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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 130 166
Rank change year-on-year +34 +36 +76
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 490 332 480
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.22% 2.66% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.80% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 331 177 260
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £136,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 18,150 11,855 21,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.26% 95.14% 89.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,433 7,351 15,427
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,073
Median % change year-on-year - +7.03% -6.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 97 £81,250 +12.07% 51
West London +5 20 £45,000 -28.00% 12
South London +29 13 £40,000 - 3
East London - 7 - - 4
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
1 102 (20.82%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (16.94%) Apache Spark
3 53 (10.82%) Apache
4 8 (1.63%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.02%) SAS
6 4 (0.82%) Appian
7 3 (0.61%) Confluence
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 220 (44.90%) Azure
2 170 (34.69%) AWS
3 96 (19.59%) Power Platform
4 89 (18.16%) dbt
5 88 (17.96%) GCP
6 77 (15.71%) Snowflake
7 65 (13.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 47 (9.59%) Amazon S3
9 45 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (8.98%) SaaS
11 43 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
12 35 (7.14%) Serverless
13 21 (4.29%) OpenShift
14 20 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (3.06%) GitHub
15 15 (3.06%) Power Automate
16 13 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (2.24%) Amazon Kinesis
18 10 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.84%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) 4G
2 2 (0.41%) 5G
3 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 89 (18.16%) Power BI
3 82 (16.73%) Data Lake
4 67 (13.67%) Tableau
5 47 (9.59%) Relational Database
6 42 (8.57%) BigQuery
7 39 (7.96%) SQL Server
8 38 (7.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 35 (7.14%) Metadata
10 32 (6.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 31 (6.33%) NoSQL
12 27 (5.51%) Oracle Database
13 26 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (5.10%) Spark SQL
15 22 (4.49%) Delta Lake
15 22 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
15 22 (4.49%) Star Schema
16 19 (3.88%) Looker
16 19 (3.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 74 (15.10%) Git
2 24 (4.90%) MLflow
3 16 (3.27%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.02%) JIRA
6 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.41%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.20%) Deequ
7 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 148 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 142 (28.98%) Finance
3 130 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.57%) Banking
5 23 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.67%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.27%) Retail
9 13 (2.65%) Legal
9 13 (2.65%) Marketing
10 10 (2.04%) Front Office
11 9 (1.84%) Advertising
11 9 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.84%) Law
12 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 224 (45.71%) Data Engineer
2 102 (20.82%) Senior
3 73 (14.90%) Lead
4 55 (11.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (10.41%) Analyst
6 38 (7.76%) Architect
7 34 (6.94%) Data Architect
8 32 (6.53%) Developer
9 29 (5.92%) Lead Data Engineer
10 27 (5.51%) Python Engineer
11 21 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (4.08%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.67%) Data Analyst
14 18 (3.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 18 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
15 16 (3.27%) Python Data Engineer
16 15 (3.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 15 (3.06%) Software Engineer
17 14 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.90%) Kafka
2 59 (12.04%) PySpark
3 40 (8.16%) PyTorch
4 37 (7.55%) TensorFlow
5 30 (6.12%) scikit-learn
6 28 (5.71%) Pandas
7 27 (5.51%) LangChain
8 17 (3.47%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (3.47%) React
9 16 (3.27%) pgvector
10 14 (2.86%) Node.js
10 14 (2.86%) RESTful
11 13 (2.65%) LangGraph
11 13 (2.65%) Next.js
12 10 (2.04%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.04%) GraphQL
12 10 (2.04%) REST
13 9 (1.84%) NumPy
14 8 (1.63%) Vue
15 7 (1.43%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 31 (6.33%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.67%) Clustering
7 17 (3.47%) Public Cloud
8 16 (3.27%) AI Agents
9 15 (3.06%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.86%) Reinsurance
11 13 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (2.45%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.22%) Low-Code
14 6 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.02%) Equities
16 4 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.45%) Linux
2 6 (1.22%) Windows
3 2 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (51.84%) Analytics
2 245 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 219 (44.69%) AI
4 212 (43.27%) Data Modelling
5 190 (38.78%) ETL
6 180 (36.73%) CI/CD
7 149 (30.41%) Data Governance
8 139 (28.37%) Business Intelligence
9 125 (25.51%) Machine Learning
10 105 (21.43%) Data Science
11 100 (20.41%) Data Architecture
12 99 (20.20%) Decision-Making
13 97 (19.80%) DevOps
14 92 (18.78%) Agile
15 90 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
16 69 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (13.88%) Data Transformation
18 67 (13.67%) Mentoring
19 66 (13.47%) Validation
20 64 (13.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 330 (67.35%) Python
2 304 (62.04%) SQL
3 32 (6.53%) Java
4 27 (5.51%) TypeScript
5 24 (4.90%) Scala
6 13 (2.65%) C#
7 12 (2.45%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.24%) JavaScript
9 10 (2.04%) C++
9 10 (2.04%) R
10 9 (1.84%) Bash
11 6 (1.22%) Rust
12 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.82%) Go
14 3 (0.61%) Julia
14 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.41%) C
15 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (13.67%) Degree
2 34 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.67%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.61%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.41%) CISSP
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.20%) CEH
11 1 (0.20%) CISM
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PhD
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMP
11 1 (0.20%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (34.49%) Data Quality
2 50 (10.20%) GDPR
3 23 (4.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.63%) QA
5 7 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.43%) PERC
6 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.41%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (7.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (12.45%) Terraform
2 33 (6.73%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.47%) Grafana
4 12 (2.45%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.02%) Kibana
6 4 (0.82%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.41%) Ansible
7 2 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.20%) Packer
8 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 128 (26.12%) Databricks
2 76 (15.51%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.73%) Oracle
4 20 (4.08%) Dell
5 17 (3.47%) Cloudera
6 16 (3.27%) Google
6 16 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 13 (2.65%) Informatica
7 13 (2.65%) Palantir
7 13 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.45%) Foundry
9 11 (2.24%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.02%) UiPath
11 4 (0.82%) Automation Anywhere
11 4 (0.82%) Sage
12 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.61%) SAP
12 3 (0.61%) Talend
12 3 (0.61%) Workday
13 2 (0.41%) Adobe