Data Lake Jobs

Data Lakes
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 239 301
Rank change year-on-year -16 +62 +53
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 1,162 1,468 2,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.57% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.26% 7.32% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 909 1,001 1,138
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,750 £57,606 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £122,500 £100,000 £87,875
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.13%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,555 20,054 48,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 21.40% 28.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,591 12,842 21,109
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 -14 1,026 £90,000 +12.50% 190
Work from Home +52 734 £110,000 +37.00% 98
London +41 654 £115,000 +27.78% 112
UK excluding London -93 457 £60,000 - 79
North of England -19 126 £55,000 -6.38% 39
South East -57 96 £63,500 -9.29% 8
Scotland -43 78 £66,500 -1.08% 4
North West -18 76 £45,000 -18.18% 30
Midlands -28 74 £57,500 +7.98% 9
South West -63 53 £70,576 +4.56% 15
West Midlands -6 48 £57,500 +7.98% 4
Yorkshire +31 34 £57,500 -16.45% 7
East Midlands -30 26 £47,500 -13.64% 5
North East -18 16 £75,000 +36.36% 2
East of England -21 14 £57,500 +6.98% 4
Wales -4 8 £46,131 -20.46%
Northern Ireland +11 6 - - 2
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Data Lake
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
1 380 (32.70%) Apache Airflow
2 348 (29.95%) Apache
3 98 (8.43%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.46%) Confluence
5 8 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.086%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.086%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.086%) IIS
8 1 (0.086%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.086%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.52%) Primavera
4 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.086%) HFM
5 1 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 632 (54.39%) Azure
2 619 (53.27%) AWS
3 440 (37.87%) Snowflake
4 389 (33.48%) dbt
5 300 (25.82%) Power Platform
6 291 (25.04%) GCP
7 188 (16.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 159 (13.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 59 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 54 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (4.65%) Matillion
11 46 (3.96%) PowerApps
12 42 (3.61%) Serverless
13 41 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
14 27 (2.32%) Power Automate
15 24 (2.07%) GitHub
16 22 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
18 16 (1.38%) SaaS
19 15 (1.29%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.20%) DSL
2 12 (1.03%) Wireless
3 11 (0.95%) Network Security
4 4 (0.34%) Firewall
5 3 (0.26%) DNS
5 3 (0.26%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.086%) HTTP
6 1 (0.086%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (33.30%) Data Warehouse
2 381 (32.79%) Dremio
3 370 (31.84%) Apache Arrow
4 364 (31.33%) Amazon Athena
5 311 (26.76%) Apache Ignite
6 291 (25.04%) Power BI
7 191 (16.44%) Big Data
8 179 (15.40%) SQL Server
9 86 (7.40%) Tableau
10 76 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 69 (5.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 67 (5.77%) Metadata
13 62 (5.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 57 (4.91%) NoSQL
15 50 (4.30%) Star Schema
16 46 (3.96%) Qlik Sense
17 44 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
18 40 (3.44%) Hadoop
18 40 (3.44%) Relational Database
19 38 (3.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 38 (3.27%) GitLab
2 26 (2.24%) JIRA
3 22 (1.89%) Git
4 15 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.12%) CircleCI
6 12 (1.03%) MLflow
7 9 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (0.77%) Selenium
8 8 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.60%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.60%) JUnit
10 6 (0.52%) RStudio
10 6 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.34%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.26%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.26%) ERwin
14 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
15 1 (0.086%) SoapUI
15 1 (0.086%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 653 (56.20%) Finance
2 393 (33.82%) Banking
3 333 (28.66%) Investment Banking
4 325 (27.97%) Front Office
5 180 (15.49%) Social Skills
6 138 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
7 98 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 82 (7.06%) Law
9 69 (5.94%) Legal
10 53 (4.56%) Marketing
10 53 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (3.01%) Retail
12 32 (2.75%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.98%) Retail Banking
14 17 (1.46%) Billing
15 16 (1.38%) Public Sector
16 15 (1.29%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.12%) Back Office
17 13 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 365 (31.41%) Data Engineer
2 294 (25.30%) Senior
3 223 (19.19%) Software Engineer
4 212 (18.24%) Architect
4 212 (18.24%) Lead
5 178 (15.32%) AWS Engineer
6 142 (12.22%) Python Engineer
7 134 (11.53%) Developer
8 118 (10.15%) AWS Software Engineer
9 111 (9.55%) Java Engineer
9 111 (9.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 111 (9.55%) Python Software Engineer
10 105 (9.04%) Senior Software Engineer
11 103 (8.86%) Data Architect
12 92 (7.92%) Solutions Architect
13 89 (7.66%) Senior Data Engineer
14 79 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
15 74 (6.37%) Azure Data Engineer
16 71 (6.11%) Technical Leader
17 69 (5.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (30.46%) gRPC
1 354 (30.46%) Protocol Buffers
2 324 (27.88%) Pandas
3 309 (26.59%) NumPy
3 309 (26.59%) SciPy
4 139 (11.96%) PySpark
5 44 (3.79%) Kafka
6 16 (1.38%) .NET
6 16 (1.38%) Apache Beam
7 13 (1.12%) JSON
7 13 (1.12%) RESTful
8 11 (0.95%) XML
9 9 (0.77%) MDX
10 7 (0.60%) CSS
10 7 (0.60%) Web Services
11 6 (0.52%) Apache Avro
11 6 (0.52%) HTML
11 6 (0.52%) REST
11 6 (0.52%) Spark Streaming
12 4 (0.34%) React
Miscellaneous
1 370 (31.84%) Hedge funds
2 316 (27.19%) Derivative
2 316 (27.19%) Equities
2 316 (27.19%) Fixed Income
2 316 (27.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 80 (6.88%) Algorithms
4 64 (5.51%) Data Structures
5 54 (4.65%) Clustering
5 54 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 48 (4.13%) Pricing Data
7 45 (3.87%) Cloud Native
7 45 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (3.61%) Onboarding
9 31 (2.67%) Management Information System
10 26 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.46%) NHS
12 17 (1.46%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
14 14 (1.20%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.15%) Linux
2 12 (1.03%) Unix
3 7 (0.60%) Windows
4 3 (0.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.086%) AIX
5 1 (0.086%) Android
5 1 (0.086%) Solaris
5 1 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (51.12%) Agile
2 419 (36.06%) Asset Management
3 399 (34.34%) Software Engineering
4 322 (27.71%) Analytics
5 320 (27.54%) Investment Management
6 306 (26.33%) Business Intelligence
7 265 (22.81%) ETL
8 257 (22.12%) Data Engineering
9 254 (21.86%) Data Modelling
10 242 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
11 220 (18.93%) Machine Learning
12 213 (18.33%) Artificial Intelligence
13 176 (15.15%) CI/CD
13 176 (15.15%) DevOps
14 161 (13.86%) Roadmaps
14 161 (13.86%) Visualisation
15 156 (13.43%) Data Architecture
16 136 (11.70%) Data Strategy
17 134 (11.53%) Data Science
18 131 (11.27%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 704 (60.59%) Python
2 514 (44.23%) SQL
3 474 (40.79%) Java
4 365 (31.41%) JavaScript
5 302 (25.99%) TypeScript
6 100 (8.61%) T-SQL
7 64 (5.51%) Go
8 53 (4.56%) Scala
9 47 (4.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 30 (2.58%) C#
11 22 (1.89%) R
12 17 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.95%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.95%) U-SQL
14 9 (0.77%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.26%) Bash
15 3 (0.26%) C
16 2 (0.17%) VBA
17 1 (0.086%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.086%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 87 (7.49%) Azure Certification
1 87 (7.49%) Degree
2 67 (5.77%) AWS Certification
3 37 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.38%) SC Cleared
5 16 (1.38%) Security Cleared
6 14 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.52%) CIMA
10 3 (0.26%) MCP
10 3 (0.26%) MCSE
11 2 (0.17%) MCSA
11 2 (0.17%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.086%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.086%) LPIC
12 1 (0.086%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (23.49%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.65%) GDPR
3 16 (1.38%) SLA
4 14 (1.20%) QA
5 7 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.60%) PSD2
6 6 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.086%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (1.98%) Docker
2 7 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.52%) HDFS
4 1 (0.086%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.086%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 84 (7.23%) Terraform
3 54 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.26%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.17%) Ansible
5 2 (0.17%) Argo
5 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 280 (24.10%) Databricks
2 261 (22.46%) Microsoft
3 68 (5.85%) Alteryx
4 56 (4.82%) Google
5 41 (3.53%) Oracle
6 18 (1.55%) Cognos
7 15 (1.29%) SAP
8 14 (1.20%) Bloomberg
8 14 (1.20%) Reuters
8 14 (1.20%) Sybase
9 13 (1.12%) Teradata
10 9 (0.77%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.69%) Informatica
12 7 (0.60%) Duck Creek
13 6 (0.52%) Talend
14 4 (0.34%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.26%) Adobe
15 3 (0.26%) Apple
15 3 (0.26%) SnapLogic
15 3 (0.26%) Veracode