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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 297 286
Rank change year-on-year +63 -11 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 558 292 606
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.86% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.98% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 438 204 271
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,625 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -5.77% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,650 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

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 50,714 29,818 56,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.54% 88.25% 79.92%
Number of salaries quoted 35,727 16,034 38,597
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%

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 18 July 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 18 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
North of England +38 187 £62,500 -2.34% 57
South East +24 131 £57,500 -19.58% 84
South West +18 100 £65,000 +13.04% 31
North West +51 82 £57,500 - 24
Midlands -31 68 £62,500 +5.93% 25
Yorkshire -21 57 £66,762 -1.09% 14
East of England +18 48 £65,000 +30.00% 8
West Midlands -12 48 £62,500 - 14
North East -13 48 £57,500 +20.42% 19
East Midlands -23 20 £59,000 +29.67% 11
Scotland +15 17 £62,500 +8.70% 7
Wales -47 9 £66,000 +10.00% 6
Northern Ireland -64 2 £72,500 +31.82% 1
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 76 (13.62%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (10.93%) Apache Spark
3 57 (10.22%) Apache
4 12 (2.15%) Jupyter
5 9 (1.61%) Confluence
6 6 (1.08%) SAS
7 5 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.36%) Luigi
9 2 (0.36%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
Applications
1 24 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.36%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Infor M3
1 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.36%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 227 (40.68%) Azure
2 193 (34.59%) AWS
3 105 (18.82%) Power Platform
4 82 (14.70%) GCP
5 71 (12.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 48 (8.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 48 (8.60%) Snowflake
7 46 (8.24%) Amazon S3
8 39 (6.99%) dbt
9 34 (6.09%) Serverless
10 26 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (2.51%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (2.51%) Prefect
14 12 (2.15%) GitHub
15 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (1.97%) OpenShift
15 11 (1.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.08%) Broadband
2 2 (0.36%) DNS
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (19.00%) Data Warehouse
2 99 (17.74%) Power BI
3 55 (9.86%) Data Lake
4 47 (8.42%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.53%) Big Data
6 37 (6.63%) Tableau
7 36 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (5.91%) BigQuery
9 29 (5.20%) NoSQL
10 21 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (3.76%) Relational Database
10 21 (3.76%) Spark SQL
11 19 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (3.23%) MongoDB
13 17 (3.05%) Metadata
13 17 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (2.87%) Looker
15 15 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (2.69%) Power Query
16 14 (2.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 61 (10.93%) Git
2 18 (3.23%) GitLab
3 12 (2.15%) JIRA
4 10 (1.79%) MLflow
5 9 (1.61%) IBM UrbanCode
6 8 (1.43%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.54%) MSI
8 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.18%) JMeter
9 1 (0.18%) Postman
9 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 118 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
1 118 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 90 (16.13%) Finance
3 44 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 25 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (3.41%) Manufacturing
5 19 (3.41%) Retail
6 18 (3.23%) Legal
7 13 (2.33%) Banking
7 13 (2.33%) Law
8 11 (1.97%) Advertising
8 11 (1.97%) Games
9 9 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.43%) Marketing
11 7 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.72%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 326 (58.42%) Data Engineer
2 114 (20.43%) Senior
3 71 (12.72%) Senior Data Engineer
4 59 (10.57%) Lead
5 43 (7.71%) Azure Engineer
6 41 (7.35%) Azure Data Engineer
7 34 (6.09%) Developer
8 28 (5.02%) Microsoft Engineer
9 25 (4.48%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (4.12%) Data Manager
10 23 (4.12%) Software Engineer
11 21 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (3.05%) Analyst
13 17 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 17 (3.05%) AWS Data Engineer
14 16 (2.87%) Python Engineer
15 15 (2.69%) Architect
16 14 (2.51%) Python Data Engineer
16 14 (2.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.72%) PySpark
2 42 (7.53%) Kafka
3 20 (3.58%) PyTorch
4 19 (3.41%) LangChain
4 19 (3.41%) TensorFlow
5 16 (2.87%) LlamaIndex
5 16 (2.87%) Pandas
6 14 (2.51%) REST
7 9 (1.61%) .NET
7 9 (1.61%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.43%) pgvector
8 8 (1.43%) RESTful
9 7 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (1.25%) JSON
9 7 (1.25%) NumPy
10 6 (1.08%) Great Expectations
11 5 (0.90%) OpenCV
11 5 (0.90%) TFX
11 5 (0.90%) XML
12 4 (0.72%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.47%) Cloud Native
2 22 (3.94%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.15%) Life Science
8 11 (1.97%) Clustering
8 11 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.25%) IoT
10 7 (1.25%) Pricing Data
11 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.08%) Robotics
11 6 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.08%) Sports Betting
12 5 (0.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.69%) Linux
2 7 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (56.45%) Analytics
2 237 (42.47%) Data Engineering
3 205 (36.74%) ETL
4 183 (32.80%) Data Modelling
5 154 (27.60%) AI
6 147 (26.34%) Business Intelligence
7 144 (25.81%) Agile
8 140 (25.09%) CI/CD
9 132 (23.66%) Decision-Making
10 119 (21.33%) Data Governance
11 112 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
12 106 (19.00%) Machine Learning
13 97 (17.38%) DevOps
14 94 (16.85%) Mentoring
15 87 (15.59%) Data Science
16 78 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (12.37%) Data Architecture
18 62 (11.11%) Data Transformation
18 62 (11.11%) Software Engineering
19 60 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 326 (58.42%) Python
2 316 (56.63%) SQL
3 40 (7.17%) Java
4 26 (4.66%) Scala
5 21 (3.76%) C#
6 18 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.51%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.33%) Bash
9 11 (1.97%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.79%) VBA
11 9 (1.61%) Bicep
11 9 (1.61%) C++
11 9 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.61%) Go
11 9 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.25%) R
13 6 (1.08%) Groovy
14 5 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 82 (14.70%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.04%) Degree
3 51 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.73%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.08%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.54%) HND
9 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.36%) CITP
11 1 (0.18%) ACCA
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.18%) CFA
11 1 (0.18%) CIMA
11 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (34.41%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.48%) GDPR
3 12 (2.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 12 (2.15%) QA
4 10 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.54%) NCSC
6 3 (0.54%) WCAG
7 2 (0.36%) IFRS
7 2 (0.36%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 40 (7.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (11.47%) Terraform
2 22 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.79%) Ansible
4 7 (1.25%) Grafana
5 5 (0.90%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.72%) Packer
6 4 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.18%) Kibana
8 1 (0.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 113 (20.25%) Databricks
2 103 (18.46%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.94%) Google
4 15 (2.69%) Oracle
5 11 (1.97%) Cloudera
6 9 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.43%) Dell
7 8 (1.43%) Informatica
8 7 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.25%) Splunk
8 7 (1.25%) SYSPRO
9 6 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.90%) SAP
11 4 (0.72%) Talend
12 3 (0.54%) Confluent
12 3 (0.54%) Infor
12 3 (0.54%) SnapLogic
13 2 (0.36%) Aderant
13 2 (0.36%) Intapp
13 2 (0.36%) Planon