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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 170 192
Rank change year-on-year +82 +22 +23
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 496 279 390
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.59% 2.16% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 2.25% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 321 149 257
10th Percentile £43,750 £53,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,199 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.81% +3.33% -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 16,021 12,406 21,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.50% 96.10% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,467 7,550 16,119
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £97,500 £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 17 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 17 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 +36 120 £82,500 +6.45% 107
West London +8 26 £45,000 -28.00% 1
South London +37 20 £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
1 114 (22.98%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (17.14%) Apache Spark
3 54 (10.89%) Apache
4 12 (2.42%) Appian
5 6 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.81%) Confluence
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.01%) 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
1 218 (43.95%) Azure
2 177 (35.69%) AWS
3 108 (21.77%) Power Platform
4 99 (19.96%) GCP
5 94 (18.95%) dbt
6 74 (14.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 65 (13.10%) Snowflake
8 53 (10.69%) Amazon S3
9 50 (10.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 43 (8.67%) Serverless
11 41 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (5.85%) GitHub
13 28 (5.65%) OpenShift
14 26 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (5.04%) Power Automate
15 25 (5.04%) SaaS
16 20 (4.03%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
18 15 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
19 13 (2.62%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.81%) 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
1 111 (22.38%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (20.56%) Power BI
3 77 (15.52%) Tableau
4 76 (15.32%) Data Lake
5 60 (12.10%) SQL Server
6 47 (9.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (9.48%) BigQuery
6 47 (9.48%) Relational Database
7 43 (8.67%) Metadata
8 28 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (5.65%) Oracle Database
9 27 (5.44%) Delta Lake
10 26 (5.24%) Looker
10 26 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (4.84%) Snowflake Schema
12 23 (4.64%) NoSQL
13 22 (4.44%) MySQL
13 22 (4.44%) Spark SQL
14 21 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (4.03%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 81 (16.33%) Git
2 34 (6.85%) MLflow
3 16 (3.23%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (2.42%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.61%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.21%) 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
1 167 (33.67%) Finance
2 149 (30.04%) Social Skills
3 130 (26.21%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.86%) Banking
5 38 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (5.65%) Marketing
7 27 (5.44%) Public Sector
8 20 (4.03%) Manufacturing
9 18 (3.63%) Retail
10 17 (3.43%) Investment Banking
11 15 (3.02%) Law
12 13 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.42%) Front Office
14 9 (1.81%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.41%) Electronics
15 7 (1.41%) Legal
15 7 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.01%) Advertising
17 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.60%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 214 (43.15%) Data Engineer
2 93 (18.75%) Senior
3 63 (12.70%) Lead
4 62 (12.50%) Analyst
5 51 (10.28%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (8.87%) Developer
7 31 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
8 28 (5.65%) Architect
9 24 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 23 (4.64%) AWS Data Engineer
10 23 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (4.44%) Data Analyst
12 20 (4.03%) Data Architect
13 19 (3.83%) Python Engineer
14 17 (3.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 16 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
16 14 (2.82%) Automation Engineer
16 14 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
16 14 (2.82%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (15.93%) Kafka
2 64 (12.90%) PySpark
3 50 (10.08%) PyTorch
4 46 (9.27%) TensorFlow
5 36 (7.26%) Pandas
6 35 (7.06%) scikit-learn
7 26 (5.24%) LangChain
8 24 (4.84%) RESTful
9 21 (4.23%) React
10 18 (3.63%) REST
11 17 (3.43%) pytest
12 16 (3.23%) LlamaIndex
12 16 (3.23%) Node.js
12 16 (3.23%) pgvector
13 15 (3.02%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.02%) Flask
14 14 (2.82%) .NET
14 14 (2.82%) HTML
14 14 (2.82%) OAuth
15 13 (2.62%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.07%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.23%) Algorithms
4 21 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (3.43%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.23%) Clustering
6 16 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.23%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.02%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.02%) Reinsurance
8 10 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.81%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.01%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.62%) Linux
2 11 (2.22%) 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
1 275 (55.44%) Analytics
2 254 (51.21%) Data Engineering
3 233 (46.98%) ETL
4 206 (41.53%) Data Modelling
5 203 (40.93%) CI/CD
6 188 (37.90%) AI
7 151 (30.44%) Business Intelligence
8 140 (28.23%) Data Governance
9 120 (24.19%) DevOps
10 116 (23.39%) Machine Learning
11 113 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
12 112 (22.58%) Data Science
13 94 (18.95%) Agile
14 85 (17.14%) Data Architecture
15 81 (16.33%) Decision-Making
16 71 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (12.50%) Computer Science
17 62 (12.50%) Observability
18 61 (12.30%) Data Management
18 61 (12.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 323 (65.12%) Python
2 312 (62.90%) SQL
3 36 (7.26%) Java
4 31 (6.25%) C#
5 28 (5.65%) Scala
6 26 (5.24%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.83%) C++
8 15 (3.02%) Bash
9 14 (2.82%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (2.02%) R
12 9 (1.81%) 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 84 (16.94%) Degree
2 45 (9.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (7.06%) Security Cleared
4 30 (6.05%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.81%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) MCSE
11 2 (0.40%) OCP
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) CFA
12 1 (0.20%) PhD
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (33.06%) Data Quality
2 50 (10.08%) GDPR
3 26 (5.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.41%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.41%) PERC
5 5 (1.01%) QA
6 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (11.90%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (12.70%) Terraform
2 58 (11.69%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.84%) Grafana
4 16 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.41%) Kibana
6 4 (0.81%) Ansible
6 4 (0.81%) Control-M
7 3 (0.60%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.40%) Argo
Vendors
1 121 (24.40%) Databricks
2 65 (13.10%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.26%) Oracle
4 24 (4.84%) Dell
5 20 (4.03%) Red Hat
6 19 (3.83%) Google
7 18 (3.63%) Palantir
8 16 (3.23%) Cloudera
9 14 (2.82%) OpenAI
10 12 (2.42%) Automation Anywhere
10 12 (2.42%) UiPath
11 11 (2.22%) Foundry
12 10 (2.02%) Informatica
12 10 (2.02%) Talend
13 8 (1.61%) SAP
14 7 (1.41%) Salesforce
15 6 (1.21%) Adobe
15 6 (1.21%) NVIDIA
16 3 (0.60%) Alteryx
16 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg