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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 165 172
Rank change year-on-year +77 +7 +40
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 502 278 418
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.56% 2.16% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 2.25% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 333 148 261
10th Percentile £43,750 £53,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,199 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -2.80%

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 16,320 12,361 21,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.07% 96.05% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,731 7,557 16,087
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,555
Median % change year-on-year - +6.30% -5.93%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £58,600 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +39 118 £80,500 +7.33% 71
West London +4 27 £45,000 -28.00% 2
South London +38 21 £48,975 -20.04% 1
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
1 111 (22.11%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (17.13%) Apache Spark
3 55 (10.96%) Apache
4 12 (2.39%) Appian
5 6 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.80%) Confluence
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Actimize
3 1 (0.20%) Endur
3 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 226 (45.02%) Azure
2 173 (34.46%) AWS
3 108 (21.51%) Power Platform
4 97 (19.32%) GCP
5 90 (17.93%) dbt
6 74 (14.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 61 (12.15%) Snowflake
8 51 (10.16%) Amazon S3
9 49 (9.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 47 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (8.17%) Serverless
12 29 (5.78%) GitHub
13 28 (5.58%) OpenShift
14 26 (5.18%) Power Automate
15 25 (4.98%) SaaS
16 24 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (3.59%) Amazon Kinesis
18 17 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (3.19%) Amazon EMR
20 13 (2.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.99%) Broadband
2 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.40%) 4G
3 2 (0.40%) 5G
3 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (21.51%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (20.32%) Power BI
3 75 (14.94%) Tableau
4 74 (14.74%) Data Lake
5 61 (12.15%) SQL Server
6 51 (10.16%) Relational Database
7 46 (9.16%) BigQuery
8 45 (8.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (8.37%) Metadata
10 29 (5.78%) Oracle Database
11 28 (5.58%) Delta Lake
12 26 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (5.18%) Looker
12 26 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (4.78%) Snowflake Schema
14 23 (4.58%) MySQL
14 23 (4.58%) NoSQL
14 23 (4.58%) Spark SQL
15 22 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (3.78%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 82 (16.33%) Git
2 34 (6.77%) MLflow
3 16 (3.19%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.39%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.20%) JIRA
7 2 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Deequ
8 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 162 (32.27%) Finance
2 147 (29.28%) Social Skills
3 134 (26.69%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.57%) Banking
5 33 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.98%) Marketing
6 25 (4.98%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.39%) Investment Banking
9 16 (3.19%) Retail
10 15 (2.99%) Law
11 13 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.99%) Front Office
13 8 (1.59%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.39%) Legal
14 7 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.20%) Advertising
16 5 (1.00%) Electronics
17 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
18 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (44.22%) Data Engineer
2 94 (18.73%) Senior
3 68 (13.55%) Lead
4 61 (12.15%) Analyst
5 51 (10.16%) Senior Data Engineer
6 41 (8.17%) Developer
7 33 (6.57%) Lead Data Engineer
8 26 (5.18%) Architect
9 24 (4.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 23 (4.58%) AWS Data Engineer
10 23 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (4.38%) Python Engineer
12 21 (4.18%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.59%) Data Architect
14 17 (3.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 16 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
16 15 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
17 14 (2.79%) Automation Engineer
17 14 (2.79%) Transformation Analyst
18 13 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (16.14%) Kafka
2 66 (13.15%) PySpark
3 50 (9.96%) PyTorch
4 46 (9.16%) TensorFlow
5 39 (7.77%) Pandas
6 35 (6.97%) scikit-learn
7 26 (5.18%) LangChain
8 24 (4.78%) RESTful
9 21 (4.18%) React
10 18 (3.59%) REST
11 16 (3.19%) LlamaIndex
11 16 (3.19%) Node.js
11 16 (3.19%) pgvector
11 16 (3.19%) pytest
12 15 (2.99%) FastAPI
12 15 (2.99%) Flask
13 14 (2.79%) .NET
13 14 (2.79%) HTML
13 14 (2.79%) OAuth
14 13 (2.59%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.37%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.18%) Algorithms
4 21 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.19%) Clustering
6 16 (3.19%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.19%) Low-Code
7 11 (2.19%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.59%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.39%) Linux
2 11 (2.19%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Solaris
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (55.38%) Analytics
2 260 (51.79%) Data Engineering
3 236 (47.01%) ETL
4 210 (41.83%) Data Modelling
5 204 (40.64%) CI/CD
6 191 (38.05%) AI
7 155 (30.88%) Business Intelligence
8 139 (27.69%) Data Governance
9 123 (24.50%) DevOps
10 117 (23.31%) Machine Learning
11 112 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (22.11%) Data Science
13 89 (17.73%) Agile
14 86 (17.13%) Data Architecture
15 85 (16.93%) Decision-Making
16 71 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 64 (12.75%) Observability
18 61 (12.15%) Data Management
19 60 (11.95%) Data Transformation
19 60 (11.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 327 (65.14%) Python
2 316 (62.95%) SQL
3 37 (7.37%) Java
4 29 (5.78%) C#
5 28 (5.58%) Scala
6 27 (5.38%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.39%) C++
8 16 (3.19%) Bash
9 14 (2.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (2.59%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.99%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.79%) R
13 7 (1.39%) Rust
14 6 (1.20%) PHP
15 5 (1.00%) Go
16 4 (0.80%) C
17 2 (0.40%) Julia
17 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.40%) Ruby
17 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (15.94%) Degree
2 42 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (6.97%) Security Cleared
4 29 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.38%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.60%) CISSP
13 2 (0.40%) MCSE
13 2 (0.40%) OCP
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.20%) PhD
14 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.20%) PMP
14 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (33.47%) Data Quality
2 48 (9.56%) GDPR
3 25 (4.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.39%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.39%) PERC
5 5 (1.00%) QA
6 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (11.55%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (12.55%) Terraform
2 58 (11.55%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.98%) Grafana
4 16 (3.19%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.39%) Kibana
6 4 (0.80%) Ansible
6 4 (0.80%) Control-M
7 3 (0.60%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
Vendors
1 124 (24.70%) Databricks
2 69 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.37%) Oracle
4 24 (4.78%) Dell
5 20 (3.98%) Red Hat
6 18 (3.59%) Google
6 18 (3.59%) Palantir
7 16 (3.19%) Cloudera
8 15 (2.99%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.39%) Automation Anywhere
9 12 (2.39%) UiPath
10 11 (2.19%) Foundry
10 11 (2.19%) Informatica
11 10 (1.99%) Talend
12 6 (1.20%) Adobe
12 6 (1.20%) NVIDIA
12 6 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.20%) SAP
13 2 (0.40%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg