Data Pipeline Job Trends in the North of England

Data Pipelines
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 176 169
Rank change year-on-year -39 -7 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 109 89 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.63% 1.30% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.38% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 81 79 150
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +23.81% -14.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £70,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,695 £77,715
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -2.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,746 6,460 13,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 73.34% 94.43% 83.57%
Number of salaries quoted 7,794 3,726 11,009
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Pipeline relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in the North of England

Data Pipeline
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Pipeline within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
North West 0 59 £67,500 -3.57% 45
Yorkshire -73 42 £66,720 +6.75% 23
North East -30 8 £65,000 -11.86% 13
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (14.68%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.34%) Apache
3 7 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.12%) AWS
2 45 (41.28%) Azure
3 26 (23.85%) Power Platform
4 18 (16.51%) GCP
5 16 (14.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (9.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (8.26%) Serverless
8 8 (7.34%) dbt
9 7 (6.42%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.42%) Snowflake
10 6 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
13 2 (1.83%) SaaS
14 1 (0.92%) Amazon EMR
14 1 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
14 1 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (0.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) Internet
1 1 (0.92%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.94%) Power BI
2 23 (21.10%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (18.35%) Data Lake
4 11 (10.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (10.09%) NoSQL
5 9 (8.26%) Spark SQL
5 9 (8.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (7.34%) MongoDB
6 8 (7.34%) MySQL
7 7 (6.42%) Metadata
7 7 (6.42%) Power Query
8 6 (5.50%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.50%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.67%) Big Data
10 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (3.67%) Tableau
11 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Git
2 5 (4.59%) JIRA
3 2 (1.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.92%) MLflow
4 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.43%) Finance
4 11 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.26%) Retail
6 5 (4.59%) Advertising
7 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.67%) Marketing
8 2 (1.83%) Law
8 2 (1.83%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.92%) Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.92%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (64.22%) Data Engineer
2 32 (29.36%) Senior
3 22 (20.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 20 (18.35%) Lead
5 13 (11.93%) Lead Data Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Data Manager
8 6 (5.50%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Principal Data Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Marketing Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.75%) Architect
11 3 (2.75%) Lead Software Engineer
11 3 (2.75%) Technical Leader
12 2 (1.83%) Junior
12 2 (1.83%) Senior Developer
12 2 (1.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.94%) PySpark
2 7 (6.42%) .NET
2 7 (6.42%) Kafka
3 5 (4.59%) Pandas
4 4 (3.67%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.75%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.75%) CSS
5 3 (2.75%) Great Expectations
5 3 (2.75%) HTML
5 3 (2.75%) Web Services
6 2 (1.83%) REST
7 1 (0.92%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.92%) Django
7 1 (0.92%) JSON
7 1 (0.92%) LangChain
7 1 (0.92%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (0.92%) pgvector
7 1 (0.92%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.92%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.26%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (6.42%) Pricing Data
5 4 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) Clustering
8 1 (0.92%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.92%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.92%) IoT
8 1 (0.92%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.92%) NHS
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.13%) Data Engineering
2 55 (50.46%) Analytics
3 36 (33.03%) ETL
4 32 (29.36%) Agile
4 32 (29.36%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (28.44%) Data Modelling
6 29 (26.61%) CI/CD
7 22 (20.18%) Data Science
8 20 (18.35%) Mentoring
9 19 (17.43%) Data Governance
9 19 (17.43%) Decision-Making
10 18 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (16.51%) DevOps
10 18 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.68%) Machine Learning
11 16 (14.68%) Software Engineering
12 14 (12.84%) AI
12 14 (12.84%) Data Management
12 14 (12.84%) Event-Driven
13 13 (11.93%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 75 (68.81%) SQL
2 62 (56.88%) Python
3 11 (10.09%) Java
4 7 (6.42%) C#
4 7 (6.42%) Scala
4 7 (6.42%) VBA
5 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.75%) R
7 2 (1.83%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.92%) Go
8 1 (0.92%) Groovy
8 1 (0.92%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (11.01%) Degree
2 11 (10.09%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.59%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.92%) MBA
5 1 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (30.28%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (8.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.42%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) Grafana
3 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (25.69%) Databricks
2 16 (14.68%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.59%) Oracle
4 4 (3.67%) Palantir
5 3 (2.75%) Google
6 2 (1.83%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.83%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.92%) Dell
7 1 (0.92%) Informatica
7 1 (0.92%) Nintex
7 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.92%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) Splunk
7 1 (0.92%) Talend