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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 194 182
Rank change year-on-year +109 -12 +30
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 436 267 312
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.14% 1.73% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 1.83% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 282 143 252
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,875 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,750
Median % change year-on-year - -7.12% +0.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £104,500 £120,000
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 12,179 14,601 16,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.59% 94.58% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,774 8,034 13,619
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,263 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 January 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 +59 97 £83,500 +7.74% 70
West London +15 16 £47,000 -34.04% 17
South London +42 8 £55,200 -9.88% 17
East London - 3 £32,838 - 10
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 (15.14%) Apache Spark
2 54 (12.39%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (6.42%) Apache
4 9 (2.06%) Appian
5 4 (0.92%) Confluence
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.46%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 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 10 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Actimize
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Endur
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 221 (50.69%) Azure
2 167 (38.30%) AWS
3 119 (27.29%) Power Platform
4 96 (22.02%) GCP
5 68 (15.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 65 (14.91%) Snowflake
7 51 (11.70%) dbt
8 45 (10.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 39 (8.94%) Serverless
10 38 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (7.80%) GitHub
12 33 (7.57%) Amazon S3
13 28 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (5.96%) Fivetran
15 21 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
16 18 (4.13%) AWS Step Functions
16 18 (4.13%) Power Automate
17 16 (3.67%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (3.67%) OpenShift
18 14 (3.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.38%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.69%) Broadband
3 3 (0.69%) Firewall
3 3 (0.69%) VLAN
4 2 (0.46%) BGP
4 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.46%) MQTT
4 2 (0.46%) OSPF
4 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.46%) RTMP
4 2 (0.46%) VPN
4 2 (0.46%) WAN
4 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.46%) Wireless
5 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (28.67%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (26.83%) Power BI
3 85 (19.50%) SQL Server
4 72 (16.51%) Data Lake
5 62 (14.22%) Metadata
6 52 (11.93%) Tableau
7 47 (10.78%) Big Data
8 41 (9.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (8.26%) Hadoop
10 31 (7.11%) Looker
10 31 (7.11%) NoSQL
11 30 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (6.65%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (5.73%) Relational Database
14 24 (5.50%) BigQuery
15 21 (4.82%) Delta Lake
15 21 (4.82%) MySQL
16 18 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (4.13%) MongoDB
17 15 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 52 (11.93%) Git
2 19 (4.36%) MLflow
3 14 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.29%) JIRA
5 6 (1.38%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.15%) GitLab
7 4 (0.92%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.92%) ERwin
7 4 (0.92%) Postman
7 4 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.92%) Selenium
8 3 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.69%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.69%) Maven
8 3 (0.69%) TestNG
8 3 (0.69%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.69%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.46%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 190 (43.58%) Finance
2 174 (39.91%) Social Skills
3 95 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.94%) Law
5 33 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (7.57%) Marketing
6 31 (7.11%) Public Sector
7 27 (6.19%) Manufacturing
8 24 (5.50%) Banking
9 17 (3.90%) Retail
10 15 (3.44%) Electronics
11 13 (2.98%) Advertising
11 13 (2.98%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.75%) French Language
12 12 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 9 (2.06%) Front Office
13 9 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 177 (40.60%) Data Engineer
2 91 (20.87%) Senior
3 52 (11.93%) Senior Data Engineer
4 47 (10.78%) Lead
5 40 (9.17%) Analyst
6 36 (8.26%) Developer
7 24 (5.50%) Architect
8 20 (4.59%) Lead Data Engineer
9 19 (4.36%) AWS Data Engineer
9 19 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (4.36%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (4.13%) Data Architect
11 16 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 16 (3.67%) Azure Data Engineer
12 14 (3.21%) Data Analyst
13 13 (2.98%) Consultant
14 12 (2.75%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
15 11 (2.52%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.76%) Kafka
2 36 (8.26%) PySpark
3 29 (6.65%) PyTorch
4 27 (6.19%) TensorFlow
5 23 (5.28%) Pandas
6 18 (4.13%) REST
6 18 (4.13%) scikit-learn
7 16 (3.67%) React
8 15 (3.44%) RESTful
9 14 (3.21%) .NET
9 14 (3.21%) FastAPI
9 14 (3.21%) pytest
10 13 (2.98%) Node.js
10 13 (2.98%) OAuth
11 12 (2.75%) Django
11 12 (2.75%) Flask
12 11 (2.52%) LangChain
12 11 (2.52%) NumPy
12 11 (2.52%) Web Services
13 10 (2.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 31 (7.11%) Cloud Native
4 27 (6.19%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.90%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.44%) Algorithms
6 15 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.75%) Low-Code
9 11 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.29%) e-Learning
10 10 (2.29%) FMCG
11 9 (2.06%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.06%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.83%) Reinsurance
13 6 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.15%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.98%) Linux
2 8 (1.83%) Unix
3 7 (1.61%) Windows
4 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Solaris
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (51.83%) Data Engineering
2 223 (51.15%) Analytics
3 216 (49.54%) ETL
4 193 (44.27%) Data Modelling
5 173 (39.68%) CI/CD
6 156 (35.78%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (30.73%) AI
8 131 (30.05%) Data Governance
9 121 (27.75%) DevOps
10 119 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
11 109 (25.00%) Machine Learning
12 101 (23.17%) Agile
13 94 (21.56%) Data Science
14 89 (20.41%) Decision-Making
15 63 (14.45%) Stakeholder Management
16 61 (13.99%) Data Integration
17 59 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (13.53%) Data Management
18 58 (13.30%) Data Architecture
19 57 (13.07%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 280 (64.22%) Python
2 260 (59.63%) SQL
3 51 (11.70%) Java
4 41 (9.40%) Scala
5 34 (7.80%) C#
6 22 (5.05%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.90%) C++
7 17 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (3.90%) T-SQL
8 14 (3.21%) R
9 11 (2.52%) Bash
10 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.83%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.61%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.15%) PHP
13 4 (0.92%) C
14 3 (0.69%) Fortran
15 2 (0.46%) Go
15 2 (0.46%) Ruby
15 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 83 (19.04%) Degree
2 43 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (8.26%) Security Cleared
4 32 (7.34%) SC Cleared
5 22 (5.05%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (3.67%) AWS Certification
8 16 (3.67%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.29%) CISSP
9 10 (2.29%) MCSE
9 10 (2.29%) OCP
9 10 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (1.83%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.92%) MCP
12 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.69%) PhD
13 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (32.11%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.19%) GDPR
3 18 (4.13%) QA
4 13 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.46%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (12.84%) 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 55 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 45 (10.32%) Terraform
3 17 (3.90%) Grafana
4 9 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.83%) Ansible
6 5 (1.15%) Kibana
6 5 (1.15%) Kubeflow
7 4 (0.92%) Argo
8 3 (0.69%) Control-M
9 1 (0.23%) Ambari
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (24.31%) Databricks
2 73 (16.74%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.88%) Oracle
4 23 (5.28%) Google
4 23 (5.28%) SAP
5 22 (5.05%) Palantir
6 19 (4.36%) Informatica
7 15 (3.44%) Dell
8 14 (3.21%) Talend
9 13 (2.98%) Foundry
10 11 (2.52%) OpenAI
11 9 (2.06%) Adobe
11 9 (2.06%) Automation Anywhere
11 9 (2.06%) NVIDIA
11 9 (2.06%) UiPath
12 5 (1.15%) Cisco
12 5 (1.15%) IBM
13 4 (0.92%) Dataiku
13 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.69%) Tealium