Data Pipeline Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Pipelines
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Pipeline skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 266 298
Rank change year-on-year -52 +32 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 282 745 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 1.01% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.23% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 198 367 283
10th Percentile £42,675 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,313 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £92,150 £86,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +3.70% -2.80% -7.40%

All Process and 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Pipeline in the UK excluding London

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 -72 81 £64,000 +26.11% 127
Midlands +20 68 £65,000 +25.00% 55
South East +45 60 £71,500 +5.93% 62
Yorkshire +61 43 £63,250 +5.86% 45
West Midlands +44 38 £62,500 +4.17% 38
North West -102 33 £66,250 +39.47% 61
East Midlands +18 30 £65,000 +62.50% 15
South West +72 26 £57,221 -15.23% 46
East of England +33 20 £50,000 -13.04% 18
Scotland -25 16 £53,750 -19.78% 50
Northern Ireland +48 8 £55,000 -8.33% 13
North East +14 7 £62,500 +19.05% 21
Wales +34 4 £81,250 +76.13% 11
Data Pipeline
UK

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (14.18%) Apache Spark
2 19 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.67%) Apache
4 5 (1.77%) Appian
4 5 (1.77%) SAS
5 2 (0.71%) Luigi
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 164 (58.16%) Azure
2 118 (41.84%) AWS
3 81 (28.72%) Snowflake
4 80 (28.37%) Power Platform
5 71 (25.18%) GCP
6 55 (19.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (9.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (8.16%) Amazon S3
9 21 (7.45%) Serverless
10 16 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (5.67%) Power Automate
11 13 (4.61%) dbt
12 8 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.13%) Datadog
15 5 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.77%) MinIO
15 5 (1.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) DHCP
1 3 (1.06%) DNS
2 2 (0.71%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (41.49%) Data Warehouse
2 72 (25.53%) Power BI
3 65 (23.05%) Data Lake
4 37 (13.12%) Big Data
4 37 (13.12%) SQL Server
5 31 (10.99%) Metadata
6 29 (10.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 25 (8.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (8.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 23 (8.16%) NoSQL
8 23 (8.16%) Tableau
9 19 (6.74%) BigQuery
10 15 (5.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 12 (4.26%) Hadoop
12 11 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (3.55%) Relational Database
14 9 (3.19%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 8 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (2.84%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (6.03%) Git
2 9 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.13%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.77%) Robot Framework
5 5 (1.77%) Selenium
5 5 (1.77%) Snyk
6 4 (1.42%) ERwin
6 4 (1.42%) JIRA
6 4 (1.42%) MLflow
7 2 (0.71%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.35%) GitLab
General
1 98 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (18.79%) Finance
4 35 (12.41%) Retail
5 32 (11.35%) Banking
5 32 (11.35%) Law
6 16 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.67%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.55%) Retail Banking
8 8 (2.84%) Legal
8 8 (2.84%) Marketing
9 7 (2.48%) Advertising
10 5 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.71%) Electronics
13 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 125 (44.33%) Data Engineer
2 93 (32.98%) Senior
3 56 (19.86%) Lead
4 49 (17.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 38 (13.48%) Analyst
6 26 (9.22%) Architect
7 20 (7.09%) Data Analyst
8 15 (5.32%) Data Architect
9 12 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.26%) SQL Analyst
10 10 (3.55%) Data Scientist
10 10 (3.55%) Lead Architect
11 9 (3.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (2.84%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (2.84%) Senior Data Scientist
13 7 (2.48%) Data Manager
13 7 (2.48%) Lead Data Engineer
14 6 (2.13%) Engineering Manager
14 6 (2.13%) Lead Data Architect
14 6 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.77%) Kafka
2 26 (9.22%) PySpark
3 16 (5.67%) Pandas
4 10 (3.55%) PyTorch
5 9 (3.19%) scikit-learn
5 9 (3.19%) TensorFlow
6 8 (2.84%) RESTful
6 8 (2.84%) Web Services
7 6 (2.13%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
7 6 (2.13%) GraphQL
7 6 (2.13%) React
7 6 (2.13%) REST
8 5 (1.77%) NumPy
9 4 (1.42%) Dask
9 4 (1.42%) JSON
9 4 (1.42%) Polars
9 4 (1.42%) XGBoost
10 3 (1.06%) Spring
10 3 (1.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.03%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.55%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.19%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.84%) Credit Risk
6 7 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.48%) Replication
7 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.42%) IoT
8 4 (1.42%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.42%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.71%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.71%) Life Science
10 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.71%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.48%) Linux
2 2 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (59.57%) Analytics
2 137 (48.58%) ETL
3 135 (47.87%) Data Engineering
4 120 (42.55%) Data Modelling
5 103 (36.52%) Business Intelligence
6 94 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (27.30%) Data Architecture
8 72 (25.53%) Data Governance
9 62 (21.99%) Visualisation
10 61 (21.63%) Data Management
11 51 (18.09%) Agile
11 51 (18.09%) Data Science
11 51 (18.09%) Data Strategy
12 48 (17.02%) Mentoring
13 44 (15.60%) Decision-Making
14 42 (14.89%) CI/CD
14 42 (14.89%) Data Transformation
14 42 (14.89%) Machine Learning
14 42 (14.89%) Validation
15 40 (14.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (68.09%) Python
2 190 (67.38%) SQL
3 39 (13.83%) Java
4 17 (6.03%) C#
4 17 (6.03%) R
5 16 (5.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (4.96%) Scala
7 12 (4.26%) Bash
8 10 (3.55%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.77%) C++
10 5 (1.77%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.42%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.71%) VB
12 2 (0.71%) VBA
13 1 (0.35%) Cypher
13 1 (0.35%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 73 (25.89%) Degree
2 18 (6.38%) Master's Degree
3 16 (5.67%) DBS Check
4 10 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.19%) Security Cleared
6 7 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.48%) PhD
7 5 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.42%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.71%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.71%) PMP
9 2 (0.71%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (30.50%) Data Quality
2 36 (12.77%) Accessibility
3 28 (9.93%) QA
4 19 (6.74%) GDPR
5 5 (1.77%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.42%) Basel II
6 4 (1.42%) Basel III
6 4 (1.42%) Dodd-Frank
6 4 (1.42%) IFRS
6 4 (1.42%) IFRS 9
6 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (4.61%) Docker
2 4 (1.42%) HDFS
2 4 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 16 (5.67%) Terraform
2 11 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.19%) Grafana
3 9 (3.19%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.13%) Ansible
5 3 (1.06%) Control-M
5 3 (1.06%) Kibana
5 3 (1.06%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.35%) logstash
6 1 (0.35%) Oozie
Vendors
1 77 (27.30%) Databricks
2 47 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.03%) Google
4 15 (5.32%) Oracle
5 7 (2.48%) SAP
6 5 (1.77%) BiZZdesign
6 5 (1.77%) Black Duck
6 5 (1.77%) Palantir
6 5 (1.77%) Splunk
6 5 (1.77%) UiPath
6 5 (1.77%) VMware
7 3 (1.06%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.71%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.71%) Informatica
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) BMC
9 1 (0.35%) Epicor
9 1 (0.35%) MicroStrategy