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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 136 161
Rank change year-on-year +31 +25 +73
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 490 327 484
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.23% 2.63% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.76% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 331 177 262
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £136,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

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 18,063 11,849 21,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.07% 95.16% 89.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12,360 7,321 15,647
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,719
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 5 July 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 5 July 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 98 £82,500 +13.79% 83
West London +2 20 £45,000 -28.00% 9
South London +32 15 £60,000 - 3
East London - 7 - - 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
1 102 (20.82%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (17.14%) Apache Spark
3 55 (11.22%) Apache
4 8 (1.63%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.02%) SAS
6 4 (0.82%) Appian
7 3 (0.61%) Confluence
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 216 (44.08%) Azure
2 168 (34.29%) AWS
3 94 (19.18%) Power Platform
4 89 (18.16%) dbt
5 86 (17.55%) GCP
6 75 (15.31%) Snowflake
7 65 (13.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 47 (9.59%) Amazon S3
9 46 (9.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (8.98%) SaaS
11 35 (7.14%) Serverless
12 21 (4.29%) OpenShift
13 20 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (3.27%) GitHub
15 15 (3.06%) Power Automate
16 12 (2.45%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (2.45%) Amazon Kinesis
17 10 (2.04%) Azure Functions
17 10 (2.04%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.84%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) 4G
2 2 (0.41%) 5G
3 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (21.63%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (17.76%) Power BI
3 82 (16.73%) Data Lake
4 67 (13.67%) Tableau
5 47 (9.59%) Relational Database
6 42 (8.57%) BigQuery
7 38 (7.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (7.76%) SQL Server
8 34 (6.94%) Metadata
9 33 (6.73%) Snowflake Schema
10 32 (6.53%) NoSQL
11 27 (5.51%) Oracle Database
12 26 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
13 25 (5.10%) Spark SQL
14 23 (4.69%) Delta Lake
15 22 (4.49%) Star Schema
16 21 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (3.88%) Looker
17 19 (3.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 75 (15.31%) Git
2 24 (4.90%) MLflow
3 16 (3.27%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.02%) JIRA
6 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.20%) Deequ
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 146 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 142 (28.98%) Finance
3 128 (26.12%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.57%) Banking
5 23 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.67%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.06%) Retail
9 13 (2.65%) Legal
9 13 (2.65%) Marketing
10 10 (2.04%) Front Office
11 9 (1.84%) Advertising
11 9 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.84%) Law
12 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (46.33%) Data Engineer
2 104 (21.22%) Senior
3 73 (14.90%) Lead
4 58 (11.84%) Senior Data Engineer
5 50 (10.20%) Analyst
6 38 (7.76%) Architect
7 34 (6.94%) Data Architect
8 31 (6.33%) Developer
9 29 (5.92%) Lead Data Engineer
10 27 (5.51%) Python Engineer
11 21 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (4.08%) AWS Data Engineer
12 20 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 18 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
14 17 (3.47%) Data Analyst
15 16 (3.27%) Python Data Engineer
16 15 (3.06%) Software Engineer
17 14 (2.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 14 (2.86%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.90%) Kafka
2 61 (12.45%) PySpark
3 40 (8.16%) PyTorch
4 37 (7.55%) TensorFlow
5 30 (6.12%) scikit-learn
6 28 (5.71%) Pandas
7 27 (5.51%) LangChain
8 17 (3.47%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (3.47%) React
9 16 (3.27%) pgvector
10 13 (2.65%) LangGraph
10 13 (2.65%) Next.js
10 13 (2.65%) Node.js
10 13 (2.65%) RESTful
11 10 (2.04%) FastAPI
11 10 (2.04%) REST
12 9 (1.84%) GraphQL
12 9 (1.84%) NumPy
13 8 (1.63%) Vue
14 7 (1.43%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.04%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 31 (6.33%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.67%) Clustering
7 17 (3.47%) Public Cloud
8 16 (3.27%) AI Agents
9 15 (3.06%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.86%) Reinsurance
11 13 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (2.45%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.22%) Low-Code
14 6 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.02%) Equities
16 4 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (0.82%) Social Media
16 4 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.45%) Linux
2 7 (1.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (51.63%) Analytics
2 247 (50.41%) Data Engineering
3 218 (44.49%) AI
4 213 (43.47%) Data Modelling
5 193 (39.39%) ETL
6 179 (36.53%) CI/CD
7 147 (30.00%) Data Governance
8 138 (28.16%) Business Intelligence
9 123 (25.10%) Machine Learning
10 104 (21.22%) Data Science
11 100 (20.41%) Data Architecture
12 97 (19.80%) DevOps
13 96 (19.59%) Decision-Making
14 91 (18.57%) Agile
15 87 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
16 69 (14.08%) Data Transformation
17 66 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 66 (13.47%) Mentoring
18 65 (13.27%) Validation
19 64 (13.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 326 (66.53%) Python
2 303 (61.84%) SQL
3 31 (6.33%) Java
4 26 (5.31%) TypeScript
5 24 (4.90%) Scala
6 12 (2.45%) C#
6 12 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.04%) C++
7 10 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.04%) R
8 9 (1.84%) Bash
9 6 (1.22%) Rust
10 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.82%) Go
12 3 (0.61%) Julia
12 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.41%) C
13 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (13.67%) Degree
2 34 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.67%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.84%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.61%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) CISM
12 1 (0.20%) GIAC
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PhD
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.20%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (34.49%) Data Quality
2 48 (9.80%) GDPR
3 23 (4.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.63%) QA
5 7 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.43%) PERC
6 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.41%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (7.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (12.24%) Terraform
2 33 (6.73%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.27%) Grafana
4 11 (2.24%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.22%) Kibana
6 4 (0.82%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.41%) Ansible
7 2 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.20%) Packer
8 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 125 (25.51%) Databricks
2 73 (14.90%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.73%) Oracle
4 20 (4.08%) Dell
5 17 (3.47%) Cloudera
6 16 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.06%) Google
8 13 (2.65%) Palantir
8 13 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.45%) Foundry
9 12 (2.45%) Informatica
10 11 (2.24%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.02%) UiPath
12 4 (0.82%) Automation Anywhere
12 4 (0.82%) Sage
13 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
13 3 (0.61%) SAP
13 3 (0.61%) Talend
13 3 (0.61%) Workday
14 2 (0.41%) Adobe