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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 125 157
Rank change year-on-year +26 +32 +63
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 543 345 425
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.31% 2.82% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.99% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 362 182 206
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,075 £61,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +9.68% +3.33%
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 19,283 11,543 17,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.04% 94.35% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,074 7,307 11,977
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year - +2.12% -2.08%
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% - -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 5 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 5 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 +43 97 £80,000 - 73
West London - 20 £45,000 - 19
South London +14 11 - - 3
East London - 7 - - 3
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
1 100 (18.42%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (17.13%) Apache Spark
3 54 (9.94%) Apache
4 7 (1.29%) SAS
5 5 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.18%) Tornado
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.66%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 242 (44.57%) Azure
2 177 (32.60%) AWS
3 101 (18.60%) Power Platform
4 97 (17.86%) GCP
5 90 (16.57%) dbt
6 79 (14.55%) Snowflake
7 65 (11.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 52 (9.58%) SaaS
9 48 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (8.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 42 (7.73%) Amazon S3
11 36 (6.63%) Serverless
12 18 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (3.31%) OpenShift
13 14 (2.58%) GitHub
13 14 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (2.39%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (2.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (1.84%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (1.84%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.66%) Broadband
2 2 (0.37%) 4G
2 2 (0.37%) 5G
3 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (22.10%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (17.50%) Data Lake
3 94 (17.31%) Power BI
4 69 (12.71%) Tableau
5 55 (10.13%) Relational Database
6 44 (8.10%) SQL Server
7 42 (7.73%) BigQuery
7 42 (7.73%) NoSQL
8 35 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (6.26%) Metadata
9 34 (6.26%) Snowflake Schema
10 32 (5.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 30 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
12 27 (4.97%) Oracle Database
13 26 (4.79%) Spark SQL
14 25 (4.60%) Star Schema
15 24 (4.42%) Delta Lake
16 20 (3.68%) Looker
17 19 (3.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 76 (14.00%) Git
2 19 (3.50%) MLflow
3 16 (2.95%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.92%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 171 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 166 (30.57%) Finance
3 135 (24.86%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.76%) Banking
5 28 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (4.97%) Marketing
7 26 (4.79%) Public Sector
8 22 (4.05%) Law
9 21 (3.87%) Retail
10 20 (3.68%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.50%) Legal
12 12 (2.21%) Front Office
13 10 (1.84%) Advertising
14 7 (1.29%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.10%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.92%) Billing
16 5 (0.92%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 235 (43.28%) Data Engineer
2 121 (22.28%) Senior
3 90 (16.57%) Lead
4 59 (10.87%) Senior Data Engineer
5 48 (8.84%) Analyst
6 46 (8.47%) Architect
7 40 (7.37%) Data Architect
8 31 (5.71%) Lead Data Engineer
8 31 (5.71%) Python Engineer
9 30 (5.52%) Developer
10 25 (4.60%) Software Engineer
11 21 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (3.50%) AWS Data Engineer
13 18 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 18 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
14 16 (2.95%) Data Analyst
14 16 (2.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 15 (2.76%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (15.29%) Kafka
2 60 (11.05%) PySpark
3 37 (6.81%) PyTorch
4 35 (6.45%) TensorFlow
5 32 (5.89%) scikit-learn
6 30 (5.52%) Pandas
7 29 (5.34%) LangChain
8 20 (3.68%) React
9 18 (3.31%) LlamaIndex
10 17 (3.13%) pgvector
11 16 (2.95%) Node.js
11 16 (2.95%) Spring
12 15 (2.76%) RESTful
13 14 (2.58%) LangGraph
14 13 (2.39%) GraphQL
15 12 (2.21%) Next.js
16 11 (2.03%) REST
16 11 (2.03%) Spring Boot
17 9 (1.66%) FastAPI
18 8 (1.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.73%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.26%) Data Structures
4 31 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (4.97%) AI Agents
6 26 (4.79%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.31%) Clustering
8 17 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.21%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.03%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.84%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.29%) Derivative
14 7 (1.29%) Equities
15 6 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 5 (0.92%) Credit Risk
16 5 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
17 4 (0.74%) Market Risk
17 4 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.03%) Linux
2 4 (0.74%) Windows
3 2 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (52.12%) Analytics
2 254 (46.78%) AI
3 247 (45.49%) Data Engineering
4 220 (40.52%) Data Modelling
5 188 (34.62%) CI/CD
6 184 (33.89%) ETL
7 159 (29.28%) Data Governance
8 151 (27.81%) Business Intelligence
9 133 (24.49%) Machine Learning
10 127 (23.39%) Data Science
11 123 (22.65%) Data Architecture
12 107 (19.71%) Decision-Making
13 100 (18.42%) Agile
14 97 (17.86%) DevOps
15 92 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
16 77 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 76 (14.00%) Software Engineering
18 74 (13.63%) Use Case
19 71 (13.08%) Mentoring
20 66 (12.15%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 363 (66.85%) Python
2 325 (59.85%) SQL
3 42 (7.73%) Java
4 31 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 26 (4.79%) Scala
6 15 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.03%) C#
9 9 (1.66%) R
10 8 (1.47%) C++
11 5 (0.92%) Bash
11 5 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.74%) Rust
12 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.55%) Julia
13 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.37%) Go
14 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.37%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 66 (12.15%) Degree
2 36 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 32 (5.89%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.87%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.37%) PhD
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (32.41%) Data Quality
2 58 (10.68%) GDPR
3 23 (4.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.03%) QA
6 7 (1.29%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.29%) PERC
7 5 (0.92%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) PSD2
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (7.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (10.13%) Terraform
2 34 (6.26%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.76%) Grafana
4 10 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.74%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.55%) Kibana
7 2 (0.37%) Ansible
7 2 (0.37%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) Packer
8 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 149 (27.44%) Databricks
2 98 (18.05%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.08%) Oracle
4 23 (4.24%) Google
5 17 (3.13%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.13%) Dell
6 16 (2.95%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.76%) Informatica
7 15 (2.76%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.84%) Palantir
9 9 (1.66%) Foundry
10 5 (0.92%) SAP
11 4 (0.74%) Sage
12 3 (0.55%) Avaya
12 3 (0.55%) Cisco
12 3 (0.55%) Genesys
12 3 (0.55%) Workday
13 2 (0.37%) Anaplan
13 2 (0.37%) Talend