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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 183 200
Rank change year-on-year +101 +17 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 437 271 289
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.19% 1.71% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 1.82% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 272 150 239
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £105,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -0.82% -5.90%

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 12,140 14,907 16,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.57% 94.29% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,761 8,382 13,294
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,881 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +0.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +67 94 £84,250 +8.71% 241
West London +10 16 £47,000 -34.04% 10
South London +35 6 £42,750 -30.20% 28
East London - 3 £32,838 - 10
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 71 (16.25%) Apache Spark
2 50 (11.44%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (5.26%) Apache
4 7 (1.60%) Appian
5 5 (1.14%) Confluence
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.46%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) Luigi
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Actimize
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Endur
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 226 (51.72%) Azure
2 173 (39.59%) AWS
3 127 (29.06%) Power Platform
4 101 (23.11%) GCP
5 69 (15.79%) Snowflake
6 61 (13.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 54 (12.36%) dbt
8 45 (10.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 37 (8.47%) Serverless
10 36 (8.24%) GitHub
11 33 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (6.86%) Amazon S3
13 29 (6.64%) Fivetran
14 27 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (4.12%) Amazon Kinesis
15 18 (4.12%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (4.12%) OpenShift
16 17 (3.89%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (3.66%) Power Automate
18 13 (2.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.14%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.69%) Firewall
3 3 (0.69%) VLAN
4 2 (0.46%) BGP
4 2 (0.46%) Broadband
4 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.46%) MQTT
4 2 (0.46%) OSPF
4 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.46%) RTMP
4 2 (0.46%) VPN
4 2 (0.46%) WAN
4 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.46%) Wireless
5 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (29.06%) Data Warehouse
2 125 (28.60%) Power BI
3 86 (19.68%) SQL Server
4 72 (16.48%) Data Lake
5 61 (13.96%) Metadata
6 53 (12.13%) Big Data
7 51 (11.67%) Tableau
8 43 (9.84%) Hadoop
9 41 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 37 (8.47%) NoSQL
11 32 (7.32%) Looker
11 32 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (6.18%) Relational Database
13 26 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (5.03%) BigQuery
14 22 (5.03%) MySQL
15 21 (4.81%) Delta Lake
16 19 (4.35%) MongoDB
17 16 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
18 15 (3.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (11.44%) Git
2 16 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.66%) MLflow
3 10 (2.29%) JIRA
4 6 (1.37%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.14%) GitLab
6 4 (0.92%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.92%) ERwin
6 4 (0.92%) Postman
6 4 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.92%) Selenium
7 3 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.69%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.69%) Maven
7 3 (0.69%) TestNG
7 3 (0.69%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.69%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.46%) CircleCI
General
1 188 (43.02%) Finance
2 183 (41.88%) Social Skills
3 103 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.90%) Law
5 37 (8.47%) Marketing
6 32 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (7.09%) Manufacturing
7 31 (7.09%) Public Sector
8 21 (4.81%) Banking
9 18 (4.12%) Retail
10 16 (3.66%) Advertising
11 15 (3.43%) Electronics
11 15 (3.43%) French Language
12 13 (2.97%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.75%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.83%) Front Office
16 6 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (1.14%) Back Office
17 5 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 173 (39.59%) Data Engineer
2 92 (21.05%) Senior
3 50 (11.44%) Senior Data Engineer
4 48 (10.98%) Lead
5 42 (9.61%) Analyst
6 37 (8.47%) Developer
7 27 (6.18%) Architect
8 20 (4.58%) Data Architect
9 19 (4.35%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.12%) AWS Data Engineer
10 18 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (4.12%) Lead Data Engineer
11 16 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (3.20%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.97%) Azure Data Engineer
14 13 (2.97%) Consultant
14 13 (2.97%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (2.75%) Data Scientist
16 11 (2.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (14.42%) Kafka
2 39 (8.92%) PySpark
3 28 (6.41%) PyTorch
4 27 (6.18%) TensorFlow
5 21 (4.81%) Pandas
6 19 (4.35%) React
7 17 (3.89%) scikit-learn
8 16 (3.66%) REST
9 13 (2.97%) Django
9 13 (2.97%) Node.js
9 13 (2.97%) RESTful
10 12 (2.75%) FastAPI
10 12 (2.75%) pytest
11 11 (2.52%) .NET
11 11 (2.52%) Keras
11 11 (2.52%) OAuth
12 10 (2.29%) Flask
12 10 (2.29%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (2.06%) NumPy
13 9 (2.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (8.01%) Product Ownership
3 31 (7.09%) Cloud Native
4 30 (6.86%) Management Information System
5 19 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 14 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.75%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.75%) FMCG
8 12 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (2.52%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.52%) Hedge funds
10 10 (2.29%) e-Learning
10 10 (2.29%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.83%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.14%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.14%) IoT
14 4 (0.92%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.75%) Linux
2 8 (1.83%) Unix
3 4 (0.92%) Windows
4 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Solaris
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (52.86%) Data Engineering
2 223 (51.03%) ETL
3 222 (50.80%) Analytics
4 199 (45.54%) Data Modelling
5 174 (39.82%) CI/CD
6 161 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (30.66%) AI
8 131 (29.98%) Data Governance
9 127 (29.06%) DevOps
10 124 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
11 111 (25.40%) Agile
12 109 (24.94%) Machine Learning
13 101 (23.11%) Data Science
14 93 (21.28%) Decision-Making
15 66 (15.10%) Data Integration
15 66 (15.10%) Visualisation
16 64 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
17 60 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (13.73%) Data Management
18 59 (13.50%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 289 (66.13%) Python
2 262 (59.95%) SQL
3 56 (12.81%) Java
4 42 (9.61%) Scala
5 32 (7.32%) C#
6 22 (5.03%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (3.89%) T-SQL
8 16 (3.66%) C++
9 13 (2.97%) R
10 9 (2.06%) Bash
11 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.83%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.14%) PHP
13 4 (0.92%) Fortran
14 3 (0.69%) C
15 2 (0.46%) Go
15 2 (0.46%) Ruby
15 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 87 (19.91%) Degree
2 44 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (8.01%) Security Cleared
4 32 (7.32%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.49%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.58%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (3.43%) Azure Certification
9 13 (2.97%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.29%) CISSP
10 10 (2.29%) MCSE
10 10 (2.29%) OCP
10 10 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (1.60%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.92%) PhD
13 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.46%) MCP
13 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (30.66%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.95%) GDPR
3 21 (4.81%) QA
4 13 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.46%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (12.36%) Docker
2 8 (1.83%) HDFS
3 6 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.46%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 41 (9.38%) Terraform
3 12 (2.75%) Grafana
4 9 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.83%) Ansible
6 5 (1.14%) Kubeflow
7 4 (0.92%) Argo
8 3 (0.69%) Control-M
9 2 (0.46%) Kibana
10 1 (0.23%) Ambari
10 1 (0.23%) Puppet
10 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (26.32%) Databricks
2 77 (17.62%) Microsoft
3 31 (7.09%) Oracle
4 25 (5.72%) SAP
5 22 (5.03%) Google
6 21 (4.81%) Palantir
7 20 (4.58%) Informatica
8 17 (3.89%) Dell
9 15 (3.43%) Talend
10 12 (2.75%) Foundry
11 11 (2.52%) NVIDIA
12 9 (2.06%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.60%) Adobe
13 7 (1.60%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (1.60%) UiPath
14 5 (1.14%) Cisco
14 5 (1.14%) IBM
15 4 (0.92%) Dataiku
15 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
16 3 (0.69%) Tealium