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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 275 225
Rank change year-on-year +41 -50 +74
Permanent jobs citing Data Pipeline 1,296 1,304 3,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.31% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.38% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 692 733 1,070
10th Percentile £36,775 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £49,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,447 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -7.40% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £98,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +9.38%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +34 1,055 £67,500 -3.57% 379
UK excluding London +24 752 £60,000 - 200
Work from Home +11 536 £67,500 -1.46% 178
London +69 490 £75,000 -6.25% 241
North of England +19 231 £50,750 -15.42% 46
Scotland +38 187 £67,000 +5.10% 18
North West +65 145 £47,500 -5.00% 22
Midlands +24 111 £52,250 -9.13% 26
South East +24 105 £67,500 +15.40% 62
South West -65 71 £67,500 -1.46% 23
West Midlands +15 59 £60,000 - 21
East Midlands +24 52 £40,000 -27.27% 5
Yorkshire -43 45 £57,500 -14.27% 20
North East +31 41 £52,500 +34.62% 4
East of England +20 29 £58,750 -7.84% 9
Wales +13 19 £46,131 -14.97% 8
Northern Ireland +10 3 £60,000 -7.69% 9

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
1 150 (11.57%) Apache Spark
2 101 (7.79%) Apache
3 79 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.77%) SAS
5 5 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.23%) Confluence
6 3 (0.23%) Luigi
6 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.077%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 23 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
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 (40.12%) AWS
2 462 (35.65%) Azure
3 351 (27.08%) GCP
4 203 (15.66%) Power Platform
5 162 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 151 (11.65%) Snowflake
7 85 (6.56%) Serverless
8 71 (5.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 65 (5.02%) dbt
10 63 (4.86%) Amazon S3
11 61 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
12 56 (4.32%) Matillion
13 41 (3.16%) GitHub
14 40 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
16 36 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 26 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
18 22 (1.70%) SaaS
19 21 (1.62%) AWS Step Functions
20 19 (1.47%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.02%) Kerberos
2 18 (1.39%) DSL
3 8 (0.62%) 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
1 361 (27.85%) Data Warehouse
2 247 (19.06%) Data Lake
3 228 (17.59%) BigQuery
4 217 (16.74%) Tableau
5 199 (15.35%) Power BI
6 185 (14.27%) Looker
7 142 (10.96%) SQL Server
8 140 (10.80%) Big Data
9 126 (9.72%) Metadata
10 124 (9.57%) NoSQL
11 72 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 64 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
14 50 (3.86%) Hadoop
15 49 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
16 45 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
17 44 (3.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 41 (3.16%) Star Schema
19 36 (2.78%) Relational Database
20 35 (2.70%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 282 (21.76%) Git
2 111 (8.56%) Jenkins
3 71 (5.48%) Bitbucket
4 65 (5.02%) Artifactory
5 50 (3.86%) GitLab
6 16 (1.23%) Spinnaker
7 10 (0.77%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.69%) JIRA
9 8 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.46%) RStudio
11 5 (0.39%) GDB
12 4 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
14 2 (0.15%) webpack
15 1 (0.077%) Cucumber
15 1 (0.077%) MLflow
15 1 (0.077%) Mockito
15 1 (0.077%) SpecFlow
General
1 447 (34.49%) Analytical Skills
2 352 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 307 (23.69%) Finance
4 207 (15.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 172 (13.27%) Law
6 170 (13.12%) Presentation Skills
7 162 (12.50%) Retail
8 124 (9.57%) Marketing
9 78 (6.02%) Banking
10 53 (4.09%) Legal
11 37 (2.85%) Public Sector
12 21 (1.62%) Games
12 21 (1.62%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.54%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.31%) Billing
15 13 (1.00%) Back Office
16 12 (0.93%) Front Office
16 12 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 677 (52.24%) Data Engineer
2 358 (27.62%) Senior
3 179 (13.81%) Platform Engineer
4 178 (13.73%) Principal Engineer
5 176 (13.58%) Lead
6 175 (13.50%) Principal Data Engineer
7 159 (12.27%) Analyst
8 149 (11.50%) Data Analyst
9 137 (10.57%) Software Engineer
10 128 (9.88%) Senior Data Engineer
11 100 (7.72%) Senior Analyst
12 98 (7.56%) Senior Data Analyst
13 84 (6.48%) Developer
14 69 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
15 59 (4.55%) Architect
16 57 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
17 55 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
18 54 (4.17%) Data Architect
19 50 (3.86%) Lead Data Engineer
20 47 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (7.25%) Kafka
2 79 (6.10%) PySpark
3 74 (5.71%) JSON
3 74 (5.71%) XML
4 72 (5.56%) RESTful
5 70 (5.40%) Web Services
6 65 (5.02%) JSON-LD
6 65 (5.02%) LDAP
6 65 (5.02%) OpenID
6 65 (5.02%) SAML
7 48 (3.70%) Pandas
8 35 (2.70%) Apache Beam
9 26 (2.01%) React
10 23 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
11 22 (1.70%) XGBoost
12 21 (1.62%) .NET
13 20 (1.54%) PyTorch
13 20 (1.54%) TensorFlow
14 17 (1.31%) REST
15 14 (1.08%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 213 (16.44%) Self-Motivation
2 102 (7.87%) Data Structures
2 102 (7.87%) Management Information System
3 84 (6.48%) Algorithms
4 77 (5.94%) Cloud Native
5 67 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 65 (5.02%) Enterprise Cloud
6 65 (5.02%) Reference Data
7 50 (3.86%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.85%) Taxonomies
10 21 (1.62%) IoT
11 18 (1.39%) Hedge funds
12 17 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.77%) Blog
14 10 (0.77%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.69%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.16%) Linux
2 20 (1.54%) Unix
3 2 (0.15%) Windows
4 1 (0.077%) Android
4 1 (0.077%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.077%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (42.28%) Agile
2 514 (39.66%) Data Engineering
3 506 (39.04%) Analytics
4 488 (37.65%) Problem-Solving
5 467 (36.03%) ETL
6 427 (32.95%) Data Science
7 414 (31.94%) Data Modelling
8 364 (28.09%) Visualisation
9 335 (25.85%) CI/CD
10 311 (24.00%) Data Analysis
11 288 (22.22%) DevOps
12 271 (20.91%) Machine Learning
13 258 (19.91%) Business Intelligence
14 257 (19.83%) Mentoring
15 241 (18.60%) Software Engineering
16 218 (16.82%) Platform Engineering
17 190 (14.66%) DataOps
18 186 (14.35%) Artificial Intelligence
19 176 (13.58%) Mathematics
20 167 (12.89%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 816 (62.96%) SQL
2 752 (58.02%) Python
3 170 (13.12%) Java
4 96 (7.41%) Scala
5 83 (6.40%) Go
6 65 (5.02%) Prolog
6 65 (5.02%) SPARQL
7 58 (4.48%) T-SQL
8 40 (3.09%) C#
9 32 (2.47%) R
10 26 (2.01%) JavaScript
11 24 (1.85%) TypeScript
12 22 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.47%) Kotlin
14 17 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.69%) C
16 8 (0.62%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.54%) Clojure
17 7 (0.54%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 280 (21.60%) Degree
2 168 (12.96%) DBS Check
3 68 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (3.47%) Master's Degree
5 31 (2.39%) Security Cleared
6 22 (1.70%) SC Cleared
7 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.93%) PhD
11 5 (0.39%) 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
14 1 (0.077%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (14.20%) GDPR
2 175 (13.50%) Data Quality
3 24 (1.85%) QA
4 19 (1.47%) SLA
5 11 (0.85%) 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 67 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 51 (3.94%) Docker
3 9 (0.69%) HDFS
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 55 (4.24%) Terraform
3 11 (0.85%) Ansible
4 8 (0.62%) Argo
5 5 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.077%) Grafana
6 1 (0.077%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 392 (30.25%) Databricks
2 228 (17.59%) Google
3 147 (11.34%) Microsoft
4 51 (3.94%) Oracle
5 29 (2.24%) Alteryx
6 19 (1.47%) Informatica
7 18 (1.39%) Cognos
7 18 (1.39%) Sybase
8 12 (0.93%) OpenAI
9 11 (0.85%) Cloudera
10 10 (0.77%) SAP
10 10 (0.77%) Teradata
10 10 (0.77%) YouTube
11 7 (0.54%) Confluent
12 6 (0.46%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.46%) Dataiku
12 6 (0.46%) F5
12 6 (0.46%) Talend
13 3 (0.23%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.23%) Splunk