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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 205 193
Rank change year-on-year +112 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 436 275 307
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.33% 1.56% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 1.71% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 260 163 256
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £61,250 £64,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £103,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -0.82% -5.90%

All Process and 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 11,982 16,083 17,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.44% 91.43% 93.57%
Number of salaries quoted 7,579 9,459 14,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 November 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 27 November 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 +65 88 £85,000 +13.33% 26
West London +11 14 £47,000 -34.04% 7
East London - 3 £32,838 - 5
South London +37 1 - - 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 76 (17.43%) Apache Spark
2 50 (11.47%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (4.82%) Apache
4 5 (1.15%) Confluence
5 3 (0.69%) Appian
6 2 (0.46%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) Luigi
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
7 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 15 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 227 (52.06%) Azure
2 184 (42.20%) AWS
3 125 (28.67%) Power Platform
4 101 (23.17%) GCP
5 74 (16.97%) Snowflake
6 54 (12.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 54 (12.39%) dbt
7 41 (9.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (9.17%) Serverless
9 32 (7.34%) GitHub
10 30 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (6.88%) Fivetran
11 28 (6.42%) Amazon S3
12 18 (4.13%) OpenShift
13 17 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
13 17 (3.90%) AWS Step Functions
14 15 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (3.21%) Amazon Kinesis
16 12 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
1 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.69%) Firewall
2 3 (0.69%) VLAN
3 2 (0.46%) BGP
3 2 (0.46%) Broadband
3 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.46%) MQTT
3 2 (0.46%) OSPF
3 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.46%) RTMP
3 2 (0.46%) VPN
3 2 (0.46%) WAN
3 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.46%) Wireless
4 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (29.13%) Data Warehouse
2 121 (27.75%) Power BI
3 82 (18.81%) SQL Server
4 65 (14.91%) Data Lake
5 57 (13.07%) Big Data
6 56 (12.84%) Metadata
7 45 (10.32%) Hadoop
8 44 (10.09%) Tableau
9 41 (9.40%) NoSQL
10 40 (9.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 29 (6.65%) Looker
11 29 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (6.19%) Relational Database
13 21 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (4.13%) MySQL
16 17 (3.90%) BigQuery
17 16 (3.67%) Delta Lake
18 15 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (3.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (11.47%) Git
2 18 (4.13%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.75%) MLflow
4 10 (2.29%) JIRA
5 5 (1.15%) GitLab
5 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
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%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.69%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.69%) TestNG
7 3 (0.69%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 197 (45.18%) Finance
2 192 (44.04%) Social Skills
3 102 (23.39%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (15.60%) Law
5 46 (10.55%) Marketing
6 43 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (7.57%) Public Sector
8 30 (6.88%) Manufacturing
9 23 (5.28%) Banking
10 18 (4.13%) Retail
11 16 (3.67%) Advertising
11 16 (3.67%) French Language
12 15 (3.44%) Electronics
13 13 (2.98%) Financial Institution
14 12 (2.75%) Telecoms
15 9 (2.06%) Front Office
15 9 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.61%) Back Office
17 5 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 172 (39.45%) Data Engineer
2 95 (21.79%) Senior
3 55 (12.61%) Lead
4 53 (12.16%) Senior Data Engineer
5 43 (9.86%) Analyst
6 42 (9.63%) Developer
7 26 (5.96%) Architect
8 24 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (5.05%) Software Engineer
10 20 (4.59%) AWS Data Engineer
10 20 (4.59%) Data Architect
11 19 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.44%) Python Engineer
14 14 (3.21%) Azure Data Engineer
14 14 (3.21%) Product Lead
15 13 (2.98%) Consultant
15 13 (2.98%) Data Scientist
15 13 (2.98%) Lead Developer
16 12 (2.75%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (14.45%) Kafka
2 40 (9.17%) PySpark
3 26 (5.96%) PyTorch
3 26 (5.96%) TensorFlow
4 25 (5.73%) React
5 19 (4.36%) Pandas
6 15 (3.44%) scikit-learn
7 13 (2.98%) RESTful
7 13 (2.98%) Spark Streaming
8 12 (2.75%) REST
9 11 (2.52%) Keras
9 11 (2.52%) Node.js
10 10 (2.29%) Django
11 9 (2.06%) HTML
11 9 (2.06%) Spring
12 8 (1.83%) .NET
12 8 (1.83%) boto
13 7 (1.61%) OAuth
13 7 (1.61%) pytest
13 7 (1.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (8.49%) Product Ownership
3 36 (8.26%) Cloud Native
4 26 (5.96%) Management Information System
5 25 (5.73%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.67%) FMCG
8 15 (3.44%) Hedge funds
9 14 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.52%) Algorithms
11 11 (2.52%) Data Centre
12 10 (2.29%) e-Learning
13 7 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (1.61%) Reinsurance
14 6 (1.38%) Low-Code
15 5 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (1.15%) Fixed Income
15 5 (1.15%) IoT
15 5 (1.15%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.52%) Linux
2 8 (1.83%) Unix
3 2 (0.46%) Windows
3 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Solaris
4 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (51.83%) Data Engineering
2 221 (50.69%) ETL
3 195 (44.72%) Analytics
3 195 (44.72%) Data Modelling
4 172 (39.45%) CI/CD
5 156 (35.78%) Business Intelligence
6 133 (30.50%) AI
7 132 (30.28%) DevOps
8 131 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (29.59%) Data Governance
10 123 (28.21%) Agile
11 116 (26.61%) Machine Learning
12 107 (24.54%) Data Science
13 99 (22.71%) Decision-Making
14 66 (15.14%) Computer Science
14 66 (15.14%) Software Engineering
15 65 (14.91%) Visualisation
16 63 (14.45%) Data Integration
17 60 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (13.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 297 (68.12%) Python
2 263 (60.32%) SQL
3 59 (13.53%) Java
4 34 (7.80%) Scala
5 29 (6.65%) C#
6 22 (5.05%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.82%) T-SQL
8 17 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (3.21%) C++
10 13 (2.98%) R
11 11 (2.52%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.61%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.38%) Bash
13 6 (1.38%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.92%) Fortran
14 4 (0.92%) PHP
15 2 (0.46%) Bicep
15 2 (0.46%) C
15 2 (0.46%) Ruby
16 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 95 (21.79%) Degree
2 49 (11.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (7.80%) Security Cleared
4 31 (7.11%) SC Cleared
5 25 (5.73%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.59%) DV Cleared
7 19 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (3.44%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.75%) 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 (1.61%) SnowPro
12 6 (1.38%) PhD
13 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (26.61%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.19%) GDPR
3 26 (5.96%) QA
4 14 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 54 (12.39%) Docker
2 8 (1.83%) HDFS
3 6 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.46%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 42 (9.63%) Terraform
3 11 (2.52%) Ansible
4 9 (2.06%) Grafana
4 9 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.61%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.92%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Ambari
7 1 (0.23%) Control-M
7 1 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (27.52%) Databricks
2 86 (19.72%) Microsoft
3 29 (6.65%) Oracle
4 28 (6.42%) SAP
5 23 (5.28%) Palantir
6 20 (4.59%) Google
7 17 (3.90%) Dell
8 15 (3.44%) Informatica
9 14 (3.21%) Foundry
10 11 (2.52%) NVIDIA
11 9 (2.06%) Talend
12 7 (1.61%) Splunk
13 5 (1.15%) Cisco
13 5 (1.15%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.92%) Adobe
14 4 (0.92%) Dataiku
14 4 (0.92%) IBM
14 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 3 (0.69%) Alteryx
15 3 (0.69%) Bloomberg