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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 104 184
Rank change year-on-year +1 +80 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 547 375 359
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.13% 3.16% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 3.36% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 358 208 168
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £54,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £126,500 £115,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 20,733 11,157 17,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.71% 94.15% 89.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13,910 7,043 10,267
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,197 £40,528
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.46% -5.66%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +33 81 £80,000 -5.88% 120
West London -14 7 £45,000 -4.26% 51
South London - 2 £70,000 - 6
East London - 1 - - 6
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 61 (11.15%) Apache Spark
2 50 (9.14%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (7.50%) Apache
4 7 (1.28%) SAS
5 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) Luigi
7 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.37%) Tornado
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.18%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Primavera
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 244 (44.61%) Azure
2 156 (28.52%) AWS
3 105 (19.20%) Power Platform
4 87 (15.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 87 (15.90%) GCP
5 74 (13.53%) dbt
6 63 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (11.33%) Snowflake
8 55 (10.05%) SaaS
9 44 (8.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 40 (7.31%) Serverless
11 30 (5.48%) Amazon S3
12 28 (5.12%) Azure Databricks
13 21 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (3.11%) GitHub
14 17 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
15 15 (2.74%) Azure Machine Learning
16 13 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (2.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 9 (1.65%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) 5G
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (21.02%) Data Warehouse
2 100 (18.28%) Power BI
3 94 (17.18%) Data Lake
4 49 (8.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (8.78%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.04%) Tableau
7 43 (7.86%) Relational Database
8 37 (6.76%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.22%) Metadata
10 31 (5.67%) Star Schema
11 29 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
12 22 (4.02%) Big Data
12 22 (4.02%) Delta Lake
13 21 (3.84%) BigQuery
14 20 (3.66%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (2.38%) Data Vault
16 12 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.19%) MySQL
17 11 (2.01%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 64 (11.70%) Git
2 14 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.10%) JIRA
4 5 (0.91%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.55%) MLflow
5 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 192 (35.10%) Finance
2 186 (34.00%) Social Skills
3 98 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.04%) Banking
5 36 (6.58%) Marketing
6 29 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.20%) Public Sector
8 22 (4.02%) Retail
9 20 (3.66%) Law
10 16 (2.93%) Legal
11 12 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.01%) Advertising
12 11 (2.01%) Front Office
13 8 (1.46%) Back Office
13 8 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.10%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
16 4 (0.73%) Billing
16 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 239 (43.69%) Data Engineer
2 112 (20.48%) Senior
3 94 (17.18%) Lead
4 60 (10.97%) Senior Data Engineer
5 52 (9.51%) Architect
6 41 (7.50%) Data Architect
7 36 (6.58%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.85%) Lead Data Engineer
9 27 (4.94%) Developer
10 26 (4.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 26 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (4.20%) Azure Data Engineer
13 22 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 22 (4.02%) Data Scientist
13 22 (4.02%) Python Engineer
14 21 (3.84%) Analyst
15 18 (3.29%) Databricks Engineer
16 13 (2.38%) Snowflake Architect
17 12 (2.19%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.79%) Kafka
2 50 (9.14%) PySpark
3 46 (8.41%) Terraform
4 25 (4.57%) PyTorch
5 23 (4.20%) TensorFlow
6 20 (3.66%) Pandas
6 20 (3.66%) scikit-learn
7 18 (3.29%) LangChain
7 18 (3.29%) LangGraph
8 16 (2.93%) REST
9 14 (2.56%) React
9 14 (2.56%) Spring
10 12 (2.19%) Node.js
11 10 (1.83%) RESTful
12 8 (1.46%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.46%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.46%) Next.js
13 7 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
13 7 (1.28%) NumPy
13 7 (1.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.97%) Cloud Native
2 44 (8.04%) Product Ownership
3 41 (7.50%) AI Agents
4 38 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (5.85%) Data Structures
6 26 (4.75%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.01%) Derivative
8 10 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.46%) Equities
9 8 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.10%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.10%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.91%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (48.81%) Analytics
2 251 (45.89%) AI
3 242 (44.24%) Data Engineering
4 220 (40.22%) Data Modelling
5 183 (33.46%) CI/CD
6 155 (28.34%) ETL
7 152 (27.79%) Business Intelligence
8 140 (25.59%) Machine Learning
9 139 (25.41%) Data Science
10 130 (23.77%) Data Architecture
11 122 (22.30%) Data Governance
12 114 (20.84%) Decision-Making
13 110 (20.11%) DevOps
14 103 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
15 92 (16.82%) Agile
16 79 (14.44%) Software Engineering
17 71 (12.98%) Roadmaps
18 67 (12.25%) Data Ingestion
18 67 (12.25%) LLM
19 65 (11.88%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 360 (65.81%) Python
2 320 (58.50%) SQL
3 37 (6.76%) Scala
4 36 (6.58%) Java
5 30 (5.48%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.01%) C#
7 11 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.83%) R
9 7 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.73%) Bash
11 4 (0.73%) C++
12 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.55%) Rust
12 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.37%) Go
14 1 (0.18%) Bicep
14 1 (0.18%) Julia
Qualifications
1 64 (11.70%) Degree
2 38 (6.95%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.22%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.75%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.73%) ACCA
9 4 (0.73%) CIMA
9 4 (0.73%) MBA
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (36.56%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.03%) GDPR
3 13 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.38%) QA
4 5 (0.91%) EU AI Act
5 4 (0.73%) IFRS
6 3 (0.55%) PERC
6 3 (0.55%) PMO
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) PSD2
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 46 (8.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.01%) Grafana
3 3 (0.55%) Kibana
3 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.37%) Argo
4 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) QRadar
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 152 (27.79%) Databricks
2 99 (18.10%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.67%) Google
4 17 (3.11%) OpenAI
4 17 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.19%) Informatica
5 12 (2.19%) Oracle
6 9 (1.65%) SAP
7 6 (1.10%) Braze
8 5 (0.91%) Anaplan
8 5 (0.91%) Foundry
9 4 (0.73%) Palantir
9 4 (0.73%) Sage
9 4 (0.73%) SnapLogic
9 4 (0.73%) Splunk
10 3 (0.55%) Avaya
10 3 (0.55%) Cisco
10 3 (0.55%) Genesys
10 3 (0.55%) New Relic
10 3 (0.55%) Workday