Data Pipeline Job Trends in the North West

Data Pipelines
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 156 75
Rank change year-on-year +18 -81 +151
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 48 49 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.75% 0.97% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.06% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36 35 82
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £44,375 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,500 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% +18.80% -26.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £76,723
90th Percentile £78,125 £99,389 £84,056
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,173 4,612 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.20% 91.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,263 3,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester +34 41 £65,000 +7.00% 22
Lancashire +4 4 - - 16
Cheshire -17 2 £42,500 -37.04% 7
Data Pipeline
England

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.08%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) AWS
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
3 5 (10.42%) Snowflake
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (8.33%) GCP
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.25%) Serverless
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.17%) SaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.08%) dbt
7 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Broadband
1 1 (2.08%) DAB
1 1 (2.08%) Network Security
1 1 (2.08%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 10 (20.83%) Power BI
4 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
5 8 (16.67%) Data Lake
6 6 (12.50%) Big Data
6 6 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (10.42%) Hadoop
7 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
8 4 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (8.33%) MySQL
8 4 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (6.25%) Data Vault
9 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
9 3 (6.25%) Neo4j
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
1 4 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (16.67%) Finance
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Advertising
3 4 (8.33%) Law
3 4 (8.33%) Marketing
4 3 (6.25%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Legal
4 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.25%) Retail
5 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (58.33%) Data Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Senior
3 10 (20.83%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Developer
6 5 (10.42%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Snowflake Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Lead
8 3 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) .NET Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Python Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Python Data Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) .NET
2 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 4 (8.33%) PySpark
3 3 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.25%) CSS
3 3 (6.25%) HTML
3 3 (6.25%) Web Services
4 2 (4.17%) Django
4 2 (4.17%) Kafka
4 2 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.08%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (18.75%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (4.17%) IoT
7 1 (2.08%) Credit Risk
7 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Legacy Code
7 1 (2.08%) Market Risk
7 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.08%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Data Engineering
2 19 (39.58%) Analytics
3 16 (33.33%) Agile
3 16 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 15 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (27.08%) Software Engineering
6 12 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 12 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 12 (25.00%) Data Science
6 12 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (20.83%) ETL
8 9 (18.75%) AI
8 9 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 9 (18.75%) Microservices
9 8 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 7 (14.58%) Event-Driven
10 7 (14.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
10 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (75.00%) SQL
2 20 (41.67%) Python
3 7 (14.58%) C#
4 4 (8.33%) ANSI SQL
4 4 (8.33%) Java
4 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.25%) Scala
6 2 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.08%) Groovy
7 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.08%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.08%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) Degree
1 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.08%) MBA
3 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Databricks
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.08%) Google