Data Pipeline Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Pipelines
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 223 198
Rank change year-on-year +36 -25 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 246 482 735
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.65% 1.42% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.55% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 164 353 458
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £69,235 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +2.57% -15.63%
75th Percentile £85,627 £85,000 £84,688
90th Percentile £98,474 £107,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year - -2.80% -7.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Data Pipeline
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Pipeline trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Pipeline.

Data Pipeline salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Pipeline salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 34 (13.82%) Apache Spark
2 16 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.88%) Apache
4 7 (2.85%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 94 (38.21%) Azure
2 70 (28.46%) AWS
3 43 (17.48%) Power Platform
4 40 (16.26%) GCP
5 37 (15.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 23 (9.35%) Snowflake
7 21 (8.54%) Serverless
8 20 (8.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (6.91%) dbt
10 15 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.28%) GitHub
12 12 (4.88%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.66%) SaaS
14 7 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (2.44%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (2.03%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.03%) HTTP
2 2 (0.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.41%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (22.36%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (19.92%) Tableau
3 43 (17.48%) Power BI
4 38 (15.45%) Data Lake
5 33 (13.41%) Big Data
6 29 (11.79%) SQL Server
7 26 (10.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (8.94%) NoSQL
9 15 (6.10%) Relational Database
10 14 (5.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (4.88%) BigQuery
13 10 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (2.85%) Hadoop
15 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 6 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 5 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (2.03%) Power Query
16 5 (2.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (17.48%) Git
2 5 (2.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.81%) ERwin
4 2 (0.81%) GitLab
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.41%) JMeter
5 1 (0.41%) kappa
5 1 (0.41%) Locust
5 1 (0.41%) Postman
5 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (45.53%) Social Skills
2 94 (38.21%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (28.46%) Finance
4 48 (19.51%) Retail
5 36 (14.63%) Banking
6 21 (8.54%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (7.72%) Legal
8 14 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.25%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.85%) Marketing
11 5 (2.03%) Billing
11 5 (2.03%) Games
12 4 (1.63%) Law
13 3 (1.22%) Advertising
13 3 (1.22%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.81%) Front Office
14 2 (0.81%) Local Government
15 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (38.62%) Data Engineer
2 81 (32.93%) Senior
3 52 (21.14%) Analyst
4 39 (15.85%) Senior Data Engineer
5 37 (15.04%) Data Analyst
6 31 (12.60%) Lead
7 27 (10.98%) Senior Analyst
7 27 (10.98%) Senior Data Analyst
8 16 (6.50%) Architect
8 16 (6.50%) Data Science Graduate
8 16 (6.50%) Graduate
9 13 (5.28%) Lead Data Engineer
10 11 (4.47%) Developer
11 9 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 9 (3.66%) Data Scientist
12 8 (3.25%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.25%) Lead Architect
12 8 (3.25%) Senior Data Scientist
12 8 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.85%) Enterprise Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.13%) Pandas
1 20 (8.13%) PySpark
2 19 (7.72%) Kafka
3 10 (4.07%) JSON
4 7 (2.85%) RESTful
4 7 (2.85%) scikit-learn
5 5 (2.03%) Dask
5 5 (2.03%) Puppeteer
5 5 (2.03%) PyTorch
5 5 (2.03%) Scrapy
5 5 (2.03%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.03%) Web Services
6 4 (1.63%) Polars
6 4 (1.63%) SOAP
6 4 (1.63%) XGBoost
7 3 (1.22%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.22%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.22%) Flask
7 3 (1.22%) REST
8 2 (0.81%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.35%) Credit Risk
2 18 (7.32%) Algorithms
3 16 (6.50%) Learning Management System
4 12 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.47%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.66%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (2.85%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.85%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.22%) Life Science
11 2 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.81%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.81%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.81%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.81%) Replication
11 2 (0.81%) Social Media
12 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.10%) Linux
2 3 (1.22%) Windows
3 2 (0.81%) Unix
3 2 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (63.82%) Analytics
2 110 (44.72%) ETL
3 85 (34.55%) Data Engineering
3 85 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (34.55%) Visualisation
4 81 (32.93%) Business Intelligence
5 65 (26.42%) Data Modelling
6 62 (25.20%) Agile
6 62 (25.20%) Data Science
7 53 (21.54%) Mentoring
8 52 (21.14%) Machine Learning
9 49 (19.92%) Decision-Making
10 41 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 41 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
11 40 (16.26%) Artificial Intelligence
11 40 (16.26%) Data Analytics
12 38 (15.45%) Storytelling
13 36 (14.63%) Data Integration
14 35 (14.23%) DevOps
15 32 (13.01%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 195 (79.27%) SQL
2 181 (73.58%) Python
3 24 (9.76%) R
4 21 (8.54%) Java
5 16 (6.50%) Bash
6 14 (5.69%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (4.88%) Scala
9 8 (3.25%) C#
9 8 (3.25%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.03%) Bicep
10 5 (2.03%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.63%) Go
12 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.81%) VB
13 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (28.46%) Degree
2 47 (19.11%) DBS Check
3 30 (12.20%) Master's Degree
4 18 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.91%) PhD
6 11 (4.47%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.47%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.22%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.81%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.48%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.69%) GDPR
3 9 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.66%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.85%) Basel II
4 7 (2.85%) Basel III
4 7 (2.85%) Dodd-Frank
4 7 (2.85%) IFRS
4 7 (2.85%) IFRS 9
5 6 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.63%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (5.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.13%) Terraform
3 5 (2.03%) Grafana
4 4 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.81%) Packer
6 1 (0.41%) Ansible
6 1 (0.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 80 (32.52%) Databricks
2 33 (13.41%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.07%) Google
4 5 (2.03%) Foundry
4 5 (2.03%) Palantir
5 4 (1.63%) Adobe
5 4 (1.63%) SAP
5 4 (1.63%) TikTok
6 3 (1.22%) Informatica
6 3 (1.22%) Oracle
7 2 (0.81%) Splunk
7 2 (0.81%) Teradata
8 1 (0.41%) Charles River
8 1 (0.41%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.41%) IBM
8 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.41%) SimCorp