Data Lake Jobs in the City of London

Data Lakes
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 149 147
Rank change year-on-year +32 -2 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 22 29 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.12% 0.87% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.31% 3.40% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 20 20 62
10th Percentile £52,375 £52,325 £58,200
25th Percentile £60,188 £55,625 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -25.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £99,063 £97,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £128,750 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £67,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 414 854 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.17% 25.52% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 323 616 900
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +5.63%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the City of London

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Lake in the City of London

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the City of London

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Power Platform
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (27.27%) AWS
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (22.73%) GCP
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (13.64%) SaaS
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (9.09%) dbt
7 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) Collibra
8 1 (4.55%) Dagster
8 1 (4.55%) PaaS
8 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (40.91%) Power BI
3 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
4 4 (18.18%) Data Mining
4 4 (18.18%) Metadata
5 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (13.64%) Looker
5 3 (13.64%) Tableau
6 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
6 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
6 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
6 2 (9.09%) OLAP
6 2 (9.09%) OLTP
6 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (4.55%) Data Mart
7 1 (4.55%) Parquet
7 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (4.55%) QlikView
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.55%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.55%) ERwin
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Analytics Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Software Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
1 2 (9.09%) Node.js
1 2 (9.09%) PySpark
1 2 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Avro
2 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Reference Data
2 2 (9.09%) Reinsurance
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) ETL
2 12 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 11 (50.00%) Analytics
4 10 (45.45%) Data Engineering
5 9 (40.91%) Agile
6 8 (36.36%) DevOps
7 7 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
7 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
8 6 (27.27%) Data Governance
8 6 (27.27%) Data Management
8 6 (27.27%) Data Strategy
8 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (22.73%) Migration
10 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
10 4 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 4 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) T-SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
3 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 2 (9.09%) QA
3 2 (9.09%) SLA
4 1 (4.55%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Databricks
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.55%) Alteryx
5 1 (4.55%) Dell
5 1 (4.55%) Informatica
5 1 (4.55%) Sparx