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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 191 199
Rank change year-on-year +100 +8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 425 286 318
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.35% 1.66% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 1.83% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 246 166 263
10th Percentile £46,000 £53,125 £50,388
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,395
90th Percentile £122,500 £104,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -5.10%

All Process and 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 11,754 15,612 17,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 92.62% 90.37% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,381 9,188 14,548
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.50%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 +67 75 £85,000 +13.33% 261
West London +6 14 £47,000 -34.04% 8
South London +27 1 - - 3
East London - 1 - - 5
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 76 (17.88%) Apache Spark
2 43 (10.12%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (4.47%) Apache
4 5 (1.18%) Confluence
5 2 (0.47%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.24%) Appian
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.24%) Luigi
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 218 (51.29%) Azure
2 180 (42.35%) AWS
3 112 (26.35%) Power Platform
4 93 (21.88%) GCP
5 72 (16.94%) Snowflake
6 48 (11.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 48 (11.29%) dbt
7 41 (9.65%) Serverless
8 39 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 31 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (7.29%) GitHub
10 29 (6.82%) Amazon S3
11 28 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (6.59%) Fivetran
12 17 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
13 16 (3.76%) Amazon EMR
13 16 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (3.53%) OpenShift
15 14 (3.29%) Amazon Kinesis
16 12 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.94%) Kerberos
1 4 (0.94%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.71%) Firewall
2 3 (0.71%) VLAN
3 2 (0.47%) BGP
3 2 (0.47%) Broadband
3 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.47%) MQTT
3 2 (0.47%) OSPF
3 2 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.47%) RTMP
3 2 (0.47%) VPN
3 2 (0.47%) WAN
3 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.47%) Wireless
4 1 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (28.24%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (25.41%) Power BI
3 75 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 64 (15.06%) Data Lake
5 57 (13.41%) Big Data
6 56 (13.18%) Metadata
7 44 (10.35%) Hadoop
8 43 (10.12%) Tableau
9 39 (9.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 38 (8.94%) NoSQL
11 28 (6.59%) Looker
12 24 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (5.65%) Relational Database
13 21 (4.94%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (3.76%) DynamoDB
16 15 (3.53%) Apache Iceberg
16 15 (3.53%) BigQuery
16 15 (3.53%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (10.82%) Git
2 17 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.35%) JIRA
4 9 (2.12%) MLflow
5 4 (0.94%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.94%) ERwin
5 4 (0.94%) GitLab
5 4 (0.94%) Postman
5 4 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (0.94%) Selenium
5 4 (0.94%) Spinnaker
5 4 (0.94%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.71%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.71%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.71%) Maven
6 3 (0.71%) TestNG
6 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.71%) WebDriver
6 3 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 191 (44.94%) Finance
2 178 (41.88%) Social Skills
3 98 (23.06%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (17.41%) Law
5 48 (11.29%) Marketing
6 42 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (8.71%) Public Sector
8 30 (7.06%) Manufacturing
9 25 (5.88%) Banking
10 18 (4.24%) Retail
11 16 (3.76%) Advertising
11 16 (3.76%) Electronics
11 16 (3.76%) French Language
12 13 (3.06%) Financial Institution
12 13 (3.06%) Telecoms
13 9 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.88%) Front Office
15 7 (1.65%) Back Office
16 5 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 169 (39.76%) Data Engineer
2 103 (24.24%) Senior
3 60 (14.12%) Senior Data Engineer
4 56 (13.18%) Lead
5 40 (9.41%) Analyst
6 39 (9.18%) Developer
7 25 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (5.18%) Architect
9 21 (4.94%) Software Engineer
10 20 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (4.47%) AWS Data Engineer
12 18 (4.24%) Python Engineer
13 17 (4.00%) Data Architect
13 17 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (3.76%) Product Lead
15 14 (3.29%) Consultant
15 14 (3.29%) Data Scientist
15 14 (3.29%) Lead Developer
16 13 (3.06%) Azure Data Engineer
17 12 (2.82%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (14.12%) Kafka
2 41 (9.65%) PySpark
3 22 (5.18%) PyTorch
3 22 (5.18%) React
3 22 (5.18%) TensorFlow
4 17 (4.00%) Pandas
5 14 (3.29%) Spark Streaming
6 12 (2.82%) RESTful
7 11 (2.59%) Keras
7 11 (2.59%) scikit-learn
8 10 (2.35%) REST
9 9 (2.12%) Node.js
9 9 (2.12%) Spring
10 8 (1.88%) boto
10 8 (1.88%) Django
11 7 (1.65%) .NET
11 7 (1.65%) AWS CDK
11 7 (1.65%) Hibernate
11 7 (1.65%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.41%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.65%) Distributed Systems
2 40 (9.41%) Product Ownership
3 35 (8.24%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.12%) Data Structures
5 24 (5.65%) Management Information System
6 19 (4.47%) FMCG
7 16 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.29%) Hedge funds
9 12 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.59%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (2.35%) e-Learning
12 8 (1.88%) Reinsurance
13 7 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.18%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.18%) IoT
14 5 (1.18%) Low-Code
14 5 (1.18%) Robotics
15 4 (0.94%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.59%) Linux
2 8 (1.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.24%) Solaris
3 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.24%) Windows
3 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (51.06%) Data Engineering
2 213 (50.12%) ETL
3 184 (43.29%) Data Modelling
4 180 (42.35%) Analytics
5 166 (39.06%) CI/CD
6 140 (32.94%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (31.53%) AI
8 130 (30.59%) DevOps
9 125 (29.41%) Data Governance
10 124 (29.18%) Agile
11 122 (28.71%) Machine Learning
12 116 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
13 112 (26.35%) Data Science
14 97 (22.82%) Decision-Making
15 68 (16.00%) Software Engineering
16 66 (15.53%) Computer Science
16 66 (15.53%) Visualisation
17 59 (13.88%) Data Integration
17 59 (13.88%) Data Management
17 59 (13.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 291 (68.47%) Python
2 254 (59.76%) SQL
3 58 (13.65%) Java
4 34 (8.00%) Scala
5 26 (6.12%) C#
6 23 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.71%) T-SQL
8 15 (3.53%) C++
9 14 (3.29%) R
10 10 (2.35%) JavaScript
11 9 (2.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.94%) Bash
13 4 (0.94%) Fortran
14 3 (0.71%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.47%) Bicep
15 2 (0.47%) C
15 2 (0.47%) PHP
16 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 93 (21.88%) Degree
2 46 (10.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (7.76%) Security Cleared
4 30 (7.06%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.65%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.94%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (3.06%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.35%) CISSP
9 10 (2.35%) MCSE
9 10 (2.35%) OCP
9 10 (2.35%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (1.41%) PhD
10 6 (1.41%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (26.12%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.59%) QA
3 27 (6.35%) GDPR
4 13 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) NIST
7 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 46 (10.82%) Docker
2 8 (1.88%) HDFS
3 5 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.47%) NFS
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (10.59%) Kubernetes
1 45 (10.59%) Terraform
2 10 (2.35%) Ansible
3 9 (2.12%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.88%) Grafana
5 7 (1.65%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) Ambari
7 1 (0.24%) Control-M
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 121 (28.47%) Databricks
2 81 (19.06%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.59%) SAP
4 27 (6.35%) Palantir
5 26 (6.12%) Oracle
6 18 (4.24%) Google
7 17 (4.00%) Dell
8 16 (3.76%) Foundry
9 14 (3.29%) Informatica
10 11 (2.59%) NVIDIA
11 9 (2.12%) Talend
12 8 (1.88%) Splunk
13 5 (1.18%) Cisco
14 4 (0.94%) Adobe
14 4 (0.94%) Dataiku
14 4 (0.94%) IBM
15 3 (0.71%) Alteryx
15 3 (0.71%) Tealium
16 2 (0.47%) NETGEAR
16 2 (0.47%) Salesforce