Data Lake Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Data Lakes
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 92 45
Rank change year-on-year +8 -47 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 6 3 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.46% 0.32% 3.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 1.97% 13.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 23
10th Percentile £43,250 £67,000 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £75,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £90,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +80.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £68,125
90th Percentile £62,750 - £85,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +12.00% -10.71%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Buckinghamshire

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 168 152 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 13.00% 16.36% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 97 96 146
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,375 £65,938
90th Percentile £70,500 £76,000 £82,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Data Lake
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in Buckinghamshire

Data Lake
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Milton Keynes -3 2 £58,750 -34.72% 6
Amersham - 1 £47,500 -
High Wycombe - 1 £42,500 - 7
Marlow - 1 - -
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Automotive
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Security
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft