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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 153 146
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 +26
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 25 27 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.21% 0.80% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.52% 3.23% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 22 20 65
10th Percentile £51,375 £52,500 £52,550
25th Percentile £60,063 £56,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -23.68% +18.75%
75th Percentile £102,813 £97,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £128,750 £116,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -22.22% +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 453 835 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.91% 24.87% 23.68%
Number of salaries quoted 354 621 967
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £48,750
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% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,750 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £107,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

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 11 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 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (84.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (36.00%) AWS
5 7 (28.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (16.00%) GCP
6 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (16.00%) SaaS
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) dbt
7 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (8.00%) PaaS
7 2 (8.00%) Serverless
7 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (4.00%) Dagster
8 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (40.00%) Power BI
3 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (20.00%) Metadata
5 4 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (16.00%) Data Mining
6 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (12.00%) Tableau
7 2 (8.00%) Data Mart
7 2 (8.00%) DynamoDB
7 2 (8.00%) Looker
7 2 (8.00%) OLAP
7 2 (8.00%) OLTP
7 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
8 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
8 1 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (4.00%) Parquet
8 1 (4.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.00%) ERwin
2 1 (4.00%) JMeter
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Legal
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.00%) Front Office
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Head of Engineering
6 1 (4.00%) Head of Payments
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) PySpark
2 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) Node.js
2 2 (8.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Avro
3 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) ETL
2 12 (48.00%) Analytics
3 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 11 (44.00%) Data Modelling
4 9 (36.00%) DevOps
5 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (32.00%) Data Engineering
5 8 (32.00%) Data Management
5 8 (32.00%) Data Strategy
6 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (28.00%) Data Integration
6 7 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (24.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (24.00%) Migration
8 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.00%) Business Strategy
9 4 (16.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.00%) QA
3 2 (8.00%) SLA
4 1 (4.00%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Databricks
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) StreamSets
5 1 (4.00%) Alteryx
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.00%) Sparx