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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 125 161
Rank change year-on-year +28 +36 +72
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 521 340 431
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.28% 2.76% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.92% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 352 180 215
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,000 £60,300
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £101,875
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 18,777 11,645 18,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.22% 94.45% 89.38%
Number of salaries quoted 12,786 7,397 12,818
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -11.29%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +41 97 £81,250 +1.56% 48
West London - 19 £45,000 - 10
South London +15 11 - - 5
East London - 7 - - 2
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 99 (19.00%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (16.89%) Apache Spark
3 52 (9.98%) Apache
4 7 (1.34%) SAS
5 5 (0.96%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.96%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.19%) Appian
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.73%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 235 (45.11%) Azure
2 174 (33.40%) AWS
3 104 (19.96%) Power Platform
4 94 (18.04%) GCP
5 88 (16.89%) dbt
6 79 (15.16%) Snowflake
7 68 (13.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 53 (10.17%) SaaS
9 47 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (8.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 42 (8.06%) Amazon S3
12 34 (6.53%) Serverless
13 18 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (3.45%) OpenShift
14 14 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
15 13 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (2.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (2.30%) GitHub
17 10 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (1.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.73%) Broadband
2 2 (0.38%) 4G
2 2 (0.38%) 5G
3 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (21.69%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (18.62%) Power BI
3 90 (17.27%) Data Lake
4 68 (13.05%) Tableau
5 51 (9.79%) Relational Database
6 41 (7.87%) BigQuery
7 40 (7.68%) SQL Server
8 38 (7.29%) NoSQL
9 33 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 33 (6.33%) Metadata
9 33 (6.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 29 (5.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (5.18%) Oracle Database
11 27 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (4.99%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (4.99%) Spark SQL
12 26 (4.99%) Star Schema
13 23 (4.41%) Delta Lake
14 19 (3.65%) Parquet
15 18 (3.45%) Looker
Development Applications
1 76 (14.59%) Git
2 20 (3.84%) MLflow
3 16 (3.07%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.15%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.96%) JIRA
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.19%) Yeoman
General
1 167 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 156 (29.94%) Finance
3 130 (24.95%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.98%) Banking
5 26 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (4.61%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.84%) Investment Banking
7 20 (3.84%) Law
8 19 (3.65%) Marketing
9 18 (3.45%) Retail
10 17 (3.26%) Legal
11 12 (2.30%) Front Office
12 8 (1.54%) Advertising
13 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.15%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.96%) Billing
16 4 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 228 (43.76%) Data Engineer
2 117 (22.46%) Senior
3 86 (16.51%) Lead
4 59 (11.32%) Senior Data Engineer
5 47 (9.02%) Analyst
6 46 (8.83%) Architect
7 38 (7.29%) Data Architect
8 31 (5.95%) Lead Data Engineer
9 30 (5.76%) Developer
9 30 (5.76%) Python Engineer
10 23 (4.41%) Software Engineer
11 20 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (3.65%) AWS Data Engineer
12 19 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 18 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (3.07%) Data Analyst
14 16 (3.07%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 15 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (2.88%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (15.16%) Kafka
2 60 (11.52%) PySpark
3 37 (7.10%) PyTorch
4 35 (6.72%) TensorFlow
5 33 (6.33%) scikit-learn
6 30 (5.76%) Pandas
7 29 (5.57%) LangChain
8 19 (3.65%) React
9 18 (3.45%) LlamaIndex
10 17 (3.26%) pgvector
11 16 (3.07%) Node.js
12 15 (2.88%) RESTful
12 15 (2.88%) Spring
13 14 (2.69%) LangGraph
14 12 (2.30%) GraphQL
14 12 (2.30%) Next.js
15 10 (1.92%) REST
15 10 (1.92%) Spring Boot
16 9 (1.73%) FastAPI
16 9 (1.73%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 68 (13.05%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.33%) Data Structures
4 29 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (4.80%) AI Agents
5 25 (4.80%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.45%) Clustering
7 17 (3.26%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.50%) Reinsurance
9 12 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.11%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.11%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.15%) Derivative
12 6 (1.15%) Equities
13 5 (0.96%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.30%) Linux
2 4 (0.77%) Windows
3 2 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (51.44%) Analytics
2 243 (46.64%) Data Engineering
3 241 (46.26%) AI
4 222 (42.61%) Data Modelling
5 183 (35.12%) CI/CD
6 182 (34.93%) ETL
7 156 (29.94%) Data Governance
8 150 (28.79%) Business Intelligence
9 131 (25.14%) Machine Learning
10 116 (22.26%) Data Science
11 114 (21.88%) Data Architecture
12 101 (19.39%) Decision-Making
13 99 (19.00%) DevOps
14 98 (18.81%) Agile
15 90 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
16 78 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (13.63%) Mentoring
17 71 (13.63%) Software Engineering
18 70 (13.44%) Use Case
19 68 (13.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 352 (67.56%) Python
2 316 (60.65%) SQL
3 39 (7.49%) Java
4 30 (5.76%) TypeScript
5 26 (4.99%) Scala
6 14 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.30%) C#
9 10 (1.92%) R
10 9 (1.73%) C++
11 6 (1.15%) Bash
11 6 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.96%) Rust
13 3 (0.58%) Go
13 3 (0.58%) Julia
13 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.58%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.38%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.19%) C
15 1 (0.19%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 63 (12.09%) Degree
2 37 (7.10%) Security Cleared
3 32 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.03%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.58%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.38%) CISSP
11 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.38%) PhD
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.19%) PMP
12 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (33.40%) Data Quality
2 57 (10.94%) GDPR
3 23 (4.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.92%) QA
6 7 (1.34%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.34%) PERC
7 5 (0.96%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.58%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (7.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (10.75%) Terraform
2 34 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.07%) Grafana
4 11 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.77%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.58%) Kibana
7 2 (0.38%) Ansible
7 2 (0.38%) Control-M
8 1 (0.19%) Packer
8 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 141 (27.06%) Databricks
2 92 (17.66%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.33%) Oracle
4 20 (3.84%) Google
5 17 (3.26%) Cloudera
5 17 (3.26%) Dell
6 16 (3.07%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.88%) Informatica
7 15 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.69%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.92%) Palantir
10 9 (1.73%) Foundry
11 4 (0.77%) Sage
11 4 (0.77%) SAP
12 3 (0.58%) Avaya
12 3 (0.58%) Cisco
12 3 (0.58%) Genesys
12 3 (0.58%) Talend
12 3 (0.58%) Workday
13 2 (0.38%) UiPath