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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 166 189
Rank change year-on-year +78 +23 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 475 281 359
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.77% 2.12% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 2.20% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 312 150 257
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,024 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £69,250 £72,246 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.15% +7.03% -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 14,582 12,751 20,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.18% 96.22% 91.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,473 7,555 15,873
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,250 £56,250 £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 £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +40 114 £83,000 +14.48% 102
West London +4 21 £47,000 -24.80% 8
South London +51 18 £48,975 -20.04%
East London - 9 £32,838 - 6
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 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (17.68%) Apache Spark
3 50 (10.53%) Apache
4 13 (2.74%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (2.53%) Appian
6 5 (1.05%) Confluence
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.42%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Actimize
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Endur
3 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 215 (45.26%) Azure
2 180 (37.89%) AWS
3 114 (24.00%) Power Platform
4 92 (19.37%) GCP
5 88 (18.53%) dbt
6 74 (15.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 67 (14.11%) Snowflake
8 54 (11.37%) Amazon S3
9 45 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (8.42%) Serverless
11 39 (8.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 36 (7.58%) GitHub
13 31 (6.53%) OpenShift
14 29 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (5.47%) Power Automate
16 22 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
16 22 (4.63%) SaaS
17 16 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (3.37%) Fivetran
18 15 (3.16%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.68%) Broadband
2 5 (1.05%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.21%) 4G
4 1 (0.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (25.47%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (23.79%) Power BI
3 71 (14.95%) SQL Server
3 71 (14.95%) Tableau
4 70 (14.74%) Data Lake
5 50 (10.53%) Metadata
6 43 (9.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (7.79%) Relational Database
8 36 (7.58%) BigQuery
9 35 (7.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 29 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (5.68%) Oracle Database
12 25 (5.26%) Big Data
13 24 (5.05%) Apache Hive
14 23 (4.84%) Looker
15 22 (4.63%) Delta Lake
16 20 (4.21%) NoSQL
17 18 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (3.79%) Hadoop
17 18 (3.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 78 (16.42%) Git
2 28 (5.89%) MLflow
3 16 (3.37%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.53%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.26%) JIRA
7 4 (0.84%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.84%) ERwin
7 4 (0.84%) GitLab
7 4 (0.84%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.42%) Deequ
9 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.21%) Postman
9 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 178 (37.47%) Finance
2 156 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 123 (25.89%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.26%) Banking
5 39 (8.21%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.47%) Marketing
8 23 (4.84%) Manufacturing
9 17 (3.58%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.58%) Retail
10 16 (3.37%) Law
11 13 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.32%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.11%) Electronics
14 9 (1.89%) Front Office
15 7 (1.47%) Legal
15 7 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.05%) Advertising
16 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 201 (42.32%) Data Engineer
2 92 (19.37%) Senior
3 55 (11.58%) Analyst
4 51 (10.74%) Senior Data Engineer
5 48 (10.11%) Lead
6 43 (9.05%) Developer
7 29 (6.11%) Lead Data Engineer
8 28 (5.89%) Architect
9 23 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 22 (4.63%) AWS Data Engineer
10 22 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (4.42%) Data Analyst
11 21 (4.42%) Python Engineer
12 20 (4.21%) Data Architect
13 19 (4.00%) Software Engineer
14 17 (3.58%) Consultant
15 14 (2.95%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (2.95%) Transformation Analyst
16 13 (2.74%) Azure Data Engineer
16 13 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (14.32%) Kafka
2 53 (11.16%) PySpark
3 42 (8.84%) PyTorch
4 38 (8.00%) TensorFlow
5 32 (6.74%) Pandas
6 29 (6.11%) scikit-learn
7 21 (4.42%) RESTful
8 20 (4.21%) React
9 19 (4.00%) LangChain
9 19 (4.00%) pytest
9 19 (4.00%) REST
10 17 (3.58%) OAuth
11 16 (3.37%) FastAPI
11 16 (3.37%) Flask
11 16 (3.37%) Node.js
12 15 (3.16%) .NET
13 14 (2.95%) Django
13 14 (2.95%) NumPy
14 12 (2.53%) OpenAPI
14 12 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.63%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.42%) Algorithms
5 20 (4.21%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.58%) Low-Code
7 16 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (3.37%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.53%) Reinsurance
9 10 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.89%) Clustering
10 9 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.47%) Hedge funds
13 6 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.05%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.16%) Linux
2 10 (2.11%) Windows
3 7 (1.47%) Unix
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Solaris
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (55.58%) Analytics
2 240 (50.53%) Data Engineering
3 235 (49.47%) ETL
4 205 (43.16%) Data Modelling
5 200 (42.11%) CI/CD
6 183 (38.53%) AI
7 145 (30.53%) Business Intelligence
8 141 (29.68%) Data Governance
9 119 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
10 114 (24.00%) Machine Learning
11 113 (23.79%) DevOps
12 112 (23.58%) Data Science
13 97 (20.42%) Agile
14 83 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (14.53%) Decision-Making
16 67 (14.11%) Data Architecture
17 65 (13.68%) Software Engineering
18 64 (13.47%) Computer Science
18 64 (13.47%) Data Management
19 60 (12.63%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 317 (66.74%) Python
2 299 (62.95%) SQL
3 38 (8.00%) Java
4 37 (7.79%) C#
5 30 (6.32%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.68%) Scala
7 24 (5.05%) C++
8 15 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (2.95%) Bash
10 13 (2.74%) R
11 9 (1.89%) JavaScript
11 9 (1.89%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.26%) PHP
12 6 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.05%) C
13 5 (1.05%) Rust
14 4 (0.84%) Go
15 2 (0.42%) Julia
15 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 84 (17.68%) Degree
2 51 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (9.89%) Security Cleared
4 41 (8.63%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.05%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.84%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.74%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.53%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.05%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.84%) CISSP
11 4 (0.84%) MCSE
11 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.84%) OCP
11 4 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.84%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (34.53%) Data Quality
2 38 (8.00%) GDPR
3 19 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.47%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.47%) QA
6 2 (0.42%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) PERC
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 58 (12.21%) Docker
2 7 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (13.26%) Terraform
2 57 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.26%) Grafana
4 15 (3.16%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.47%) Ansible
5 7 (1.47%) Kibana
6 5 (1.05%) Control-M
7 2 (0.42%) Argo
7 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.21%) Ambari
8 1 (0.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (21.47%) Databricks
2 61 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 38 (8.00%) Oracle
4 29 (6.11%) Palantir
5 22 (4.63%) Dell
6 21 (4.42%) Google
7 20 (4.21%) Red Hat
8 18 (3.79%) Foundry
9 16 (3.37%) Informatica
10 14 (2.95%) OpenAI
11 12 (2.53%) Automation Anywhere
11 12 (2.53%) UiPath
12 11 (2.32%) SAP
12 11 (2.32%) Talend
13 9 (1.89%) Cloudera
14 6 (1.26%) Adobe
14 6 (1.26%) NVIDIA
15 5 (1.05%) IBM
16 4 (0.84%) Alteryx
16 4 (0.84%) Salesforce