Hybrid/Remote Data Pipeline Job Trends

Data Pipelines
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 175 229
Rank change year-on-year +35 +54 -26
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 341 257 450
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.92% 1.94% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.05% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 243 171 350
10th Percentile £44,000 £45,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £46,264
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £70,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +0.80% +1.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £84,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,250 £68,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.74% +1.48% -2.80%

All Process & 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 14,746 12,526 29,775
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.22% 94.76% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,299 8,909 23,673
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,436 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Pipeline and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Pipeline job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Pipeline.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Data Pipeline salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 59 (17.30%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (10.26%) Apache Spark
3 30 (8.80%) Apache
4 5 (1.47%) Confluence
4 5 (1.47%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.29%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Actimize
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 185 (54.25%) Azure
2 109 (31.96%) AWS
3 84 (24.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 54 (15.84%) GCP
5 46 (13.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 46 (13.49%) Power Platform
6 43 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (10.26%) GitHub
8 34 (9.97%) Snowflake
9 31 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 29 (8.50%) dbt
11 24 (7.04%) SaaS
12 22 (6.45%) Dagster
13 21 (6.16%) Serverless
14 20 (5.87%) Azure Machine Learning
15 19 (5.57%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (4.99%) Amazon SageMaker
17 16 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (4.11%) Amazon Kinesis
19 13 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.81%) Broadband
2 4 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.65%) Data Warehouse
2 58 (17.01%) Data Lake
3 50 (14.66%) Metadata
4 43 (12.61%) Power BI
5 32 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (9.38%) Relational Database
6 31 (9.09%) Tableau
7 29 (8.50%) Delta Lake
8 28 (8.21%) SQL Server
9 27 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 25 (7.33%) BigQuery
11 19 (5.57%) Apache Iceberg
12 15 (4.40%) Looker
12 15 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (4.11%) NoSQL
14 12 (3.52%) Oracle Database
15 11 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (2.93%) Pinecone
16 10 (2.93%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 49 (14.37%) Git
2 11 (3.23%) MLflow
3 5 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.47%) JIRA
4 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.29%) dotTrace
4 1 (0.29%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) Selenium
4 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (26.69%) Finance
2 90 (26.39%) Social Skills
3 54 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.69%) Law
6 9 (2.64%) Retail
7 7 (2.05%) Banking
8 6 (1.76%) Front Office
8 6 (1.76%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.47%) Automotive
9 5 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.88%) Marketing
11 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.88%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.29%) International Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 164 (48.09%) Data Engineer
2 86 (25.22%) Senior
3 57 (16.72%) Lead
4 44 (12.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 36 (10.56%) Developer
6 33 (9.68%) Lead Data Engineer
7 27 (7.92%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (4.40%) Consultant
10 13 (3.81%) Analyst
10 13 (3.81%) Integration Engineer
11 12 (3.52%) Data Manager
12 11 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (3.23%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.93%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 10 (2.93%) Python Engineer
14 9 (2.64%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 9 (2.64%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.64%) Data Consultant
14 9 (2.64%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (15.54%) PySpark
2 42 (12.32%) Kafka
3 24 (7.04%) PyTorch
4 19 (5.57%) React
4 19 (5.57%) RESTful
4 19 (5.57%) TensorFlow
5 18 (5.28%) Node.js
6 13 (3.81%) JSON
7 12 (3.52%) OAuth
7 12 (3.52%) OAuth2
8 11 (3.23%) Next.js
9 10 (2.93%) Vue
10 9 (2.64%) Faiss
10 9 (2.64%) GraphQL
10 9 (2.64%) Pandas
10 9 (2.64%) vLLM
11 8 (2.35%) .NET
11 8 (2.35%) YAML
12 7 (2.05%) EDI
13 6 (1.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.04%) Algorithms
3 17 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.76%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.76%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.76%) Social Media
8 5 (1.47%) Over-the-Top Content
8 5 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.59%) IoT
10 2 (0.59%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.11%) Linux
2 2 (0.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (52.49%) ETL
2 176 (51.61%) Analytics
3 170 (49.85%) Data Engineering
4 145 (42.52%) CI/CD
5 143 (41.94%) Data Modelling
6 118 (34.60%) DevOps
7 94 (27.57%) Agile
8 90 (26.39%) AI
9 84 (24.63%) Business Intelligence
10 77 (22.58%) Data Governance
11 72 (21.11%) Data Architecture
12 71 (20.82%) Data Science
13 64 (18.77%) Decision-Making
14 61 (17.89%) Data Integration
15 59 (17.30%) Machine Learning
16 57 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
17 52 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
18 50 (14.66%) Computer Science
19 47 (13.78%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 219 (64.22%) Python
2 198 (58.06%) SQL
3 40 (11.73%) Scala
4 31 (9.09%) Java
5 22 (6.45%) Bash
6 18 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 17 (4.99%) C#
8 15 (4.40%) T-SQL
9 14 (4.11%) Bicep
10 12 (3.52%) C++
11 11 (3.23%) Go
12 10 (2.93%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.05%) JavaScript
13 7 (2.05%) R
14 5 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.47%) Groovy
15 4 (1.17%) C
16 2 (0.59%) Ruby
16 2 (0.59%) Rust
17 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (18.77%) Degree
2 31 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.87%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.64%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.05%) CITP
7 7 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.59%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (35.19%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.50%) GDPR
3 10 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.88%) QA
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (10.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (17.30%) Terraform
2 22 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.64%) Grafana
4 6 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.47%) Kubeflow
6 4 (1.17%) Ansible
7 3 (0.88%) Control-M
8 2 (0.59%) Argo
9 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 100 (29.33%) Databricks
2 53 (15.54%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.40%) Oracle
4 14 (4.11%) Google
5 11 (3.23%) Palantir
6 10 (2.93%) Ab Initio
7 7 (2.05%) Planon
7 7 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.76%) Adobe
8 6 (1.76%) Talend
9 3 (0.88%) BMC
9 3 (0.88%) IBM
10 2 (0.59%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.59%) Foundry
10 2 (0.59%) Informatica
10 2 (0.59%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.29%) Apple
11 1 (0.29%) Dell
11 1 (0.29%) Spotify