Data Pipeline Job Trends in the South East

Data Pipelines
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 196 239 224
Rank change year-on-year +43 -15 +65
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 79 63 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.77% 0.70% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.79% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 43 42 51
10th Percentile £42,600 £50,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,438 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +25.93% +3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,375 £107,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,270 7,935 7,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.17% 88.05% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,919 3,791 5,460
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Pipeline

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the South East over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Pipeline within the South East 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
Thames Valley +44 52 £65,000 -4.06% 138
Berkshire +21 28 £57,500 -23.33% 88
Oxfordshire +26 13 £70,000 -9.68% 28
Buckinghamshire +17 11 £62,500 +4.17% 22
Hampshire +31 9 £65,000 -18.75% 41
East Sussex +9 4 £82,500 -13.16% 29
Kent -14 4 £125,000 +44.93% 36
West Sussex +4 3 £60,000 +41.18% 26
Middlesex +2 3 - - 9
Surrey -7 2 £62,500 -26.47% 32
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (10.13%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.06%) Apache
2 4 (5.06%) Appian
3 3 (3.80%) Confluence
3 3 (3.80%) SAS
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (59.49%) Azure
2 29 (36.71%) AWS
3 22 (27.85%) Power Platform
4 20 (25.32%) GCP
5 15 (18.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (15.19%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (10.13%) Snowflake
8 7 (8.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (6.33%) dbt
9 5 (6.33%) Fivetran
10 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.06%) MinIO
10 4 (5.06%) SaaS
11 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (3.80%) GitHub
12 2 (2.53%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (2.53%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (2.53%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.53%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) MQTT
1 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.32%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (18.99%) Power BI
3 12 (15.19%) SQL Server
4 8 (10.13%) Data Lake
5 7 (8.86%) Metadata
6 6 (7.59%) Airbyte
6 6 (7.59%) Tableau
7 5 (6.33%) Looker
8 4 (5.06%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.80%) Spark SQL
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.53%) Pentaho
10 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.53%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Git
2 4 (5.06%) Robot Framework
2 4 (5.06%) Selenium
2 4 (5.06%) Snyk
3 3 (3.80%) JIRA
General
1 20 (25.32%) Marketing
2 19 (24.05%) Law
3 17 (21.52%) Finance
3 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.06%) Banking
5 4 (5.06%) Retail
6 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.53%) Advertising
7 2 (2.53%) Automotive
7 2 (2.53%) French Language
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (41.77%) Senior
2 21 (26.58%) Data Engineer
3 17 (21.52%) Architect
4 12 (15.19%) Data Architect
4 12 (15.19%) Senior Architect
4 12 (15.19%) Senior Data Architect
5 8 (10.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Analyst
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Applications Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Lead
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Analytics Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Consultant
8 3 (3.80%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Head of Engineering
8 3 (3.80%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.06%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (5.06%) Kafka
1 4 (5.06%) PySpark
2 3 (3.80%) .NET
2 3 (3.80%) Middleware
2 3 (3.80%) REST
2 3 (3.80%) SOAP
3 2 (2.53%) Hugging Face
3 2 (2.53%) LangChain
3 2 (2.53%) Node.js
3 2 (2.53%) NumPy
3 2 (2.53%) Pandas
3 2 (2.53%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.53%) React
3 2 (2.53%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.53%) Snowpark
3 2 (2.53%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.27%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.27%) Flask
4 1 (1.27%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Life Science
2 6 (7.59%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.06%) Low-Code
3 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.06%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.80%) LIMS
5 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.27%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.27%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Replication
6 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.96%) ETL
2 40 (50.63%) Data Engineering
3 35 (44.30%) AI
4 34 (43.04%) Data Modelling
5 29 (36.71%) Agile
5 29 (36.71%) Machine Learning
6 28 (35.44%) Analytics
7 26 (32.91%) Data Architecture
8 24 (30.38%) Data Governance
9 22 (27.85%) Data Integration
9 22 (27.85%) Data Science
10 19 (24.05%) Data Strategy
10 19 (24.05%) Mentoring
11 17 (21.52%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (18.99%) Architectural Design
13 15 (18.99%) CI/CD
13 15 (18.99%) Customer Insight
13 15 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (18.99%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (49.37%) Python
2 38 (48.10%) SQL
3 2 (2.53%) Bash
3 2 (2.53%) C++
3 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.53%) Java
3 2 (2.53%) R
4 1 (1.27%) C#
4 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Degree
2 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (8.86%) SC Cleared
2 7 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.53%) CISSP
4 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) MCSE
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.53%) OCP
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (27.85%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) QA
3 3 (3.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (3.80%) GxP
3 3 (3.80%) PMO
4 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) GDPR
4 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.53%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) Terraform
2 4 (5.06%) Ansible
3 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.19%) Databricks
3 5 (6.33%) Google
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) BiZZdesign
4 4 (5.06%) Black Duck
4 4 (5.06%) Blue Prism
4 4 (5.06%) Coverity
4 4 (5.06%) Talend
4 4 (5.06%) UiPath
4 4 (5.06%) VMware
5 3 (3.80%) Agilent
5 3 (3.80%) Informatica
6 2 (2.53%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.53%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.53%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.53%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.53%) Zoho
7 1 (1.27%) NVIDIA