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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 184 203
Rank change year-on-year +98 +19 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 484 274 340
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.92% 1.92% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 2.01% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 314 154 256
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £62,500 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,188 £100,000
90th Percentile £119,625 £115,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.77% +6.65% -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 14,196 13,664 19,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.77% 95.96% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,179 7,731 15,750
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,826 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,390 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +3.99% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 6 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 6 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 +47 114 £82,500 +10.00% 77
West London +8 21 £47,000 -23.27% 18
South London +48 17 £48,975 -20.04% 7
East London - 9 £32,838 - 8
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 96 (19.83%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (17.56%) Apache Spark
3 51 (10.54%) Apache
4 12 (2.48%) Appian
4 12 (2.48%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (1.03%) Confluence
6 3 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.41%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Actimize
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Endur
3 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 222 (45.87%) Azure
2 188 (38.84%) AWS
3 124 (25.62%) Power Platform
4 98 (20.25%) GCP
5 87 (17.98%) dbt
6 75 (15.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 73 (15.08%) Snowflake
8 54 (11.16%) Amazon S3
9 48 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (9.30%) Serverless
11 39 (8.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 37 (7.64%) GitHub
13 34 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (5.99%) OpenShift
15 26 (5.37%) Power Automate
16 23 (4.75%) Amazon Kinesis
17 22 (4.55%) Fivetran
18 21 (4.34%) SaaS
19 18 (3.72%) Amazon EMR
20 17 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.45%) Broadband
2 6 (1.24%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.03%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.62%) Firewall
4 3 (0.62%) VLAN
5 2 (0.41%) BGP
5 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.41%) MQTT
5 2 (0.41%) OSPF
5 2 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.41%) RTMP
5 2 (0.41%) VPN
5 2 (0.41%) WAN
5 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.41%) Wireless
6 1 (0.21%) 4G
6 1 (0.21%) 5G
6 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (26.45%) Data Warehouse
2 123 (25.41%) Power BI
3 81 (16.74%) SQL Server
4 73 (15.08%) Data Lake
5 72 (14.88%) Tableau
6 55 (11.36%) Metadata
7 45 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 36 (7.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (6.82%) BigQuery
9 33 (6.82%) Relational Database
10 30 (6.20%) Big Data
11 29 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (5.37%) Oracle Database
13 24 (4.96%) Apache Hive
13 24 (4.96%) Looker
14 22 (4.55%) Delta Lake
15 21 (4.34%) Hadoop
16 20 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (4.13%) NoSQL
17 18 (3.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 77 (15.91%) Git
2 28 (5.79%) MLflow
3 14 (2.89%) IBM UrbanCode
4 11 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.27%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.24%) GitLab
5 6 (1.24%) JIRA
6 4 (0.83%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.83%) ERwin
6 4 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.41%) Deequ
7 2 (0.41%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.21%) Postman
8 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 192 (39.67%) Finance
2 172 (35.54%) Social Skills
3 117 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.68%) Banking
5 37 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 33 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.37%) Marketing
8 22 (4.55%) Law
8 22 (4.55%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.31%) Retail
10 15 (3.10%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.07%) Electronics
14 8 (1.65%) Advertising
14 8 (1.65%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.65%) Front Office
15 7 (1.45%) Legal
15 7 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (42.15%) Data Engineer
2 102 (21.07%) Senior
3 57 (11.78%) Senior Data Engineer
4 55 (11.36%) Analyst
5 44 (9.09%) Lead
6 41 (8.47%) Developer
7 28 (5.79%) Architect
7 28 (5.79%) AWS Data Engineer
7 28 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (5.58%) Lead Data Engineer
9 23 (4.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 21 (4.34%) Data Analyst
11 20 (4.13%) Data Architect
12 19 (3.93%) Python Engineer
12 19 (3.93%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.10%) Consultant
14 14 (2.89%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (2.69%) Azure Data Engineer
16 12 (2.48%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (14.46%) Kafka
2 54 (11.16%) PySpark
3 38 (7.85%) PyTorch
4 34 (7.02%) TensorFlow
5 31 (6.40%) Pandas
6 27 (5.58%) scikit-learn
7 22 (4.55%) RESTful
8 21 (4.34%) React
9 20 (4.13%) REST
10 19 (3.93%) pytest
11 18 (3.72%) FastAPI
12 17 (3.51%) LangChain
12 17 (3.51%) OAuth
13 16 (3.31%) Flask
13 16 (3.31%) Node.js
14 15 (3.10%) .NET
15 14 (2.89%) Django
16 13 (2.69%) NumPy
17 12 (2.48%) Hugging Face
17 12 (2.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.85%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.13%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.13%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.93%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.51%) Low-Code
7 16 (3.31%) Product Ownership
8 15 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.27%) Reinsurance
11 10 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.45%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.45%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.24%) Clustering
14 6 (1.24%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (1.03%) e-Learning
15 5 (1.03%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.10%) Linux
2 10 (2.07%) Windows
3 7 (1.45%) Unix
4 2 (0.41%) 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
1 259 (53.51%) Analytics
2 249 (51.45%) Data Engineering
3 239 (49.38%) ETL
4 207 (42.77%) CI/CD
5 205 (42.36%) Data Modelling
6 176 (36.36%) AI
7 152 (31.40%) Business Intelligence
8 151 (31.20%) Data Governance
9 125 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
10 123 (25.41%) DevOps
11 115 (23.76%) Data Science
12 110 (22.73%) Machine Learning
13 104 (21.49%) Agile
14 81 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 73 (15.08%) Decision-Making
16 66 (13.64%) Data Architecture
17 65 (13.43%) Data Management
18 63 (13.02%) Software Engineering
19 62 (12.81%) Infrastructure as Code
19 62 (12.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 323 (66.74%) Python
2 300 (61.98%) SQL
3 45 (9.30%) Java
4 39 (8.06%) C#
5 31 (6.40%) Scala
6 30 (6.20%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.96%) C++
8 17 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (3.10%) Bash
10 14 (2.89%) R
11 10 (2.07%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.86%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.65%) JavaScript
14 6 (1.24%) PHP
15 5 (1.03%) C
16 4 (0.83%) Go
16 4 (0.83%) Rust
17 2 (0.41%) Bicep
17 2 (0.41%) Julia
17 2 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (17.77%) Degree
2 49 (10.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 39 (8.06%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.34%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.31%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.10%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.45%) CISSP
10 7 (1.45%) MCSE
10 7 (1.45%) OCP
10 7 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.03%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.03%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (33.68%) Data Quality
2 38 (7.85%) GDPR
3 15 (3.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 14 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.45%) QA
6 6 (1.24%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.41%) IFRS
7 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (13.64%) Docker
2 7 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.03%) HDFS
4 2 (0.41%) NFS
5 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (14.05%) Terraform
2 65 (13.43%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.58%) Grafana
4 16 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.86%) Ansible
6 7 (1.45%) Kibana
7 5 (1.03%) Control-M
8 4 (0.83%) Argo
9 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.21%) Ambari
10 1 (0.21%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 100 (20.66%) Databricks
2 68 (14.05%) Microsoft
3 39 (8.06%) Oracle
4 26 (5.37%) Palantir
5 22 (4.55%) Google
6 19 (3.93%) Dell
7 18 (3.72%) Red Hat
8 17 (3.51%) Informatica
9 16 (3.31%) Foundry
10 14 (2.89%) OpenAI
11 13 (2.69%) SAP
12 12 (2.48%) Automation Anywhere
12 12 (2.48%) Talend
12 12 (2.48%) UiPath
13 6 (1.24%) Adobe
13 6 (1.24%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.24%) NVIDIA
14 5 (1.03%) Cisco
14 5 (1.03%) IBM
15 4 (0.83%) Salesforce