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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 126 156
Rank change year-on-year +26 +30 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 540 344 424
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.31% 2.79% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 2.96% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 363 183 208
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,150 £61,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 19,183 11,631 17,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.16% 94.38% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 13,032 7,395 12,080
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%

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 August 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 August 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 +39 98 £80,000 - 65
West London - 20 £45,000 - 18
South London +11 11 - - 3
East London - 7 - - 2
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
1 101 (18.70%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (17.41%) Apache Spark
3 54 (10.00%) Apache
4 7 (1.30%) SAS
5 5 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) Tornado
Applications
1 9 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 242 (44.81%) Azure
2 176 (32.59%) AWS
3 104 (19.26%) Power Platform
4 96 (17.78%) GCP
5 90 (16.67%) dbt
6 81 (15.00%) Snowflake
7 68 (12.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 52 (9.63%) SaaS
9 50 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (9.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 42 (7.78%) Amazon S3
12 36 (6.67%) Serverless
13 18 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (3.33%) OpenShift
14 14 (2.59%) GitHub
14 14 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
15 13 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (2.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 11 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.67%) Broadband
2 2 (0.37%) 4G
2 2 (0.37%) 5G
3 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (22.04%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (17.96%) Power BI
3 96 (17.78%) Data Lake
4 68 (12.59%) Tableau
5 55 (10.19%) Relational Database
6 43 (7.96%) SQL Server
7 42 (7.78%) BigQuery
7 42 (7.78%) NoSQL
8 35 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (6.30%) Metadata
9 34 (6.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 32 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 30 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
12 27 (5.00%) Oracle Database
13 26 (4.81%) Spark SQL
13 26 (4.81%) Star Schema
14 24 (4.44%) Delta Lake
15 20 (3.70%) Looker
16 19 (3.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 76 (14.07%) Git
2 19 (3.52%) MLflow
3 16 (2.96%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.93%) JIRA
5 5 (0.93%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.19%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.19%) Yeoman
General
1 172 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 164 (30.37%) Finance
3 132 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.81%) Banking
5 28 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.07%) Law
7 22 (4.07%) Marketing
8 21 (3.89%) Retail
9 20 (3.70%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.33%) Legal
11 12 (2.22%) Front Office
12 8 (1.48%) Advertising
13 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.11%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.93%) Billing
15 5 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 238 (44.07%) Data Engineer
2 120 (22.22%) Senior
3 91 (16.85%) Lead
4 61 (11.30%) Senior Data Engineer
5 48 (8.89%) Architect
6 47 (8.70%) Analyst
7 40 (7.41%) Data Architect
8 31 (5.74%) Lead Data Engineer
8 31 (5.74%) Python Engineer
9 30 (5.56%) Developer
10 23 (4.26%) Software Engineer
11 21 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (3.52%) AWS Data Engineer
12 19 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 18 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
14 17 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (2.96%) Data Analyst
15 16 (2.96%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 15 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (15.37%) Kafka
2 61 (11.30%) PySpark
3 37 (6.85%) PyTorch
4 35 (6.48%) TensorFlow
5 31 (5.74%) scikit-learn
6 29 (5.37%) LangChain
6 29 (5.37%) Pandas
7 19 (3.52%) React
8 18 (3.33%) LlamaIndex
9 17 (3.15%) pgvector
10 16 (2.96%) Node.js
10 16 (2.96%) Spring
11 15 (2.78%) RESTful
12 14 (2.59%) LangGraph
13 13 (2.41%) GraphQL
14 12 (2.22%) Next.js
15 11 (2.04%) Spring Boot
16 10 (1.85%) REST
17 8 (1.48%) NumPy
17 8 (1.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.30%) Data Structures
4 31 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (5.00%) AI Agents
6 25 (4.63%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.33%) Clustering
8 17 (3.15%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.41%) Reinsurance
10 11 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.85%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (1.30%) Derivative
13 7 (1.30%) Equities
14 6 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.93%) Credit Risk
15 5 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
16 4 (0.74%) Autonomous Agent
16 4 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.22%) Linux
2 4 (0.74%) Windows
3 2 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (51.67%) Analytics
2 251 (46.48%) AI
3 248 (45.93%) Data Engineering
4 223 (41.30%) Data Modelling
5 190 (35.19%) CI/CD
6 185 (34.26%) ETL
7 158 (29.26%) Data Governance
8 153 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
9 132 (24.44%) Machine Learning
10 123 (22.78%) Data Science
11 121 (22.41%) Data Architecture
12 105 (19.44%) Decision-Making
13 102 (18.89%) Agile
14 101 (18.70%) DevOps
15 91 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
16 77 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 73 (13.52%) Mentoring
18 72 (13.33%) Software Engineering
19 70 (12.96%) Use Case
20 67 (12.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 360 (66.67%) Python
2 324 (60.00%) SQL
3 40 (7.41%) Java
4 30 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 26 (4.81%) Scala
6 14 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.41%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.22%) C#
9 9 (1.67%) R
10 8 (1.48%) C++
11 5 (0.93%) Bash
11 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.74%) Rust
12 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.56%) Julia
13 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.37%) Go
14 2 (0.37%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.19%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 66 (12.22%) Degree
2 37 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 33 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.56%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.37%) PhD
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.19%) PMP
12 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (32.59%) Data Quality
2 58 (10.74%) GDPR
3 23 (4.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.04%) QA
5 7 (1.30%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.30%) PERC
6 5 (0.93%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.56%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) PMO
8 2 (0.37%) PSD2
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (7.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (10.56%) Terraform
2 35 (6.48%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.78%) Grafana
4 10 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.74%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.56%) Kibana
7 2 (0.37%) Ansible
7 2 (0.37%) Control-M
8 1 (0.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.19%) Packer
8 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 149 (27.59%) Databricks
2 98 (18.15%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.11%) Oracle
4 22 (4.07%) Google
5 17 (3.15%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.15%) Dell
6 16 (2.96%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.78%) Informatica
7 15 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.41%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.85%) Palantir
10 9 (1.67%) Foundry
11 5 (0.93%) SAP
12 4 (0.74%) Sage
13 3 (0.56%) Avaya
13 3 (0.56%) Cisco
13 3 (0.56%) Genesys
13 3 (0.56%) Workday
14 2 (0.37%) Anaplan
14 2 (0.37%) Talend