Data Pipeline Job Trends in Wales

Data Pipelines
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 72 75
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 3 8 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.28% 0.90% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.08% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 15
10th Percentile £70,500 £41,352 £45,123
25th Percentile £78,750 £41,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £57,842 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.24% +10.17% -12.50%
75th Percentile £116,250 £80,108 £71,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £82,500 £74,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 808 739 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 76.37% 83.22% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 553 362 610
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Pipeline

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Salary Histogram in Wales

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

Salary histogram for Data Pipeline in Wales

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Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Pipeline within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 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 Wales -8 3 £95,000 +64.24% 20
Data Pipeline
UK

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) MLOps
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks