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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 180 181
Rank change year-on-year +97 +1 +36
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 469 271 349
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.92% 1.88% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 1.96% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 308 153 265
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
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 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,996 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.18% -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 13,792 13,799 19,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.88% 95.85% 91.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8,893 7,750 15,813
10th Percentile £37,800 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,496 £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 £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -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 1 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 1 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 +54 110 £82,500 +11.86% 71
West London +5 18 £47,000 -23.27% 16
South London +48 15 £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 87 (18.55%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (16.84%) Apache Spark
3 49 (10.45%) Apache
4 12 (2.56%) Appian
4 12 (2.56%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (1.07%) Confluence
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.43%) IIS
7 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.43%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) Actimize
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) Endur
4 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 217 (46.27%) Azure
2 181 (38.59%) AWS
3 116 (24.73%) Power Platform
4 93 (19.83%) GCP
5 78 (16.63%) dbt
6 75 (15.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 65 (13.86%) Snowflake
8 52 (11.09%) Amazon S3
9 47 (10.02%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (9.17%) Serverless
11 37 (7.89%) GitHub
12 35 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 32 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (5.97%) OpenShift
15 25 (5.33%) Power Automate
16 22 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
16 22 (4.69%) Fivetran
17 18 (3.84%) SaaS
18 17 (3.62%) Amazon EMR
18 17 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.49%) Broadband
2 6 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.07%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.64%) Firewall
4 3 (0.64%) VLAN
5 2 (0.43%) BGP
5 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.43%) MQTT
5 2 (0.43%) OSPF
5 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.43%) RTMP
5 2 (0.43%) VPN
5 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.43%) Wireless
6 1 (0.21%) 4G
6 1 (0.21%) 5G
6 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (26.23%) Data Warehouse
2 115 (24.52%) Power BI
3 81 (17.27%) SQL Server
4 68 (14.50%) Data Lake
5 65 (13.86%) Tableau
6 55 (11.73%) Metadata
7 38 (8.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 36 (7.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (6.61%) Big Data
9 31 (6.61%) Relational Database
10 28 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (5.76%) BigQuery
12 26 (5.54%) Oracle Database
13 24 (5.12%) Apache Hive
14 22 (4.69%) Hadoop
15 21 (4.48%) Delta Lake
15 21 (4.48%) NoSQL
16 20 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (3.84%) Looker
17 18 (3.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 73 (15.57%) Git
2 22 (4.69%) MLflow
3 14 (2.99%) IBM UrbanCode
4 11 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.13%) Visual Studio
6 7 (1.49%) JIRA
7 6 (1.28%) GitLab
8 4 (0.85%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.85%) ERwin
8 4 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.43%) Deequ
9 2 (0.43%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.21%) Postman
10 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 193 (41.15%) Finance
2 169 (36.03%) Social Skills
3 109 (23.24%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.74%) Banking
5 36 (7.68%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.54%) Marketing
8 22 (4.69%) Law
8 22 (4.69%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.41%) Retail
10 14 (2.99%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.13%) Electronics
13 8 (1.71%) Advertising
13 8 (1.71%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.71%) Front Office
14 7 (1.49%) Legal
14 7 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (42.64%) Data Engineer
2 96 (20.47%) Senior
3 57 (12.15%) Senior Data Engineer
4 53 (11.30%) Analyst
5 46 (9.81%) Lead
6 38 (8.10%) Developer
7 28 (5.97%) Architect
7 28 (5.97%) Lead Data Engineer
8 25 (5.33%) AWS Data Engineer
8 25 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (4.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 21 (4.48%) Data Analyst
11 20 (4.26%) Data Architect
12 19 (4.05%) Software Engineer
13 18 (3.84%) Python Engineer
14 15 (3.20%) Consultant
15 14 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (2.77%) Azure Data Engineer
17 12 (2.56%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (13.22%) Kafka
2 52 (11.09%) PySpark
3 32 (6.82%) PyTorch
4 31 (6.61%) Pandas
5 28 (5.97%) TensorFlow
6 21 (4.48%) scikit-learn
7 19 (4.05%) pytest
7 19 (4.05%) REST
8 18 (3.84%) FastAPI
8 18 (3.84%) React
8 18 (3.84%) RESTful
9 17 (3.62%) OAuth
10 16 (3.41%) Flask
11 15 (3.20%) .NET
12 14 (2.99%) Django
13 13 (2.77%) Node.js
13 13 (2.77%) NumPy
14 12 (2.56%) OpenAPI
14 12 (2.56%) Spring
14 12 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.84%) Algorithms
4 18 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.62%) Low-Code
6 14 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.35%) Reinsurance
9 10 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.49%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.28%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.07%) e-Learning
13 5 (1.07%) Fixed Income
14 4 (0.85%) IoT
14 4 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.20%) Linux
2 10 (2.13%) Windows
3 7 (1.49%) Unix
4 2 (0.43%) 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
1 253 (53.94%) Analytics
2 242 (51.60%) Data Engineering
3 233 (49.68%) ETL
4 203 (43.28%) CI/CD
5 199 (42.43%) Data Modelling
6 166 (35.39%) AI
7 145 (30.92%) Business Intelligence
7 145 (30.92%) Data Governance
8 123 (26.23%) DevOps
8 123 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (23.03%) Data Science
10 104 (22.17%) Agile
10 104 (22.17%) Machine Learning
11 80 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (15.78%) Decision-Making
13 64 (13.65%) Data Architecture
13 64 (13.65%) Visualisation
14 60 (12.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 60 (12.79%) Software Engineering
15 58 (12.37%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 312 (66.52%) Python
2 293 (62.47%) SQL
3 46 (9.81%) Java
4 39 (8.32%) C#
5 31 (6.61%) Scala
6 27 (5.76%) TypeScript
7 24 (5.12%) C++
8 17 (3.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (3.20%) Bash
10 13 (2.77%) R
11 11 (2.35%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.92%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.71%) JavaScript
14 6 (1.28%) PHP
15 5 (1.07%) C
16 4 (0.85%) Go
16 4 (0.85%) Rust
17 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.43%) Julia
18 2 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 80 (17.06%) Degree
2 45 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 37 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 21 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.48%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.20%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.49%) CISSP
8 7 (1.49%) MCSE
8 7 (1.49%) OCP
8 7 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.07%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (34.54%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.61%) GDPR
3 14 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (1.71%) QA
6 6 (1.28%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.43%) IFRS
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 65 (13.86%) Docker
2 7 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.07%) HDFS
4 2 (0.43%) NFS
5 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (13.86%) Kubernetes
1 65 (13.86%) Terraform
2 27 (5.76%) Grafana
3 16 (3.41%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.92%) Ansible
5 7 (1.49%) Kibana
6 5 (1.07%) Control-M
7 4 (0.85%) Argo
8 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.21%) Ambari
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (20.04%) Databricks
2 67 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 39 (8.32%) Oracle
4 26 (5.54%) Palantir
5 22 (4.69%) Google
6 18 (3.84%) Red Hat
7 17 (3.62%) Informatica
8 16 (3.41%) Foundry
9 14 (2.99%) OpenAI
9 14 (2.99%) SAP
10 13 (2.77%) Dell
11 12 (2.56%) Automation Anywhere
11 12 (2.56%) Talend
11 12 (2.56%) UiPath
12 6 (1.28%) Adobe
12 6 (1.28%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.07%) Cisco
13 5 (1.07%) IBM
14 4 (0.85%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.85%) Salesforce