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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 170 191
Rank change year-on-year +83 +21 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 495 279 383
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.59% 2.16% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 2.25% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 319 148 257
10th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,199 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,625 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.01%

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 15,960 12,404 21,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.56% 96.13% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,420 7,545 16,084
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,397
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,183
Median % change year-on-year - +5.36% -5.09%
75th Percentile £97,813 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 16 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 16 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 +38 122 £82,500 +6.45% 86
West London +9 26 £45,000 -28.00% 2
South London +39 20 £48,975 -20.04% 1
East London - 9 £32,838 - 7
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
1 113 (22.83%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (17.17%) Apache Spark
3 53 (10.71%) Apache
4 12 (2.42%) Appian
5 7 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (1.01%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.40%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) 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%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 217 (43.84%) Azure
2 179 (36.16%) AWS
3 108 (21.82%) Power Platform
4 100 (20.20%) GCP
5 94 (18.99%) dbt
6 74 (14.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 65 (13.13%) Snowflake
8 53 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 50 (10.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (8.89%) Serverless
11 39 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (5.86%) GitHub
13 28 (5.66%) OpenShift
14 27 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (5.05%) Power Automate
16 23 (4.65%) SaaS
17 21 (4.24%) Amazon Kinesis
18 17 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
19 15 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
20 14 (2.83%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.82%) Broadband
2 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.20%) 4G
4 1 (0.20%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (20.61%) Power BI
3 77 (15.56%) Tableau
4 75 (15.15%) Data Lake
5 61 (12.32%) SQL Server
6 48 (9.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 48 (9.70%) BigQuery
7 46 (9.29%) Relational Database
8 43 (8.69%) Metadata
9 29 (5.86%) Oracle Database
10 28 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (5.45%) Delta Lake
11 27 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (5.25%) Looker
13 24 (4.85%) Snowflake Schema
14 22 (4.44%) NoSQL
14 22 (4.44%) Spark SQL
15 21 (4.24%) Apache Hive
15 21 (4.24%) Big Data
15 21 (4.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 81 (16.36%) Git
2 34 (6.87%) MLflow
3 16 (3.23%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.42%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.82%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.41%) JIRA
7 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Deequ
8 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 170 (34.34%) Finance
2 148 (29.90%) Social Skills
3 129 (26.06%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.68%) Banking
4 38 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.66%) Marketing
7 21 (4.24%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.64%) Retail
9 17 (3.43%) Investment Banking
10 15 (3.03%) Law
11 13 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.42%) Front Office
13 9 (1.82%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.62%) Electronics
15 7 (1.41%) Legal
15 7 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.01%) Advertising
17 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (43.84%) Data Engineer
2 94 (18.99%) Senior
3 61 (12.32%) Analyst
4 58 (11.72%) Lead
5 52 (10.51%) Senior Data Engineer
6 43 (8.69%) Developer
7 30 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
8 28 (5.66%) Architect
9 24 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 24 (4.85%) AWS Data Engineer
9 24 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (4.24%) Data Analyst
11 20 (4.04%) Data Architect
12 18 (3.64%) Python Engineer
13 17 (3.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 16 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (2.83%) Automation Engineer
16 14 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
16 14 (2.83%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (15.96%) Kafka
2 65 (13.13%) PySpark
3 50 (10.10%) PyTorch
4 46 (9.29%) TensorFlow
5 35 (7.07%) scikit-learn
6 32 (6.46%) Pandas
7 26 (5.25%) LangChain
8 23 (4.65%) RESTful
9 20 (4.04%) React
10 18 (3.64%) REST
11 17 (3.43%) pytest
12 16 (3.23%) LlamaIndex
12 16 (3.23%) Node.js
12 16 (3.23%) pgvector
13 15 (3.03%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.03%) Flask
14 14 (2.83%) .NET
14 14 (2.83%) HTML
14 14 (2.83%) OAuth
15 13 (2.63%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.24%) Algorithms
4 21 (4.24%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.43%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (3.23%) Clustering
6 16 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.23%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.02%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.82%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.01%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.63%) Linux
2 11 (2.22%) Windows
3 4 (0.81%) 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
1 273 (55.15%) Analytics
2 254 (51.31%) Data Engineering
3 231 (46.67%) ETL
4 204 (41.21%) Data Modelling
5 201 (40.61%) CI/CD
6 184 (37.17%) AI
7 148 (29.90%) Business Intelligence
8 143 (28.89%) Data Governance
9 118 (23.84%) DevOps
10 116 (23.43%) Machine Learning
10 116 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
11 109 (22.02%) Data Science
12 97 (19.60%) Agile
13 85 (17.17%) Data Architecture
14 79 (15.96%) Decision-Making
15 72 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (12.73%) Data Transformation
17 62 (12.53%) Data Management
18 61 (12.32%) Computer Science
18 61 (12.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 320 (64.65%) Python
2 311 (62.83%) SQL
3 37 (7.47%) Java
4 32 (6.46%) C#
5 29 (5.86%) Scala
6 27 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.04%) C++
8 15 (3.03%) Bash
9 14 (2.83%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (2.02%) R
12 9 (1.82%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.21%) PHP
13 6 (1.21%) Rust
14 5 (1.01%) C
15 4 (0.81%) Go
16 2 (0.40%) Julia
16 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.40%) Ruby
16 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (16.36%) Degree
2 44 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (7.68%) Security Cleared
4 33 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.81%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.40%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) MCSE
12 2 (0.40%) OCP
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.20%) CFA
13 1 (0.20%) PhD
13 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (32.73%) Data Quality
2 51 (10.30%) GDPR
3 26 (5.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.41%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.41%) PERC
6 4 (0.81%) QA
7 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.40%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (11.92%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.61%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (12.73%) Terraform
2 58 (11.72%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.05%) Grafana
4 16 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.41%) Kibana
6 4 (0.81%) Ansible
6 4 (0.81%) Control-M
7 3 (0.61%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Ambari
9 1 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (23.84%) Databricks
2 65 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.47%) Oracle
4 24 (4.85%) Dell
5 20 (4.04%) Google
5 20 (4.04%) Palantir
5 20 (4.04%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.23%) Cloudera
7 14 (2.83%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.63%) Foundry
9 12 (2.42%) Automation Anywhere
9 12 (2.42%) UiPath
10 10 (2.02%) Informatica
10 10 (2.02%) Talend
11 9 (1.82%) SAP
12 7 (1.41%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.21%) Adobe
13 6 (1.21%) NVIDIA
14 3 (0.61%) Alteryx
14 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg