Data Pipelines
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 221 280
Rank change year-on-year +46 +59 -46
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 1,345 690 693
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.41% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.58% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 894 439 383
10th Percentile £45,529 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,375 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.63% - -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,825 43,614 58,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 88.89% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59,360 24,460 31,261
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 October 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
England +35 1,216 £70,000 - 1,790
UK excluding London +65 692 £63,375 +5.63% 651
London -6 548 £80,000 - 1,221
Work from Home +60 406 £70,000 - 753
North of England +67 259 £60,250 -7.31% 204
South West +34 145 £70,000 +25.00% 67
North West +31 115 £60,250 +4.78% 124
South East -8 114 £62,500 - 115
Midlands -7 97 £66,805 +2.78% 75
North East 0 83 £57,500 +21.05% 34
Yorkshire -9 67 £66,805 -1.03% 46
West Midlands -7 64 £65,000 - 50
East of England -17 38 £62,500 +4.17% 68
East Midlands -20 33 £68,750 +30.95% 25
Wales -46 29 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Scotland +16 23 £75,000 +36.36% 87
Northern Ireland -74 2 £72,500 - 29

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 148 (11.00%) Apache Spark
2 143 (10.63%) Apache Airflow
3 140 (10.41%) Apache
4 23 (1.71%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.89%) SAS
7 11 (0.82%) Confluence
8 10 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.52%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.30%) Luigi
10 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.15%) IIS
12 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.15%) Tornado
13 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.074%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.37%) Notion
4 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Trello
5 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.074%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.074%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.074%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.074%) Primavera
5 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.074%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.074%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 553 (41.12%) Azure
2 430 (31.97%) AWS
3 262 (19.48%) Power Platform
4 200 (14.87%) GCP
5 182 (13.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 138 (10.26%) dbt
7 137 (10.19%) Snowflake
8 110 (8.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 107 (7.96%) Amazon S3
10 105 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
11 100 (7.43%) Serverless
12 85 (6.32%) SaaS
13 78 (5.80%) GitHub
14 70 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (3.87%) Azure Databricks
16 39 (2.90%) Amazon EMR
17 32 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
18 30 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
19 29 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
20 27 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) Broadband
2 4 (0.30%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.15%) VPN
5 1 (0.074%) 4G
5 1 (0.074%) ATM
5 1 (0.074%) DNS
5 1 (0.074%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (21.26%) Data Warehouse
2 252 (18.74%) Power BI
3 186 (13.83%) Data Lake
4 102 (7.58%) SQL Server
5 91 (6.77%) NoSQL
6 79 (5.87%) Metadata
7 77 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (5.50%) BigQuery
9 73 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 72 (5.35%) Tableau
11 70 (5.20%) Big Data
12 68 (5.06%) Relational Database
13 57 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
13 57 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 48 (3.57%) Delta Lake
15 45 (3.35%) Star Schema
16 37 (2.75%) DynamoDB
17 32 (2.38%) Semantic Layer
18 26 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
19 25 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 178 (13.23%) Git
2 40 (2.97%) GitLab
3 28 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.41%) JIRA
5 11 (0.82%) Claude Code
6 8 (0.59%) MLflow
7 5 (0.37%) MSI
7 5 (0.37%) Poetry
7 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.22%) Ant
9 3 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.22%) JMeter
9 3 (0.22%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Appium
10 2 (0.15%) ERwin
10 2 (0.15%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.074%) RStudio
General
1 386 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 325 (24.16%) Finance
3 278 (20.67%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.88%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (4.01%) Banking
7 50 (3.72%) Retail
8 47 (3.49%) Marketing
9 40 (2.97%) Legal
10 39 (2.90%) Law
11 37 (2.75%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.56%) Advertising
12 21 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (0.89%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.82%) Games
14 11 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.74%) Front Office
16 9 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.59%) Back Office
18 7 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 683 (50.78%) Data Engineer
2 296 (22.01%) Senior
3 171 (12.71%) Senior Data Engineer
4 157 (11.67%) Lead
5 87 (6.47%) Developer
6 86 (6.39%) Software Engineer
7 85 (6.32%) Architect
8 71 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
9 65 (4.83%) Data Architect
10 64 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
11 59 (4.39%) Lead Data Engineer
12 51 (3.79%) Python Engineer
13 45 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
14 41 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 40 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
16 38 (2.83%) Analyst
16 38 (2.83%) Databricks Engineer
17 36 (2.68%) Data Manager
17 36 (2.68%) Principal Engineer
18 35 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (12.04%) PySpark
2 159 (11.82%) Terraform
3 116 (8.62%) Kafka
4 43 (3.20%) REST
5 36 (2.68%) LangChain
6 33 (2.45%) PyTorch
7 30 (2.23%) TensorFlow
8 29 (2.16%) React
9 28 (2.08%) Pandas
9 28 (2.08%) scikit-learn
10 26 (1.93%) .NET
11 25 (1.86%) JSON
12 21 (1.56%) LangGraph
13 20 (1.49%) RESTful
13 20 (1.49%) Spring
14 17 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
15 16 (1.19%) FastAPI
16 15 (1.12%) AWS CDK
16 15 (1.12%) Node.js
17 14 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 176 (13.09%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 64 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 58 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 56 (4.16%) AI Agents
7 29 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
10 15 (1.12%) IoT
11 14 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.04%) Life Science
11 14 (1.04%) Robotics
12 12 (0.89%) Management Information System
13 11 (0.82%) Clustering
13 11 (0.82%) Derivative
14 10 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.45%) Linux
2 15 (1.12%) Windows
3 3 (0.22%) Unix
4 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (52.12%) Analytics
2 612 (45.50%) Data Engineering
3 542 (40.30%) Data Modelling
4 502 (37.32%) AI
5 460 (34.20%) ETL
6 436 (32.42%) CI/CD
7 359 (26.69%) Business Intelligence
8 343 (25.50%) Decision-Making
9 311 (23.12%) Agile
10 306 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
11 290 (21.56%) Machine Learning
12 272 (20.22%) DevOps
13 258 (19.18%) Data Science
14 257 (19.11%) Data Governance
15 227 (16.88%) Data Architecture
16 209 (15.54%) Software Engineering
17 207 (15.39%) Mentoring
18 183 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
19 172 (12.79%) Validation
20 168 (12.49%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 844 (62.75%) Python
2 823 (61.19%) SQL
3 97 (7.21%) Java
4 66 (4.91%) Scala
5 65 (4.83%) TypeScript
6 43 (3.20%) C#
7 33 (2.45%) PowerShell
8 32 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 30 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 22 (1.64%) Go
10 22 (1.64%) R
11 18 (1.34%) Bicep
11 18 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 16 (1.19%) Bash
13 14 (1.04%) C++
14 8 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.59%) Search Processing Language
15 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.45%) Groovy
17 5 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 206 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 142 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 132 (9.81%) Degree
4 65 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 43 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.64%) DBS Check
9 14 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.37%) CISSP
13 4 (0.30%) ACCA
13 4 (0.30%) CIMA
13 4 (0.30%) MBA
14 3 (0.22%) CCSP
14 3 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (37.70%) Data Quality
2 53 (3.94%) GDPR
3 49 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.83%) QA
5 6 (0.45%) IFRS
6 5 (0.37%) EU AI Act
6 5 (0.37%) NCSC
6 5 (0.37%) WCAG
7 4 (0.30%) COPPA
7 4 (0.30%) PMO
8 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.22%) PSD2
8 3 (0.22%) SLA
9 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.074%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.074%) GRC
10 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
System Software
1 126 (9.37%) Docker
2 7 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.074%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.074%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 89 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.64%) Grafana
3 21 (1.56%) Ansible
4 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.59%) Packer
6 5 (0.37%) Kibana
6 5 (0.37%) Kubeflow
7 3 (0.22%) Nagios
7 3 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
8 2 (0.15%) Argo
8 2 (0.15%) logstash
9 1 (0.074%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.074%) QRadar
Vendors
1 321 (23.87%) Databricks
2 270 (20.07%) Microsoft
3 78 (5.80%) Google
4 29 (2.16%) OpenAI
5 25 (1.86%) Salesforce
6 24 (1.78%) Oracle
7 23 (1.71%) Informatica
8 21 (1.56%) Foundry
8 21 (1.56%) SAP
9 18 (1.34%) Palantir
10 16 (1.19%) Splunk
11 8 (0.59%) SYSPRO
12 7 (0.52%) SnapLogic
13 6 (0.45%) Braze
13 6 (0.45%) Cisco
13 6 (0.45%) New Relic
14 5 (0.37%) Anaplan
14 5 (0.37%) Sage
15 4 (0.30%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.30%) Talend