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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 104 169
Rank change year-on-year -3 +65 +30
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 541 386 369
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.09% 3.29% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 3.50% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 344 223 175
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £104,600
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 20,872 11,015 16,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.53% 93.87% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,691 6,981 9,817
10th Percentile £40,825 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +27 71 £80,000 -5.88% 112
West London -23 4 £81,500 +73.40% 28
South London - 2 £70,000 - 6
East London - 1 - - 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 59 (10.91%) Apache Spark
2 51 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (7.58%) Apache
4 7 (1.29%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.37%) Luigi
6 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.37%) Tornado
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.18%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.11%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Primavera
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 239 (44.18%) Azure
2 163 (30.13%) AWS
3 113 (20.89%) Power Platform
4 91 (16.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 84 (15.53%) GCP
6 82 (15.16%) dbt
7 68 (12.57%) Snowflake
8 67 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (9.80%) SaaS
10 47 (8.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 41 (7.58%) Serverless
12 33 (6.10%) Amazon S3
13 28 (5.18%) Azure Databricks
14 24 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.51%) GitHub
16 17 (3.14%) Azure Machine Learning
16 17 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 9 (1.66%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) 5G
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (22.00%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (20.52%) Power BI
3 91 (16.82%) Data Lake
4 53 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 45 (8.32%) NoSQL
6 40 (7.39%) Tableau
7 39 (7.21%) Relational Database
7 39 (7.21%) SQL Server
8 36 (6.65%) Metadata
9 32 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (5.73%) Star Schema
11 22 (4.07%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (3.88%) Delta Lake
13 20 (3.70%) Big Data
13 20 (3.70%) BigQuery
14 15 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
16 13 (2.40%) Data Vault
17 12 (2.22%) Looker
18 11 (2.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 67 (12.38%) Git
2 13 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.29%) JIRA
4 5 (0.92%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.74%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) MLflow
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 200 (36.97%) Finance
2 186 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 95 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.69%) Banking
5 34 (6.28%) Marketing
6 24 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.25%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.88%) Retail
9 20 (3.70%) Law
10 16 (2.96%) Legal
11 12 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.03%) Advertising
13 9 (1.66%) Front Office
13 9 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.48%) Back Office
15 6 (1.11%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.11%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.92%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.74%) Billing
17 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 235 (43.44%) Data Engineer
2 116 (21.44%) Senior
3 91 (16.82%) Lead
4 60 (11.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 49 (9.06%) Architect
6 39 (7.21%) Software Engineer
7 38 (7.02%) Data Architect
8 33 (6.10%) Lead Data Engineer
9 30 (5.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 27 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (4.81%) Azure Data Engineer
11 26 (4.81%) Developer
11 26 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 23 (4.25%) Data Scientist
13 21 (3.88%) Analyst
13 21 (3.88%) Python Engineer
14 17 (3.14%) Databricks Engineer
15 15 (2.77%) Data Analyst
16 14 (2.59%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.61%) Kafka
2 46 (8.50%) Terraform
3 45 (8.32%) PySpark
4 26 (4.81%) PyTorch
5 24 (4.44%) TensorFlow
6 23 (4.25%) scikit-learn
7 20 (3.70%) Pandas
8 19 (3.51%) LangChain
8 19 (3.51%) LangGraph
8 19 (3.51%) REST
9 14 (2.59%) Spring
10 11 (2.03%) React
11 9 (1.66%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.48%) Flask
12 8 (1.48%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.48%) Node.js
12 8 (1.48%) RESTful
13 7 (1.29%) AWS CDK
13 7 (1.29%) NumPy
13 7 (1.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 41 (7.58%) AI Agents
4 37 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (6.10%) Data Structures
6 24 (4.44%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.03%) Derivative
8 10 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.48%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.29%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.11%) Equities
11 6 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.92%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.66%) Linux
2 2 (0.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (49.35%) Analytics
2 253 (46.77%) AI
3 244 (45.10%) Data Engineering
4 228 (42.14%) Data Modelling
5 188 (34.75%) CI/CD
6 155 (28.65%) Business Intelligence
7 153 (28.28%) ETL
8 147 (27.17%) Data Science
9 145 (26.80%) Machine Learning
10 118 (21.81%) Data Architecture
11 117 (21.63%) Data Governance
12 108 (19.96%) DevOps
13 107 (19.78%) Decision-Making
14 104 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
15 89 (16.45%) Agile
16 79 (14.60%) Software Engineering
17 71 (13.12%) Roadmaps
18 69 (12.75%) LLM
18 69 (12.75%) Validation
19 66 (12.20%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 365 (67.47%) Python
2 328 (60.63%) SQL
3 36 (6.65%) Scala
4 33 (6.10%) Java
5 26 (4.81%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.03%) C#
6 11 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.03%) R
7 10 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.48%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.74%) C++
10 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.55%) Bash
11 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.55%) Rust
12 2 (0.37%) Go
13 1 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.18%) Julia
Qualifications
1 60 (11.09%) Degree
2 40 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 36 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.33%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.11%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.74%) ACCA
9 4 (0.74%) CIMA
9 4 (0.74%) MBA
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (38.45%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.18%) GDPR
3 14 (2.59%) QA
4 13 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.92%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.74%) IFRS
7 3 (0.55%) PMO
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (9.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (7.21%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.22%) Grafana
3 3 (0.55%) Kibana
3 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.55%) SQL Sentry
4 2 (0.37%) Argo
4 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 151 (27.91%) Databricks
2 99 (18.30%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.73%) Google
4 16 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.22%) Informatica
7 11 (2.03%) SAP
8 10 (1.85%) Oracle
9 6 (1.11%) Braze
10 5 (0.92%) Anaplan
10 5 (0.92%) Foundry
10 5 (0.92%) Palantir
10 5 (0.92%) Splunk
11 4 (0.74%) New Relic
11 4 (0.74%) Sage
11 4 (0.74%) SnapLogic
12 3 (0.55%) Avaya
12 3 (0.55%) Cisco
12 3 (0.55%) Genesys
12 3 (0.55%) RedGate