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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 186 190
Rank change year-on-year +102 +4 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 453 266 337
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.95% 1.76% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 1.85% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 305 150 264
10th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +0.46% -0.46%
75th Percentile £96,250 £96,188 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year - +0.80% -4.21%

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 13,300 14,369 19,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.57% 95.32% 91.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8,582 7,881 15,560
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,200 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +55 108 £84,250 +12.33% 57
West London +9 17 £47,000 -23.27% 6
South London +50 10 £48,975 -20.04% 4
East London - 3 £32,838 - 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 66 (14.57%) Apache Spark
2 64 (14.13%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (7.51%) Apache
4 12 (2.65%) Appian
4 12 (2.65%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (1.10%) Confluence
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.44%) IIS
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Actimize
3 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.22%) Endur
3 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 225 (49.67%) Azure
2 171 (37.75%) AWS
3 119 (26.27%) Power Platform
4 92 (20.31%) GCP
5 77 (17.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 68 (15.01%) dbt
7 65 (14.35%) Snowflake
8 46 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (9.93%) Serverless
10 39 (8.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 37 (8.17%) Amazon S3
12 36 (7.95%) GitHub
13 33 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (5.52%) Fivetran
14 25 (5.52%) Power Automate
15 23 (5.08%) Amazon Kinesis
16 18 (3.97%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (3.75%) SaaS
18 16 (3.53%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.32%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.88%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.66%) Broadband
3 3 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.66%) VLAN
4 2 (0.44%) BGP
4 2 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.44%) MQTT
4 2 (0.44%) OSPF
4 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.44%) RTMP
4 2 (0.44%) VPN
4 2 (0.44%) WAN
4 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.44%) Wireless
5 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (28.26%) Data Warehouse
2 118 (26.05%) Power BI
3 84 (18.54%) SQL Server
4 72 (15.89%) Data Lake
5 56 (12.36%) Metadata
6 51 (11.26%) Tableau
7 42 (9.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (8.83%) Big Data
9 34 (7.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 29 (6.40%) Hadoop
10 29 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (6.40%) Relational Database
11 26 (5.74%) NoSQL
12 23 (5.08%) BigQuery
13 22 (4.86%) Looker
14 21 (4.64%) Delta Lake
15 20 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (4.42%) MySQL
16 17 (3.75%) MongoDB
17 15 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (12.80%) Git
2 22 (4.86%) MLflow
3 12 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.21%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.99%) JIRA
6 6 (1.32%) GitLab
7 4 (0.88%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.88%) ERwin
7 4 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.66%) Postman
8 3 (0.66%) Selenium
9 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.44%) Deequ
9 2 (0.44%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.44%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 189 (41.72%) Finance
2 173 (38.19%) Social Skills
3 100 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 32 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (6.62%) Law
7 28 (6.18%) Marketing
8 25 (5.52%) Banking
9 24 (5.30%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.53%) Retail
11 13 (2.87%) Electronics
12 11 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.43%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.21%) Advertising
14 9 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.99%) Front Office
14 9 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.55%) French Language
15 7 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 197 (43.49%) Data Engineer
2 96 (21.19%) Senior
3 57 (12.58%) Senior Data Engineer
4 48 (10.60%) Lead
5 39 (8.61%) Analyst
5 39 (8.61%) Developer
6 28 (6.18%) Lead Data Engineer
7 27 (5.96%) Architect
8 23 (5.08%) AWS Data Engineer
8 23 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 20 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.19%) Data Architect
12 18 (3.97%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.31%) Azure Data Engineer
15 14 (3.09%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (3.09%) Consultant
16 13 (2.87%) Python Engineer
17 12 (2.65%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.25%) Kafka
2 38 (8.39%) PySpark
3 33 (7.28%) PyTorch
4 29 (6.40%) TensorFlow
5 23 (5.08%) Pandas
6 21 (4.64%) REST
6 21 (4.64%) scikit-learn
7 19 (4.19%) pytest
8 18 (3.97%) FastAPI
9 17 (3.75%) RESTful
10 16 (3.53%) .NET
10 16 (3.53%) Flask
10 16 (3.53%) OAuth
10 16 (3.53%) React
11 14 (3.09%) Django
11 14 (3.09%) NumPy
11 14 (3.09%) Web Services
12 12 (2.65%) Node.js
12 12 (2.65%) OpenAPI
12 12 (2.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 25 (5.52%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.97%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.75%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.31%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.99%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.55%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.32%) FMCG
13 5 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.10%) Fixed Income
14 4 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.09%) Linux
2 9 (1.99%) Windows
3 7 (1.55%) Unix
4 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Solaris
5 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (53.20%) Data Engineering
2 237 (52.32%) Analytics
3 220 (48.57%) ETL
4 201 (44.37%) Data Modelling
5 192 (42.38%) CI/CD
6 150 (33.11%) Business Intelligence
7 144 (31.79%) AI
8 135 (29.80%) Data Governance
9 129 (28.48%) DevOps
10 125 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (23.84%) Machine Learning
12 105 (23.18%) Data Science
13 98 (21.63%) Agile
14 85 (18.76%) Decision-Making
15 69 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (13.25%) Data Integration
17 59 (13.02%) Data Architecture
17 59 (13.02%) Data Management
17 59 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
17 59 (13.02%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 291 (64.24%) Python
2 274 (60.49%) SQL
3 48 (10.60%) Java
4 37 (8.17%) C#
5 36 (7.95%) Scala
6 24 (5.30%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.42%) C++
8 17 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.75%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.09%) Bash
10 12 (2.65%) R
11 8 (1.77%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.32%) PHP
14 4 (0.88%) C
14 4 (0.88%) Go
14 4 (0.88%) Rust
15 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.44%) Ruby
17 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 84 (18.54%) Degree
2 45 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (8.83%) Security Cleared
4 35 (7.73%) SC Cleared
5 22 (4.86%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.64%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.75%) AWS Certification
8 16 (3.53%) Azure Certification
8 16 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.21%) CISSP
9 10 (2.21%) MCSE
9 10 (2.21%) OCP
9 10 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (1.55%) SnowPro
11 5 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (32.89%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.96%) GDPR
3 14 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.09%) QA
4 3 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.44%) IFRS
5 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.22%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (14.13%) Docker
2 8 (1.77%) HDFS
3 6 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.44%) NFS
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (13.69%) Kubernetes
2 59 (13.02%) Terraform
3 23 (5.08%) Grafana
4 13 (2.87%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.77%) Ansible
6 7 (1.55%) Kibana
7 4 (0.88%) Argo
7 4 (0.88%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.66%) Control-M
9 1 (0.22%) Ambari
9 1 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 101 (22.30%) Databricks
2 69 (15.23%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.18%) Oracle
4 24 (5.30%) Palantir
5 21 (4.64%) Google
6 18 (3.97%) Informatica
6 18 (3.97%) SAP
7 15 (3.31%) Foundry
8 14 (3.09%) OpenAI
8 14 (3.09%) Talend
9 13 (2.87%) Dell
10 12 (2.65%) Automation Anywhere
10 12 (2.65%) UiPath
11 7 (1.55%) Adobe
11 7 (1.55%) NVIDIA
12 5 (1.10%) Cisco
12 5 (1.10%) IBM
13 4 (0.88%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.88%) Salesforce