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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 160 168
Rank change year-on-year +70 +8 +51
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 492 282 442
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.41% 2.23% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.32% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 331 152 262
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,475 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -2.80%

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 16,765 12,174 21,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.29% 96.15% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11,061 7,367 16,017
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,001
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 May 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 May 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 +40 116 £80,000 +10.34% 93
West London -4 22 £45,000 -28.00% 5
South London +37 20 £48,975 -20.04% 3
East London - 8 £32,838 - 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
1 110 (22.36%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (17.48%) Apache Spark
3 57 (11.59%) Apache
4 12 (2.44%) Appian
5 7 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.61%) Confluence
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Actimize
3 1 (0.20%) Endur
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 219 (44.51%) Azure
2 169 (34.35%) AWS
3 102 (20.73%) Power Platform
4 93 (18.90%) GCP
5 86 (17.48%) dbt
6 70 (14.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 64 (13.01%) Snowflake
8 52 (10.57%) Amazon S3
9 49 (9.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 48 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (8.33%) Serverless
12 29 (5.89%) GitHub
13 26 (5.28%) SaaS
14 24 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (4.88%) OpenShift
14 24 (4.88%) Power Automate
15 17 (3.46%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
17 15 (3.05%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.83%) Broadband
2 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.41%) 4G
3 2 (0.41%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (20.93%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (19.31%) Power BI
3 73 (14.84%) Tableau
4 70 (14.23%) Data Lake
5 55 (11.18%) SQL Server
6 50 (10.16%) Relational Database
7 46 (9.35%) BigQuery
8 44 (8.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (7.72%) Metadata
10 29 (5.89%) Delta Lake
10 29 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (5.49%) Oracle Database
12 25 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (5.08%) Looker
12 25 (5.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 24 (4.88%) NoSQL
14 23 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (4.67%) MySQL
14 23 (4.67%) Spark SQL
15 17 (3.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 82 (16.67%) Git
2 34 (6.91%) MLflow
3 16 (3.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 11 (2.24%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.81%) JIRA
7 2 (0.41%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Deequ
8 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 149 (30.28%) Finance
2 141 (28.66%) Social Skills
3 137 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.52%) Banking
5 30 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (4.67%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.47%) Marketing
8 17 (3.46%) Investment Banking
9 15 (3.05%) Retail
10 13 (2.64%) Law
11 12 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.03%) Front Office
14 9 (1.83%) Legal
15 7 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.42%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.22%) Advertising
17 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
18 2 (0.41%) Billing
18 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (45.33%) Data Engineer
2 97 (19.72%) Senior
3 67 (13.62%) Lead
4 61 (12.40%) Analyst
5 52 (10.57%) Senior Data Engineer
6 38 (7.72%) Developer
7 33 (6.71%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (4.88%) Architect
8 24 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 24 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (4.67%) AWS Data Engineer
9 23 (4.67%) Data Analyst
9 23 (4.67%) Python Engineer
10 19 (3.86%) Data Architect
11 17 (3.46%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 17 (3.46%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (2.85%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (2.85%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (16.67%) Kafka
2 69 (14.02%) PySpark
3 45 (9.15%) PyTorch
4 41 (8.33%) TensorFlow
5 38 (7.72%) Pandas
6 33 (6.71%) scikit-learn
7 25 (5.08%) LangChain
8 24 (4.88%) RESTful
9 20 (4.07%) React
10 18 (3.66%) REST
11 16 (3.25%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (3.25%) Node.js
11 16 (3.25%) pgvector
11 16 (3.25%) pytest
12 15 (3.05%) FastAPI
12 15 (3.05%) Flask
13 14 (2.85%) Next.js
14 13 (2.64%) Hugging Face
14 13 (2.64%) NumPy
14 13 (2.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.27%) Algorithms
3 21 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.46%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.25%) Clustering
7 15 (3.05%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.64%) Reinsurance
9 11 (2.24%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.03%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.42%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.44%) Linux
2 11 (2.24%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (56.30%) Analytics
2 252 (51.22%) Data Engineering
3 228 (46.34%) ETL
4 214 (43.50%) Data Modelling
5 201 (40.85%) CI/CD
6 187 (38.01%) AI
7 147 (29.88%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (27.44%) Data Governance
9 122 (24.80%) DevOps
10 108 (21.95%) Machine Learning
11 105 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
12 104 (21.14%) Data Science
13 89 (18.09%) Decision-Making
14 86 (17.48%) Data Architecture
15 85 (17.28%) Agile
16 69 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 63 (12.80%) Observability
18 61 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
19 60 (12.20%) Mentoring
19 60 (12.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 329 (66.87%) Python
2 316 (64.23%) SQL
3 34 (6.91%) Java
4 29 (5.89%) Scala
5 26 (5.28%) TypeScript
6 22 (4.47%) C#
7 17 (3.46%) Bash
8 14 (2.85%) C++
9 13 (2.64%) JavaScript
10 12 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (2.24%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.83%) R
13 8 (1.63%) Rust
14 5 (1.02%) Go
14 5 (1.02%) PHP
15 4 (0.81%) C
16 3 (0.61%) Julia
17 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (14.02%) Degree
2 34 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (6.71%) Security Cleared
4 27 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.66%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.20%) CEH
12 1 (0.20%) CISM
12 1 (0.20%) GIAC
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.20%) SSCP
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (35.16%) Data Quality
2 44 (8.94%) GDPR
3 25 (5.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.42%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.42%) PERC
6 6 (1.22%) QA
7 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.41%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (10.98%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (13.21%) Terraform
2 54 (10.98%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.08%) Grafana
4 16 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.42%) Kibana
6 4 (0.81%) Control-M
7 3 (0.61%) Ansible
7 3 (0.61%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 122 (24.80%) Databricks
2 65 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 35 (7.11%) Oracle
4 20 (4.07%) Dell
5 19 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.46%) Cloudera
6 17 (3.46%) Google
6 17 (3.46%) OpenAI
7 16 (3.25%) Palantir
8 13 (2.64%) Informatica
9 12 (2.44%) Automation Anywhere
9 12 (2.44%) Foundry
9 12 (2.44%) UiPath
10 10 (2.03%) Talend
11 6 (1.22%) Adobe
11 6 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.61%) SAP
13 2 (0.41%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.41%) Splunk