (33.81%) Finance
1 188 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 107 (19.24%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (7.91%) Banking
4 37 (6.65%) Marketing
5 31 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.50%) Retail
7 22 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.60%) Law
9 16 (2.88%) Legal
10 12 (2.16%) Front Office
10 12 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.98%) Advertising
12 8 (1.44%) Back Office
12 8 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.08%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.90%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (42.63%) Data Engineer
2 114 (20.50%) Senior
3 100 (17.99%) Lead
4 57 (10.25%) Senior Data Engineer
5 53 (9.53%) Architect
6 42 (7.55%) Data Architect
7 36 (6.47%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.76%) Lead Data Engineer
9 25 (4.50%) Developer
9 25 (4.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 25 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (4.32%) Analyst
10 24 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
11 22 (3.96%) Python Engineer
12 21 (3.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 21 (3.78%) Azure Data Engineer
13 20 (3.60%) Data Scientist
13 20 (3.60%) Databricks Engineer
14 13 (2.34%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.34%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (12.23%) Kafka
2 51 (9.17%) PySpark
3 43 (7.73%) Terraform
4 33 (5.94%) PyTorch
5 31 (5.58%) TensorFlow
6 27 (4.86%) scikit-learn
7 24 (4.32%) LangChain
8 20 (3.60%) Pandas
9 18 (3.24%) LangGraph
10 14 (2.52%) React
10 14 (2.52%) Spring
11 12 (2.16%) Node.js
11 12 (2.16%) REST
12 10 (1.80%) RESTful
13 9 (1.62%) LlamaIndex
14 8 (1.44%) FastAPI
14 8 (1.44%) GraphQL
14 8 (1.44%) Next.js
14 8 (1.44%) pgvector
15 7 (1.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.23%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 40 (7.19%) AI Agents
4 37 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (5.76%) Data Structures
6 26 (4.68%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.98%) Derivative
8 10 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.62%) Clustering
9 9 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.44%) Equities
10 8 (1.44%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.08%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.44%) Linux
2 3 (0.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (49.64%) Analytics
2 258 (46.40%) AI
3 251 (45.14%) Data Engineering
4 223 (40.11%) Data Modelling
5 185 (33.27%) CI/CD
6 161 (28.96%) ETL
7 157 (28.24%) Business Intelligence
8 147 (26.44%) Machine Learning
9 140 (25.18%) Data Science
10 135 (24.28%) Data Architecture
11 134 (24.10%) Data Governance
12 120 (21.58%) Decision-Making
13 112 (20.14%) DevOps
14 105 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
15 92 (16.55%) Agile
16 78 (14.03%) Software Engineering
17 73 (13.13%) Lakehouse
17 73 (13.13%) Use Case
18 71 (12.77%) Roadmaps
19 67 (12.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 362 (65.11%) Python
2 321 (57.73%) SQL
3 34 (6.12%) Java
4 33 (5.94%) Scala
5 27 (4.86%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.80%) C#
8 10 (1.80%) R
9 7 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.90%) 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
14 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 64 (11.51%) Degree
2 37 (6.65%) Security Cleared
3 33 (5.94%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.50%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (1.08%) 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
1 192 (34.53%) Data Quality
2 41 (7.37%) GDPR
3 12 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.16%) QA
4 7 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (0.90%) EU AI Act
5 5 (0.90%) PERC
6 4 (0.72%) IFRS
7 3 (0.54%) PMO
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) PSD2
8 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (7.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.80%) 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
1 162 (29.14%) Databricks
2 101 (18.17%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.40%) Google
4 17 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.88%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.16%) Informatica
6 12 (2.16%) Oracle
7 8 (1.44%) Cloudera
7 8 (1.44%) SAP
8 7 (1.26%) Dell
9 5 (0.90%) Anaplan
9 5 (0.90%) Braze
9 5 (0.90%) Foundry
10 4 (0.72%) Palantir
10 4 (0.72%) Sage
11 3 (0.54%) Avaya
11 3 (0.54%) Cisco
11 3 (0.54%) Genesys
11 3 (0.54%) SnapLogic
11 3 (0.54%) Workday