Data Pipeline Jobs

Data Pipelines
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Pipeline skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 283 217
Rank change year-on-year +51 -66 +79
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 1,303 1,193 3,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 1.28% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.34% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 700 686 1,055
10th Percentile £37,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,447 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -7.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,377 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Pipeline is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 88,771 89,162 163,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.39% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,540 53,734 83,113
10th Percentile £29,375 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.10%

Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Pipeline as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Pipeline.

Salary trend for Data Pipeline in the UK

Data Pipeline
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

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 5 June 2024. 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 +45 1,076 £67,500 -3.57% 297
UK excluding London +38 747 £60,000 - 153
Work from Home +20 540 £67,500 -1.69% 148
London +76 505 £75,000 -3.23% 167
North of England +13 231 £52,000 -20.00% 55
Scotland +25 177 £67,000 +3.08% 18
North West +54 144 £48,750 -13.03% 34
South East +29 111 £67,500 +17.39% 26
Midlands +20 110 £52,250 -9.13% 27
South West -73 73 £67,500 -1.69% 13
West Midlands -13 59 £60,000 - 18
East Midlands +10 51 £40,000 -27.27% 7
Yorkshire -33 46 £66,000 -4.53% 17
North East +23 41 £52,500 +34.62% 4
East of England +2 30 £57,500 -9.80% 8
Wales +5 16 £46,131 +6.05% 2
Northern Ireland +10 3 £60,000 -20.00% 5

Data Pipeline
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 152 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 98 (7.52%) Apache
3 75 (5.76%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.84%) SAS
5 6 (0.46%) Confluence
6 5 (0.38%) Luigi
6 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.077%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 23 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.077%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Primavera
2 1 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.077%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 520 (39.91%) AWS
2 466 (35.76%) Azure
3 356 (27.32%) GCP
4 199 (15.27%) Power Platform
5 161 (12.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 155 (11.90%) Snowflake
7 83 (6.37%) Serverless
8 75 (5.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 65 (4.99%) dbt
10 64 (4.91%) Amazon S3
11 59 (4.53%) Cloud Computing
12 56 (4.30%) Matillion
13 40 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
14 37 (2.84%) GitHub
15 36 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 28 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (1.69%) SaaS
18 21 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
19 20 (1.53%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.99%) Kerberos
2 15 (1.15%) DSL
3 5 (0.38%) Firewall
4 2 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.15%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) VPN
5 1 (0.077%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.077%) 5G
5 1 (0.077%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (27.24%) Data Warehouse
2 243 (18.65%) Data Lake
3 228 (17.50%) BigQuery
4 217 (16.65%) Tableau
5 195 (14.97%) Power BI
6 187 (14.35%) Looker
7 144 (11.05%) SQL Server
8 139 (10.67%) Big Data
9 125 (9.59%) NoSQL
10 123 (9.44%) Metadata
11 73 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 66 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
14 52 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
15 51 (3.91%) Hadoop
16 49 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
17 44 (3.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 40 (3.07%) Star Schema
19 37 (2.84%) Relational Database
20 32 (2.46%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 286 (21.95%) Git
2 107 (8.21%) Jenkins
3 71 (5.45%) Bitbucket
4 65 (4.99%) Artifactory
5 50 (3.84%) GitLab
6 15 (1.15%) Spinnaker
7 11 (0.84%) JIRA
8 8 (0.61%) CircleCI
8 8 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.46%) RStudio
10 5 (0.38%) GDB
11 4 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.15%) MLflow
12 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.15%) webpack
13 1 (0.077%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.077%) ERwin
13 1 (0.077%) Mockito
13 1 (0.077%) SpecFlow
General
1 448 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
2 365 (28.01%) Social Skills
3 300 (23.02%) Finance
4 196 (15.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 171 (13.12%) Presentation Skills
6 167 (12.82%) Retail
7 164 (12.59%) Law
8 116 (8.90%) Marketing
9 71 (5.45%) Banking
10 49 (3.76%) Legal
11 40 (3.07%) Public Sector
12 21 (1.61%) Games
13 18 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.23%) Billing
16 14 (1.07%) Front Office
17 12 (0.92%) Back Office
18 11 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.84%) Telecoms
19 7 (0.54%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 672 (51.57%) Data Engineer
2 368 (28.24%) Senior
3 180 (13.81%) Principal Engineer
4 178 (13.66%) Lead
4 178 (13.66%) Principal Data Engineer
5 177 (13.58%) Platform Engineer
6 161 (12.36%) Analyst
7 153 (11.74%) Data Analyst
8 134 (10.28%) Software Engineer
9 130 (9.98%) Senior Data Engineer
10 104 (7.98%) Senior Analyst
11 103 (7.90%) Senior Data Analyst
12 86 (6.60%) Developer
13 70 (5.37%) Architect
14 69 (5.30%) Lead Software Engineer
15 64 (4.91%) Data Architect
16 59 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
17 54 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
18 53 (4.07%) Lead Data Engineer
19 47 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.91%) Kafka
2 81 (6.22%) PySpark
3 78 (5.99%) XML
4 75 (5.76%) JSON
5 73 (5.60%) RESTful
6 71 (5.45%) Web Services
7 65 (4.99%) JSON-LD
7 65 (4.99%) LDAP
7 65 (4.99%) OpenID
7 65 (4.99%) SAML
8 51 (3.91%) Pandas
9 33 (2.53%) Apache Beam
10 32 (2.46%) React
11 21 (1.61%) PyTorch
11 21 (1.61%) TensorFlow
12 20 (1.53%) .NET
12 20 (1.53%) Apache NiFi
13 19 (1.46%) XGBoost
14 17 (1.30%) REST
15 15 (1.15%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 214 (16.42%) Self-Motivation
2 105 (8.06%) Data Structures
3 99 (7.60%) Management Information System
4 83 (6.37%) Algorithms
5 70 (5.37%) Cloud Native
6 65 (4.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 65 (4.99%) Reference Data
7 63 (4.83%) Onboarding
8 46 (3.53%) Product Ownership
9 23 (1.77%) Public Cloud
10 21 (1.61%) Taxonomies
11 20 (1.53%) Hedge funds
12 19 (1.46%) IoT
13 13 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.92%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.84%) Blog
15 11 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (0.84%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.69%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.07%) Linux
2 20 (1.53%) Unix
3 2 (0.15%) Android
3 2 (0.15%) Windows
4 1 (0.077%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.077%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (41.37%) Agile
2 523 (40.14%) Data Engineering
3 515 (39.52%) Analytics
4 500 (38.37%) Problem-Solving
5 454 (34.84%) ETL
6 422 (32.39%) Data Science
7 401 (30.78%) Data Modelling
8 366 (28.09%) Visualisation
9 332 (25.48%) CI/CD
10 306 (23.48%) Data Analysis
11 281 (21.57%) DevOps
12 267 (20.49%) Machine Learning
13 263 (20.18%) Mentoring
14 251 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
15 233 (17.88%) Software Engineering
16 218 (16.73%) Platform Engineering
17 190 (14.58%) DataOps
18 187 (14.35%) Artificial Intelligence
19 180 (13.81%) Mathematics
20 168 (12.89%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 814 (62.47%) SQL
2 748 (57.41%) Python
3 168 (12.89%) Java
4 99 (7.60%) Scala
5 84 (6.45%) Go
6 65 (4.99%) Prolog
6 65 (4.99%) SPARQL
7 55 (4.22%) T-SQL
8 37 (2.84%) C#
9 31 (2.38%) R
10 30 (2.30%) JavaScript
11 29 (2.23%) TypeScript
12 20 (1.53%) Kotlin
13 18 (1.38%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.69%) C
15 9 (0.69%) Clojure
16 7 (0.54%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.46%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 291 (22.33%) Degree
2 175 (13.43%) DBS Check
3 76 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (3.68%) Master's Degree
5 38 (2.92%) Security Cleared
6 30 (2.30%) SC Cleared
7 19 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.77%) PhD
11 5 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.31%) CIMA
12 4 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.23%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.23%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.077%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (14.43%) Data Quality
2 183 (14.04%) GDPR
3 21 (1.61%) QA
4 16 (1.23%) SLA
5 12 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.31%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.077%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.077%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.077%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 52 (3.99%) Docker
3 8 (0.61%) HDFS
4 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 55 (4.22%) Terraform
3 14 (1.07%) Ansible
4 7 (0.54%) Argo
5 4 (0.31%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.077%) Grafana
6 1 (0.077%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 384 (29.47%) Databricks
2 233 (17.88%) Google
3 145 (11.13%) Microsoft
4 47 (3.61%) Oracle
5 27 (2.07%) Alteryx
6 22 (1.69%) Informatica
7 15 (1.15%) Cognos
7 15 (1.15%) Sybase
8 12 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 11 (0.84%) Cloudera
10 10 (0.77%) SAP
10 10 (0.77%) Teradata
10 10 (0.77%) YouTube
11 7 (0.54%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.46%) Dataiku
12 6 (0.46%) F5
12 6 (0.46%) Talend
13 4 (0.31%) Confluent
13 4 (0.31%) Hortonworks
14 3 (0.23%) Splunk