Lakehouse Job Trends in Central London

Data Lakehouse
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 124 181
Rank change year-on-year +7 +57 +16
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 28 20 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.79% 0.96% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.01% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 3
10th Percentile £77,500 £63,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £82,250 £77,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,500 £80,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +22.14% -40.45%
75th Percentile £108,625 £84,375 £78,625
90th Percentile £122,000 £97,200 £85,450
London median annual salary £85,170 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.20% +30.77% -18.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,866 1,989 2,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 80.89% 95.95% 92.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,063 1,540 2,143
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,100
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £53,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in Central London

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in Central London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in Central London

Lakehouse
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. 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
City of London +6 28 £86,500 +8.13% 7
Lakehouse
London

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (35.71%) Apache Spark
2 6 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (10.71%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) Azure
2 15 (53.57%) Power Platform
3 11 (39.29%) Snowflake
4 10 (35.71%) AWS
5 9 (32.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (32.14%) GCP
6 6 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (21.43%) dbt
7 4 (14.29%) GitHub
7 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
10 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (64.29%) Data Lake
2 15 (53.57%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (50.00%) Power BI
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (25.00%) Delta Lake
4 7 (25.00%) Tableau
5 6 (21.43%) BigQuery
5 6 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (21.43%) Looker
5 6 (21.43%) Milvus
5 6 (21.43%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (14.29%) Metadata
6 4 (14.29%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.57%) Big Data
7 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
7 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) MLflow
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Data Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Data Management Specialist
4 5 (17.86%) Product Specialist
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Databricks Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Databricks Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Data Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) PySpark
2 7 (25.00%) Kafka
3 6 (21.43%) LangChain
3 6 (21.43%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (21.43%) pgvector
3 6 (21.43%) PyTorch
3 6 (21.43%) scikit-learn
3 6 (21.43%) TensorFlow
4 2 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (21.43%) Clustering
2 6 (21.43%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) Analytics
2 21 (75.00%) AI
3 20 (71.43%) Data Engineering
4 19 (67.86%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (64.29%) Data Modelling
6 16 (57.14%) Data Governance
7 15 (53.57%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (50.00%) Data Science
9 13 (46.43%) Machine Learning
9 13 (46.43%) Use Case
10 12 (42.86%) Data Management
10 12 (42.86%) ETL
11 11 (39.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 9 (32.14%) Generative AI
13 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
13 8 (28.57%) DevOps
13 8 (28.57%) Presales
14 7 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
14 7 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
14 7 (25.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) SQL
2 13 (46.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) Data Quality
2 7 (25.00%) GDPR
3 6 (21.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.57%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Databricks
2 11 (39.29%) Dell
3 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (21.43%) Cloudera
5 5 (17.86%) Denodo
5 5 (17.86%) Informatica
5 5 (17.86%) Teradata
6 1 (3.57%) Remedy