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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 262 293
Rank change year-on-year -40 +31 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 944 1,474 2,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.40% 1.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.21% 6.47% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 717 1,063 1,119
10th Percentile £42,250 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £130,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.08% -

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 18,123 22,799 42,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.46% 21.68% 27.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,600 14,080 21,369
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 £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -22 821 £80,000 - 186
Work from Home +5 509 £87,500 +8.98% 97
London -7 446 £110,000 +22.22% 105
UK excluding London -63 443 £62,500 +2.04% 82
North of England +2 117 £55,000 -15.38% 23
South East -8 104 £70,000 - 21
Scotland -33 77 £82,500 +26.92% 10
Midlands -25 67 £47,500 -13.64% 11
North West -4 62 £45,000 -28.00% 17
South West -55 54 £72,500 +7.41% 7
West Midlands -10 44 £56,250 +3.93% 7
Yorkshire +58 37 £70,000 +1.71% 6
East Midlands -21 23 £47,500 -13.64% 4
North East +4 18 £72,500 +31.82%
East of England +7 15 £57,500 - 9
Wales -1 5 £46,131 -20.46% 3
Northern Ireland +17 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
1 183 (19.39%) Apache Airflow
2 178 (18.86%) Apache
3 126 (13.35%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.59%) Confluence
5 11 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.32%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.95%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.64%) Primavera
5 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.21%) Magento
7 1 (0.11%) HFM
7 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 622 (65.89%) Azure
2 412 (43.64%) AWS
3 289 (30.61%) Power Platform
4 252 (26.69%) GCP
5 250 (26.48%) Snowflake
6 186 (19.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 175 (18.54%) dbt
8 147 (15.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 58 (6.14%) Matillion
10 56 (5.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 53 (5.61%) Serverless
12 51 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (5.19%) PowerApps
14 45 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
15 35 (3.71%) SaaS
16 33 (3.50%) GitHub
17 29 (3.07%) IaaS
17 29 (3.07%) PaaS
18 26 (2.75%) Power Automate
19 21 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.33%) Wireless
2 18 (1.91%) DSL
3 9 (0.95%) Network Security
4 6 (0.64%) DNS
5 4 (0.42%) Firewall
6 3 (0.32%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.11%) HTTP
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (40.89%) Data Warehouse
2 279 (29.56%) Power BI
3 176 (18.64%) Big Data
4 174 (18.43%) SQL Server
5 167 (17.69%) Dremio
6 163 (17.27%) Amazon Athena
7 162 (17.16%) Apache Arrow
8 151 (16.00%) Apache Ignite
9 90 (9.53%) NoSQL
10 82 (8.69%) Tableau
11 74 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 63 (6.67%) Metadata
13 59 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 53 (5.61%) Relational Database
15 51 (5.40%) Star Schema
16 50 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
16 50 (5.30%) Hadoop
17 45 (4.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 44 (4.66%) BigQuery
18 44 (4.66%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 39 (4.13%) GitLab
2 29 (3.07%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.65%) JIRA
4 24 (2.54%) Git
5 16 (1.69%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.06%) Selenium
7 9 (0.95%) JUnit
7 9 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.85%) MLflow
8 8 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (0.85%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.64%) ERwin
9 6 (0.64%) RStudio
10 4 (0.42%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.11%) Gradle
13 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 439 (46.50%) Finance
2 224 (23.73%) Banking
3 175 (18.54%) Social Skills
4 153 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
5 152 (16.10%) Investment Banking
6 132 (13.98%) Front Office
7 96 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 93 (9.85%) Law
9 64 (6.78%) Legal
10 56 (5.93%) Marketing
11 50 (5.30%) Retail
12 33 (3.50%) Financial Institution
13 31 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (2.12%) Public Sector
14 20 (2.12%) Retail Banking
15 18 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (1.69%) Billing
17 12 (1.27%) Games
17 12 (1.27%) Telecoms
18 11 (1.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 342 (36.23%) Data Engineer
2 203 (21.50%) Architect
3 202 (21.40%) Senior
4 150 (15.89%) Lead
5 119 (12.61%) Software Engineer
6 112 (11.86%) Data Architect
7 105 (11.12%) Developer
8 84 (8.90%) Senior Data Engineer
9 79 (8.37%) AWS Engineer
10 70 (7.42%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
12 62 (6.57%) Azure Data Engineer
13 61 (6.46%) Python Engineer
14 54 (5.72%) Consultant
15 43 (4.56%) Python Software Engineer
16 42 (4.45%) Java Engineer
16 42 (4.45%) Java Software Engineer
17 40 (4.24%) AWS Software Engineer
17 40 (4.24%) Data Consultant
17 40 (4.24%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (17.16%) gRPC
1 162 (17.16%) Protocol Buffers
2 147 (15.57%) Pandas
3 132 (13.98%) NumPy
3 132 (13.98%) SciPy
4 104 (11.02%) PySpark
5 71 (7.52%) Kafka
6 19 (2.01%) Apache Beam
6 19 (2.01%) OpenID
7 18 (1.91%) JSON
8 16 (1.69%) XML
9 15 (1.59%) RESTful
10 14 (1.48%) .NET
11 9 (0.95%) MDX
12 8 (0.85%) Apache Avro
12 8 (0.85%) Spark Streaming
13 6 (0.64%) REST
13 6 (0.64%) Web Services
14 5 (0.53%) React
15 4 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 162 (17.16%) Hedge funds
2 132 (13.98%) Derivative
2 132 (13.98%) Equities
2 132 (13.98%) Fixed Income
2 132 (13.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 74 (7.84%) Algorithms
4 64 (6.78%) Data Structures
5 43 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (4.34%) Product Ownership
7 40 (4.24%) Onboarding
8 36 (3.81%) Cloud Native
9 35 (3.71%) Management Information System
10 31 (3.28%) Clustering
11 29 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
12 24 (2.54%) Public Cloud
13 19 (2.01%) Blockchain
13 19 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (2.01%) Mainframe
14 14 (1.48%) Data Centre
15 13 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.86%) Unix
2 11 (1.17%) Linux
3 6 (0.64%) Windows
4 3 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (44.70%) Agile
2 321 (34.00%) Business Intelligence
3 314 (33.26%) Analytics
4 278 (29.45%) ETL
5 259 (27.44%) Data Pipeline
6 256 (27.12%) Data Modelling
7 243 (25.74%) Data Engineering
8 242 (25.64%) Machine Learning
9 223 (23.62%) Software Engineering
10 216 (22.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 202 (21.40%) Asset Management
12 187 (19.81%) CI/CD
13 169 (17.90%) Visualisation
14 156 (16.53%) Investment Management
15 149 (15.78%) DevOps
16 146 (15.47%) Data Strategy
17 143 (15.15%) Data Science
18 133 (14.09%) Roadmaps
19 123 (13.03%) Data Architecture
20 120 (12.71%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 486 (51.48%) SQL
2 483 (51.17%) Python
3 271 (28.71%) Java
4 167 (17.69%) JavaScript
5 135 (14.30%) TypeScript
6 96 (10.17%) T-SQL
7 55 (5.83%) Scala
8 45 (4.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 40 (4.24%) Go
10 32 (3.39%) C#
11 25 (2.65%) R
12 21 (2.22%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.06%) PowerShell
14 9 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.95%) U-SQL
15 5 (0.53%) C
16 3 (0.32%) Bash
16 3 (0.32%) C++
17 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (9.22%) Degree
2 58 (6.14%) Azure Certification
3 43 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 39 (4.13%) AWS Certification
5 18 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.38%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.38%) Security Cleared
7 11 (1.17%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.64%) CIMA
10 3 (0.32%) MCP
10 3 (0.32%) MCSE
11 2 (0.21%) MCSA
11 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.11%) HND
12 1 (0.11%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.11%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (19.07%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.51%) GDPR
3 20 (2.12%) SLA
4 13 (1.38%) QA
5 8 (0.85%) PSD2
6 6 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.32%) PMO
8 1 (0.11%) GMP
8 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (2.86%) Docker
2 8 (0.85%) HDFS
3 7 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (9.53%) Kubernetes
2 66 (6.99%) Terraform
3 30 (3.18%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.32%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.21%) Argo
5 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 289 (30.61%) Databricks
2 276 (29.24%) Microsoft
3 71 (7.52%) Google
4 69 (7.31%) Alteryx
5 44 (4.66%) Oracle
6 22 (2.33%) Cognos
7 18 (1.91%) Sybase
8 16 (1.69%) SAP
9 14 (1.48%) Teradata
10 12 (1.27%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.85%) Duck Creek
11 8 (0.85%) Informatica
11 8 (0.85%) Talend
12 7 (0.74%) Adobe
13 6 (0.64%) Apple
13 6 (0.64%) IBM
14 4 (0.42%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.42%) SnapLogic
15 3 (0.32%) CheckPoint
15 3 (0.32%) Veracode