Data Lake Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 216 281
Rank change year-on-year +4 +65 +55
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 531 689 900
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.57% 1.63% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.88% 6.59% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 462 528 541
10th Percentile £41,250 £51,170 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,294 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% +14.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £142,500 £105,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,722 10,462 20,057
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.85% 24.68% 29.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,198 7,181 11,144
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £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 £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Data Lake salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 204 (38.42%) Apache Airflow
2 174 (32.77%) Apache
3 51 (9.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.38%) Confluence
4 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Primavera
2 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 279 (52.54%) Azure
2 266 (50.09%) AWS
3 265 (49.91%) Snowflake
4 199 (37.48%) dbt
5 116 (21.85%) GCP
6 113 (21.28%) Power Platform
7 83 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 80 (15.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 51 (9.60%) Matillion
10 41 (7.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 32 (6.03%) Serverless
12 23 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.82%) PowerApps
14 13 (2.45%) GitHub
14 13 (2.45%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.88%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 10 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
16 8 (1.51%) SaaS
17 7 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
17 7 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.77%) Wireless
2 9 (1.69%) Network Security
3 3 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) HTTP
4 1 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (39.55%) Data Warehouse
2 197 (37.10%) Dremio
3 195 (36.72%) Amazon Athena
4 194 (36.53%) Apache Arrow
5 158 (29.76%) Apache Ignite
6 113 (21.28%) Big Data
7 111 (20.90%) Power BI
8 96 (18.08%) SQL Server
9 40 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (6.21%) Star Schema
11 31 (5.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 31 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
12 29 (5.46%) NoSQL
13 27 (5.08%) Metadata
14 24 (4.52%) Tableau
15 22 (4.14%) BigQuery
15 22 (4.14%) Relational Database
16 19 (3.58%) Delta Lake
17 15 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
18 13 (2.45%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 31 (5.84%) GitLab
2 9 (1.69%) MLflow
3 7 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.13%) Git
4 6 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.94%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.75%) ERwin
7 3 (0.56%) JIRA
7 3 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.38%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 289 (54.43%) Finance
2 175 (32.96%) Banking
3 158 (29.76%) Front Office
3 158 (29.76%) Investment Banking
4 73 (13.75%) Social Skills
5 53 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.71%) Retail
8 18 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.82%) Billing
10 13 (2.45%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.07%) Marketing
12 10 (1.88%) Back Office
12 10 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.32%) Legal
14 5 (0.94%) Games
15 4 (0.75%) Wearables
16 3 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 154 (29.00%) Data Engineer
2 122 (22.98%) Senior
3 112 (21.09%) Lead
4 102 (19.21%) Architect
5 91 (17.14%) AWS Engineer
6 89 (16.76%) Software Engineer
7 67 (12.62%) Python Engineer
8 60 (11.30%) Developer
9 58 (10.92%) Data Architect
10 53 (9.98%) Java Engineer
10 53 (9.98%) Java Software Engineer
10 53 (9.98%) Python Software Engineer
11 52 (9.79%) AWS Software Engineer
11 52 (9.79%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (8.66%) Senior Software Engineer
13 45 (8.47%) Senior Data Engineer
14 41 (7.72%) Technical Leader
15 39 (7.34%) Consultant
16 38 (7.16%) Big Data Engineer
17 37 (6.97%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (36.53%) gRPC
1 194 (36.53%) Protocol Buffers
2 166 (31.26%) Pandas
3 158 (29.76%) NumPy
3 158 (29.76%) SciPy
4 36 (6.78%) PySpark
5 13 (2.45%) Kafka
6 9 (1.69%) Apache Beam
7 8 (1.51%) JSON
8 6 (1.13%) XML
9 5 (0.94%) Web Services
10 4 (0.75%) MDX
10 4 (0.75%) YAML
11 3 (0.56%) .NET
11 3 (0.56%) RESTful
12 2 (0.38%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.38%) Flask
13 1 (0.19%) ARM Templates
13 1 (0.19%) FIXML
13 1 (0.19%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 194 (36.53%) Hedge funds
2 158 (29.76%) Derivative
2 158 (29.76%) Equities
2 158 (29.76%) Fixed Income
2 158 (29.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 50 (9.42%) Data Structures
4 36 (6.78%) Clustering
5 31 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (3.39%) Pricing Data
8 15 (2.82%) Cloud Native
9 14 (2.64%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.69%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.51%) IoT
13 7 (1.32%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
16 3 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
16 3 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.56%) Linux
2 2 (0.38%) Unix
2 2 (0.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) AIX
3 1 (0.19%) Solaris
3 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (44.07%) Agile
2 194 (36.53%) Asset Management
3 180 (33.90%) Investment Management
4 169 (31.83%) Software Engineering
5 159 (29.94%) Analytics
6 149 (28.06%) Data Pipeline
7 135 (25.42%) ETL
8 129 (24.29%) Data Engineering
9 126 (23.73%) Business Intelligence
10 125 (23.54%) Data Modelling
11 114 (21.47%) Data Science
12 109 (20.53%) Artificial Intelligence
13 107 (20.15%) Machine Learning
14 92 (17.33%) DevOps
15 75 (14.12%) Line Management
16 74 (13.94%) CI/CD
17 70 (13.18%) Data Architecture
18 68 (12.81%) Greeks
19 63 (11.86%) Data Analytics
20 62 (11.68%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 341 (64.22%) Python
2 223 (42.00%) Java
2 223 (42.00%) SQL
3 194 (36.53%) JavaScript
4 158 (29.76%) TypeScript
5 46 (8.66%) T-SQL
6 44 (8.29%) Go
7 22 (4.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (3.58%) C#
9 12 (2.26%) R
9 12 (2.26%) Scala
10 10 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.69%) U-SQL
12 3 (0.56%) C
13 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.19%) Bash
14 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (6.21%) Azure Certification
2 31 (5.84%) Degree
3 24 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (4.33%) AWS Certification
5 10 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.69%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.69%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.13%) CIMA
9 3 (0.56%) MCP
10 1 (0.19%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.19%) LPIC
10 1 (0.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (24.67%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.84%) GDPR
3 6 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.38%) PMO
6 1 (0.19%) GMP
6 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.19%) QA
6 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (2.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 54 (10.17%) Terraform
3 36 (6.78%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.38%) Argo
4 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 127 (23.92%) Databricks
2 88 (16.57%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.77%) Google
4 16 (3.01%) SAP
5 13 (2.45%) Oracle
6 8 (1.51%) Teradata
7 7 (1.32%) Talend
8 6 (1.13%) Adobe
8 6 (1.13%) Apple
9 3 (0.56%) IBM
9 3 (0.56%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.19%) Ariba
11 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.19%) Reuters
11 1 (0.19%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.19%) Sparx
11 1 (0.19%) UiPath
11 1 (0.19%) VMware
11 1 (0.19%) Workday