Data Pipeline Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Pipelines
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 305 199
Rank change year-on-year +73 -106 +60
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 318 289 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 0.79% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.89% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 196 192 315
10th Percentile £41,963 £42,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £52,269 £47,433 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £89,375 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,150 32,442 28,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.27% 88.40% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,938 14,769 21,448
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London

Data Pipeline
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +47 89 £65,000 -23.53% 412
North of England +21 85 £65,000 +4.00% 218
Midlands +25 58 £60,000 -4.00% 180
West Midlands +47 50 £60,000 - 94
North West +24 45 £65,000 +21.15% 90
Yorkshire +5 39 £65,000 +17.11% 101
Scotland +1 38 £67,500 +35.00% 39
South West +13 29 £47,500 -15.51% 135
East of England +27 16 £53,750 -25.86% 194
East Midlands -12 8 £57,500 -11.54% 74
Wales +2 2 £107,500 +85.85% 24
North East 0 1 £65,000 +4.00% 27
Northern Ireland -8 1 - - 11
Data Pipeline
UK

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 26 (8.18%) Apache
2 25 (7.86%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.86%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.52%) SAS
4 6 (1.89%) Appian
5 3 (0.94%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 172 (54.09%) Azure
2 110 (34.59%) AWS
3 73 (22.96%) Azure Data Factory
4 66 (20.75%) Power Platform
5 50 (15.72%) GCP
6 45 (14.15%) Snowflake
7 41 (12.89%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (9.75%) Amazon S3
8 31 (9.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 31 (9.75%) GitHub
9 27 (8.49%) dbt
10 19 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (5.66%) Serverless
12 17 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (5.35%) SaaS
13 16 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (4.72%) Azure Event Grid
14 15 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (4.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (2.83%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.57%) MQTT
2 3 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) Broadband
3 1 (0.31%) DAB
3 1 (0.31%) Firewall
3 1 (0.31%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) NAS
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) SAN
3 1 (0.31%) TCAP
3 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (26.73%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (17.92%) Power BI
3 47 (14.78%) Data Lake
4 46 (14.47%) SQL Server
5 28 (8.81%) Metadata
6 25 (7.86%) NoSQL
7 24 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (6.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (5.97%) MongoDB
10 15 (4.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (4.09%) Big Data
12 11 (3.46%) BigQuery
12 11 (3.46%) Hadoop
12 11 (3.46%) MySQL
12 11 (3.46%) Tableau
13 9 (2.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 8 (2.52%) Looker
14 8 (2.52%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 20 (6.29%) Git
2 6 (1.89%) Robot Framework
2 6 (1.89%) Selenium
2 6 (1.89%) Snyk
3 5 (1.57%) GitLab
3 5 (1.57%) JIRA
4 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
General
1 80 (25.16%) Finance
2 73 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (11.32%) Law
3 36 (11.32%) Marketing
4 26 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.35%) Retail
6 14 (4.40%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.77%) Banking
8 7 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.89%) Advertising
9 6 (1.89%) Automotive
9 6 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.57%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.26%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) French Language
12 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (40.57%) Data Engineer
2 97 (30.50%) Senior
3 47 (14.78%) Senior Data Engineer
4 34 (10.69%) Architect
5 31 (9.75%) Developer
6 24 (7.55%) Data Architect
7 21 (6.60%) Lead
8 20 (6.29%) Senior Architect
8 20 (6.29%) Senior Data Architect
9 18 (5.66%) Software Engineer
10 15 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (4.09%) Analyst
11 13 (4.09%) Data Manager
11 13 (4.09%) Engineering Manager
12 10 (3.14%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (2.52%) Head of Engineering
13 8 (2.52%) Principal Engineer
14 7 (2.20%) Senior Manager
14 7 (2.20%) Snowflake Engineer
15 6 (1.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.75%) PySpark
2 18 (5.66%) JSON
2 18 (5.66%) Kafka
3 15 (4.72%) .NET
3 15 (4.72%) RESTful
4 14 (4.40%) OAuth
4 14 (4.40%) OAuth2
5 11 (3.46%) REST
6 10 (3.14%) Apache NiFi
6 10 (3.14%) Pandas
7 8 (2.52%) YAML
8 7 (2.20%) React
8 7 (2.20%) SOAP
9 5 (1.57%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.57%) Middleware
10 4 (1.26%) EDI
10 4 (1.26%) HTML
10 4 (1.26%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.26%) Spring
10 4 (1.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.35%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.52%) Life Science
6 6 (1.89%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.57%) IoT
7 5 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.57%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.94%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.94%) LIMS
9 3 (0.94%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.26%) Linux
2 3 (0.94%) Unix
3 1 (0.31%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (49.06%) Data Engineering
2 153 (48.11%) ETL
3 124 (38.99%) Analytics
4 113 (35.53%) Data Modelling
5 106 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 100 (31.45%) Agile
7 82 (25.79%) DevOps
8 80 (25.16%) Data Governance
9 79 (24.84%) Business Intelligence
10 78 (24.53%) AI
10 78 (24.53%) Data Integration
11 74 (23.27%) Machine Learning
12 63 (19.81%) Mentoring
13 61 (19.18%) Data Architecture
14 58 (18.24%) Data Science
15 57 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
16 56 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 53 (16.67%) Decision-Making
18 47 (14.78%) Infrastructure as Code
19 46 (14.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 188 (59.12%) SQL
2 165 (51.89%) Python
3 23 (7.23%) T-SQL
4 16 (5.03%) Bicep
4 16 (5.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (5.03%) Java
5 15 (4.72%) C#
6 14 (4.40%) Scala
7 11 (3.46%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.14%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.89%) Bash
11 5 (1.57%) C++
11 5 (1.57%) R
12 4 (1.26%) ANSI SQL
13 3 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.63%) Go
14 2 (0.63%) Groovy
14 2 (0.63%) VBA
15 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 31 (9.75%) Degree
2 25 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.35%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.52%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.52%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.94%) CITP
8 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.63%) CISSP
8 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.63%) MCSE
8 2 (0.63%) OCP
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.31%) MBA
9 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (25.16%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.92%) GDPR
3 12 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.89%) QA
5 4 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.94%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (0.94%) GxP
6 3 (0.94%) PMO
7 2 (0.63%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) CDISC
8 1 (0.31%) DICOM
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) HL7
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (9.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Firmware
2 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (15.41%) Terraform
2 25 (7.86%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.89%) Ansible
4 5 (1.57%) Control-M
5 1 (0.31%) Istio
Vendors
1 64 (20.13%) Databricks
2 58 (18.24%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.18%) Oracle
4 14 (4.40%) Ab Initio
5 13 (4.09%) Talend
6 9 (2.83%) Google
6 9 (2.83%) Informatica
6 9 (2.83%) Palantir
7 7 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.20%) VMware
8 6 (1.89%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (1.89%) Black Duck
8 6 (1.89%) UiPath
9 5 (1.57%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.57%) Blue Prism
9 5 (1.57%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.57%) Coverity
9 5 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.26%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.26%) Zoho